I've decided it's time to start blogging my food again, it's not only great accountability for me but I think most of you want some food inspiration. The most visited pages are the food journal entries! So far I've only got these pics of two days dinners but I will start blogging a bit more with the food journals each week :)
Also an updated picture for you, 69.6kgs yesterday so I've lost just over a kilo since I posted my weight last.
Friday,
October 28 2011
7.30am:
5 strips of streaky bacon, 4 poached eggs, hot cocoa with 1 tsp sugar and 3
Tbsps Coconut Cream
12.30pm:
2 x Walnut crackers with camembert, hot cocoa with 1 tsp sugar and 3 Tbsps
Coconut Cream
5.30pm:
Leftover piece of Meatza with Salad Greens, spring onion, cucumber and
guacamole.4 pieces Old Gold
Saturday,
October 29 2011
7.30am:
2 egg omelet with 2 Tbsps Cream, filled with 2 strips of streaky bacon,
grated colby and cream cheese.hot
cocoa with 1 tsp sugar and 3 Tbsps Coconut Cream
12.30pm:
2 walnut crackers with camembert, hot cocoa with 1 tsp sugar and 3 Tbsps
Coconut Cream
5.30pm:
Chicken cabonara with zucchini, mushroom, bacon and reduced
cream and parmesan sauce.
I have been looking for these for a while now, a semi primal cracker that I don't have to make and I found them at Woolworths, I remember having these several years ago and had forgotten about them until I saw them staring back at me while I was choosing some cheese! These crackers are awesome, they are full of flavour, buttery and crunchy at the same time and they are Made in New Zealand!
I have a favourite Mexican salad but unfortunately it has a Taco Shell so I've tried to improve on a homemade one I made a while back and this one is truly aweome! Follow the steps below:
Ingredients:
2 Chicken Breasts (2-3 servings)
Taco Seasoning
Mayo or Sour Cream or Both
Salsa
Yellow Capsicum
Cherry Tomatoes
Spring Onions
Salad Greens or Cos Lettuce
Avocado, lemon juice, s&p
Cheese (Colby, Egmont, Tasty)
Slice chicken and toss taco seasoning through and coat with a little olive oil, fry chicken until nicely seared and cooked through then top the chicken while hot with grated cheese. Chop up all vegies (see above) and a great tip for making guacomole is to mash it on a breadboard, works a treat and no sliding around in a bowl. To make dressing mix equal parts of Salsa, Mayo and SourCream then viola arrange your salad greens and top everything as below!
So simple and delicious, 10-15minute meal, I may even do video on this one in the near future, it will be much better than my sushi one, I promise ;)
I was having a little clean up of my photos and searching for the food pics I had taken of the recipes I posted up yesterday which I still can't find. However I did find an old photo taken before I started this journey when I was delusional that I was as big as I was, it was taken just after New Years of 2008 and I thought it would be cool to see the comparison in my face, the shot beside it was taken the day before I chopped my hair earlier this year. Still can't believe it's been exactly 3 years since i started this journey!
So I have some recipes that I've been meaning to post for quite sometime and one of my loyal readers has kindly asked me to post so here they are:
Marinated chicken wings/nibbles, almond crackers and sweet and salty chocolate!
The almond crackers are from Elana's Pantry, the marinated chicken is just a basic marinade that I found on a recipe site and just tweaked and the sweet and salty chocolate is another tweaked recipe from Nigella!
Hope you all enjoy and just have to say with the Final Rugby World Cup game tonight GO THE ALLBLACKS!!!!
Sweet and Salty Chocolate (primal version)
3 x 100gm blocks of 85% Green and Blacks
125gms Butter
1 Tbsp Maple Syrup / Honey or Golden Syrup
200gms of Cashews or any other nut
I use a rectangle tin or square tin, Nigella suggests disposable foil tins as an option too.
Get the butter and the syrup melting on a low heat in a heavy based pan and break up the chocolates and add that to the golden sludge.
Chop the nuts or leave them whole and add into a medium mixing bowl.
When the chocolate mixture has just melted, pour it over the nuts and stir together.
Pour into prepared tin, and spread out and flatten as much as you can, using a silicon spatula.
Cover and refrigerate for a few hours before cutting into chunks or wedges - depending on your tin of choice.
1-1.5kgs chicken wings or nibbles
1/2 cup Dijon mustard
2 teaspoons olive oil
4 garlic cloves, minced
1/4 cup soy sauce (I use Tamari)
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
(my tweak is approx 1/4 -1/2 cup of cream)
Mix ingredients into a bowl.
Add wings and stir.
Cover and marinate for 45 minutes.
Place pieces on the grill and brush with remaining mixture.
Grill over medium-hot coals about 15-20 minutes, turning once.
I seem to have lost any pictures I had of these recipes so as soon as I get some more I will put them up but for now you can see what they should look like through the links :)
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So I'm back and it's my 100th Post! First I'd like to appologise for my lack of posts lately, life has gotten in the way but I'm still here and will try my best to keep you updated a little more often... Looking back on the last couple of years is quite mind blowing so I thought I would reflect. I started this journey on October 18th 2008 scared as hell, depressed as hell weighing exactly 107.1kgs, on the 3rd November 2009 I weighed in at 67kgs and my lowest I got to is 64.8 which was Christmas 09. I have managed to maintain for the last 2 years in the realms of 65-73kgs which I think is pretty darn great! I know for sure I will never see that rather large body ever again! So I will be honest with you all, I'm sitting at 70.9 kgs as of today, I think that my winter weight tends to hover in the high 60's and low 70's and then I tighten up my eating when the weather heats up to mid 60's. I was reading back over some of my old blog posts and came across a post titled "Maintaining is a breeze" well it seems it's not really all that much of a breeze, life gets in the way sometimes and it's easy to leave yourself off of your to do list! So I had hit 66kgs for my 30th in May this year which was awesome and felt fantastic but the kgs have crept up on me in the last few months with a little too much winter comfort food. I'm not stressed about it, we have had a full on year and my priority hasn't been weight loss. My business is doing fantastic and life in general is so wonderful, my husband's back surgery was a success and we are on the up and up. Anyway I'm ready to hit the weight loss track again since summer is just around the corner and although I don't feel terrible at 70kgs I feel my best when I'm around 65-67 so that's my ideal goal for now, bearing in mind 62 is just feeling so far away at this point. I hope you all love the new layout at the top left there's a drop down box and you can choose the format you like, there's either Magazine, Mosaic, Classic, Flipcard, Sidebar, snapshot and timeslide! Plus I've got a bit of food porn for you all!!!
Friday,
October 28 2011
Saturday,
October 29 2011
