Something a little fishy

When I have this particular breakfast there are a few things that I must ensure that I do:
1. Kiss DH before I eat
2. Double wrap the can
The only thing my DH likes to do with fish is catch them. He does not like fish & he's even worse when the fish comes out of a can. If I eat before kissing him, I'm lucky to get a quick peck on the cheek! The can also has to be wrapped to protect his precious nose from the asailing odors that may accidently waft his way too.
Actually, given the appearance of this meal, I am sure that you will probably sympathise with my DH. For a long time, this is what I had nearly EVERY morning for breakfast. There is a little egg in the mayo, but not enough that I'm going to beat myself up over it. 3 simple ingredients - 1 can salmon, 1 heaped dessertspoon of mayo & a good grating of cheese all mixed together & heated untilthe cheese has melted.Doesn't look pretty at all, but I kind of like my 'fish porridge'.



I couldn't decide what to have for lunch today but at 1.30, I settled on 3 rashers of bacon.



Followed by a good 'blast-o'fat'. whipping cream, coconut cream & 1 serve of protein powder. I haven't done the exact math, but I reckon it'll be close to 600cal in that glass alone!



And so, that brings us to dinner. I don't usually get off on sirloin, but that's what I had & it was a nice thick piece that was tender to boot - except that damn bit of gristle that seems to lie between the fat & the meat. Vege to accompany.



Which leaves us with the Easter bunny progress shot. I've been nibbling here & there today.

No Eggs Today.

I'm back to avoiding eggs again - at least for the time being. It doesn't make an ounce of difference to me physically, but it does in the creative stakes.
Breakfast - Chorizo, ham & mushrooms fried then sprinkled with cheese & grilled.



I've pictured two lunches here & one of them is not mine. I was telling some people about how my Dd often makes Low Carb choices for her lunch. She had no idea that her lunch was LC until I told her & she seemed to be really pleased with herself. I'm please that she is able to make good choices like this too - not bad for 6.
Hers



Mine - I think it's pretty self-explanatory.



Only 2 dinners tonight - mine & 'their's'. Trying to keep dishes to a minimum I decided to whizz up some broccoli with the cauliflower. Between my cauli/broccoli mix & the chicken breast was a good lashing of butter... & then I tipped the accumulated chicken fat from my pan over the top. I was expecting the meal to taste fatty but it didn't at all.



And now to the bunny.... a progress shot!



I'm still waiting for that Spaghetti Squash & I think that no amount of talking or music is going to hurry the thing up. The vine is starting to die off but not anywhere close to where the squash is. I hope I like it as there's 2 of them! I have so far decided that I will make one meal out of it with a creamy salmon sauce & another with a bolognaise sauce but I reckon that there'll be at least another 6 meals worth of squash after that.

Chocolate? What Chocolate?

Happy Easter everyone!

Now, because I haven't quite got accustomed to this blogging business yet, I'm going to ask you if you know what bacon & eggs look like? more specifically, 2 fried No.7 eggs, with 2 rashers of middle bacon - grilled until the rind is just starting to crisp.You do! Good. Now if you shut your eyes & picture it (on a plate of course), that is what I had for breakfast. You did that? Wonderful!
Yes, I had eggs. It is Easter & my Dh said I could. It was nice to see him eating the same thing as me for breakfast - a rare thing at our place.

Ahhh, yes, another salad for lunch. You must be getting sick of seeing nearly the same salad day after day. Well, it's going to last a little longer - just until that jolly salad cream/dressing is gone, then I'll be off on another tangent - I hope.
Today's salad was spinach ham, chorizo & advocado with the dressing - naturally.



Dinner - yet again, 3 meals. Luckily I didn't have to 'cook' too much. DH & DD got the last of last night's Lasagne, DS had spaghetti on toast which is ok because it apparently does not taste like tomato & I haven't eaten it in so long I couldn't tell you either.
I couldn't be bothered whipping out all the pots and pans just for myself, so tonight's offering was a scotch fillet & cauliflower fried in sauteed in butter with a little chilli & some chicken stock.



I am also being haunted by this guy today



The Easter bunny knows that I have a penchant for peppermint. He wants to be eaten, I know it, he know's it.... and my kids keep telling me that I've forgotten to eat it. Soon though. Soon.

