Mooklicious Chicken Curry
1 x bunch of chicken left from the beginning of the week (thoroughly examined for offness)
1 x 2/3 small pot half fat yogurt
1 x sackful of spicey goodness (curry powder, paprika, pepper, salt, something else i can't remember)
1 x drizzle of extra virgin olive oil
1 x bunch of clingfilm
1 x 1/2 pouch of brown rice
zomg, this went really well - v tasty, although attempted very late in the evening. i even found time for ten minutes marinating.
Favourite Implement Of The Meal: brand new pyrex dish. great!
Quaint Comedy Of The Evening: the armstrong & miller show (though not to be viewed near parental support unit, it's a bit blue)
Friday 30 November 2007
The Lie-In King
Mini Quesadilla Extravaganza
1 x mini fillet o chicken diced to within an inch of its life
1 x soft, floury, wholesome Old El Paso tortilla
1 x handful half-fat mozzy cheese
spice mixture with extra spice: cumin, paprika, pepper, salt, onion powder, garlic salt
1 x mini dash extra virgin olive oil, spread expertly around the pan with my new pastry brush
2 x glob of salsa - one to cook in, one for smearing purposes
1/3 bag of Tilda brown rice - seems such a waste, but dad wouldn't be pressed on the matter so the rest went in the bin...
handful of water to stop the cooking part going very dry and icky
1 x smell of burning chicken
...in which beth realizes her full wok-hypocrisy and burns her own pan. Really must find another lunch-time treat, though(never! ha! i love quesadillas!). Preparing self mentally for the half-fat curry tonight with veggies.
Love: pre-grated half-fat mozzy cheese
Hate: cooking the same thing every day out of simplicity and a desire to find the archetype of half-fat quesadillas
Ambivalent State: incurred by beans today
1 x mini fillet o chicken diced to within an inch of its life
1 x soft, floury, wholesome Old El Paso tortilla
1 x handful half-fat mozzy cheese
spice mixture with extra spice: cumin, paprika, pepper, salt, onion powder, garlic salt
1 x mini dash extra virgin olive oil, spread expertly around the pan with my new pastry brush
2 x glob of salsa - one to cook in, one for smearing purposes
1/3 bag of Tilda brown rice - seems such a waste, but dad wouldn't be pressed on the matter so the rest went in the bin...
handful of water to stop the cooking part going very dry and icky
1 x smell of burning chicken
...in which beth realizes her full wok-hypocrisy and burns her own pan. Really must find another lunch-time treat, though(never! ha! i love quesadillas!). Preparing self mentally for the half-fat curry tonight with veggies.
Love: pre-grated half-fat mozzy cheese
Hate: cooking the same thing every day out of simplicity and a desire to find the archetype of half-fat quesadillas
Ambivalent State: incurred by beans today
Funkungfusion
Dee-licious Snackable Involving Tesco Turkey
2 x ry/i/vita wafted over a carton of quark cheeeese
2 x bits of turkey slices
1 x bucketload of pepper
1 x pinch o salt
1 x diet soda
1 x apple (green)
...in which i grow weary of father-type mess.
Most Sincere Amazon.co.uk Apology: "Beth, we're sorry."
Best Bit Of The Snack: post-prandial cigarette
2 x ry/i/vita wafted over a carton of quark cheeeese
2 x bits of turkey slices
1 x bucketload of pepper
1 x pinch o salt
1 x diet soda
1 x apple (green)
...in which i grow weary of father-type mess.
Most Sincere Amazon.co.uk Apology: "Beth, we're sorry."
Best Bit Of The Snack: post-prandial cigarette
Up, Bustle & Out
A Relatively Ordinary Breakfast
1 x weetiebix
1 x splishy splash of semi-skimmed milk
1 x half spoon of sweetener to mask weetabix taste thoroughly
weetabix - nom nom nom. with this in mind, i was ever so pleased to find a reference to a "high-fibre wholegrain cereal" as a breakfast option in my now-hallowed bible.
in an attempt to prevent white-of-the-egg based complications, i went a-hunting in the tesco cereal aisle. surprised to find myself thinking of the non-healthy foods as The Enemy, i was indeed prepared to be scouring the shelves for a sawdust-related by-product of wood. three packs entered and left my basket (price, price, tesco own brand - to be trusted? no.) until i came upon my trusty weetabix. which announced right on the box - high-fibre, wholegrain cereal.
happy to have a little less in the old breakfast department, i must admit.
Day Most Anticipated: my first cheat day, tomorrow. i don't know what i'll have! it will involve pizza or pasta though.
Unpleasant Horoscope Imagery Of The Day: "Wild ideas sprouted in your head like mushrooms on a fertile marsh."
1 x weetiebix
1 x splishy splash of semi-skimmed milk
1 x half spoon of sweetener to mask weetabix taste thoroughly
weetabix - nom nom nom. with this in mind, i was ever so pleased to find a reference to a "high-fibre wholegrain cereal" as a breakfast option in my now-hallowed bible.
in an attempt to prevent white-of-the-egg based complications, i went a-hunting in the tesco cereal aisle. surprised to find myself thinking of the non-healthy foods as The Enemy, i was indeed prepared to be scouring the shelves for a sawdust-related by-product of wood. three packs entered and left my basket (price, price, tesco own brand - to be trusted? no.) until i came upon my trusty weetabix. which announced right on the box - high-fibre, wholegrain cereal.
happy to have a little less in the old breakfast department, i must admit.
