Todays Food.

6.30am.  Coffee, strong, white, no sugar.

7.30am.  I had fish and an egg for breakfast.  Both cooked in the electric frypan with a squirt of oil. 
Another coffee

Yum, doesn't that look good?  Maybe not but it was freshly cooked  real food and it tasted good.







11.35am   Nettle and Rosehip tea.

12.20pm. .Same as breakfast.  Fish and an egg..  I cooked extra this morning so this was quick and simple to grab.  No thinking involved means eating less crap.
Coffee,

5.30pm.  Steak and vegetables for tea.   I cooked up a heap of different veg.  Choko, pumpkin, onion, capsicum, eggplant,cabbage, carrot.

 Lots of colour in this heaped cup of veg, most of it is from the gardens here.





 Coffee.

And that's it.  Not the best but I'm happy with it.  Tomorrow will be much the same.  I am out all day but need to take food so I will take oats for breakfast, pumpkin soup and fish for lunch and have steak and veg for tea when I get home.  It's all ready to go so no reason to grab crappy food.  There will be fruit tomorrow, less coffee...

Son brought out the Pepper steaks from his work. . At their use by date so I have cooked it all up and it is in portions in the fridge and freezer for easy to grab eating as is the vegetables.  A daughter made the soup, it has pumpkin, sweet potato, carrot and is really nice.  

The cheese is unreachable without a stool so that's safe!

Back To Eating Better.

Once again I've not been doing enough.  I need to go into town later so will ride the bike in but that's not far and doesn't take long.  Still, better than nothing. 

I've not been having the best weeks lately and I'm putting it down to too much processed crappy food.  Birthday cake, chocolate, chips, bought chinese food, more chocolate, cheese and crackers...When I eat bad I feel bad but once I start the crappy food it seems to get into my head and I have trouble getting off it. I know this so no idea why I still have these times, I can easily go without the crap until I have some.  I like fresh, unprocessed food.  It tastes good, I feel better when I eat that.  It's cheaper because we grow most of our own...

Anyway, this morning I was having some crackers and cheese and was thinking that some dip would be nice...Yeah I know, wrong thinking right there but go with me on this...Anyway, I didn't have dip, I don't buy dip, had nothing to make a dip from...thought if I had some yoghurt I could maybe mix that with some pickles and that would do...No yoghurt  so no dip.  Got to thinking and remembered that I had some Kefir somewhere in the fridge... By now I was off the idea of crackers and dip and had packed the crackers away but was a bit worried about the long forgotton Kefir.

Cleaned out the top shelf of the fridge and found the kefir, it wasn't moldy (unlike the half tin of coconut milk)
so I have reurrected it and now have it sitting in a clean jar, in fresh milk and I will start having it again from tomorrow.  

And as of now all crap is away in a metal box to protect it from mice and it is out in the shed.  When the husband gets home he can bring it in if he wants to. It mostly has assorted crackers in it and his jar of small easter eggs...nothing I need.

I have liver, onion and vegetables for lunches this week.  I have a freezer full of fish and pork.   Heaps of eggs and I will boil some later on.  I will nuke a big bowl of any vegetable that I have here and will have small bowls of veg mixed with sweet chilly sauce ready to go in the fridge.  I have half a massive watermelon that needs eating and a bench full of slightly under-ripe apples.  The cheese will be put to the back of the top shelf out of my reach!

As from that last cracker a couple of hours ago any food I have this week will be *real* food.   I'm not going to worry too much about how much as long as it is proper food.  Real food full of goodness.

What will you eat this week?

More Food Recording.

Tuesdays eating was much the same as Monday but there was a slice of toast with jam and cheese mid afternoon.

Wed:
Coffee.

1/2 tin Baked Beans.   7.20
Coffee.

Boiled egg and salad.   9am,
Coffee

2 DimSims   11.45 Lunch.
   Salad.
   Orange. 

Bread with honey and cheese. 1 slice.

Bread with honey and cheese. 1 slice.   Hmmm, OK, I do eat too much crap.  Must have forgot about that!  I should have had the rest of the BB or some salad or a chunk of meat, or... something different anyway.

Pork and vegetables.  Tea.  6.45pm.
Coffee.

No moving again!!  What is wrong with me...

Tomorrow will be oats for breakfast,  eggs and salad for lunch, an orange, apple maybe.  Some pork meat.   I wont be home all day so will eat what I take.  
Tea will probably be chicken and chips because husband is due home and said he'd pick something up.  He will be home before me but I'm thinking I'll still have some salad or vegies left and will add that to mine.
I'll have to have a plan for Friday and will have to resist too much chicken, it will be fried, from Chicken treat.

And I need to start moving.

Today I Ate...

I'm home alone today.  It is my pottering day, I do what I want, when I want.  Like most of my days actually!
Anyway, I'm going to write down what I eat for a few days to show myself if I eat as well as I think I do.  Or if I'm just kidding myslf.  The weekend showing I eat Pikelets and sausages all day can't be right!

