April 09, 2011

This morning I had a ryvita for breakfast, and that was it, terrible I know. I was secretly desiring poached eggs on thick white toast with bacon and spinach smothered in hollandaise but did what I could with what I had.

While Lee was sleeping I was plotting ways I could convince him to go out for lunch and maybe devour some ribs or have some sort of meatventure. However we had the chicken casserole I made and it was bloody delicious. I made some polenta for mine, didn't really need it, but was tasty anyway. Lee and I are eating at different times and I am finding that rather difficult, but never mind.

This is what my lunch looked like:

Aaaaaannnd thats pretty much what dinner looks like too! For now though we are snacking on some cheese & dip. I was going to make Team Helson Fishy Dip but the tinned salmon was rank and contained all the bones, including the spine, GROSS. Plus it was in oil (didn't say on the can, disappointment plus), so I made up a cheese dip instead - low fat cream cheese, chives, garlic & paprika with some goats cheese mixed in. Delicious. We have a French chaumes and some German maribo walnut cheese. Both awesome.

I have been menu planning for the upcoming week, and things are looking good. The President will get a workout and so will my creativity. Let the games begin!

April 08, 2011

Right, time for a few more feshions me thinks...

Firstly, Sober April (which I lovingly nicknamed Sobril) had some rule changes. Firstly it was changed back to No Beer April, which was where it began, but we decided on a whim to change it to Sobril. But yesterday we changed it back officially, and we embarked on a lovely bottle of red. The second rule change, well... you don't need to be a genius to figure this one out if you know us.... we changed the No Beer rule to No Beer In The House rule. Let me start at the beginning...

This morning I got up earlier than normal, I was planning later than normal (due to above mentioned bottle of wine) but woke up and figured it was better go get out of bed before the alarm so it wouldn't wake Lee up. Lee is off 12 hour day shift atm, and as of Sunday 7pm he is on 12 hour night shifts.
Unfortunately I woke him up anyway, whoops.  Breakfast was grapefruit as usual, and my 3km walk to work. I skipped the ryvita this morning cos I had a yogurt and some nuts packed to enjoy at my leisure when at work. Or so was the plan.

For lunch Lee went to Vincenzos and got us some sandwiches (mine was rare beef, onion, lettuce, olives and pesto mayo on rye), came and picked me up and we drove to a park and scoffed them before he had to drive me back. I only get half an hour for lunch so it was a rushed job, but fantastic none the less. And scoffed in record time, so I didn't get a chance to stop myself and take a photo.

I didn't get to my nuts or my yogurt today so when Lee came to get me after work we were starving. We had a trip to the Beer Store to return some empty bottles planned, and well, it went a little down hill after that.... We went to Moose Winooskies, had a pint, and ended up sharing an artichoke and spinach dip (yeah, we didn't like this at all, hardly touched it....), and then I had a Thai chicken salad with raw shiitake mushrooms with no carrot or crispy noodles. The carrot was my choice, the noodles was the chefs choice, but I went with it. It was really spicy actually and tasty, but now stuffed to the eyeballs and my chicken casserole from yesterday is sitting lovingly and neglected in the fridge. Lunch tomorrow is gonna rock!

This weekend I am going to make satay chicken skewers, and going to have a crack at borscht, as I have some raw beets that need attending to, as you do. I will also make a lasagna for Lee for work.

Other than that, there may or may not be a box of girl scout cookies we bought out of sympathy sitting on the bench that may or may not be consumed... Will let you know tomorrow.

April 07, 2011

Woke up this morning wishing it were Saturday. I mean, more so than usual. Grapefruit and ryvita were good, as was the coffee.

My walk into work was ok. I was starving by 9am though, so I demolished the rest of the nuts I had, and my thoughts were all about food for the rest of the morning.
I had a salad of lettuce, tomato, cucumber, olives and goats cheese for lunch. Didn't touch the sides. Topped it off with a yogurt but continued to dream about food.

Tonight was meant to be chicken drumsticks (which was actually planned for yesterday but the damn things wouldn't bloody thaw), but I was uninspired. We decided to get pho instead, yay! And it was delicious.

Still, I thought I should cook the drumsticks so made a casserole instead, with a touch of what I call 'Mum Inspiration'. Will cook up some polenta and voila, we have a hot lunch tomorrow, yay again.
Sometimes you just need a good idea from your mum :)

April 06, 2011

Lets see... BAU this morning, again with weird tasting grapefruit but we still ate it.

