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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 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.

12/01/2019 Dinners

12/1/2019

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

12/11/2018 Dinner

12/12/2018

 
20181110 Dinner REMIXED...

11/12/2018 Dinner

11/12/2018

 
Baked potato with cheese, broccoli and coleslaw.
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23/11/2018 Dinner

23/11/2018

 
Omelette time!

10/11/2018 Dinner

10/11/2018

 

10/11/2018 Lunches & Dinners

9/11/2018

 

27/10/2018 Dinner

27/10/2018

 
Falafel, halloumi and green beans.

21/10/2018 Dinners 20 & 21 October

21/10/2018

 
Various baked potato dishes.

Dish 1:
Broccoli and crumbled feta topped with chilli.

Dish 2:
​Mushrooms, garlic and feta.

Dish 3:
Hummus, quorn and peas.

20/10/2018 Lunches & Dinners

20/10/2018

 
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16/10/2018 Dinner

16/10/2018

 

15/10/2018 Dinners

15/10/2018

 
​Based on Deliciously Ella's "Sun-dried Tomato Pasta" recipe, with some slight adaptations.

This pasta is perfect for a rainy, cold day. It's wonderfully hearty and wholesome, and so quick to throw together. The sauce is made from a mix of flavoursome sum-dried tomatoes, fresh tomatoes, garlic, salt and pepper. You can add other veg to this too though. I stirred through some spinach at the end and threw in some sautéed mushrooms. I finished this with some roasted Yum & Yay mixed nuts and seeds, which adds more flavour and texture, while also making it look beautiful.

I used Spelt pasta.

13/10/2018 Dinner

13/10/2018

 
Change of plan: egg curry instead 🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚

08/10/2018 Dinner

8/10/2018

 
Blocked the tofu!

03/10/2018

3/10/2018

 

30/09/2018 Dinners

30/9/2018

 
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.

25/09/2018 Dinner

25/9/2018

 
​Dinner tonight: veg chilli topped with cottage cheese

​Lime 🍋 flavour, to accompany the chilli 🌶

23/09/2018 Lunches & Dinners

23/9/2018

 
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!

22/09/2018 Dinner

23/9/2018

 
​Nice 👍 this was my dinner last night... I was a bit laaazzzy 😴bubble & squeak with baked beans snap pot and cottage cheese 🧀
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22/09/2018 Dinners

22/9/2018

 
​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 😋

17/09/2018 Dinner

17/9/2018

 
​Oomi noodle 🍜 stir fry plus a side of egg 🍳 white and more scampi 🍤 style bites for added protein! 😉🤸‍♂
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16/09/2018 Dinners

16/9/2018

 
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.

14/09/2018 Dinner

14/9/2018

 
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 😳
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12/09/2018 Dinner

12/9/2018

 
​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 🎯🤞
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