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! |
Saturday night experimentation. In order of appearance: bare naked noodles (as seen on dragon's den), boiled broccoli and edamame drained, shredded tofu, 1 block of coconut 🌴 cream, half a cup of soy, dusting of chilli 🌶 and smashed cashew nuts 🥜.
Small cheese and onion quiche, cashew butter topped Tofoo canapé and a mix of green beans, broccoli, artichokes and peas in pods.
Volcanoes 🌋 in Hawaii, chilli 🌶 in the pans. 2 tins red kidney beans, 1 bag quorn mince, 2 avocados 🥑, 1 onion and a jar of jalapeños in a spicy sauce made from passata, coconut 🌴 milk, chilli, cayenne and tomato 🍅 purée. 2 saucepans batch cooking to last me a week.
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! 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. Today's meal: green lentils in a creamy sauce topped with coconut yoghurt, lime juice and served with garlic coriander naan and a garnish of iceberg, spinach and watercress.
Onions, red peppers, green peppers, quorn protein pieces, olives, jalapeños and lasagne shreds in a Lloyd gross man sweet chilli and tomato sauce on basmati rice ...with hummus topped iceberg on the side
Honey-roasted aubergines in a Tamari, miso and lemon dressing served with pak Choy on a bed of rice noodles and topped with sesame seeds. #deliciously #ella
Baked gnocchi in passata and cashew nut butter sauce, spinach, mushrooms, red onions and basil, on a bed of toasted, roasted pine nuts and sesame seeds, topped with coconut-based "cheese" and nutritional yeast
Deliciously Ella recipe totally vegan! Quorn, mushrooms 🍄 and red peppers and onions in a creamy coconut, veg stock and purée tomato 🍅 sauce, with added garlic, thyme and a dash of chilli 🌶 on rice.
Don't know quite what to call this but it's sure gonna be tasty 😋 mushroom 🍄 and peppers in a cheddar cheese and mashed potato 🥔 sauce with garlic and parsley and butter.
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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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