Monday Monday...

I can't believe it's nearly Monday already...cripes, where did that weekend go.??
My son had a week off from Uni so stayed with us for the duration, i so love having him home...but hate it when he goes back to Uni - :-( He's such good company (not that we see that much of him) and he's funny... he's such a windup artist..

We Went shopping today - Why is it when you have a few quid to spend on yourself you can't find anything, if i gave my daughter a few pounds and said go buy...she'd do it easily.. :-(
I shall try harder next weekend.



Food for Monday is...
Breakfast:
20z Muesli
4 flozs milk
1 serving of low fat yoghurt


Lunch
1 small bowl of soup (around 200ml)
2 slices of wholemeal bread
2 satsumas

Dinner:
Sweet & Sour Chicken
1/12 brown rice (uncooked rice)
3ozs chicken fillets cut into sliced
1lbs soy sauce
1/2 tsp sugar
1/2 tbsp of rice or balsamic vinegar
1tsp tomato puree
2 slices of pineapple - cut into chunks (i used tinned pineapple)
1 tsp cornflour
1 clove of garlic
1 tsp olive oil
1 piece of root ginger about 1/2 inch

Place chicken in a bowl and pour over the soy sauce, mix together and set aside to marinate
make the sauce by mixing the vinegar, tomato puree and sugar together and set aside.
mix the cornflour into the chicken with the soy mix.
heat half the oil in a non stick pan and brown the chicken all over. Set aside.
Heat the remaining oil and cook the crushed garlic and garlic for about 30 seconds, add a little water, bring to the boil and return the chicken to the pan.
Stir in the sauce mixture and with the pineapple and cook over a low heat for 15 mins or until chicken is cooked. Serve with the rice which of course you have cooked..

Snacks:
I have a large pot of low fat hummus that i need to eat so it's going to be the following for a couple of days..
1 1/2 tbs of hummus
1 1/2 ryvita

Sunday Dinner

It's Saturday evening and the kids are at home, it's so nice to have everyone here... Not up to much this evening apart from watching a film and chilling in my pj's...how old am I...arghhhhh. Well i'm not that old, although the children think different.. Must try and get our more - 26th March Three Cups in Dover, going to see Martin Jonathan gig... can't wait http://www.martinjonathan.co.uk/ come along and have a listen.




Food for Sunday is:

Breakfast:

1 egg
2 slices wholemeal bread
4floz milk

scramble the egg, toast the bread and enjoy.

Lunch:
Tuna pitta
3oz Tuna in brine (drained)
1 whole meal pitta bread
salad leaves.
and eat..

Dinner:
1 grilled lamb chop (4oz in weight)
1/2 small baked potato
4 brocolli florets
a serving of carrots... (dessert spoon should do it)
4 Asparagus spears...
3 dessert spoons of gravy.

Snack:
1 1/2 ryvitas
2 tbs of hummus (low fat)

Friday 4th March 2011

A good start to the weekend began with a visit from my friend Karen. Time just flies when i see her... Great to catch up..
Popped to Tesco this afternoon, how embarrasing did that turn out to be. We filled the trolley up with food and stuff, went to the checkout where my friend was working, she put our good through the till whilst we were having a natter.. i then tried to pay.. There seemed to be a problem with my card it would not read the chip, so we were lead to the customer service desk (not by my friend, it was someone else) whose machine should have read it...did it?? no it didn't.!!!I ran outside to the cash point and the bloody machine gobbled up my card...arghhhhh.... well i thought the machine had eaten the card because the store had tried swiping it so many times, then the penny dropped... Going a shade of red, i'd realised i'd picked up an out of date card.. oh dear... Thomas came to the rescue, paid for my shopping and we left the store.. Oooops... New card found, money transferred to Thomas plus interest...

Food for tomorrow is:
Breakfast:
2oz' Muesli
4floz Milk
2 satsumas
1 low fat yoghurt

Lunch:
Egg Mayonnaise sandwich



1 Hard boiled egg
2 slices of wholemeal bread
1 tbs of light mayo
lettuce..



Dinner: Chicken Provencal casserole
2 skinless chicken thighs
1/2 chopped onion
3 cloves of garlic - whole with skins on
1/2 sliced green pepper
1/2 sliced yellow pepper
1 pinch or mixed herbs
1 pinch of oregano
2 chopped tomatoes
4 olives - sliced

Heat the oil in a non-stick pan and cook the chopped onion until softened
add the chicken and cook for a few minutes to brown. Add the garlic (whole with skins on), sliced pepper, chopped tomatoes and herbs. Cook over a low heat for around 30 - 35 mins or until the chicken is cooked.
Add the sliced olives before serving

Snackette:
1 1/4 oz of lightly salted popcorn.

I hope everyone has a fabulous weekend :-)

and the food plan is??

It's Thursday yayyyyy.. I love Thursday's, it's the end of my working week as i don't work Fridays.. So i'm home now and can just relax... bliss :-)
Not a lot happening at the weeked apart from my hubby has a meeting at Eastwell Manor on Saturday. He's a photographer, not just a photographer but an excellent photographer. He and my son are Dover design wedding photographers. check them out on www.doverdesign.co.uk. they are amazing..






