What have you eaten today?

[P1nkHeartLovesCake]

I love a food thread and normally pick up some new ideas as well

Breakfast, poached eggs on toast. Lots of coffee

Lunch chicken salad & party rings with the dc

Dinner later will be sausage and butter bean stew & a bottle of red for me and dh

Dessert home made strawberry ice cream ( the ice cream maker has turned out to be a great buy)

Yesterday I had a yoghurt for breakfast (a posh strawberry one full fat) and some strawberries and raspberries and a coffee.
For lunch I had Salad, Hummus, Anchovies and a couscous feta salad from aldi which was really good.
Dinner was spicy haddock fish nuggets, rice and salad (we started a Gousto box delivery this week to take the thinking out of midweek meals) I am impressed. I met a friend for coffee and had a couple of cortados (feeling virtuous as I didn't eat cake) and then had 2 pints of Estrella in the evening as a pal who is getting married is in town and messaged for a catch up, would've been rude not to (plus it's recess, so no work for me)

@AwkwardSquad - sorry just spotted your spices advice from Monday - thank you, I’ll do that next time.

I have to say I’m pleasantly surprised with the texture of the muffins - they are moist from the courgette. Texture of baked goods is always an issue for those of us who are gluten free and low carb, as coconut and almond flours can be very heavy.

Shop bought GF cakes , biscuits and scones are always a disappointment . Dry and crumbly and a bloody fortune.

So thank you for inspiring me to try the muffins. Next time it’s courgette fritters I think.

B:Sourdough crumpet with peanut butter
L: Rye bread with tinned mackerel and salad
D: Homemade leek , cheese and red pepper quiche with green vegetables

B - boiled egg

L - tuna melt quesadilla and tomato soup

D- turkey curry with rice and green beans

Hi M0RVEN, good to know about moistness of gluten free version. I’ve tried coconut flour in the past and find it quite difficult to work with but the result was good, it was a sort of high protein cake made with lots of eggs, and loads of cinnamon.

Today, so far:
B - muesli, kiwi, yoghurt
L - Longley Farm cottage cheese, carrot and celery sticks; cherries
A surprise samosa from the market (so good!)
D - pasta with peas and fennel pesto, beetroot salad, lettuce
Afters - undecided

Golden syrup porridge pot at work
Jammy dodger
Tomato and basil soup and some pop chips
Nectarine
Vanilla skyr yoghurt + a handful of cereal
Chicken chow mein ready meal
Crunchie blast ice cream

I need to do this again for accountability:

Breakfast- cup of tea, raisin wheats with milk
Lunch - quinoa, tomatoes, halloumi
Snack - latte and rhubarb cake and malteasers.
Dinner - banana, oat, raisin and flax seed smoothie.

Not a good day

Blueberries with Greek yogurt
Vegetable crisps
Raisin & oat cookie
2 chocolate mousse
Baked potato with tuna
Small bag of pick n mix sweets
Brown rice with spinach, walnuts & goats cheese

B: bowl of Shreddies and a banana
L: leftover turkey escolape, roasted courgettes and tomatoes
S: few cheese and crackers
D: battered cod with peas and broccoli

Going to have some dark chocolate with raspberries now

B- Porridge with honey, strawberries and raspberries. Coffee.
L - Homemade veg soup with a toasted English muffin.
Through afternoon - half a blueberry muffin, chai latte and cup of tea.
D - Chicken Thai green curry with rice and veggies. Followed by fage full fat yogurt and a drizzle of maple syrup. Also had a herbal tea.

0% fat Greek yoghurt
Half a banana
Some homemade veggie pakora
Chicken Caesar pasta salad
Popcorn

Now making some roasted cheese!

B : carrot, spinach, apple, raspberry & red fruit yoghurt smoothie

D : reheated chicken in white wine sauce with sprouts & a couple of yorkshire puds I found in the back of the freezer. Yum.

Large V&C and 2 glasses of vinho tinto.

Overnight oats with banana & nuts

Poached egg and salmon on a slice of rye

Beetroot & goats cheese salad with homemade quiche

I'm fasting 💁🏼‍♀️

Breakfast: one slice of toast, poached egg and smashed avacado
Lunch: grilled chicken, brocolli, hummus and cucumber batons.
Dinner: chilli with tortilla chips. Snacks: jammy dodger. One mocha.

@AwkwardSquad

I suspect the sogginess of the grated courgette helps with the high moisture absorption of the coconut flour.

Oops forgot to post meals

L: cheese, tomato and a courgette muffin

D: salad with haloomi, bacon and walnuts. Should have been avocado too but when I opened it, it was nasty inside 😭😭😭

Coffee and a Madeleine.

B - Weetabix with blueberries
S: half a banana
L: ham, red onion and cheese omelette, couple spoonfuls of beans (using them up), greek yoghurt with blackberry compote.
Just had a peach
D: will be baked potatoes and salad. I'm having prawn mayonnaise, the others are having beans and cheese
Might do baked plums with vanilla ice cream for pudding.

I'm staaaarving today.

Never mind, plums need to be thrown. Will probably just hav w some dark chocolate instead

B - muesli, rhubarb, yoghurt
L - carrot and lentil soup, apple, courgette muffin
Another apple
D will be courgette and chickpea stew with herb salsa, yoghurt and brown rice

B: toasted crumpet and peanut butter
L: pizza from Pizza Express, olives, espresso
D: Nothing as still full

B: nothing as had an exercise class and eating before makes me feel sick.

Snack: two toaster breakfast waffle things.

Lunch: two tortilla wrap fajitas with chicken

Dinner: nothing. Might have some wine later.

Two plums and two oat molasses cookies to add to my tally.

B - an apple with crunchy peanut butter
2 digestive biscuits
L - salad with feta, olives, peppers. Balsamic dressing. Another apple.
Mini double caramel magnum
D - falafel, veg and feta couscous, homemade hummus, one tomato/harissa flatbread, salad, yoghurt
Coffee.

Might have a bit of chocolate later. Healthy meals but as usual it's my sugar craving that gets the better of me.