Monday.
6.30.  Coffee.
7.30,  Oatmix.
8am.  Coffee.
9.40. Orange.
Lunch. Boiled egg
          Salad of chopped up lettuce, silverbeet, spinach, grated beetroot, carrot.  Bowl full.
          More salad.  Not as much, less that 1/2 bowl.
          Coffee.
2.30.  Slice of Pork.
          Peas, picked while I was outside planting stuff.  Maybe a dozen small ones, pod and all.
4pm.   2 passionfruit, 1/2 Indian Guava.
Tea.   Pork.
         Caulieflower, peas, corn, sweet potato.  All up around 2 cups.
          Coffee.

I measured out the amount of salad I had so I'd have some idea for next time.  A bowl full was about 1 and 1/2 cups of chopped and grated salad veg.

This is probably a more typical day of eating when husband is not home.   I grab something when I start to feel ill which kinda works out to be every few hours.  What I grab depends on what I have prepared beforehand.  If I have crap that is easy to grab then I do.  If the better stuff is easier then I have that. 
If the biscuits and chocolate are out in the shed freezer but the boiled eggs and meat are inside...eggs and pork win.  If the biscuits were sitting open on the bench...that is what I would have.

Tomorrow will be kinda the same.
Oatmix for breakfast, eggs and salad for lunch, maybe with a bit of cheese.  Tea will be pork and vegetables, same as tonight.   There will be some fruit in there.   There might be a bicky or 2 if there are some homemade ones at work...

There was no moving today apart from the day to day outside work.  And there be the reason I am fat!!!

Any thoughts please? 

Weekend. 27-28 August.

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I'm going to write down what I eat over the weekend.  In my head I mostly eat fresh unprocessed food but my body is telling me otherwise.  We'll see what this tells me.

Saturday
It's now 8am so I'm off to have some oatmix for breakfast.
9.30  second coffee.
11am.  Just had a boiled egg.
12.30.  Lunch, salad of  lettuce, carrots, caulieflower.  Grated cheese on top, Choko pickle.
         Orange.
          Coffee.
        Banana.
4pm.  Mowed the grass,  first session - 35min.  I tell ya, that is so much harder than walking to the corner and back, not sure why I chose it!
Trouble is, I go outside and start something and forget that I have stuff cooking on the stove.  It was meat this time... HoHum, it's nice and brown now anyway...
Tea.  2 sausages, egg, salad (lettuce, carrot, caulie)
Another sausage!!


Sunday.
Coffee.
Pikelets for breakfast. Grandaughter made these.  They have fruit and oatmix added.

coffee.

10min dancing and jumping around to the Wiggles
10min jumping around dancing to the Fairy songs.

11am  Pikelet. 
20minutes mowing, 5min chook chasing.

Lunch.  Salad (lettuce, carrot)  egg. 2 sausage.

10min mowing.  I wanted to do more but there was a loud POP! and it cut out. 
30min digging, weeding, mulching...Everyday garden stuff.

Bugger!  The pikelets are now gone.  I knew I should have wrapped them tight and put them out in the shed freezer.  Probably 5 or 6...Maybe 6 or 7...over the course of the day up to 2pm.

Orange.

Sausage.  Thank goodness they are now all gone!

Spent most of the afternoon out there weeding, planting, digging...not a lot but small bits over a long time!

Coffee.

Tea.  Plate of vegies - Carrot, caulieflower, peas, corn.
        Bit of pork roast.
        Coffee.


Simple roundup of what I ate each day.
Saturday.
 oatmix
 boiled egg.
 salad of  lettuce, carrots, caulieflower.  Grated cheese on top, Choko pickle.
 Orange.
 Banana.
3 sausages,
egg,
salad (lettuce, carrot, caulie)
3 coffee over the day.

Sunday.
Coffee x 4 over the day.
Pikelets  Maybe 7-9...
Salad (lettuce, carrot) 
egg.
3 sausage.
Orange.
Plate of vegies - Carrot, caulieflower, peas, corn, spinach.
Bit of pork roast.

This lot of oatmix has oats, bran, nuts, pepitas, crushed linseed, milk.  I have 1/3 cup then add hot water and let it soak.
Coffee has milk, no sugar.
I drink water, often throughout the day.

Portion Control.

This week I am going to concentrate on eating more vegetables. 

I have a few things in the fridge that are looking a little manky so will cook them up into a soup with a pumpkin and some sweet potato.
Add that to the rooster and steak in there and the quiche I will make soon and it looks like a week of healthy eating.

Really it's not much different to what we always eat but this week I might try and have smaller portions. 
If I plate up some meals and have them ready to go instead of helping myself from the whole bowl when I am hungry it might restrict things a bit. 

I think I'd be a bit less free with my food if it wasn't free food!

Eating Liver.

And who knew...It's really not that bad. 

I am still taking the Iron tablets but am getting tired again so I bought some Lambs Liver.  The idea was to mince it up and add it to some beef mince but I thought that I'd try a bit plain first.  I cut it thin and *fried* some up in the pan.  Man, I think it's the smell that would put you off but I toughened up and tasted a bit..If you have small bites and don't think about it it isn't that bad.  Next piece I put Barbecue sauce on...Yeah, not bad.  This morning I have cooked the rest up with onions and will have some for lunch and have some in the freezer for another day.  But I think I will keep buying it.  It is way cheaper than the Iron tablets so I might be able to eventually cut down on those. 

Lambs Liver, sold at our local IGA for $1.50.  It was quite big too so I don't think it came from a lamb.