Saturday Starvation

29 March 2008 at 5:16 pm (food diary, thoughts)

Posted by Simon

No, not a real starvation, just I’m hungry when I write this, at about 5pm, cos I aint eaten much yet!

Lunchtime Wraps 400+200+100 cals

I wrapped some of the coleslaw for brunch. Two wraps, a big dollop of slaw to finish it up. Extra mayo to freshen it up a bit. An easy 400.

Far too many micro-eggs. They’ve all gone now. 200 cals I guess.

Smoothie, 100 cals.

Nothing else till dinner! Accidentally, someone stole the day.

Dinner Chicken Stir-fry 580+190 cals

In Waitrose they had ‘high animal welfare’ chicken on special offer, so I got some breasts, one for tonight, one for the fridge, two for the freezer. I’ll stir-fry it with some veggies, and I fancy rice again, after eating rice last night, so I’ll cook some up, some spare will be useful tomorrow.

In Waitrose I again put some stuff back on the shelf that would have ordinarily ended up in the basket without a second thought. Hurrah!

I had about 225 cals of rice, some veg, lets say 100 cals, sauce 80 cals, chicken 125 cals, oil 50 cals.

Followed by a granola bar, 190 cals.

Daily Total 1470 cals

Wowah, that seems way too little for me. No wonder I’m tired and grumpy, or maybe that’s cos I took half of it in the last half an hour.

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Day 82: Oops

28 March 2008 at 10:06 pm (food diary, photo)

Posted by Paola

7am Cooked breakfast + mandarin+ tea

1 serving calories protein carbs fat fibre
vegetarian bacon 50 6.6 0.9 2.3 0.9
large free-range organic egg 93 7.8 0.0 6.8 0.0
rapeseed oil 26 0.0 0.0 2.9 0.0
vegetarian frankfurter 68 5.4 0.8 4.5 0.6
baked beans 86 6.3 14.7 0.3 5.0
half-fat cheddar cheese 23 2.6 0.0 1.4 0.0
ketchup 11 0.0 2.7 0.0 0.0
mandarin 37 0.6 9.3 0.2 1.3
Total 394 29.3 28.3 18.3 7.7

I made a snack at around 10:30am of broccoli and radishes with a cup of tea. I then decided to make a soup for lunch. While preparing the soup and drinking my tea, I wasn’t hungry anymore and put my snack in the fridge.

Making soup is so easy – chop a load of veg into a pan, add stock and any flavourings. Bring to the boil and simmer for at least 30 mins (or until all the veg are tender). Then liquidise.

11:40am Vegetable soup + pint of fizzy squash

Carrots, celery, onion, fennel, vegetable stock and flavourings by way of garlic, dried chilli and dried tarragon. I removed the chilli before liquidising and the soup had a nice kick. The tarragon – and I only used half a teaspoon – added an interesting curry-like flavour.

263g portion calories protein carbs fat fibre
carrots 22 0.0 4.7 0.0 1.7
red onion 10 0.2 2.4 0.0 0.3
celery 4 0.2 0.8 0.0 0.4
vegetable stock 9 0.1 0.6 0.5 0.1
fennel 11 0.4 2.5 0.1 1.1
garlic 2 0.1 0.5 0.0 0.0
tomato puree 3 0.2 0.5 0.0 0.1
fat-free yoghurt 17 3.0 1.0 0.1 0.0
Total 78 4.2 13.1 0.7 3.7

3:15pm Five-bean salad + tea @ JD Wetherspoon

We went out for lunch, ending up at a JD Wetherspoon pub. I didn’t have my nutritional information with me and vaguely remembered that the pasta with basil and tomato was the least calorific. I later spotted the mixed-bean salad on the menu and changed my order. Unfortunately, my initial instincts were right and I’d just added 220 calories to my lunch. :-(

1 serving calories protein carbs fat fibre
Mexican-style spicy mixed bead salad 671 5.6 30.8 53.2 2.9

7:45pm Broccoli salad with veg chicken and cottage cheese

By the evening, I knew I was over my calorie quota but decided to satisfy my hunger. I embellished the snack I’d made earlier and also had some chocolate.

