Love your kitchen and your health!

Hi again,

I’m terribly sorry. I just haven’t had time to blog as much as I would have liked over the past few weeks. I have been studying like fury to write a final exam. Now that that’s done I will try to blog more often. I cannot promise a daily account of what I’ve been eating, though. That takes too much time! Here’s a bundle of pictures over the past few days. Enjoy!!

January 20 – 24 – Description of photos in order

Tilapia sandwich with tomato soup

Whole wheat pasta with tuna fish sauce

Saturday morning breakfast – protein smoothie, wheat germ pancakes and coffee!

Baked beans from dried and grilled cheese

Lentil stew

Sauteed greens with balsamic vinegar (to die for!) and marinated & baked tofu on rice noodles (to die again for!)

January 19

What a marvelous dinner we had last night! I didn’t realize how much I had missed roasted yammies and baked beans!

Breakfast
Quiche from yesterday

Lunch
Egg in miso soup

Snack
Yogurt with cereal

Dinner
Baked beans from dried in the slow cooker for 10 hours. Wow.. Baked yams with loads of seasoning and a drop of oil and lightly boil carrots and beans. Yum Yum!

January 17

Today I had a stupid day, eating wise. It was crazy cold outside (Lowest was maybe -32 Celcius) and so my resolve dipped down a little. And my digestion was a little unstable from those bean pancakes on Sunday. Oops. Probably shouldn’t have had those… now I don’t want to see another one ever again.

Breakfast
Cereal, PC brand. Had 1 cup of cereal in 1 cup of skim milk. Thought I would try out the quantities on the package. It’s a lot. I usually only have about 1/2 cup cereal… that was a lot of cereal!!

Lunch
Brown rice, tomato, bean stew thing. I dumped a bunch of leftovers together and this is what I had. Today I am not eating any beans to compensate for all the beans consumed in the last few days.

Snack
After I got back from a frigid, hour long -25C walk in the park with the dog, I was pretty hungry. Knowing that it was workout day, I wanted to be well fueled for a successful workout. There is such a thing as over fueled. I discovered it. I felt so ill after working out. Had my snack at 3:30 and worked out at 5:00. Not enough digestion time!
PB and jam sandwich on multi-grain bread and a bowl of yogurt with bit of raisin bran

Dinner
Compensated for heavy snacks with a light dinner of stir fried veggies and prawns with nothing but salt, pepper, dash of sugar for flavour with brown rice seasoned with a wee bit of sesame oil and soy sauce. Mm, delish.

However, not filling. At 9:00, hubby and I got hungry. I hate night-snacking. But I just couldn’t bear to go to sleep hungry so we shared a bag of light popcorn and a packet of baked Lays chips. (Yeah, bad me!!)

January 15

Today we were going to head down to a local restaurant for Sunday brunch. So totally looking forward to pigging out on smoked salmon. Unfortunately they no longer do brunch. So, I got a burger for breakfast. That was weird but what was weirder was my overall diet of the day…

Breakfast/Lunch
Big ol’ lamb burger

Dinner
My own strange version of Japanese red bean pancakes and miso soup
Red beans, sugar, salt, flour, wheat germ, salt, milk, baking powder, oil, carrot, beans, miso, dashi (fish stock)

January 14

This year we’ve decided to get out and be exciting. We feel like we’re settling into a boring couple. So, today I took matters into my own hands, grabbed the coupon book and went where it led: 17th Ave. We found an awesome little coffee shop called “Waves” and enjoyed a nice coffee date then strolled around shopes oggling at all the furniture we can’t afford to buy!

Breakfast
Baked oatmeal
Oats, skim milk, pumpkin, cinnamon, dried cranberries, pear

Lunch
Lentil stew and cornbread
Leftovers from the 12, have a look there for more info!

Tea Date
Green tea latte and pumpkin carrot loaf
Nutrition info I don’t know! Probably not great but you’ve got to chill out sometimes.

Dinner
Tomato soup thing and mashed pinto bean quesadilla
Tomato chunks, Italian seasoning, green pepper, spinach, garlic, whole wheat tortilla, low-fat cheddar cheese, mashed pinto beans

Hey people! Here’s the day for January 13.

Breakfast
1/2 cup PC brand raisin bran with 1 cup skim milk

Lunch
Brown rice taco salad
Brown rice, mashed pinto beans, tomatoes, iceburg lettuce, tablespoon 1% yogurt

Snack
When I wanted chippies I had a carrot. Too lazy to chop it into sticks!

Dinner
Carrot and ginger chicken on rice. Sorry, the photo’s not brilliant. The hungrier I am, the worse the photo. We had a guy clean our furnace and our dinner took longer than usual to be prepared. It was so worth it though. Delish! Smooth texture with pureed carrots.
Brown rice, chicken breast, carrots, ginger, onion, bunch of spices

January 12

No, I’m not pregnant. I’m just hungry all the time. I think maybe I need to tally up my typical daily protein to see if my diet is lacking.

Breakfast
Baked oatmeal swimming in skim milk
Pumpkin, oats, about 1 cup skim milk, bits of pear, bits of dried cranberries, a bit of egg (1 in 9 x 13″ pan)

Lunch
Some strange dish I made up with all the leftovers in our fridge! Shiitake mushrooms, a large quantity of spinach, about a 1/8 cup red wine, tomato paste all heaped on a small bowl of brown rice. Followed up by a granny smith apple.

Snack
Yeah, snack again today! Since my holiday I have this need to have snackies now. Need to stop that habit or have a little less lunch to compensate!
1/2 cup 1% plain natural yogurt, 1 banana, 1/4 cup raisin bran flakes

Dinner
I must confess, I ate 2nds of this because it was just so darn good. Lentil stew, hot sauce drizzled on top, with cornbread.
Red lentils, carrots, tomato paste, courgette, onion, thyme, beef stock, cornmeal, milk, eggs, flour (I was too lazy to pull out the whole wheat.) baking powder, salt

January 11

Yesterday was tough!! Honestly, the photos you see here is ALL I ate. No cheating. I wanted to so badly but I didn’t. I was really craving chippies from the cupboard but I did not cave in. Instead I had a lovely cup of tea. While my hubby was off having a party and eating pizza, I was cooking dried beans to have for my dinner. Yes, I’m very proud of my self-discipline!

I must share something else that is wonderfully exciting! As I was trying to make my smashed beans for dinner, my hand blender started to smell really funny. I think it may be dying. So, I looked up my air miles and rewards I could get from them. I got myself a brand spankin new Kitchen Aid hand blender! Okay, maybe it’s not that exciting. For me it is!

Breakfast The last of the peanut bread. No more. That’s okay. Oatmeal’s better anyway.

Lunch Egg drop spaghetti weird soup 1 egg, 1 carrot, bunch of string beans, 1/2 cup spaghetti, a pack of instant noodle soup mix (I know, a baddie, but I was pressed for time and just needed something quickly to add flavour!) and the water from cooking veggies the night before

Snackie I had another snackie afternoon. I was hungry today. The dog and I romped in the park for a good hour. Yogurt, banana, raisin bran

Dinner Mashed pinto bean wrap 1/2 cup smashed pinto beans, ground chilli, tex mex seasoning, iceburg lettuce, tomato, green pepper, 1 whole wheat tortilla