Workful Wednesday
Posted by Simon
Pasta 300
Slimfast shake 250
Wrap, cheese, beetroot, and a bit of peanut butter in the end (!) 300
Sushi 440
Soup w/chickpeas 300
Oatibix w/ narner 300
Total 1890
I didn’t need the oatibix, but I’m noting as I keep track of what I eat throughout the day (via a draft post), and a running total, I get towards the end of the day, and if I have spare calories, I go and eat something else, with no concern to if I’m hungry or not! That’s not quite right…
But still, I’m consistently averaging around 2000 calories a day I think, and buying more healthily, and I think I’m around 1000 calories a day less than I used to be. So I guess it should have some effect, early days though, I have to keep it up, and I feel a biscuit splurge coming up, probably on Friday, and Saturday, my sweet stuff only at the weekend type plan.
Day 389: Day of letters
Posted by Paola
11:40pm Ham and cheese salad sandwich + tea + nectarine
Afternoon drink: pint of fizzy squash
4:40m Tomato, vegetable and bean soup with cheese, nuts and Finn Crisp + mandarin
New batch of soup. A second bowl soon after, as the first was so yummy.
Followed by two caramel rice cakes with tea whilst watching Gok Wan’s TV programme on teenage obesity. Go figure.
8:30pm Kale, radishes and cheese with sweet chilli yoghurt + tea + peach
9:30pm Soya nuts + dried fruit & nuts
Too yummy. I won’t buy any more when these finish. They’re dates, apricots, sultanas, almonds and hazelnuts.
photo from a previous day
Now I’m feeling a tad full and going to have an early night.
P.S.
10:30pm Ben & Jerry’s Half-Baked Ice Cream
51g – 135 calories. I didn’t actually like it (tasted like cocoa powder) but ate it anyway.
Sauerkraut Gulasch
Posted by Sylvia
Here’s a quick translation of the recipe from Issue 1/2009 of Rezepte mit Pfiff
Ingredients for four people:
400g beef steak
2 tablespoons oil
500g potato
1 tablespoon caraway seeds
300ml vegetable broth
1 red and 1 yellow pepper
500g sauerkraut
salt, pepper
Cut the steaks into strips as thick as your finger and fry in hot oil for approx. 5 min. Remove from the pan and leave them on the side.
Peel the potatoes and cube them. Heat them up with the caraway seeds in the vegetable broth and allow to simmer, covered, for about 10 minutes.
Meanwhile, cut the peppers in half, remove the seeds, wash them and cut them into stripes. Add the peppers and the sauerkraut to the potatos, add salt and pepper to taste and allow to simmer for a further 10 minutes.
Add the beef and heat through.
Serve with a spoonful of mustard.
Preparation time: 20 min
Cooking time: 25 min
Per portion: 390 kcal, 26g carbohydrates, 17g fat, 28g protein.
Note:
I used stewing steak cut into small pieces and left the meat in throughout to make sure it was tender. This worked fine. It isn’t very much meat so I think the small pieces worked better.
I steamed the potatoes as my boyfriend was traumatised by a raw potato when he was a child and always complains that they are undercooked. Steaming them means I get them guaranteed cooked through without risk of them falling apart. As a result, I reduced the amount of broth and mixed everything in together at once rather than the stages described above.
Famous by Tuesday
Posted by Sylvia
Breakfast: Milky Coffee
I got up late and although I was hungry, I didn’t feel I had time to sort something out. I have some goat’s yogurt (85 calories – and not low-fat! woah!) that I want to try with honey and muesli but I put it off thinking I’d make it when I could enjoy it. I think that was a mistake.
Lunch: pork stir fry for two
I was very hungry when I was making this. I realised I should have had something for breakfast but it seemed a bit silly to eat something directly before lunch.
