Tag: Food & Drink

What I Ate 4 Day Special

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I haven’t done a What I Ate Wednesday special in a while and now I’m making up for it with a FOUR day special.

Roast Lamb

Sunday
Breakfast Porridge with fresh blueberries and strawberries
Lunch Sun-dried tomato spaghetti with olives, parmesan cheese and side salad
Dinner Steak and short crust pastry pie with sweet potato mash and a broccoli salad
Snack Tiramisu with a soy latte

Monday
Breakfast Greek yoghurt with tropical fruit granola, fresh blueberries and strawberries
Lunch Jacket potato with tuna mayonnaise and baked beans
Dinner Sweet chilli sausages with asparagus, tender stem broccoli and mashed potato
Snack Vanilla Rooibos tea with two caramel digestives

Tuesday
Breakfast Porridge with tropical fruit granola, fresh blueberries and strawberries
Lunch Moroccan chicken soup with toasted flat bread
Dinner Fried sea bass with mango salad and black rice (Click here for the recipe)
Snack Greek style yoghurt with honey

Wednesday
Breakfast Greek yoghurt with tropical fruit granola, fresh blueberries and strawberries
Lunch Moroccan chicken soup with unbuttered wholemeal toast
Dinner Roast lamb with roast potatoes and roast sweet potato and vegetables
Snack Caramel and chocolate ice-cream

Don’t forget to check out the video for this below and be sure to take a peek at my channel too. I have uploaded a few videos over the last week or so including a tour of Annabelle’s room. Bx

Losing My Mum Tum

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It’s not even Christmas yet and I am not thinking about all the food I will (or won’t) be eating this Festive Season. I am thinking about losing my mum tum, the New Year and what I hope to achieve in 2016. It will be a pretty memorable year as Annabelle will start Primary School in September. She is currently in Pre-School and I am not going to lie, I am incredibly sad she will be leaving. I absolutely love the warm and welcoming environment the teachers have created and I am so fond of all the staff. It feels like I am leaving my daughter with family. Anyway, that’s not what I wanted to talk about today. I actually wanted to talk about food. Food is the reason I started this blog and it is something I need to think about now and for 2016.

Mince Pie

In my recent Vlog, I mentioned that I haven’t been looking after myself as I wasn’t eating properly. Some mornings I would only have a soya milk latte for breakfast and then I would eat unhealthy snacks instead of a proper meal. Most days I would go to bed with a gurgling tummy as I would have a small dinner because I would get full quickly and so by 9pm I would be hungry again.

I am currently writing a food diary for a bowel specialist I have been seeing. I was referred to her after I stopped seeing my physiotherapist (my stomach muscles separated during pregnancy or Heath’s birth). As I was conscious that someone was analysing what I ate, I started to eat three regular meals and made healthier choices. This is what a typical day looks like now:

Breakfast: Porridge with blueberries and dried cranberries
Lunch: Cheese and onion sandwich with an apple and half a packet of crisps
Dinner: Stir-fried bacon with cabbage and boiled rice
Snack: A mince pie with Bailey’s cream

Going forward, my main focus is to lose my mum tum. I normally wear size 28 waist jeans and trousers but I find some styles a bit baggy. My aim is to tone up so I can fit into a size 26. After Heath was born, I started off quite well and lost a lot of weight but as the last few months have been quite stressful, I have been eating a lot more chocolate and picking at food.

My diet hopes include:
Eating more fruit and vegetables
Increasing my intake of water to 2 litres
Cutting the unhealthy carbs e.g. white bread, pasta and potatoes

I am going to try to blog and vlog about my ‘diet’ going forward, so let me know if you are in the same boat as me and maybe we can inspire each other! Bx