What have you eaten today?

[Wouldloveanother]

Pure nosiness!

Me:
Marmite on toast for breakfast
2 kiwis, a banana, bar of chocolate for lunch (cravings )
just had a packet of crisps
Will have tuna and med veg risotto for dinner

Overnight oats with strawberries blueberries and sunflower seeds

Sushi for lunch

Apple

Goats cheese salad for dinner

Three pieces of toast.
Small bowl of museli.
Apple.
Crisps.
Nuts.
Banana.

I shouldn’t have started this thread in the throes of morning sickness!
B - toast and marmite, coffee
L - Special K red berries cereal, chocolate brioche roll
S - ginger biscuits, tinned pineapple
D - not sure yet, probably chicken curry

B: Banana and a cup of tea
L: Penne puttanesca
D: Eba and egusi, probably. Although DH is poking about, so homemade pizza might be happening.

I suspect that a glass of Pinot Grigio may also happen fairly soon.

@Wouldloveanother I use Alpro not milk while oat drink, it's £1.90 so.a bit expensive but it lasts me aged as I don't drink hot drinks so literally just hsve it in mine and my sons cereal and my older two don't have it. It's alright but I've never liked real cows milk.

Today I've had
B: two nature valley oat and dark chocolate bars
L: two crumpets
S: most of a chocolate orange a handful of tortilla chips and just had a couple of breadsticks dipped in sweet chilli houmous.

I'm starving but not got time to make anything g as the babies keep wanting to be fed

Shreddies & milk
Ham and tomato sandwich, apple, yoghurt, blue ribband
Salmon fillet, mixed veg, new potatoes and crusty bread. Egg custard. (Ate at DMs tonight )

4 cups of tea, pint of water.

Muesli

A sort of smoked salmon mousse thing with bread and salad, fruit

lentil bolognese and pasta

All bran, yogurt and fruit at about 11
Toast and Mamie at about 3
An apple and a few plums
Chicken and vegetable stir fry
Ice lolly and giant marshmallow

croisssant
handful of grapes
2 slices of pizza }
piece of cake } party in the office
2 glasses of white wine }
slice of toast with sardine pate and cucumber

Not the healthiest
After the sardine pate, my cat is obsessed with giving me big kisses

Kombucha
protein bar

salad of field greens, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, avocado, chicken, aioli and almonds

steak with sautéed spinach and new potatoes in butter

coconut yoghurt with raspberries and semi-sweet chocolate chips

@Cherchezlaspice sorry to bother you, was curious about eba and egusi, but can I ask about the melon seed used in this? I had a quick Google but was wondering what these taste like? Are they in the form of a ground meal, like cornmeal? And taste wise, neutral? Bitter? Sweet?

Bindaettok
Aldi fake ryvita, cheese
Aldi fake mint penguin
Most delicious beef stew ever made (😂 if I say so myself)
Broccoli.

Lots and lots of tea.

Yesterday:

3 coffees with milk
Handful of pecan nuts
Green salad with mozzarella and falafels
Piece of sourdough toast with apricot jam
Thai chicken curry with rice, grilled peppers and steamed mange tout
Glass of rosé
4 chocolate fingers

No bother at all!

The melon seeds (egusi) are mulled into a fine flour and cooked into a soup. The taste is sweet and nutty. It’s gorgeous and a pretty good introduction to Nigerian food.

This is an expert deep dive: www.kitchenbutterfly.com/2014/traditional-nigerian-edo-egusi-soup/

This is a possibly more accessible recipe: www.africanbites.com/egusi-soup/

Eba is much more straightforward. It’s fried dried ground fermented cassava that you rehydrate with hot water and eat as a side to Nigerian soups. www.myactivekitchen.com/eba-roll-croissant/

I adore it, but I’ve never met a non-Nigerian that liked it. It’s often quite sour. You might be better off trying a different ‘swallow’ like pounded yam.

Omgoodness @Cherchezlaspice thank you so much, I love to try new foods and am spoilt here in my little corner of London for amazing Turkish/Greek/Cypriot/South American produce.. Mind you, if I went 2 miles down the road it would be a whole other thing.. I was wondering about the melon seeds having experimented with bitter gourd/kerala last week and although so so bitter ( so not like egusi) thought there was something weirdly addictive about it (DD did not agree 😂). Its possible to get stuck in flavour and texture profiles of our childhood foods and it's just a limitation I don't want.
Will 100% be trying. Thank you. Xx

Porridge
Pasta and chicken
Lemon sorbet
Bowl of shreddies

Bowl of Shreddies
lamb chop, new potatoes and green beans

@Wilkolampshade My pleasure! I love sharing food knowledge and I live in a similar (possibly even the same) corner of London and we’re so blessed with the diversity of ingredients and restaurants available. And I love bitter gourd, so you’ve just inspired my dinner! 😁

Piece of toast
2 chocolate rice cakes
Ham, cream cheese and tomatoes on a bagel thin, 4 bourbon biscuits
Pizza, coleslaw, french fries

3 cups of tea
Iced coffee
Can of diet coke
need some water before bed...

3 coffees with milk
Slice of sourdough with peanut butter
Bean salad, falafels, tzatziki and some plain crisps
A handful of raspberries
2 squares of dark chocolate
Chicken curry, lentil curry and rice
A glass of rose

Too many coffees to count as usual.
A bowl of mushroom soup in my local pub for lunch. The dogs dragged me there, honest.
Steak with a jacket potato and salad for evening meal.
I've just finished a salted caramel magnum. Very nice it was too.

B: nothing
L: salad, 3 sweet potato falafel, black olives
S: 4 Bourbon biscuits, Diet Coke
D: nothing, too tired to eat

B: Coffee, Greek yoghurt with prunes and cashews and honey

L: Peanut butter sandwich in a mad rush and mug of tea

D: will be barbecue ribs with cauliflower and macaroni cheese, sweet potato wedges and green beans. The plan is to cook enough for leftovers that I can do better than a sandwich tomorrow as I'm going out pretty much straight after I finish work

Also strawberries and raspberries with cream and another coffee

@Cherchezlaspice 🙏
Agusi and carom seeds in the house! Need time at the weekend to prepare, but thanks for the inspo. Xx

Coffee