Day Most Anticipated: my first cheat day, tomorrow. i don't know what i'll have! it will involve pizza or pasta though.
Unpleasant Horoscope Imagery Of The Day: "Wild ideas sprouted in your head like mushrooms on a fertile marsh."
Thursday 29 November 2007
The Big Tesco Shop
Giant Shopping Expedition With Uber Interesting Tips Surrounded By A Haze Of Yogurt-Coated Raisins Shame
having run out of seedy bread(gasp!) and turkey rashers(swoon!) i decide to make a mega list of ingredients compiled straight from my bible. Boy, it was a mega list.
But i couldn't find my rolled oats. I feel this is prophetic in many ways. However i did find nearly everything else, and have compiled this handy tip-selection for your tesco-shopping convenience:
almost all the ingredients that i couldn't find straight off were squirrelled near the bottom of the shelves - all the healthy living stuff, all the unusual ingredients, all the cheaper spices
i actually saved actual money of substance when i had onion powder, garlic salt, and cinnamon in my hand - all premium-brand, right - but found there was a whooole pound off for each of these when i bought tesco's own brand - i saved £3!! i can't quite get over it
healthy living cheese is expensive yet addictive, and comes in many addiction-sustaining varieties (i spent a lot on my cheese habit this week, but it's all lasted well, and tasty treats abound from this)
the brown rice i eat and waste so carelessly from the Tilda brand is soooo much cheaper than the normal variety! and the taste difference is negligible, says this observer.
the whole foods section at tesco is surprising filled with ingredients like Substance X and interesting bean-based concoctions
a tin of mandarins is cheaper than getting a bunch of tangerines, and you can always have both by encouraging your mother to buy the tangerines.
ry/i/vita is not as nice as "original cracker bread" and can't compete in the cardboard-like texture department
turkey slices are a lot more expensive than they used to be when i was younger
as is bread
this new-found knowledge is indispensable, so i felt i should pass it on to you guys.
Shame Of The Day: yogurt coated raisins.
Important Diet-Related Spiritual Change Of The Week: thinking yogurt-coated raisins are a) a sinful treat b) better than chocolate
having run out of seedy bread(gasp!) and turkey rashers(swoon!) i decide to make a mega list of ingredients compiled straight from my bible. Boy, it was a mega list.
But i couldn't find my rolled oats. I feel this is prophetic in many ways. However i did find nearly everything else, and have compiled this handy tip-selection for your tesco-shopping convenience:
this new-found knowledge is indispensable, so i felt i should pass it on to you guys.
Shame Of The Day: yogurt coated raisins.
Important Diet-Related Spiritual Change Of The Week: thinking yogurt-coated raisins are a) a sinful treat b) better than chocolate
I Needs Me Spinach
Trembling Workout On Wobbly Bike / Floorboards
1 x five minute warm-up in excercise shorts on squeaky bike
2 x set 20 reps bicep curls
2 x set 15 reps terrifying tricep curls involving much in the way of unstable behind-the-head action
2 x 10 reps sneaky core excerice
0 x five minute warm-down excercise on squeaky bike on account of i ran out of energy
having yet to lack the dignity needed to use a gym ball in my gym/front room, i'm still sorta stuck doing the deceptively easy core excercises which seem to endanger my poor old back, so i'm going to dig out some others to compliment my sweaty-pig regime. i do seem to give my trusty old bike a hard time, but it is sturdy enough to support my daily workout; it just doesn't do it quietly, and seems to find the damaged floorboard all by itself.
Distraction Television During Workout: the sad, sad end of the revenge of the sith - i admit fully that i often fill up to this movie
Hero Of The Day: yoda
Shock Bodily Function During This Blog Entry: 100kph sneeze
1 x five minute warm-up in excercise shorts on squeaky bike
2 x set 20 reps bicep curls
2 x set 15 reps terrifying tricep curls involving much in the way of unstable behind-the-head action
2 x 10 reps sneaky core excerice
0 x five minute warm-down excercise on squeaky bike on account of i ran out of energy
having yet to lack the dignity needed to use a gym ball in my gym/front room, i'm still sorta stuck doing the deceptively easy core excercises which seem to endanger my poor old back, so i'm going to dig out some others to compliment my sweaty-pig regime. i do seem to give my trusty old bike a hard time, but it is sturdy enough to support my daily workout; it just doesn't do it quietly, and seems to find the damaged floorboard all by itself.
Distraction Television During Workout: the sad, sad end of the revenge of the sith - i admit fully that i often fill up to this movie
Hero Of The Day: yoda
Shock Bodily Function During This Blog Entry: 100kph sneeze
Snacks Hurrah!
Turkeylicious Snacks On Ry/i/vita
3 x crispy goodness in the form of previously untasty ry/i/vita
3 x bits of the nice deli turkey left over from this morning
1 x taaaall glass of orange juice
2 x suplimentary handfuls of sunflower seeds
...woot! and now i have to prepare for my second diet shop, which should be a bit less bamboozling when i'm not using one hand to read a hardback book in a moving vehicle at night.
