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2018: A Year In Food

In 2018, my gym coach assigned me to keep a food blog so he could track my meals. Through developing healthy eating habits to satisfy all of my nutritional needs and a rigorous exercise programme, I lost the 21 kg between January-August 2018 I'd gained on anti-depressants.

I wanted it to be somewhere more private rather than being shoved down people's throats (literally) through Instagram/WhatsApp. Hence I've posted my culinary creations here.

​Being vegetarian and/or vegan always presents a challenge in terms of hitting the protein target so this was particularly the most interesting challenge for me.

I made a conscious decision to stop food blogging in 2019 (due to time restraints), but it's useful to have a year's diet documented as a reference and a source of inspiration!

20/01/2019 Dinner

20/1/2019

 
Vegan spinach ravioli in a cauliflower-cheese style sauce, topped with grated Vitalite!

19/01/2019 Lunches

19/1/2019

 
Boiled egg, smashed avocado, roasted kale and protein cheese boost.

19/01/2019 Dinners

19/1/2019

 
Butternut squash and chickpea curry recipe - BBC Food
https://www.bbc.com/food/recipes/squash_curry_09269

Next week’s meals - I omitted the curry leaves!

Coconut oil
Cumin
2 large onions, finely chopped
Garlic, grated
Ground turmeric
Ground coriander
2 packs of ready-chopped butternut squash and sweet potato cubes
2 packs of coconut cream
2 tins of chopped tomatoes
2 tins of chickpeas, dreained and rinsed
2 packs of green beans, chopped

Note: the eggs in the 1st 2 images were from a separate meal.

19/01/2019 Lunch

19/1/2019

 
Baked sweet potato, spinach and cheese.

12/01/2019 Dinners

12/1/2019

 
​4 boxes of mushrooms paired with chilli beans in a spicy sauce. Lasted 4 meals.

12/01/2019 Lunches

12/1/2019

 
Falafel in a spinach, rochet, watercress and cucumber salad. The cheese and coleslaw are optional and used to give it a bit more of a calorific boost (as it’s quite lightweight) but these can easily be substituted with quorn, tofu, cabbage, cauliflower etc. The wraps are a combination of beetroot (pink) and multigrain (white).

05/01/2019 Lunches

5/1/2019

 
Broccoli, feta and quorn savoury eggs!

05/01/2019 Shopping

5/1/2019

 

Stroud Breakfasts

1/1/2019

 
Wetherspoons, 1st day of the Christmas hols.

New Year's Day breakfast bagels with scrambled egg, mushrooms, baked beans and veggie sausages.
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