Eating more fruit and veg

[QueenPaw]

Starting this to keep me accountable!
I am lazy with fruit/veg, I like it and eat most stuff if it's put in front of me
Decided rather than a "diet" I want to up my fruit, veg and salad and that way naturally cut down on the processed carbs etc as hopefully I should be fuller from the more low calorie/high volume stuff

Tonight's meal
Cheese (I did weigh 30g as well, cheese is life), mushroom omelette with salad
White chocolate protein yoghurt with strawberries (I only eat them when British ones are out and these were delicious)

Feel free to add ideas or join in please

They weren't as crispy as the recipe but still tasted delicious so that's one I will make again. Very quick too, I made the salad as they were cooking
Ooh I could just have apple crumble!

Usual lunch, followed by an apple

B: Toast, satsuma
L: Egg Mayo roll, Nik Naks
D: Vegan Thai curry & rice (had 4 veg in it, but only 3 of my 5 a day); homemade apple crumble

This is my second meat free Monday. It’s quite nice to eat vegetarian once a week.

B - 2 boiled eggs, marmite rice cakes
L - ham salad thin with gherkins as usual, bag of baked crisps, mini choc bar
Snack will be an apple or banana
Tea - doing chicken fried rice with spinach, mushrooms, pepper, onion and tomatoes

Your tea sounds nice @QueenPaw.

B: toast
L: omelette with Mediterranean veg, tomatoes. Apple
D: fish stew (tomatoes, peppers, onion in it), green beans & new potatoes

It was lovely!

Making a meatball pasta bake, about to add cheese to it! Will have this with salad or extra veg

And my tea
Half a pack rice, tomatoes, onion, peppers, some shredded chicken and teriyaki sauce

B: toast, satsuma, grapes
L: tuna Mayo sandwich, sun bite crisps
D: Bolognese with a layered vegetable dish from M&S instead of pasta, garlic bread

Slightly low veg/fruit today as it's the day before food shop

B - marmite breakfast seed things and cream cheese
L - ham thin, baked crisps, yoghurt
Snack - banana and protein shake
T - pasta meatballs with tomatoes, onion, sweetcorn

Plans for next week are
Pulled pork and coleslaw and salad
Chicken sausage veg fried rice
Feta salad

Food shopping done!
I got some stir fry veg which I thought I could add to the fried rice dish I've been making
And British strawberries 😍 because I love them plus loads of salad etc

I have fridge envy - it all looks so organised!

Yesterday
B: toast, satsuma, grapes
L: avocado, cucumber and crab toast
D: homemade sweet & sour chicken (contained carrot, red pepper, onion, pineapple), bread
And a bad day for snacks as also had carrot cake and 4 chocolate ginger biscuits!

Really need to start mixing up my breakfasts.

@Wildernesstips oh that's messy for me! I like a tidy fridge
I'm trying some baked oats this morning when I shift myself to make them

B: porridge with raspberries
L: spinach, mushroom and ham omelette with tomatoes
D: Roast beef, potatoes, Yorkshire’s, sprouts, carrots & peas
S: toast and peanut butter

Baked oats for breakfast (banana in the mix and frozen raspberries)
Lunch was er, Pringles and an ice lolly
Tea - meatball pasta bake (onion, tomatoes, spinach, sweetcorn)

Back to work
Today's plan

B - cottage cheese on rice cakes
L - feta salad
T - meatball veg pasta bake

Banana/apple as snack

Weighed and had lost 2lbs but probably sabotaged by the Pringles I had

Weighed and had lost 2lbs but probably sabotaged by the Pringles I had

Great job!
And no. You didn't 😁

Also trying to work on drinking more water now as I tend to drink too much tea
Got a 600ml bottle I'm filling up twice a day on top of the too many cups of tea
2lbs is a very small drop in the ocean! I'm 5ft 10 and a size 16

My weakness were crisps, like proper weakness. I made courgette ones intead in the oven few times. It's actually nice!
Except that one time when I put oven too high and out came out black slices of courgette coal😂

2 pounds maybe a drop but every drop counts!

I started doing this at the beginning of January because dh is ill and I do a lot for him so I wasn’t eating as much f&v as I should so I bought a soup maker & it’s really helped. I get through a bag of broccoli a week on my own in soups & I’m addicted to pea and mint soup. I use the kallo stock cubes because their organic. Don’t anyone buy the morphy Richards ones, I’ve had two pack up on me & John Lewis are getting suspicious.

Dh is a f&v refuser so I do him banana with sugar free custard mix or peaches with soya cream if he wants a pudding & in the day he has mushrooms on the side with breakfast, red onion (higher antioxidants) in salads & I only buy Italian plum tomatoes now as they taste way better. He was already good at using evoo on salads but he’s found a favourite brand I’m not allowed to run out of 🤨. He had spam in the cupboard when I met him & no fruit bowl.

When I’m cooking him a curry or mince based dish I throw a handful of porridge oats in as their packed with antioxidants & he can’t tell the difference or he would’ve complained about it.

I don’t see a massive problem with tea though, it’s got minerals in it & tannins & antioxidants. The decaf versions aren’t awful if the caffeine intakes getting a bit high.

I hate the phrase “eat the rainbow” but it’s true. I buy spring greens, carrots & celery very cheaply then freeze chopped up because I think it’s the prep that puts you off especially after a day at work.

I’ve started using frozen blueberries in porridge, they don’t go mushy at all. All the supermarkets charge about the same for them, Lidl is very cheap on dried fruit at the moment.

It’s ok to slip up, I ate a pack of Lidl knock off hob nobs yesterday but I had normal food for dinner. I’m sure my pancreas was not impressed with me but it’s a one off.

Fluffy I love frozen fruit - my favourite new discovery is frozen cherries.

B: Toast, strawberries & grapes
L: Roast beef sandwich, tomatoes
D: Chicken tinga, small baked sweet potato, sweetcorn

I really like frozen raspberries and they're cheaper so that's a win!
Feta salad for lunch tomorrow
Tea probably my fried rice mix thing - packet rice, eggs, and as much veg as I can get in plus teriyaki sauce

B - corn thins with cottage cheese and chilli sauce
Lunch - feta and bacon salad