Saviour Of The Day: my intellect, which handily remembered that i could snack instead of lunch!
3 x crispy goodness in the form of previously untasty ry/i/vita
3 x bits of the nice deli turkey left over from this morning
1 x taaaall glass of orange juice
2 x suplimentary handfuls of sunflower seeds
...woot! and now i have to prepare for my second diet shop, which should be a bit less bamboozling when i'm not using one hand to read a hardback book in a moving vehicle at night.
Saviour Of The Day: my intellect, which handily remembered that i could snack instead of lunch!
Sucks.
No Lunch Today Because Of Stupid People Coming To The House
2 x awfully unfulfilling-looking handfuls of sunflower seeds
1 x lukewarm tea
1 x pervasive smell of kippers
bloody, bloody work. first, i couldn't get in the kitchen for the parental support unit cooking yukky kippers in a yukky haze, then i was going to rustle up some lunchy goodness, and now there's people in the house, so i can't get in the kitchen. swines.
this is all made worse by the fact there's a pork pie in the fridge i could be worrying right now.
Irritation Of The Day: knawing hunger with no way to assuage it / appetite ruined by the kitchen having the smell of all yuk in it.
Redemption Of The Day: realising i could stop whinging and have me another ubersnack whilst kicking people out of the way! hurrah!
Editorial Anxiety Of The Day: noticing that i've used the word "assuaged" twice on one blog page / wondering if i could sneak in "bourgeoise" again without anyone noticing
2 x awfully unfulfilling-looking handfuls of sunflower seeds
1 x lukewarm tea
1 x pervasive smell of kippers
bloody, bloody work. first, i couldn't get in the kitchen for the parental support unit cooking yukky kippers in a yukky haze, then i was going to rustle up some lunchy goodness, and now there's people in the house, so i can't get in the kitchen. swines.
this is all made worse by the fact there's a pork pie in the fridge i could be worrying right now.
Irritation Of The Day: knawing hunger with no way to assuage it / appetite ruined by the kitchen having the smell of all yuk in it.
Redemption Of The Day: realising i could stop whinging and have me another ubersnack whilst kicking people out of the way! hurrah!
Editorial Anxiety Of The Day: noticing that i've used the word "assuaged" twice on one blog page / wondering if i could sneak in "bourgeoise" again without anyone noticing
Family Guy
Ubergood Turkey On Crackers
4 x ry/i/vita crackers with quark (is there a ry/i/vita addicts anonymous? is there?)
4 x slices of "deli-style turkey" - often referred to, rarely seen
1 x seasoning of the pepper variety
1 x sprinkle o salt for the slightly too-dry turk-ley
1/2 of the rest of the christmassy mandarins - ho. ho. ho.
fresh pot of tea
oh - oh - oh sooooooo good. thank god i bullied my dad into getting me turkey slices from the co-op. sooooo worth it.
Icky Sticky Moment: quarkonmyfingers! quarkonmyfingers! aghh! getitoff! getitoff!
Best Family Guy Moment Experienced While Eating: meg's road rage in the slightly-off-colour season 6...
4 x ry/i/vita crackers with quark (is there a ry/i/vita addicts anonymous? is there?)
4 x slices of "deli-style turkey" - often referred to, rarely seen
1 x seasoning of the pepper variety
1 x sprinkle o salt for the slightly too-dry turk-ley
1/2 of the rest of the christmassy mandarins - ho. ho. ho.
fresh pot of tea
oh - oh - oh sooooooo good. thank god i bullied my dad into getting me turkey slices from the co-op. sooooo worth it.
Icky Sticky Moment: quarkonmyfingers! quarkonmyfingers! aghh! getitoff! getitoff!
Best Family Guy Moment Experienced While Eating: meg's road rage in the slightly-off-colour season 6...
DJ Shadow
Turkey-less Breakfast Brunch
0 x turkey rashers because i ate them last night and now i'm rueful
2 x thin nimble bread that goes even thinner when you toast it
2 x (eep!) egg whites - oh, hell - watch this space for more on the "will i turn into an egg, and if so, will i just be the white?" experiments
1 x half fat cheese slice, zapped to perfection
1 x first cup of tea of the day - the best cup, as everyone knows
1 x wine glass of fruit juice
...in which i didn't really miss the turkey, and the egg should cover the protein. the cheese slice stole the show with its no-nonsense professionalism in the face of being microwaved - a nice, even melt - good spread, good spread.
Aesthetic Diet Moment Of The Day: putting the cheese slice on the egg in a pleasingly symmetrical triangle formation
Bourgeoise Moment Of The Day: drinking fruit juice out of a wine glass at half eight in the morning
0 x turkey rashers because i ate them last night and now i'm rueful
2 x thin nimble bread that goes even thinner when you toast it
2 x (eep!) egg whites - oh, hell - watch this space for more on the "will i turn into an egg, and if so, will i just be the white?" experiments
1 x half fat cheese slice, zapped to perfection
1 x first cup of tea of the day - the best cup, as everyone knows
1 x wine glass of fruit juice
...in which i didn't really miss the turkey, and the egg should cover the protein. the cheese slice stole the show with its no-nonsense professionalism in the face of being microwaved - a nice, even melt - good spread, good spread.