My walk to work was hard this morning, I should have known it was going to be a crappy day at that point. Actually I should have called it when eating the grapefruit.

At work, I ate some nuts, and then had my lunch which was left over pork from last night with lettuce, tomato and some roasted zucchini and capsicum. It was ok, but wasn't filling enough. Honestly, olives and chickpeas make a whole world of difference when it comes to the hunger satisfaction factor. 

So after lunch I was still hungry to the point of feeling a bit ill, the canteen at work is so expensive, the cheapest item is $1.75 and thats for a drink. So I took some coins and went to the vending machine which was well out of stock and so I had an extremely limited choice, and got some bbq chips. Meh.

Work sucked, enough said.

Dinner was meant to be baked chicken drumsticks with salad, but the chicken didn't defrost, ARGH! What is wrong with today?? So Lee is going to pick us up some pitas on the way home after he finishes his ridiculous 12 hours shift. I would love a beer and a burger, but never mind. Pitas are tasty, and they have less fat and calories than Subway, plus we like it better than Sub.

So hurry up and end Wednesday, I am ready to wake up to Thursday and start fresh!

April 05, 2011

Well, I have a small 'feshion' (confession) to make. Last night Lee went to fill up the car and came back with some Cold Stone ice cream! It was delicious. We didn't have much but enough to feel a little guilty.

This morning's grapefruit was a bit weird tasting but we ate it anyway. Again my belly was rumbling at work so I ate some nuts which saw me through to lunch.
Lunch was the same as dinner last night but smaller and it was again bloody delicious. And the last one for a while, hoorah!

I ate some hummus with celery when I got home as my walk was brisk and exhausting for some reason. After a couple of hours I ate a ham sandwich with tomato sauce as I was still hungry and Lee was still 2 hours from coming home.
Dinner was chipotle pork with left over coleslaw and some roasted veg. Bloody delicious. We are both ready to crash and its only 8:35pm. Tragic eh?! Cold Stones anyone??

April 04, 2011

Back to grapefruit this morning, and it was delicious. So was the peanut butter ryvita. And the coffee. It was an early start, was easy to wake up this morning, the hard wake up was at 1:30am when the beeping  of a flat battery in a smoke detector woke me up. After much searching, I found it was the one in the hall of the apartment block, so there I was perched on a chair I dragged from our dining table swiping at it to pull it down. Not a good look.

I walked to work this morning as Lee is on shift and had to start at 7am. It's about 3km to my work so it was an easy walk, was there by 8 and by 9:30am my stomach was rumbling so much I am pretty sure everyone could hear it. I ate some brazil nuts and some almonds, and managed to hold out until lunch.
Lunch was a smaller version of dinner last night and it was delicious. No pics, but feel free to refer to yesterday's dinner....

I had some hummus and some celery to eat but I didn't get to it, and left work at 4pm so I left it there for tomorrow. My walk back was eventful, was pissing down and my umbrella from the Suisse Majestic has a rip in it, gutted.

Before dinner I got the munchies and Lee wasn't due to finish work until 7pm, so I ate a slice of jalapeño havarti cheese, which is meant to be for Lee's lunches. Sorry Lee! I can tell you though its really yummy, hahaha!
I threw together some more meat filo parcels for dinner, and made a huge mound of coleslaw using a recipe I got from Gordon Ramsay's Healthy Appetite, which was awesome.

Stuffed as! Also had some tomato and olives, as I needed to use them. We have smaller versions again for lunch tomorrow, and that will be the last of it. As yummy as they are, I am ready to eat something else.

April 03, 2011

Early breakfast today (for a Sunday), we had peanut butter ryvita with an orange. The orange was dry and rank so neither of us really touched it.

We did our grocery shopping early so we totally beat the crowds, and have a good weeks worth of food to keep us going.

Lunch was awesome. I made a spinach and red cabbage salad with pear, goats cheese and walnuts, dressed in balsamic and seeded mustard, and topped it off with a poached egg. Oh my gosh, delicious. Lee and I were so happy with it, I love when I pull stuff like that out of nowhere!

This afternoon we had an inauguration for The President, and I made some hummus. It's good, have potted some up for us to take to work with some chopped veggies.