Breakfast:
2 Tbs of breakfast cereal of choice
2 slices of wholemeal bread
4 floz milk
sprinkle of of cinnamon
1 banana

eat the cereal, once you have done this toast the bread cover with banana and sprinkle the cinnamon...yum yum yum... ..

Lunch:
Tuna Salad sandwich
2 slices of wholemeal bread
3oz's Tuna, drained
1 level tbs of light mayo
Mixed Salad leaves
1 orange..

Dinner: Chorizo and Chicken bake.
3 small new potatoes - boiled
1 tsp of olive oil
4oz's chicken fillet
1 red onion quartered
1oz Chorizo - sliced
5 cherry tomotoes
1 garlic clove
1/2 teaspoon of thyme or herb of your choice

Preheat the oven to 200C, place the chorizo,chicken,garlic,herbs and tomatoes in the baking dish or tin. Drizzle the oil and bake in the overn for around 30 minutes or until the chicken is cooked..

Snack:
2 ryvita's
1 1/2 tbs reduced fat hummus

Week 2

whoop,whoop,whoop,whoop, Whoopeeeeeee

First week done, that was so easy and i don't feel as if i have missed out on anything, i have not had cravings, i've not been hungry oh and i've not exercised this week either...

How much have i lost...??? Start weight was ??.6.3 - today's weight ??.1.1 obviously i'm not going to give you the first figure, but as you can see i've lost 5.2 lbs in a week. Not bad eh. Most of that has gotta be water, after all the peeing i've done, it can't be anything else..lol..



So here's to the start of week 2.

Breakfast:
2 weetabix
4 floz milk
1 banana

Lunch:
1 bowl of soup of your choice (200ml)
2 slices of wholemeal bread
1 serving of low fat yoghurt

Dinner: Quorn with teriyaki sauce

1 teaspoon of vegetable oil
1 1/2 Oz's brown rice uncooked weight
1/2 red onion
1 clove of garlic
3oz Quorn pieces
1/2 green pepper - sliced or diced whatever you prefer
30z sweetcorn
4 Oz's mange tout - sliced
1 tbs of teriyaki sauce (Tesco sell a sachet of this for about 49p)

Heat the oil, and cook onion & garlic for about 4 mins,
add the quorn pieces and cook for a further 3 mins. Add the vegetable with a tablespoon of water and stir try until vegetables are tender.
stir in the teriyaki sauce and heat through before serving.

Snack: Cheese Sandwich
1 slice of whole meal bread, 1oz of Feta cheese. Or anything else from the previous weeks choices..

Day 7

So tomorrow is weigh-in day which also means the completion of week one on my diet.. (I will blog the loss tomorrow...) I do feel as if i have lost a few pounds but will find out for sure tomorrow morning.. Keeping my fingers crossed.

Here is my food plan for tomorrow however, if i have not lost a pound or 3 i'm going to eat cake..lol





Breakfast:

2 weetabix
Serving of milk

Lunch: Prawn filled pitta bread

1 whole meal pitta bread
3oz's prawns
1 tsp light mayonaise
mixed Salad or ice berg..

Just put it all together and you have a tasty tasy lunch.

Dinner:

Pork in sweet and sour sauce

1oz brown rice
4oz lean pork cut into strips
1 tsp cornflour
1 tsp of soy sauce
1/2 tbs white wine vinegar
1/2 tbs of tomato puree
1 tsp of sugar
1 tsp of vegetable oil
1 clove of garlic
1 piece of root giner (I use lazy ginger but it's up to you)
3oz's pineapple.

Place the pork in a bowl with the cornflour and soy sauce, toss together and elave to marinade.

to prepare the sauce - Mix the vinegar, tomato puree and sugar then set aside
Heat the oil in a non-stick fry pan and add the pork when the oil is hot.. Brown all over, takes about 5 minutes, set aside on a plate

in the same pan, fry the garlic and ginger for 30 seconds, add around 50ml or 2floz's of water, bring to the boil and rturn the pork to the pan. Add the sauce mixture and the pinapple and allow to cook over a low heat for around 15 mins, if needed add more water to prevent drying out.

Snack:

Ryvita
1 tsp peanut butter
1 low fat yoghurt - i might have this after my lunch...

day 6

Day six and it's still going well, i'm not even feeling hungry..
Here's the food plan..



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Breakfast:

1 1/2 oz Fruit and Fibre..
4 floz Milk
Low fat yoghurt


Lunch:

200 ml soup of your choice, i'm having lentil and bacon, it's a large tin so will either share with hubby or have rest for lunch the following day.

Dinner: - Turkey Burger

4 1/2 oz Mince Turkey
1 oz chopped red onion
1 egg white
Pinch of mixed, any herbs will do
squirt of tomato puree
pinch of salt and loads of pepper (i love pepper)
1oz low fat cheese.. place on top of burger when burgers are cooked.

combine all the ingredients, roll mince into burger shapes and griddle or grill, what ever you prefer.. I'm making largish burgers which will take approx 8 mins each side to cook.

Serve with a nice mixed Salad...


Snack:
A nice large cup of tea and a slice of wholemeal toast.. I don't have it with butter just a thin spread of low fat Jam.. feels like a real treat :-)