Aesthetic Diet Moment Of The Day: putting the cheese slice on the egg in a pleasingly symmetrical triangle formation
Bourgeoise Moment Of The Day: drinking fruit juice out of a wine glass at half eight in the morning
Wednesday 28 November 2007
Heroes
Quick-fix Dinner With No Time To Spare And Egg Craving Satiating Evening-Breakfast
2 x egg whites - professionally seperated, boy i'm getting good at that
2 x "nimble" brown bread, purchased only by weight watchers dieters the world over - pleurgh. pleurgh.
2 x the last of the turkey rashers (sob)
2 x sneaky sprays of the fake butter compound
well, i missed my turkey rashers this morning, although i'm seriously worried about my intake of egg whites. my consolation is that i must be working them off, but i should probably consume some oily fish to counter the cholesterol. which i'm not looking forward to. this brings into the debate my strange empathy for sea-dwelling creatures. though not a sea-dweller myself, i do feel sad for little fishies what get caught. chickens and turkies annoy me, so my guilt is assuaged there. but poor fishes.
having said that, i'm going to get a tuna steak for tomorrow unless i want to run the risk of becoming an egg white.
Guilt Of The Day: twix-sniffing
Anxiety Of The Day: too many eggs spoil the beth?
2 x egg whites - professionally seperated, boy i'm getting good at that
2 x "nimble" brown bread, purchased only by weight watchers dieters the world over - pleurgh. pleurgh.
2 x the last of the turkey rashers (sob)
2 x sneaky sprays of the fake butter compound
well, i missed my turkey rashers this morning, although i'm seriously worried about my intake of egg whites. my consolation is that i must be working them off, but i should probably consume some oily fish to counter the cholesterol. which i'm not looking forward to. this brings into the debate my strange empathy for sea-dwelling creatures. though not a sea-dweller myself, i do feel sad for little fishies what get caught. chickens and turkies annoy me, so my guilt is assuaged there. but poor fishes.
having said that, i'm going to get a tuna steak for tomorrow unless i want to run the risk of becoming an egg white.
Guilt Of The Day: twix-sniffing
Anxiety Of The Day: too many eggs spoil the beth?
The Simpsons
Cute Platter Of Stuff And Extra Stuff From Tins
2 x ryvita (have i been spelling it wrong?)
2 x scrapings of quark
1/2 tin of mandarins - nom nom nom
storehouse full of pepper
tasty ginger pop
...i'm still unashamedly not bored with these snacks, but i'm aware that they may be palling on the diet diaries blogfans, so i'm going to try something different tomorrow... i swear.
Tastes Like Christmas Trifle: that'll be the mandarins
Most Missed Ingredient To Compliment Snacky: that weird fluffly cream that goes on a christmas trifle, complete with cheap-chocolatey hundreds and thousands
2 x ryvita (have i been spelling it wrong?)
2 x scrapings of quark
1/2 tin of mandarins - nom nom nom
storehouse full of pepper
tasty ginger pop
...i'm still unashamedly not bored with these snacks, but i'm aware that they may be palling on the diet diaries blogfans, so i'm going to try something different tomorrow... i swear.
Tastes Like Christmas Trifle: that'll be the mandarins
Most Missed Ingredient To Compliment Snacky: that weird fluffly cream that goes on a christmas trifle, complete with cheap-chocolatey hundreds and thousands
The Revenge Of The Sith
Quesadillllas v3.0
2 x macro-fillets of chicken
1/4 can of chick peas, for terrorism purposes
dollop of salsa
2 x the longest-lasting tortillas in the world, ever! volume 1
1 x sackful black pepper and the usual array of spices
1/6 tescos bag of Substance X
4 x huffy half-fat mozzy balls
...in which chick peas were found to explode loudly when exposed to microwaves, mozzy balls are outed as fickle beasts and Substance X is revealed to be an alien substance known as quinoa. it's pronounced keen-wah, you know. i didn't have the heart (or the appetite) to eat the chick peas in the end - their sad, empty husks lie now in my sink.
Interesting Cover Discovered On Radio 1 By Happy Accident: Teardrop by Massive Attack covered by people that sounded like Audioslave, but i don't know - i thought Jose Gonzales did a cover, too.
Temper Flared By: southern radio presenter declaring the tyne bridge to be over-rated.
Stuff-To-Be-Picked-Out-Of-Teeth Of The Year Award Goes To: quinoa (it's pronounced keen-wah, you know).
Temptations To Be Resisted: pack of 6 mars bars in fridge.
2 x macro-fillets of chicken
1/4 can of chick peas, for terrorism purposes
dollop of salsa
2 x the longest-lasting tortillas in the world, ever! volume 1
1 x sackful black pepper and the usual array of spices
1/6 tescos bag of Substance X
4 x huffy half-fat mozzy balls
...in which chick peas were found to explode loudly when exposed to microwaves, mozzy balls are outed as fickle beasts and Substance X is revealed to be an alien substance known as quinoa. it's pronounced keen-wah, you know. i didn't have the heart (or the appetite) to eat the chick peas in the end - their sad, empty husks lie now in my sink.
