Day 14: Dinner
Posted by Paola
9:45pm Beetroot and baked veg salad
Cooked beetroot, baked parsnips and potatoes, dill pickle, capers, grated cheese and a dressing of vinegar, oil and yoghurt.
For a 350g portion (eaten with a teaspoon, please note):
- 326 calories
- 18.3g protein
- 35.5g carbohydrates
- 13.3g fat
- 5.4g fibre
I baked parsnips and potatoes on a lighted-greased tray.
I was out of lemons for the dressing and used balsamic instead. Lemon would have been nicer. Nice salad but it needed a bit of crunch – maybe some onion or seeds.
| 2 servings (686g) | calories | protein | carbs | fat | fibre |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100g baked parnsips | 136 | 2.0 | 17.0 | 6.0 | 4.0 |
| 50g baked potatoes | 46 | 1.3 | 10.6 | 0.1 | 1.1 |
| 210g cooked beetroot | 101 | 4.8 | 20.0 | 0.2 | 4.2 |
| 50g grated half-fat cheddar cheese | 130 | 14.7 | 0.1 | 7.9 | |
| 25g capers | 4 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
| 100g dill pickle | 14 | 0.9 | 2.6 | 2.4 | 1.2 |
| 200g fat-free yoghurt | 116 | 11.8 | 16.8 | 0.2 | |
| 10ml balsamic vinegar | 11 | 2.3 | |||
| 10ml extra virgin olive oil | 82 | 9.1 | |||
| Total | 639 | 35.8 | 69.6 | 26.0 | 10.5 |
Day 14: Snack and Lunch
Posted by Paola
4:45am 1 oakcake
Up late again and a late lunch.
5pm Sweet potatoes with soft cheese and salad + apple + fizzy squash
I then had an orange TicTac (from Chris!) to get rid of the onion flavour!
There’s a lot of soft cheese there because there was a little left in the tub and I thought “best use it up now because it’s been in the fridge for a week and it won’t much longer.”
A lot of food gets eaten because I just ‘use things up’. It seems that, given a choice of throwing away a few pennies of food or getting fat, I’d rather keep my pennies. :-( I do try to buy smaller quantities where available, even if it’s more expensive.
However, I have noticed that since I started this food diary, my fridge certainly empties noticeably slower.
| 1 serving | calories | protein | carbs | fat | fibre |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 260g sweet potatoes | 234 | 5.2 | 53.8 | 0.4 | 8.6 |
| 100g Quark low-fat soft cheese | 69 | 12.0 | 4.1 | 0.2 | |
| 125g raw courgette | 20 | 1.5 | 4.2 | 0.2 | 1.3 |
| half a red onion | 23 | 0.5 | 5.6 | 0.1 | 0.8 |
| 10ml balsamic vinegar | 11 | 2.3 | |||
| 10ml extra virgin olive oil | 82 | 9.1 | |||
| 1 apple | 72 | 0.4 | 19.1 | 0.2 | 3.3 |
| Total | 511 | 19.7 | 89.1 | 10.2 | 14.0 |
Evening drink: another pint of fizzy squash
7:50pm Three small pieces of baked parsnip
I’m baking them now with potatoes in the oven, Couldn’t resist having a few small pieces. Yum.
Day 13: Dinner and snack
Posted by Paola
9:30pm Cheese, onion & dill pickle sandwich + soup + 2 apples
Mushroom cup-soup:
- 82 calories
- 0.9g protein
- 11.8g carbohydrates
- 3.6g fat
- 1.8g fibre
2am Two cheese rice cakes + pint of fizzy squash
The rice cakes are 38 calories each.
