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! |
Breakfasts: raspberries and banana 🍌 protein milk 🍼 smoothie overnight oats (mornflake) layered trifles topped with strawberries 🍓 and a drizzle of honey 🍯 rise and shine! 🌞🌇
Dinners: an adaptation on mum's courgette in rosemary sauce. I fried up the courgettes with white onions and added butter beans, chopped tomatoes 🍅 and quark cheese 🧀to thicken the sauce. Unfortunately ran out of rosemary but I added thyme and garlic and a bit of tamari and lemon juice. The plan is to have it with microwaved jackets. The side is a mixture of boiled cabbage & leaks, scrambled egg 🍳 whites, yum & yay 😊 mixed nuts 🥜 and seeds and cashew pieces.
Lunches: Quorn ham style slices, cherry 🍒 tomatoes 🍅 peas and sweet corn 🌽 savoury mix mayonnaise and parsley in genius wraps.
Today's shopping trolley 🛒
Purple milk? Fruits 🍇 potatoes 🥔 one banana 🍌 what else You'll see what I'm about to do 😉 A weird smoothie Claire Birdland gave me these hot peppers 🌶 last Thursday because they were too spicy 🔥💥rah! So I used them as a frying base combined them with 2 bags of quorn mince, 2 cartons of tomato 🍅 passata and the remaining 2 Heinz five beanz snap pots to make a hearty ❤ chilli. 45g protein per 1/4 serving. I'll find some rice to accompany it... I've loved black beans for ages so I was delighted to see them on the high protein list! Trick for cooking avocados: dunk in and simmer in the sauce before peeling, makes them break apart much more easily. 20sec in the microwave also helps. These black bean and avocado 🥑 sweet potato 🍠 wraps are slightly less protein (coming in at around 18g per wrap), but they should be tastier and more appetising than last week's offering. I used a base of spring onions and blocked the coconut 🌴 cream block in the soup 🍜 to thicken the sauce, plus a dollop of old all purpose seasoning ✨magic!
Nice 👍 this was my dinner last night... I was a bit laaazzzy 😴bubble & squeak with baked beans snap pot and cottage cheese 🧀
Ok, why when I cook 4 bags of peas does a massive foam broth up? Is this normal? Peas are a great source of protein! I had 4 bags of peas in the freezer so I paired it with half a bag of kale, half a pot of Thai red curry paste and the last container of Linda McCartney scampi 🍤 style bites. 31g protein per serving, served with a side of Oomi protein noodles 🍝just what I needed after spin class 🚴 I added a splash of dark soy sauce, a flash of coconut 🌴 milk and a dash of ginger to add flavour 😋
Oomi noodle 🍜 stir fry plus a side of egg 🍳 white and more scampi 🍤 style bites for added protein! 😉🤸♂
Dinners cooked for the week! Mushrooms 🍄 edamame and pak choi in a miso, coconut 🌴 and ginger sauce. The plan is to serve on a bed of Oomi protein noodles 🍝 each serving 37.7g protein.
Lunch: Linda McCartney scampi 🍤 style bites, kale fried in chilli 🌶 and Tamari and Heinz 5 beanz snap pot. Fuelling up for the burpee challenge! I did the burpee challenge and it was bad, if not worse, than I thought it would be. Managed to do it in just under 10 mins.
Being good 😇 Lunches prepped for the week! I've packed 5 broccoli florets into these quinoa and chia seed wraps, mixed with red split lentils and peanut 🥜 butter. Each wrap contains 40g protein!
Where’s the potato and the cheese sauce?
This, you mean? Warning ⚠ high calories! Crispy potato 🥔 skins, coated in onion and garlic mayonnaise, watercress, spinach and rocket. 🚀 1433 kcal 😳 Jumping on the butternut band wagon here...these noodles 🍝 are made from butternut squash. I've combined with the chickpea aubergine 🍆 coconut curry and the remainder of last week's quorn chilli 🌶 here's hoping I hit today's protein target 🎯🤞
Needed this...
Yeah my coach has had a serious talk with me about how low my calories are He's increased my calories in my fitness pal by 300 and encouraged me to do more resistance training, weights etc I've eaten the whole box plus a pot of mascarpone sauce, 2 tomatoes and an entire bag of watercress spinach and rocket Boom Boom 💥 |
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
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