my vegetarian diet day ? 16/07/12

  Breakfast

      Banana

  Lunch

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

  Dinner
       
      2 slices of honeydew melon

      Traybake:- potato, sweet potato, mushroom,
      onion, sweet pepper. Salt and pepper to taste.

  Supper

      Valencia oranges 


  Drinks

      Coffee, tea, water.


      This is a quick one just to keep up, new fast
      format :-)
      Wow super healthy, low volume, bet i'm starving
      in the middle of the night :-D


          Enjoy your food

               Love from Pa 
   

My Vegetarian Diet Day 6 29/0612

   Well here we are again, struggling to make this blog a daily routine but keeping a written log in the notebook, so.

    Been a funny sort of weekend, ha ha but now i will find out how i stuck to a weight reducing diet ha ha. I write it down but don't remember it.

   Ok we're off

Breakfast

   1       Banana

   2       Mugs of coffee , black. ( that's what i get for

            yesterdays slurps of milk!)

Elevensies

   100g Yoghurt

   3       Blueberries

   1       Banana

   1       Mug of coffee, black

Lunch, late

   2.5    Cheese oat thins, (thank you Jacky), helped 

            by Tich (the other 0.5)

Tich looking good in the community garden

   1       Mug of tea, WITH MILK!!!

Afternoon tea

   66g   Brown roll

   21g   Brie cheese

   13g   Watercress

   1       Mug of tea, with milk

   75g   Beetroot

   1       Small banana

Dinner

                           Mixed veg stir fry

                 

   20g   Sunflower oil

   264g Mixed vegetables, ready prepared (Cabbage

            40%, mushrooms 20%, beansprouts 20%,

            carrots 20%)

   1g     Fresh mint, (thank you community gardens)

   30g   Sultanas

   140g Fresh free range noodles (as before)

   1      Sprinkle of salt.

   1      Watercress garnish

   426g Total cooked weight  

   1       Mug of tea, with milk

Supper

   1      Mug of tea, with milk

   2      Slurps of milk

   10g  Brie cheese

   Well i seem to eat quite a lot throughout the day but mostly pretty healthy so far. 

   Onward and upward and enjoy what you eat.

            love from Pa 

My Vegetarian Diet Day 3 26/06/12

    
   Well, here i am again, day 3 although i am 2 days behind in actually posting this. You know how it is, 1 thing and another :-) so will try and keep this simple and catch up.
  You may notice i have started noting slurps of milk, something that is a terrible habit of mine but one of which i am now recognising.

Breakfast

   Slurp of milk
   Mug of coffee with milk
   Small banana

Brunch :-)

   Slurp of milk
   Pint of water
   Mug of tea with milk   

Afternnoon Tea with Jacky

   Banana sandwich (nice granary bread)
   1   Digestive biscuit
   2   cups of tea with milk

Tea

   20g   Brie cheese
   6       Blueberries
   Mug of tea with milk
   Slurp of milk

Dinner
                 Noodle stir fry  

   
   25g    Sunflower oil
   26g    Frozen fresh mint
   155g  Mushrooms
   48g    Peas
   59g    Sweet red peppers
   95g    Noodles (as before)
   2        Cloves of garlic 
   22g    Watercress (fresh as garnish)


   417g   Total cooked weight
   1         Pint of cider

Evening

   Slurp of milk
   2         Mugs of tea with milk


   Well that's it folks, thought i had things to say but have forgotten, must keep up to date
   Enjoy your food whatever it may be

          love from Pa   
 

My Vegetarian Diet Day 1 24/06/12

Good morning world it's a brand new day. 
   The point of this thread is to see if i am really eating and drinking as little and as healthily as i think i am.
   So i hope to put put down my daily consumption as honestly and unforgetfully as i can :-)
   This is to show me what i really ingest as compared to what i imagine i do, because surprisingly for a vegetarian i am considerably overweight, needing to lose a good 3 stone.
   Which i can't seem to shift.
I blame that on many things but not my eating or exercising :-).
   Exercising is mostly confined to walking the dog 

                                   This is Tich, showing her support.

   So this is what i ate and drank on 24/06/12, the day England crashed out of the footy. That is my excuse for the glaring break in diet, nipping to the shop for more cider at half time.

Breakfast 
   1 Medium banana
   2 Large mugs of strong coffee with skimmed milk

Lunch 
   1 Medium banana
   350g 2% fat live natural yoghurt
   1 Glass of red wine (Chilean Merlot) 

Afternoon 
   1 Large mug of strong coffee with skimmed milk
   1 Pint of cider

Dinner 
   Mushroom stir fry :-
      4 dsps   Sunflower oil
      170g     Mushrooms
      130g     Co-op fresh egg noodles (cooked egg 
                    noodles 98% [wheat flour, water, 
                    pasteurised egg {free range}, salt,    
                    raising agent {sodium hydrogen 
                    carbonate}, preservative {potassium 
                    carbonate}, citric acid, colour {beta-
                    carotene}]. Rapeseed oil 2%)
      28g       Brie cheese

      Pinch     Medium curry powder
                   Turmeric
                   Cumin
                   Salt 

    
          So far so good, now i blame the footy.

Supper 

   3       Pints of cider
   80g   Milk chocolate hazelnut (sugar, cocoa butter, 
             dried whole milk, cocoa mass, chopped 
             hazelnuts[10%], whey powder [from milk],
             lactose [from milk], dried cream, emulsifier 
             [soya lecithins], vanilla extract.)
            Milk solids 14% minimum
            Cocoa solids 30% minimum
   130g Custard cream biscuits (wheat flour, 
              vegetable oil, whey solids [from milk], 
              glucose syrup, wheat starch, salt, raising
              agents [ammonium bicarbonate, sodium 
              bicarbonate],natural flavouring, colour 
              [ mixed carotenes]) 

My objects of shame

                Tich did offer her support when she saw me succumbing to dangerous cravings, which is why i only ate 80% of the offending foods ho ho.


   Well this has been cathartic for me, though i don't know how much interest it holds for others. 
   I do hope it will be revelatory and guilt me into shifting this weight. I hope guilt at bingeing doesn't stop me keeping this up to date.
   If you have got this far, then thank you for your company, if you want to follow this journey, comment, keep on my back so i don't give up, or anything else, i will be keeping these posts under the 'My vegetarian diet plan' thread. 
   I am keeping a note of consumption in a notebook (clue is in the name) and intend to update every or a least most days.
   Recipes and other stuff will be under different threads.


   Happy Eating Everyone


           love from Pa