9pm Freshly-brewed coffee + chocolate

1 serving calories protein carbs fat fibre
balsamic vinegar 9 0.0 1.8 0.0 0.0
steamed broccoli 43 1.7 10.0 0.3 4.3
radishes 5 23.8 0.6 11.6 0.0
vegetarian chicken slices 76 6.0 1.0 5.4 1.0
sun-dried tomatoes 33 1.8 7.2 0.4 1.6
cottage cheese w/onion & chives 71 10.9 5.0 1.3 0.2
wholemeal Crackerbread 40 1.4 7.8 0.4 1.2
chocolate 39 0.7 3.4 2.5 0.2
Total 315 46.4 36.9 21.8 8.5

The day’s totals:

Day 82 calories protein carbs fat fibre
Breakfast 394 29.3 28.3 18.3 7.7
Snack 78 4.2 13.1 0.7 3.7
Lunch 671 5.6 30.8 53.2 2.9
Dinner 315 46.4 36.9 21.8 8.5
Other drinks 100        
Total 1,558 85.5 109.1 94.0 22.9
  21% 27% 52%  
Allowance 1,200 75 – 105g
25 – 35%		 120 – 165g
40 – 55%		 33 – 40g
25 – 30%

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Friday…

28 March 2008 at 9:27 pm (food diary)

Posted by Simon

I was lazy today and didn’t count calories, probably with very good reason…

I ate:

1 slice of bread, houmous spread on it, and a big blob o’ slaw
3 slices of bread, butter, and a bowl of yesterdays soup (I froze the rest in portion sizes)
About 8 micro-eggs
Small packet of Kettle crisps, their new AMAZING roast chicken flavour
Celebratory Chinese takeaway: hot n sour soup, sweet n’ sour chicken (hong kong style), boiled rice
I’ll probably have another 20 micro-eggs ;ninja

The takeaway was lovely, from the nearest to my new address, I don’t feel all MSGy, apart from the soup – but that’s probably from the soup mix. Actually, on closer inspection of the left over s&s sauce reveals it’s bound to have MSG, but perhaps not that much. I find it very hard to find a decent Chinese takeaway.

Daily Total 3 million calories

or, answers on a post card to: Food Confessional, PO BOX 1200, Paola Town, VG3 0NLy.

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Day 81: Hungry day

27 March 2008 at 8:19 pm (food diary, photo)

Posted by Paola

9:30am Peanut butter and piccalilli roll + mandarin + tea

Yes, peanut butter with piccalilli. You saw it here first!

1 serving calories protein carbs fat fibre
crusty white roll 95 4.1 19.4 0.1 1.8
peanut butter 80 3.0 2.0 6.6 0.8
mustard piccalilli 9 0.1 1.8 0.1 0.1
mandarin 37 0.6 9.3 0.2 1.3
Total 221 7.8 32.5 7.0 4.0

12:30pm Cabbage and broccoli salad with fake chicken + pint of squash

1 serving calories protein carbs fat fibre
cabbage 31 1.6 7.0 0.2 0.3
vinegar 3 0.2 0.7 0.0 0.0
steamed broccoli 35 1.4 8.1 0.2 3.5
vegetarian chicken 76 6.0 1.0 5.4 1.0
cottage cheese w/onion & chives 46 7.1 3.3 0.8 0.1
lemon juice 12 0.2 4.1 0.0 0.2
Peppadew 13 0.1 3.1 0.0 0.4
fat-free yoghurt 26 4.6 1.6 0.1 0.0
extra virgin olive oil 41 0.0 0.0 4.6 0.0
wholemeal Crackerbread 20 0.7 3.9 0.2 0.6
Total 303 21.8 32.7 11.6 6.1

3pm Carrot and radish salad

I got hungry quickly after lunch. I sprinkled on some of the salted water from the capers jar for the dressing.

1 serving calories protein carbs fat fibre
carrot 47 0.0 10.0 0.0 3.5
radishes 5 23.8 0.6 11.6 0.0
capers 1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0
celery leaves 1 0.1 0.3 0.0 0.1
half-fat cheddar cheese 34 3.8 0.0 2.1 0.0
Total 89 27.8 11.0 13.7 3.7

4:45pm Caramel rice-cake + tea

Hungry AGAIN.

6:50pm Tangy chickpea and vegetable wraps + tea

Inspired by Simon’s meals, I made tangy chickpeas with red pepper and onion. I added steamed broccoli and a dollop of yoghurt.