Interesting Cover Discovered On Radio 1 By Happy Accident: Teardrop by Massive Attack covered by people that sounded like Audioslave, but i don't know - i thought Jose Gonzales did a cover, too.
Temper Flared By: southern radio presenter declaring the tyne bridge to be over-rated.
Stuff-To-Be-Picked-Out-Of-Teeth Of The Year Award Goes To: quinoa (it's pronounced keen-wah, you know).
Temptations To Be Resisted: pack of 6 mars bars in fridge.
Frasier
Meagre Breakfast Which Harley Would Disapprove Of Mightily
2 x slices of wonderful seedbread (i call it lembas in my head)
2 x smidgens of scraped butter (the horror! the horror!!)
1 x smoothie from aldi which will probably turn out to be soylent green
1 x pilfered handful of sunflower seeds
1 x shrink-wrapped turkey rasher
after peeling myself off've the excercise bike, i really couldn't face an egg-white, so i just had toast. and then i remembered my soylent smoothie, so i popped that on the table to make it look more healthy, then i thought "no protein!" and was less dead by this time so i bunged one rasher of turkey bacon in the microwave with the clingfilm to prevent nasty yuk. this did not go well, but i do now have a shrink-wrapped turkey rasher in my kitchen. in years to come, advanced civilisations will discover my plastic rasher and declare that the northpeople in ancient times struggled against the odds to provide polymer food disguised as meat.
Worrying Horoscope Prediction Of The Day: "Be on the lookout for airborne objects."
2 x slices of wonderful seedbread (i call it lembas in my head)
2 x smidgens of scraped butter (the horror! the horror!!)
1 x smoothie from aldi which will probably turn out to be soylent green
1 x pilfered handful of sunflower seeds
1 x shrink-wrapped turkey rasher
after peeling myself off've the excercise bike, i really couldn't face an egg-white, so i just had toast. and then i remembered my soylent smoothie, so i popped that on the table to make it look more healthy, then i thought "no protein!" and was less dead by this time so i bunged one rasher of turkey bacon in the microwave with the clingfilm to prevent nasty yuk. this did not go well, but i do now have a shrink-wrapped turkey rasher in my kitchen. in years to come, advanced civilisations will discover my plastic rasher and declare that the northpeople in ancient times struggled against the odds to provide polymer food disguised as meat.
Worrying Horoscope Prediction Of The Day: "Be on the lookout for airborne objects."
Just Shoot Me
1 x five minutes excercise bike hell
2 x bunch of biceps n triceps shenanigans
1 x not-so-sneaky-any-more core excercise thing - i'm whupping its ass
1 x five minutes excercise bike cardio fat-burning bit that supposedly burns more at the end or something (i read the book, but i don't claim to understand it fully - if i did, surely i wouldn't be in the position of a fat lass writing a diet blog??)
ew, gross! i just looked up "Shenanigans" in google to check my spelling and there's a club in Indiana that's "where couples go for fun". well, i couldn't budge my dad from gordon ramsey's kitchen nightmares last night, so i had to re-arrange my "no-excercise day" two days into the plan. and i was looking forward to doing this thing to the letter, too [half of a half of a twix notwithstanding]. so i had to bustle myself out of bed early and flop onto the wobbly excerise bike of doom before i even thought about breakfast.
Most Hated Sitcom Actor Of The Day: David Spade
Least Hated Sitcom Actor Of The Day: John Mahoney
2 x bunch of biceps n triceps shenanigans
1 x not-so-sneaky-any-more core excercise thing - i'm whupping its ass
1 x five minutes excercise bike cardio fat-burning bit that supposedly burns more at the end or something (i read the book, but i don't claim to understand it fully - if i did, surely i wouldn't be in the position of a fat lass writing a diet blog??)
ew, gross! i just looked up "Shenanigans" in google to check my spelling and there's a club in Indiana that's "where couples go for fun". well, i couldn't budge my dad from gordon ramsey's kitchen nightmares last night, so i had to re-arrange my "no-excercise day" two days into the plan. and i was looking forward to doing this thing to the letter, too [half of a half of a twix notwithstanding]. so i had to bustle myself out of bed early and flop onto the wobbly excerise bike of doom before i even thought about breakfast.
Most Hated Sitcom Actor Of The Day: David Spade
Least Hated Sitcom Actor Of The Day: John Mahoney
Tuesday 27 November 2007
ZOMG Dinner!!1
I-Finally-Get-To-Cook-A-Dinner Breaded Chicken With Squished Vegetables
5 x bits of those lovely chicken mcfillets that are rapidly becoming my favourite thing ever
1/2 clove of real garlic - none of that "powder" stuff - yuk - pleurgh
1/2 fiendishly strong onion
lots of bits of fresh broccoli
1 x sweet potato
crumbly bread for breadcrumbs
pepper, curry powder, salt, paprika
tall glass of that robinsons barley stuff
the rest of that lovely bean stuff - very sad to see it go
...in which i cooked my first ever sweet potato, managed to make the stir-fry veggies thoroughly squishy instead of crispy, but the day was saved when everything came out tasting happily of curry (though not on purpose).
