15th June 2020 Food Diary

Sardines on Wholemeal pitta with some cherries on the side for breakfast; Im trying to combine my fruit intake with a meal this week, so as not to spike my blood sugars - without testing tho' I have no way of knowing if this works or not!

Lunch was tuna wraps with an apple; got to love my gadgets, the apple corer/slicer is awesome!

Dinner was something The Hubby had been asking for: Surf & Turf!

So we had garlic prawns, posh steak, leeks and garlic mushrooms; no vampires at our house!!

My steak was 180g or 7oz but it felt HUGE and gave me the "meat sweats" and left me feeling bloated. So whilst it was nice at the time, I didnt enjoy the after feeling 😕

Snacks of an Alpen bar, some ham and tangerines throughout the afternoon; not good but I was trying to resist a full "meal" and in hindsight I should of just had something filling and moved on.

Cals 1387

Carbs 93.3

Protein 160.7

Fat 39

Fibre 22.3

Salt 6.57

Mongolian Beef

Not sure why I call this "mongolian beef"!! it has changed SO much since the original receipe!!

Ingredients (serves 3):

600g Thin Beef (or chicken - you would need to flatten it out) Steak

1x Red/Green Peppers

2x Onions

Pack of long stem Broccoli - or - Head of Broccoli

90mls Light Soy Sauce

20g Demerara Sugar

1x Teaspoon Chilli flakes

100ml water

2x Heaped teaspoons Garlic - or - 3 cloves

(1x teaspoon of Cornflour IF the sauce does not thicken - often due to the veg throwing off lots of steam - I suggest leaving the lid of the pan!)

How To:

Thinly slice the Beef (or chicken), onions & peppers

Fry off the peppers & onions in a large pan with oil of choice (I like frylight)

Once softened add the Beef strips, then add the broccoli

Mix the water, soy, garlic, chilli & sugar together (I tend to use hot, near boiling, water)

Once veg is near cooked, add the sauce and allow to thicken and coat all the meat/veg.

Serve with rice, noodles or as it is!!

Per serving:

Cals 397

Carb 27.5

Protein 51.9

Sugar 22.6

Fat 9.5

Salt 4.78 (high due to Soy Sauce)

14 June 2020 Food Diary

So I started off the day with a big breakfast with The Hubby; Smashed avocado on Hovis (Fabulous Fibre brand) with added cayenne pepper, 2 poached eggs and some ham slices.  I am learning that not all ham is equal in the salt stakes, so it is worth checking labels and comparing.

Lunch was my tomato soup with two nectarines, after such a large breakfast only soup and fruit was needed.

Dinner is now a set in stone on the menu feast; Mongolian Beef, now I currently add peppers, onion and broccoli and its very filling, I think I may add some oyster mushrooms or spinach in future too, for bulk and variety of nutrients, my only concern is the Soy Sauce (salt) content but this tends to even out over the week. The Men enjoy rice or noodles with theirs.

Hubby and I went to Costco (pistachio squares!) and also bought this multi nut/seed brittle type stuff, couldn't find it on my Calorie App so I went for the highest sugar/fat content one I could find. As you can see it sent my fat/sugar to its limits, but a "once a week" piece after weigh in means I dont feel denied, we both enjoyed and I felt treated and NORMAL!!

Cals 1425

Carbs 137.8

Protein 109.7

Fat 48.9

Fibre 27.7

Salt 8.99

Week 6

13 June 2020 Food Diary

Started the day with a favourite - Sardines on Wholemeal pitta, added some black and blueberries for add fibre.

Lunch was Tomato soup and chicken thighs on wilted spinach - very filling, easy, quick and packed full of good stuff.

Dinner was a mixed bag: Turkey mince stuffed peppers (with added veggies), Garlic Broccoli and what was supposed to be BangBang cauliflower - yukkkkkkkkky! IMO the cauliflower was disgusting but the Men ate it; beginning to doubt their feedback lol!!

The other thing I had today as a snack were these Pistachio Squares from Costco... totally yummy, very good for you but very high in cals & fat.   It was 10.5g fat & 156cals for these!  they were nice though! and they wont spike my blood sugar like a chocbar, real or pretend would!!

Cals 1477

Carbs 109.3

Protein 135.2

Fat 55.7

Fibre 30.2

Salt 4.31

12 June 2020 Food Diary

Breakfast was Bacon (unsmoked medallion) with scrambled eggs & sundried tomatoes.

Lunch was the spicy BNS soup again (that seems to be getting spicer!) with Chicken thighs and spinach.

Dinner was super yummy - Tandoori chicken, with shredded red onion on lettuce cups!!

The Hubby had paratha wraps with his!

Cals 1453

Carbs 75.3

Protein 146.2

Fat 60.9

Fibre 17.4

Salt 6.19

11 June 2020 Food Diary

Got myself back into gear today.

Breakfast was the homemade Scotch eggs on wilted spinach with poached eggs and sriracha sauce.....

Lunch was the very lovely BNS spicy soup with an apple and tangerine (I got creative on the plate waiting for my soup to heat!)

Dinner was a lovely roast (keep seeing them on my Aunts pix) of chicken, spuds, cabbage, swede mash and carrots - sadly I got over excited to eat it and forgot to take a photo!!

Cals 1537

Carbs 120.4

Protein 136.5

Fat 56.4

Fibre 26.1

Salt 4.09