The solitary wrap looked really small and so I filled another alongside. After I wrapped them both, they did actually look a decent size. I figured I should save one for tomorrow but I scoffed them both anyway!

1 serving calories protein carbs fat fibre
red pepper 5 0.1 1.7 0.0 0.1
red onion 30 0.7 7.2 0.0 1.0
balsamic vinegar 23 0.1 4.9 0.0 0.0
chickpeas 87 5.3 12.4 1.8 3.8
dried mint 1 0.1 0.4 0.0 0.1
wholemeal tortilla 218 7.4 32.4 6.6 5.2
steamed broccoli 12 0.5 2.9 0.1 1.2
fat-free yoghurt 30 5.3 1.8 0.1 0.0
Total 407 19.4 63.7 8.7 11.5

Gosh, and I was sure I’d end up a couple of hundred calories over! I’m amazed because I felt hungry so often today and felt I ate loads.

Day 81 calories protein carbs fat fibre
Breakfast 221 7.8 32.5 7.0 4.0
Lunch 303 21.8 32.7 11.6 6.1
Snack (salad) 89 27.8 11.0 13.7 3.7
Snack (rice-cake) 51 0.7 11.3 0.3 0.2
Dinner 407 19.4 63.7 8.7 11.5
Other drinks 100        
Total 1,171 77.5 151.3 41.2 25.4
  24% 47% 29%  
Allowance 1,200 75 – 105g
25 – 35%		 120 – 165g
40 – 55%		 33 – 40g
25 – 30%

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Thursday

27 March 2008 at 1:09 pm (food diary, recipe)

Posted by Simon

Abel & Cole box day, a yummy selection, I still have half of last weeks, so I’ll have to do some juicing, and slawing (see recipe) and other stuff. I find when there’s good veggies in the fridge I’ll use them somehow, rather than eating junky stuff.

Noon-ish Brunchy snackette 180 cals

I also ordered a sourdough spelt loaf, not very big. I’ve ‘tried’ it. I’m guessing a slice is maybe 60 cals, there’s a lot of holes in it. So I’ve had 150 cals bread, 30 cals butter. Yum. I think some soup is required for it.

I have parsnips from last weeks box, some cabbage, some onions, some other stuff, I’m sure that’ll make a soup? I’m hungry NOW though, so I’ll not be making a fresh one, I’ll eat something else instead.

1:20pm Lunch 400 cals

Okay, I made a fat 3 slice sarnie. Bread, 180 cals, cheese, 200 cals, salad say 50 cals, houmous, 70 cals. 400 tasty if a little dry cals total. I should have splashed a bit of balsamic on it too.

Afternoon Snacks 150 cals

I ate too many chocolate micro-eggs this afternoon…

7pm Soupy Dinner 700 cals

I made a soup, I didn’t measure the stuff, so calories is a guess, but I reckon the couple of bowls were 300 and the bread and butter was another 300, with 100 for guile, cunning and a sprinkling of flaked almonds.

In the soup went these unlikely ingredients: two gigantic roasted parsnips, couple of shallots, couple of cloves of garlic, garlic olive oil, a carrot, an apple, about 10 cabbage leaves, caraway seeds, salt, pepper, chilli flakes, chicken stock cube (Kallo), water. Simmered for some time, maybe 45 mins. Zuzzed until not quite smooth and a few lumps remaining.

It was rather scrumptious, I had seconds. I don’t make soup very often, and certainly guessed at the ingredients, taking inspiration from Paola’s carrot soup with apple, and inspiration from what was in the veggie boxes! Jackpot!
9:30pm Dessert Snacks 370 cals

I tried a spoonful or two of the coleslaw, yummy. 50 cals.

I also ate naughty dessert items, 320 cals.

Daily Total 1800 cals

Felt very hungry at times, and very full at others. And I got too much calories from sugary items. But still it came in as good calory total.

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Recipe: Cole Slaw

27 March 2008 at 12:28 pm (photo, recipe)

Posted by Simon

I like to make slaws, they’re easy, tasty, and a good way to use a variety of salad veggies. They’re also invariably much better for you than the shop-bought ones, and tastier.

Wikipedia says: “Coleslaw (or cole slaw) is a salad consisting primarily, and minimally, of shredded, raw cabbage, although it often also includes shredded carrots.”