The President works well, although I have to say my old Magimix (Madge) was a better processor. Still, he did the job and did it well, so I am really happy to have The President in my house. It also went incident free, unlike that time in London where Madge bit me, and I 'should' have got stitches, but instead drank a beer and took photos of my injury and plastered them on Facebook.

Tonight we have salad and beef and veggie filos. Doing the same thing as last time, we will probably have it for lunch and dinner for days but thats ok, its pretty healthy and really yummy. Have some interesting things to cook this week, so excited about that. Lee is on shift so I will have a few hours to myself most days so will use them wisely in the kitchen!

UPDATE: Man, dinner was so freakin' yummy, I wanted to keep eating it for ever! These filo parcels of meat and vegetable goodness are bloody delicious. I don't bother buttering the filo, it doesn't really need it, crisps right up. We just used the salad left over from lunch, and voila, instant meal. Today was definitely a good food day.

April 02, 2011 - Dinner

Right, now I know I said no pizza in April but in laziness and being food efficient, we had some left over Greek pitas from the mushroom dip and so I threw together some mini pizzas for dinner. Shoot me, shoot me now. But, oh my god, awesomeness. Check it 'oot':

Grocery shopping today. Have done a food plan for the week, should be good, healthy, efficient and hopefully not too expensive. Busy day, will update again later.

April 02, 2011

What a day. It started with me waking up and ridiculous o'clock, being 4:25am. I got up and minced around for a few hours but crawled back into bed after 7 and managed to get another hours sleep.

For breakfast we had poached eggs on toast which was ok.  Could have used some spinach or something, but the fridge is bare.

We had a lot to do today so we head out early and overall had a pretty successful day. We were in Sears looking for curtains when I found myself in the kitchen section (as you do), and there was a sale on, especially for KitchenAid products. Funnily enough my overtime fund for the food processor was enough to get this baby which was on sale - more than 50% off!

I am so stoked! It was sooner than I expected but when its reduced from $349 to $144, who can say no?! Even Lee said before I opened my mouth 'you gotta get it'. The KitchenAid stand up mixers were also on sale, and as much as I would love to have one now it would be completely unnecessary. But definitely another time tee hee. Also Breville juice factories are on sale but still too expensive, plus I got more than I bargained for today. Already writing a shopping list to suit.

Lunch today was in the food court, I had a Hong Kong style noodle soup which was fantastic but I didn't finish it. We then hit the book store where I picked about 100 cook books to buy. I am going to order some on Amazon soon.

We have no idea what we are going to have for dinner just yet, the supermarket shopping didn't happen. Instead we drove to the Maple Festival in Elmira, it was packed though so we didn't end up parking and getting out of the car, too busy, and we were too tired! There is always next year.....


Will update on the dinner situation later on. Until then, I will probably be scouring my recipes for the week to use The President. That's what we named it. Like it?!

April 01, 2011

April Fools Day, and my fourth month into blogging everything I eat. Crazy times, but at least there was no foolery going on. We also celebrated our six months of living in Canada. While I might not be working the ideal job, we are pretty happy with our progress and how things are starting to come together.

I feel terrible about this but for breakfast I ate a ryvita with peanut butter on it, thats it. A girl at work bought me a kitkat, she lumped it on my desk and said 'I saw this and thought of you'. I was unsure what she meant, and I don't know her well enough to pull the 'ARE YOU CALLING ME FAT?!' card, that might frighten her even though Lee and I would find it hilarious. So I ate that at around 10:30am. And when I say ate, I basically looked at it and it disappeared. Didn't even touch the sides!

Lunch was amazing, I love left over pork and salad, here's what it looked like, although you pretty much saw it in the previous post about dinner:

The afternoon went by really slowly, I ate a few brazil nuts and a few almonds, and then went out for a pint with my new work mates, and Lee joined us so that was nice. Lee and I were going to go to Hog Tails for dinner, but it was packed as, so instead we picked up a chicken pita from the Pita Factory and came home. My pita had grilled chicken, lettuce, onion, green olives, banana peppers and feta. YUM-O.
Do you ever have one of those eating moments when you are actually sad when you get to the end and its all gone?! That is exactly how I felt when I finished my pita! I know that is tragic but surely someone out there can relate? Non??

Well that was it for April 01, 2011. Here's to the next 29 days with no booze.