Lingering Smell Of The Day: steamed brocolli
Anxious Moment Tally: sweet potato too hot to peel or manipulate in any way possible; no stale bread for crumbing; chicken strips took too long to strip, whilst in background veggies squished themselves meaningfully.
5 x bits of those lovely chicken mcfillets that are rapidly becoming my favourite thing ever
1/2 clove of real garlic - none of that "powder" stuff - yuk - pleurgh
1/2 fiendishly strong onion
lots of bits of fresh broccoli
1 x sweet potato
crumbly bread for breadcrumbs
pepper, curry powder, salt, paprika
tall glass of that robinsons barley stuff
the rest of that lovely bean stuff - very sad to see it go
...in which i cooked my first ever sweet potato, managed to make the stir-fry veggies thoroughly squishy instead of crispy, but the day was saved when everything came out tasting happily of curry (though not on purpose).
Lingering Smell Of The Day: steamed brocolli
Anxious Moment Tally: sweet potato too hot to peel or manipulate in any way possible; no stale bread for crumbing; chicken strips took too long to strip, whilst in background veggies squished themselves meaningfully.
Quesadilla Mania Sans Burning Kettle
Stir-fry Chicken Quesadillas With Buffalo Wing Sauce
2 x squeenie fillety chicken things
1 x half pouch of microwavable brown rice (surely the best thing since bread came sliced?)
1 x half a half a can of tasty bean stuff. i think i'll have to use it up or it'll just be to throw away...
1 x tasty combo of oodles of pepper (again - is it possible to eat too much?), cumin, salt, paprika
1 x smidgen buffalo wings sauce
1 x handful of water because the chicken looked like it was drying out and there's nothing worse than dry chicken in a salsa scenario
2 x strange smelling brown tortillas
1 x trusty microwave grill combo
tea to taste
Interesting Yet Fairly Unsupported Fact Gleaned From Talk Radio: blue eyed people may be more attractive because their eyes are clearer when their pupils dilate
Temptation Nearly Resisted To The Last: half a half a twix
Daily Ponder: do buffalos really have wings?
2 x squeenie fillety chicken things
1 x half pouch of microwavable brown rice (surely the best thing since bread came sliced?)
1 x half a half a can of tasty bean stuff. i think i'll have to use it up or it'll just be to throw away...
1 x tasty combo of oodles of pepper (again - is it possible to eat too much?), cumin, salt, paprika
1 x smidgen buffalo wings sauce
1 x handful of water because the chicken looked like it was drying out and there's nothing worse than dry chicken in a salsa scenario
2 x strange smelling brown tortillas
1 x trusty microwave grill combo
tea to taste
Interesting Yet Fairly Unsupported Fact Gleaned From Talk Radio: blue eyed people may be more attractive because their eyes are clearer when their pupils dilate
Temptation Nearly Resisted To The Last: half a half a twix
Daily Ponder: do buffalos really have wings?
Elevences
Tasty Tasty Platter
1 x tangerine squirreled away in a secret place - hurrah!
3 x crispybreads with icky sticky quarkTM
1 x generous helping of sunflower seeds
1 x it-doesn't-count handful of seeds during preparation
1 x banana for looking-at purposes, but not for eating-of purposes
well, i consulted my bible, and there should be at least 5g of fibre in each meal, but i'm not sure at all about this figure - i'm going to have to look up tangerine fibre content thingies somewhere, or it'll go very badly for me.
Conspiricy Theories Formed During The Morning: small plate shortage due to a) aliens or b) dad.
Happy Song In Head: 1-2-3-4 / Feist [ that girl off the iPod nano video advert, which of course Apple brought out after i became the proud owner of a green 4GB original ]
1 x tangerine squirreled away in a secret place - hurrah!
3 x crispybreads with icky sticky quarkTM
1 x generous helping of sunflower seeds
1 x it-doesn't-count handful of seeds during preparation
1 x banana for looking-at purposes, but not for eating-of purposes
well, i consulted my bible, and there should be at least 5g of fibre in each meal, but i'm not sure at all about this figure - i'm going to have to look up tangerine fibre content thingies somewhere, or it'll go very badly for me.
Conspiricy Theories Formed During The Morning: small plate shortage due to a) aliens or b) dad.
Happy Song In Head: 1-2-3-4 / Feist [ that girl off the iPod nano video advert, which of course Apple brought out after i became the proud owner of a green 4GB original ]
Another day, another breakfast
Open Baconny Sarnie Thing
2 x yummy turkey rashers (which seem too thick to be enitrely healthy)
2 x egg whites fluffed and seasoned and gushied up
2 x strangely addictive seed bread stuff
3 x half fat mozzy balls in place of the grated cheese that i used up yesterday
totally worth it to see mozzy balls nuked in the microwave: solid to stringy cheesey goodness in thirty radioactive seconds - it's like a dairy T1000!
Favourite Breakfast-Making Implement Of The Day: wooden spatula that marks not my precious wok.
Radio Show Disappointment Of The Morning: Terry Wogan, who seems only to play a sad mixture of Katie Melua and Mary Black. Whatever happened to Abba, Terry?