Yes, good, I agree. I use the word ’slaw’ to mean a similar shredded mix of stuff, but not necessarily of the traditional cabbage / carrot type makeup.

So here’s the cole slaw I made today.

Coleslaw

150g Cabbage (35cals)
100g Carrots (30 cals)
60g Fennel (30 cals)
3x Radishes (5? cals)
1inch Ginger Root (5? cals)

The cabbage, fennel and radishes were thinly sliced (I highly recommend Global Knives, my GS-5 14cm Vegetable Chopper is *the* best kitchen item I’ve ever invested in), the carrots and ginger were grated.

To that I added:

30ml-ish mayo (90 cals)
10ml-ish garlic olive oil (home infused) (80 cals)
pinch dried thyme
pinch white pepper
pinch celery salt

Total cals for the bowl full, 275! About half of that being the chosen dressing, I wanted old school.

Alternative dressings would be a vinegar, or a yogurt dressing.

The great thing about slaws is you can put anything in them, just make them up, they rarely taste bad. I tend to not put onion or shallots in them, too raw tasting, hence the garlic oil and ginger for flavour instead. Spring or salad onions may be okay.

They’re good immediately, but even better if you leave them for a few hours, or over night.

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Day 80: Lanes in Staines

26 March 2008 at 10:33 pm (food diary, photo)

Posted by Paola

10:55am Egg sandwich + mandarin + tea

1 serving calories protein carbs fat fibre
large free-range organic egg 93 7.8 0.0 6.8 0.0
rapeseed oil 5 0.0 0.0 0.6 0.0
Quark soft cheese 12 2.0 0.7 0.0 0.0
wholemeal & seeds bread 182 9.5 21.6 6.3 7.3
tarragon mustard 25 0.6 0.8 0.6 0.2
mandarin 37 0.6 9.3 0.2 1.3
Total 354 20.5 32.4 14.5 8.7

2:15pm Greek salad wrap + biscotti + skinny latte @ Starbucks

The biscotti packet came as two biscuits. I realised that the calorie information was per biscuit and not for the whole pack and so I just had one at lunch.

1 serving calories protein carbs fat fibre
Greek salad wrap 265 11.0 39.0 7.2 3.9
almond biscotti 127 2.2 17.5 5.3 0.7
Short latte, semi-skimmed 95 6.3 9.0 3.5 0.0
Total 487 19.5 65.5 16.0 4.6

5:30pm Carrot and apple soup + pint of squash

374g serving calories protein carbs fat fibre
carrots 33 0.0 7.1 0.0 2.5
red onion 10 0.2 2.5 0.0 0.3
celery 5 0.2 0.9 0.1 0.5
vegetable stock 9 0.1 0.7 0.5 0.1
braeburn apple 21 0.0 5.7 0.0 1.3
tomato puree 4 0.3 0.8 0.0 0.2
apple garnish 24 0.1 6.8 0.0 1.4
Total 107 0.9 24.4 0.6 6.3

6pm Almond biscotti

8:50pm Cabbage with vegetarian chicken slices + pear

1 serving calories protein carbs fat fibre
cabbage 72 3.6 16.1 0.5 0.6
vinegar 32 0.1 6.9 0.0 0.0
vegetarian chicken 76 6.0 1.0 5.4 1.0
fat-free yoghurt 50 8.6 3.0 0.1 0.0
sweet chilli sauce 33 0.1 8.1 0.0 0.0
pear 71 0.4 19.0 0.1 3.8
Total 334 18.9 54.1 6.2 5.4

The day’s totals:

Day 80 calories protein carbs fat fibre
Breakfast 354 20.5 32.4 14.5 8.7
Lunch 487 19.5 65.5 16.0 4.6
Snack (soup) 107 0.9 24.4 0.6 6.3
Snack (biscotti) 127 2.2 17.5 5.3 0.7
Dinner 334 18.9 54.1 6.2 5.4
Other drinks 100        
Total 1,508 62.1 193.9 42.6 25.7
  18% 55% 27%  
Allowance 1,200 75 – 105g
25 – 35%		 120 – 165g
40 – 55%		 33 – 40g
25 – 30%

Hmm, I shouldn’t have had that second biscotti today…

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