2018: A Year In FoodIn 2018, my PureGym manager assigned me to keep a food & exercise blog so that he could track my meals. between January-August 2018, through developing healthy eating habits to satisfy all of my nutritional needs and a rigorous exercise programme, I lost the 21 kg that I had gained on anti-depressants. I wanted it to be somewhere more contained rather than being shoved down people's throats (literally) through Instagram / WhatsApp. Hence I have housed my culinary creations here. Being vegetarian and/or vegan always presents a challenge in terms of hitting the protein target. This was particularly the most interesting challenge for me. I made a conscious decision to stop food blogging in 2019 (due to time restraints). However, it is useful to have a year's diet documented as a reference and a source of inspiration! |
Batch cooking for the week ahead...lentils, butter beans, quinoa, 1 box of mushrooms 🍄 3 peppers, 1 onion, tomato, soya, cheddar and chilli sauce, Oregano and basil. And all important Nando's sauce!!
I'm also going to do kale frittatas for my lunches, instant protein! An orange and green lunch. Orange sweet potato 🍠 and boiled carrots 🥕. Green guacamole and iceberg lettuce.
Sweet red peppers, carrots 🥕beansprouts and rice noodles in a black bean, chilli 🌶 lime and miso sauce
Tamari adds extra flavour. Here's hoping that the sauce thickens on standing. And oh! What's that? Mayo-maize. I had a pepper remaining and the rest of that sauce from the black beans & rice. So I got some veg to go with it. And I already had miso paste in the fridge. Cuban black beans, avocados 🥑 and rice tonight
and when I get back Salsa Cubana 🇨🇺 tonight with nana See you at 4am Black beans, avocados 🥑 and onions in a coconut 🌴 lime 🍋 chilli 🌶 sauce with cigala agulha (arroz): a taste of the Caribbean. Tomato 🍅 relish gives it extra colour. Consistency came out a little liquidy so siphoned off some sauce to do peppered noodles this weekend 🍝 Kick started my pure lifestyle programme this evening plus got roped into an impromptu session of body pump. |
2018: A Year In FoodIn 2018, my PureGym manager assigned me to keep a food & exercise blog so that he could track my meals. between January-August 2018, through developing healthy eating habits to satisfy all of my nutritional needs and a rigorous exercise programme, I lost the 21 kg that I had gained on anti-depressants. Archives
January 2019
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