2 x yummy turkey rashers (which seem too thick to be enitrely healthy)
2 x egg whites fluffed and seasoned and gushied up
2 x strangely addictive seed bread stuff
3 x half fat mozzy balls in place of the grated cheese that i used up yesterday
totally worth it to see mozzy balls nuked in the microwave: solid to stringy cheesey goodness in thirty radioactive seconds - it's like a dairy T1000!
Favourite Breakfast-Making Implement Of The Day: wooden spatula that marks not my precious wok.
Radio Show Disappointment Of The Morning: Terry Wogan, who seems only to play a sad mixture of Katie Melua and Mary Black. Whatever happened to Abba, Terry?
Monday 26 November 2007
Running The Workout Gauntlet
1 x pre-cardio quick cigarette to loosen the valves
1 x 5 minute cardio on wobbly excercise bike
2 x dyke muscle workouts with 3 sets of 25 reps each
1 x sneaky core excercise set that feels deceptively easy but sneaks up on you
1 x this-will-kill-me last five minutes of cardio on wobbly excercise bike (repositioned to allow for watching of corination street by parental support system)
Beth's Excercise Tips For Home Workout: time workout sessions to co-incide with complete absence of parental support unit; in the event of unexpected visits by relations during muscle toning, persist in appearing as unconventional as possible by muttering in the manner of popeye.
1 x 5 minute cardio on wobbly excercise bike
2 x dyke muscle workouts with 3 sets of 25 reps each
1 x sneaky core excercise set that feels deceptively easy but sneaks up on you
1 x this-will-kill-me last five minutes of cardio on wobbly excercise bike (repositioned to allow for watching of corination street by parental support system)
Beth's Excercise Tips For Home Workout: time workout sessions to co-incide with complete absence of parental support unit; in the event of unexpected visits by relations during muscle toning, persist in appearing as unconventional as possible by muttering in the manner of popeye.
Snack 2
2 x crispy bread things with that now-familiar scraping of quark cheese
1 x meagre-looking handful of sunflower seeds
my mam's last tangerine (she'll kill me)
orange barley stuff made with lemonade - luxury
...i screwed up my eating times (god help me, i just can't do hour-maths) so i'm having a late snack and unfortunately nothing else this evening, even though i've expended quite a large portion of my sunflower-seed-calories in keeping the kitchen tidy for the last meal of the day am beginning to crave the broccoli i've passed all day. nevermind, i do feel fairly full (which is as His Holiness Harley predicted) so all's well.
Haughty Snack Moment: declining my dad's request to use my £20 wok (a.k.a. Wokkie Okkie, of whom many songs are still sung). if he can prove he can use it without giving in to temptation and a) cooking yukky fish in it or b) applying metal implements to it's beautifully unscathed non-stick surface that gleams richly in the morning, then we may have grounds for negotiation.
1 x meagre-looking handful of sunflower seeds
my mam's last tangerine (she'll kill me)
orange barley stuff made with lemonade - luxury
...i screwed up my eating times (god help me, i just can't do hour-maths) so i'm having a late snack and unfortunately nothing else this evening, even though i've expended quite a large portion of my sunflower-seed-calories in keeping the kitchen tidy for the last meal of the day am beginning to crave the broccoli i've passed all day. nevermind, i do feel fairly full (which is as His Holiness Harley predicted) so all's well.
Haughty Snack Moment: declining my dad's request to use my £20 wok (a.k.a. Wokkie Okkie, of whom many songs are still sung). if he can prove he can use it without giving in to temptation and a) cooking yukky fish in it or b) applying metal implements to it's beautifully unscathed non-stick surface that gleams richly in the morning, then we may have grounds for negotiation.
Lunch
Quesadillas With Chicken And Stuff
2oz cute chicken minifillets from tescos (2 for a fiver, result!)
2 x relatively flavourless wholegrain tortillas
half of a half of a can of mixed bean salad (in yummy vinegrette, but i had to drain it - boo hiss)
tiny weeny handful of low fat cheese
lovely warm cup of tea
half a rivita whilst i was waiting for the chicken to cook (just in case it tasted different from before, in the interests of science)
spices galore (pepper, paprika, more pepper, salt, cumin, more pepper)
a whole bunch of that cooking spray stuff that's meant to taste like butter but smells more like something really sweet's on fire.
smidgen of buffalo wings salsa-esque sauce to make you believe you're not being deprived.
...in which i had fun coating the chicken in spices, but caused something in the kitchen to smell like electrical burning. had to work out what half a cup was in british measurements. also what ounces are in grams. for those of you trying similar culinary experiments at home, 2oz is just enough to fill two tortillas. no, i can't remember, so i'll have to work it out all over again tomorrow. actually, i can utterly recommend this meal - v. tasty although not as easy to prepare as i've made it sound...
Radio Show Listened To Whilst Eating: mark, of mark and lard fame filling in for steve wright on radio 2. it was ok but... i wanted more.
Top Tip Discovered In Preparation: move your kettle away from your microwave-grill-combo's vent when heating.
Anxious Moments: wondering if it's possible to cobble together a "toaster oven" out of paper clips and elastic bands; aforementioned unknown burning smell and was-it-the-microwave-after-all-conundrum; having to touch cold beans out of the tin; necessary fetching of healthy ingredients from behind pork pies in fridge; recurring pork pie fantasies throughout afternoon.
