Food Diary

In between posting recipes, I have started recording an evening meal food diary. I know a record of what I eat in the day would be more helpful than just the evenings, but its way too time consuming. I can tell you now that breakfast tends to be the same every day. Homemade organic toasted muesli, soy milk, natural yoghurt and fruit - depending what's in season (figs wherever possible in the late summer months). Lunch varies from sandwiches to salads to soup. Sometimes I eat well in the day, sometimes I succumb to snacks like muffins or banana bread and coffee. But I'm not going to stress too much over that.

I really look forward to the evening meal. Its actually the best meal to skip or reduce in size if you want to lose weight. However, this meal is too important to me and I will spend (a lot of) time in the day thinking about what I'm going to cook that night. I try to eat a good source of protein and veg and go easy on the carbs and grains. Here is my evening meal diary for 1 - 7 March 2010:

Monday – Homemade asian broth with chicken, vermicelli noodles, broccoli, bok choy and mushrooms

Tuesday – white fish and cannellini bean tomato stew with spinach

Wednesday – poached salmon with steamed broccoli and bok choy - lime and red onion sauce

Thursday – late home from meeting

Friday –wedding at Le Kiosk in Manly – duck pate - fish with veg - cake…… and alcohol

Saturday – Barramundi on tomato and borlotti bean sauce topped with leeks and olives followed by sugar plum crumble with natural yoghurt

Sunday – barbequed leg of lamb, smoky aubergine puree and green beans followed by more sugar plum crumble

All organic where possible - organic fruit, veg and eggs from www.bondiorganicbox.com, organic meat from supermarket. Let me know if you want recipes for any of the above.

Food Diary - evening 29 March- 4 April 10

Monday – Miso broth with chicken, vermicelli noodles, broccoli, bok choy, mushrooms

Tuesday – complete blank – I cannot remember!

Wednesday – Asian/Chinese food at Ivan and Lizzies teahouse (work party)

Thursday – Sichuan food (V hot!) at Red Chilli in chinatown

Easter Friday – Blue eye cod with a watermelon, lime and olive dressing, roasted carrot and sweet potato mash and snow peas followed by caramelised apple tart and vanilla ice cream

Saturday – Barbequed marinated lamb and roast pumpkin, beetroot and ricotta salad with lime dressing

Sunday – Vindaloo fish curry, red lentil and pumpkin daal, brown rice and natural yoghurt followed by remainder of apple tart

All of above is made from scratch unless eating out or stated otherwise…

Food Diary - evening 19 - 26 April 10

Monday - Poached salmon with salad and yoghurt dressing
Tuesday - Mushroom and ricotta omelette with salad
Wednesday - Tuna sashimi salad with orange and fennel
Thursday - Dumplings at Din Tai Fung
Friday - Dinner at The Rum Diaries
Saturday - Lamb shank in japanese broth, sweet potato and asparagus
Sunday - Chicken parsee, red lentil dahl, brown rice and yoghurt