When I was mixing up the ingredients, I used more pork than I was intending to initially, which I am sure was a response to how hungry I felt. Then I looked at the sauce I wanted to use which I know is some sort of mixture of soy sauce and sugar and mirin. It didn’t have a calorie count on it and I thought to be safe, I really should mix up my own sauce as it would be less sweet and better for me. Then I took this sauce and splashed it onto the meat anyway, without even measuring it. It was a silly thing to do and certainly didn’t make me feel any better about the lunch. I’ve estimated the sauce at a tablespoon of sugar which hopefully is high for what’s in it!
| Pork and Chard Stirfry | 400g pork | 720 |
|---|---|---|
| Noodles | 150 | |
| 1 red pepper | 50 | |
| 1 tablespoon olive oil | 119 | |
| Chard | 50 | |
| Sauce (tablespoon sugar) | 50 | |
| Total Calories | 1,139 | |
Lunch calories (per person): 570
Dinner: Tuna Salad with 2 teaspoons oil per portion
Again, I felt very sulky at having to measure everything and how much faster I could get dinner served if I just put it together. I’d also lost track of time (the big lunch would have stopped me from feeling hungry, as well) so I was in a rush. So I decided to put together a tuna salad that I knew would be low in calories so that I didn’t have to measure everything. I decided to mix it all up and serve and then drizzle oil over the top for that full olive oil taste with a minimum of actual oil. But I still used two teaspoons per plate which tasted lovely but I really shouldn’t.
| Tuna Salad | Tinned tuna | 99 |
|---|---|---|
| Vegetables & lettuce – approx | 150 | |
| 2 teaspoons olive oil | 80 | |
| Total Calories | 329 | |
Nightcap: 3 options hot chocolates
I knew I shouldn’t have the third one, especially since I’d gone overboard with calories at lunch but I really fancied it. I added extra milk to the third one, too. :(
106 calories
| Breakfast | Milky Coffee | 30 |
|---|---|---|
| Lunch | Pork Stir Fry | 570 |
| Dinner | Tuna Salad | 329 |
| Nightcap | 3 Options Hot Chocolate | 106 |
| Total Calories | 1,035 | |
I am amazed to see that the total day was still under 1,200 as I felt really guilty about all the calories and was dreading adding them up. I guess because I’ve been aiming for under 1000/day, it seemed like a lot more than it was (or I’ve mis-added something, which I’m really hoping is not the case).
Day 388: Day of rest
Posted by Paola
1:10pm Hot and sour soup with toast + coffee and apple
Rather a large bowl of what was left of last week’s soup.
Afternoon drink: pint of fizzy squash
5pm Kale with cheese and sweet chilli yoghurt + hot chocolate
I was hungry soon after as there was only 100g of kale but I tried to wait before eating again.
7:40pm Vegetarian chilli with yoghurt and nuts + apple
Evening drink: pint of fizzy squash
9pm Dried fruit & nuts
photo from a previous day
Evening drink: pint of fizzy squash
Tuesday Temptation
Posted by Simon
Finn Thins, goats cheese 200
SlimFast shake 300
Bacon n Eggs 600
Oatibix, narner 500
More Finn Thins* & goats cheese 250
Total 1850
* Every single time I type Finn Thins, no matter how hard I try, do I type Finn Things. She sells sea shells on the sea shore?
Findings
Posted by Ginni
I found this fantastic, simple recipe that does not add many calories to a meal.
At first, I thought it was just ‘too simple’ and I was sceptical as to whether it would work or not. However, to my surprise it worked fantastically.
Sweet n Chilli Rub
Cajun powder & Splenda (or sugar if you are not on a diet)
In a small dry jar – mix both ingredients in equal quantities. Splenda is much lighter than Cajun, so you might want to add some more, depending on your taste.
Use this as a rub on anything – potatoes before you bake them, to spice up peanuts, chilli paneer or even roast chicken / fish. Fantastic!
Fat is contagious again…
This is a fun blog that I found, and thought I would share with y`all