2oz cute chicken minifillets from tescos (2 for a fiver, result!)
2 x relatively flavourless wholegrain tortillas
half of a half of a can of mixed bean salad (in yummy vinegrette, but i had to drain it - boo hiss)
tiny weeny handful of low fat cheese
lovely warm cup of tea
half a rivita whilst i was waiting for the chicken to cook (just in case it tasted different from before, in the interests of science)
spices galore (pepper, paprika, more pepper, salt, cumin, more pepper)
a whole bunch of that cooking spray stuff that's meant to taste like butter but smells more like something really sweet's on fire.
smidgen of buffalo wings salsa-esque sauce to make you believe you're not being deprived.
...in which i had fun coating the chicken in spices, but caused something in the kitchen to smell like electrical burning. had to work out what half a cup was in british measurements. also what ounces are in grams. for those of you trying similar culinary experiments at home, 2oz is just enough to fill two tortillas. no, i can't remember, so i'll have to work it out all over again tomorrow. actually, i can utterly recommend this meal - v. tasty although not as easy to prepare as i've made it sound...
Radio Show Listened To Whilst Eating: mark, of mark and lard fame filling in for steve wright on radio 2. it was ok but... i wanted more.
Top Tip Discovered In Preparation: move your kettle away from your microwave-grill-combo's vent when heating.
Anxious Moments: wondering if it's possible to cobble together a "toaster oven" out of paper clips and elastic bands; aforementioned unknown burning smell and was-it-the-microwave-after-all-conundrum; having to touch cold beans out of the tin; necessary fetching of healthy ingredients from behind pork pies in fridge; recurring pork pie fantasies throughout afternoon.
Snack 1
Platter-esque Of Many Healthy Things
3 x rivita (2 with quark soft cheesey stuff scraped on and then scraped off, as i wasn't sure what it was going to taste like)
1 x handful of sunflower seeds (apparently full of protein-calorie goodness)
4 x half fat mozzarella balls, fished out from their weird watery dwelling
1 x tiny weenie tangerine because i couldn't find an apple to peel and cut into appetising bits
Pepper on the quark stuff
Sugar-free carbonated beverage
Half a rivita whilst preparing, just to see
Tea towel to wipe the mozzarella yuk off my hands
Cigarette, on completion of a snack platter well prepared
Well... the Quark was tastier than i'd suspected it to be - it looks like what i can only describe as "stuff". But pepper makes everything good, and it was surprisingly unlike cardboard.
Tune In My Head Whilst Preparing: Peter & The Wolf / Sergey Prokofiev
Munching Music: More Beats N' Pieces [live] / Coldcut :: Ninja Tunes Label
3 x rivita (2 with quark soft cheesey stuff scraped on and then scraped off, as i wasn't sure what it was going to taste like)
1 x handful of sunflower seeds (apparently full of protein-calorie goodness)
4 x half fat mozzarella balls, fished out from their weird watery dwelling
1 x tiny weenie tangerine because i couldn't find an apple to peel and cut into appetising bits
Pepper on the quark stuff
Sugar-free carbonated beverage
Half a rivita whilst preparing, just to see
Tea towel to wipe the mozzarella yuk off my hands
Cigarette, on completion of a snack platter well prepared
Well... the Quark was tastier than i'd suspected it to be - it looks like what i can only describe as "stuff". But pepper makes everything good, and it was surprisingly unlike cardboard.
Tune In My Head Whilst Preparing: Peter & The Wolf / Sergey Prokofiev
Munching Music: More Beats N' Pieces [live] / Coldcut :: Ninja Tunes Label
Breakfast
Open Bacon & Egg Samwidge
2 x turkey rashers
2 x egg whites (seperating is fun!)
2 x seeded bread slices (yuk - brown - but i'm getting used to the indigestion)
1 x Snifter of low fat grated cheese
Pounds and pounds of cracked black pepper to taste
1 x Bemused expression to watch the turkey rashers go round and round in the microwave.
Ok, so. I'm Doing A Diet. It's been pointed out (by my latest dieting book) that fad diets don't work (does anyone else appreciate the delicious, fat-free irony of that?) and dear old Harley lists many reasons why this is so. He's uber clever, him. I think he went to university, or night-classes, or read a lot of diet books or something. Anyway, he's my latest guru, and i'm all up for giving myself over to someone who can look graceful on a gym ball. I tend to roll off.
2 x turkey rashers
2 x egg whites (seperating is fun!)
2 x seeded bread slices (yuk - brown - but i'm getting used to the indigestion)
1 x Snifter of low fat grated cheese
Pounds and pounds of cracked black pepper to taste
1 x Bemused expression to watch the turkey rashers go round and round in the microwave.
Ok, so. I'm Doing A Diet. It's been pointed out (by my latest dieting book) that fad diets don't work (does anyone else appreciate the delicious, fat-free irony of that?) and dear old Harley lists many reasons why this is so. He's uber clever, him. I think he went to university, or night-classes, or read a lot of diet books or something. Anyway, he's my latest guru, and i'm all up for giving myself over to someone who can look graceful on a gym ball. I tend to roll off.
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