collected pictures 1

    Hi been a long time and as you might have noticed I have gone gluten free and started a new gluten free blog.
    So I am just uploading collected pictures of baking since we last spoke to tidy up so to speak.
Who knows what the future may bring?

  

Chocolate tart

Blueberry cookies

A small slice of chocolate tart

    Here is a short selection of my diet as it was, in July 2012 if I am reading the mobile date correctly.
    Doesn't it look healthy and fairly minimal gluten by coincidence.
    As a matter of interest, if anyone is interested, I have gone down from 95k to 85k now. That is weight, not salary unfortunately.
    So here is some good looking tray bakes and other snacks. I will leave out the plates of egg, chips and beans and bars of chocolate that interrupted my perfect diet hee hee.

   
    A nice little before and after tray bake featuring sweet potatoes and butternut squash if memory serves me.

Tasty looking tray bake

 

Before

After

    

Another tasty wholesome before and after tray bake

    Now for some tasty sandwiches, 

I'm going to have to practice my bread making to get a good gluten-free sandwich loaf.

Do I know how to make a great sarnie or what?

Home made jam! Apple and blueberry if memory serves me well

Another great sandwich from Pa

     And some nice fruity snacks to cleanse the palate

    Self explanatory I think but I'm getting peckish just posting it. 

    A little bit of fun to finish today I think.

Playing with your food is great fun

     Well if anyone finds and reads this thanks for looking and remember to taste and enjoy whatever you eat.

    Love Life Laughs

          from Pa 

    Just found most of these pictures in previous post DOH!

My Vegetarian Diet Day ?3 19/07/12

      Hi everybody, doing this next morning but quite early :-) yesterday did finally manage Plus1 Fukushima Food my thoughts on the Japanese starting to sell marine produce from the nuclear coast. Check it out after reading my Diet of the Day ho ho.

  Breakfast

      2 Bananas

  Lunch

      2 x wholemeal bread sandwiches

     
      Brie with chilli, tomato, onion, sweet pepper, sultanas

  Dinner

      2 slices of honeydew melon
      2 slices of pineapple

      Traybake with sunflower oil

      Butternut squash, sweet potato, potato, bell pepper, mushrooms, 
      onion



        Well there you have it, a glamour page of photos as well, i hope my diet looks more interesting than it reads. I got a real taste for the pineapple, it is just perfectly sweet and juicy at the moment. I must admit though that dinner filled me so much i couldn't even manage my supper oranges. That is the power of good food. Please spare a thought for the Fukushima residents and their food.


               So enjoy your food because you are what you eat.

                    Love from Pa
 

My Vegetarian Diet day ?2 18/07/12

  Hi, here i am again, too much walking yesterday did exhaust me and carry over until today, so it was a slow start :-)
  Diet is getting a bit repetitive and, as i thought yesterday, trying to keep up this intensity of healthy eating is a challenge. Today i cracked and had a small bar of chocolate, as well as adding pineapple and sultanas to my food.

  Breakfast

      2 Bananas

  Lunch

      2 x wholemeal bread sandwiches, brie with chilli, tomato, onion, 
      sweet pepper, sultanas.

  Snack

      40g bar of dark chocolate, 85% cocoa

  Dinner

      2 slices of honeydew melon
      2 slices of fresh pineapple 

      Traybake with sunflower oil

Before

After

      Sweet potato, butternut squash, bell pepper, mushroom, red 
      onion, garlic, salt and pepper to taste.

  Supper

      Valencia oranges

  Drinks

      Coffee, tea, sparkling water, red wine.

        There we have it, still pretty healthy and wholesome :-) with some photos i remembered to take today. Still not getting much else done about organising this blog but at least i am keeping up day to day. 

               So watch this space and enjoy your food.

                    Love from Pa 

              

My Vegetarian Diet day ?1 17/07/12

Back again and yes my diet yesterday lasted me through the night, so here's hoping today's very similar diet keeps me going as well. 
Getting a taste for oranges as a snack now :-)
  
  Breakfast

      Banana 

  Elevensies

      Piece of Jacky's ginger and choc chip cake

  Lunch

      2 brie with chilli, tomato, onion in wholemeal 
      bread sandwiches.

  Dinner

      Traybake with sunflower oil.
      Potato, Butternut squash, bell pepper, red onion,
      mushrooms. Salt and pepper to taste.

      2 slices of honeydew melon 

  Supper

      Valencia oranges

  Drinks

      Coffee, water, red wine  

        Well another healthy days eating, also done a 
      lot of walking, feeling quite shattered and am
      going to sleep well tonight :-) 
        I doubt i can keep up this intensity of
      healthiness for long, one day at a time ho ho.
        Must start taking pictures again tomorrow to add
      that touch of glamour to this blog.
        I must say though that a simple thing like cutting
      up oranges instead of peeling them makes them
      so much more accessible, crazy, i had forgotten 
      all about it.


               Eat well and enjoy 


                  Love from Pa

My Vegetarian Diet Day 2 25/06/12

   Well what a day, possibly had too much coffee because one unpleasant incident sent me a little manic and threw out my mental equilibrium. Thank goodness for Jacky with tea and cake to calm me down :-)

   Did manage to maintain the diet reasonably i think.

Breakfast

1       Banana
100g Low fat natural yoghurt
2       Mugs of coffee with milk

Brunch :-)

1       Mug of coffee with milk

Lunch

1       Banana
200g Low fat natural yoghurt 
1       Mug of coffee

Restorative

1       Mug of tea

Afternoon Tea

1       Piece of Jacky's home made choc-chip and
         ginger cake, very nice too :-)
2       Cups of tea

Tea

1       Banana
6       Blueberries
2       Pints of sparkling water

Dinner

                         Egg and 3+ veg

2       Medium eggs fried in
2       Spoons of sunflower oil
222g Red potato (romeo) in skin, microwaved
250g Prepared mixed veg (carrot, butternut squash,
         peas,green beans), microwaved.
92g   Red onion, microwaved
8g     Brown sauce (Water, Tomato puree from 
         concentrate, Sugar, Barley malt vinegar, Spirit
         vinegar, Date puree [Dates, Water, Acetic
         acid], Cane molasses, Modified maize starch, 
         Salt, Acetic acid, Rye flour, Soy sauce (Water,
         Salt, Sugar, Soya beans,Wheat, Acetic acid],
         Ground mixed spice, Barley malt extract,
         Ground black pepper, Onion powder, Ground
         cloves]


1.5    Pints of sparkling water
1       Pint of cider

Supper

1       Small banana 
10g   Brie cheese
1       Mug of tea with milk 
  


   Well that was the lot and looking back there was a little more than i thought, hmmm, all quite healthy though a little heavy on the microwave. getting lazy. 

   I must say keeping this together is more time consuming than i thought ;-)
   Good eating people

       love from Pa