Brain Fog

I've gone through most of today with a very slight headache/brain fog - everything seems to be just 'that' much further away. It could be yesterday's Hot Cross Buns coming back to bite me... or it could be 'something' else.
Anyway, lets get back to what you came here for my friendly voyeur's....

Breakfast. Leftovers from someone else's dinner. Actually these were left over from the family's dinner last night (I had the chicken). With Ds eating Rice Bubbles, Dd eating a pottle of Slimmers Yoghurt sweetned with 2 teaspoons of sugar & Dh eating the 3 remaining Hot Cross Buns, I didn't want to waste the food that I was hoping that 'someone else' would eat... but it had to be me didn't it.



I am so 'Do-lally' at the moment that again, I have forgotten to photograph a meal, but never mind, I have eaten it before (and remembered to photograph it that time!).
There is something about autumn - summer has gone & suddenly I want to eat salad!



Tonight for dinner, I cooked 3 different meals! Lasagne for Dh & Dd, pasta, peas & cocktail sausages for Ds (who hates any form of tomato other than tomato sauce with passion) & I had this:



Chicken & prawns with spinach in a garlic & piri-piri cream sauce or something like that anyway. Yum & filling until about 30 minutes ago when I decided that this:



Would taste nice. Crushed frozen mixed berries mixed with a good couple of dollops of Marscapone. It was nice & was gone far too quickly.

2-4-2010 Say it ain't so.....

Another eggless breakfast. I'm not a happy camper but we'll see how far I can go without them.



Good Friday is Hot Cross Bun eating day at our place.... but I have to make them first. I was hoping that I'd be able to make them for breakfast, but they turned out to be a late lunch instead. I didn't stop at one either - my DH has photographic evidence of me eating the first one & even buttered the second one for me. 2 was enough but for me, they were far better than birthday cake or Xmas cake. Damage done? 300g. Guilty? I was before I ate them, not now though!



To balance out the carbs, I decided that I needed some fat so I turned to another cheese sandwhich.




Dinner didn't get photographed - I realised that I hadn't done it at about the time that I scraped my plate. I can however tell you that it looked pretty much like another meal I've posted - so here it is again.

April Fools - a Day Late.

With one thing & another, I couldn't be bothered posting yesterday, so I'm doing it this morning.
My Dh has challenged me to a month without eggs. It seems that I've accepted the challenge without saying a word. What the heck do I do in a life without eggs? My breakfast of 2 or 3 eggs suddenly becomes reduced to 2 leftover sausages from the family's dinner the night before.



Lunch. Ok so I was hungry by lunch time. So hungry that I'd eaten the wing & leg before I even remembered to take a photo.



I also bought myself an Atkins Endulge Milk Chocolate bar. I don't usually by any of the Atkins products because they're overpriced, overprocessed 'junk-food', but I decided to see if it really DID taste like Milk Chocolate. It did! The only problem I found was that later in the afternoon, I had a quite crampy gut ache which I blame squarely on the bar.



Dinner was a bit of a spread out affair. We went swimming yesterday afternoon, so on the way home we picked up some potato fritters for DH & the kids. I had a slice of processed cheese - I wasn't hungry - just pickey.



Then about 1.5hrs later I had some prawns cooked in butter, cream & piri-piri seasoning.



Then finally I had a cheese sandwhich.I love these, but don't eat them often. It's not a good photo, but it's 2 slices of mild cheddar cheese with butter in the middle. I like to use the same thickness of butter as I do cheese. Enough to give a low-fat dieter an heartattack! (figuratively of course!).



And now it's time for another eggless breakfast. I'm hungry but I have no idea what to have.

A Good Day

- Eating wise that is!

A couple of days ago I was walking past a cafe menu board in Takapuna & what caught my eye was the spinach, feta & chorizo omlette that was on the menu & it sounded good. This morning I decided that I wanted one - so I made one.... but I only registered about 5 minutes ago that I neglected to put the chorizo in (not that I really had time to faff around with chorizo at 8am this morning) so I had a spinach & feta omlette. Very nice it was too.



After having such a yummy salad for lunch yesterday, I decided that I would have another one for lunch today - just a bigger one this time with tomato & advocado added at well. I felt pretty full when I was walking up the road to collect DS from kindy!



With the rest of the family having meatloaf for dinner tonight, I decided that I was going to have chicken. This I slapped some butter & Piri-piri seasoning on & wrapped up in tin-foil, then baked in the oven for nearly an hour before setting under the grill - just to give the skin a little colour.



Simple.