Whats your NORMAL food

[katie]

Ive quite recently improved my diet so it's been pretty good for the last couple of months.

Breakfast - I either have scrabbled egg and beans at work or porridge at home.

Lunch - Homemade soup almost every day at work.

Dinner - Ive begun eating two portions of either fresh or frozen oily fish a week with vegetables.

Sometimes I have wholewheat pasta with tinned tuna and tomato (because weirdly it's one of my fav things).

Sometimes mushrooms, tomatoes and egg on toast.

Chicken and vegetables, quiche and salad etc etc.

Snacks - I make homemade low carb snacks now or eat nuts, ocassionally I go mad and treat myself to something unhealthy 😉

 

[Highlander]

Well I am not good with my meals.

Breakfast - either cornflakes+all bran and milk, or Porridge. Fruit juice. Toast and a little jam and tea.

Lunch - not a great lunch person. Might have a sandwich with cheese or ham sometimes have a banana and bread/butter and tea.

Dinner - things like chops, mince, casserole, chicken, fish (if I have to as I am not very keen) meat pies, sausages with either oven chips, mashed potato, rice all with some vegetables and salad sometimes. now and again macaroni cheese or steak. Wine sometimes. Fruit or yogurt during the evening. Basically I am a fussy eater.

Try not to eat between meals as it usually means high readings - no matter what I eat. But about twice a year a treat myself to a Jam donut!!

 

[Laura davies]

Hi I love the sound of cauliflower mash how do you do it?

 

[Laura davies]

Hi this is such an interesting thread to see what we all eat.

Me:-

Breakfast wholemeal slice of toast with real butter (my mum makes me feel guilty about the butter but i think a little fat is good for you. Sometimes i have a scraping of jam or a boiled egg.

At the weekends i enjoy lean bacon, scrambled egg and mushrooms or Allen.

Lunch always wholemeal bread or burgen bread with fresh egg mayonnaise the eggs are fresh we have 11 hens. I always use lightest light mayonnaise to mix.(when i get to one of the forum meetings i will bring fresh eggs)

Sometimes i will have low fat Philadelphia spread with a little caramelised onion chutney or cook a piece of fillet salmon in the frying pan and cool then flake it up and have in a sandwich with lettuce delicious

Dinner: chicken curry with oven chips, chicken breast with spinach and a tiny amount of new potatoes, lamb roast dinner with gravy

I love a couple of chocolate biscuits i know that's not good and i drink 2 cans diet coke a day and i get a raw deal about that and at least a litre of bottled water a day with robin sons sugar free squash

 

[DeusXM]

Hi I love the sound of cauliflower mash how do you do it?

Boil up some cauliflower until it goes mushy, mash it in a sieve to get rid of the water, and then stir in a big lump of butter.

 

[katie]

I'm going to buy some cauliflower next time I go shopping 🙂

 

[Laura davies]

Hi northerner, your homemade curry caught my eye. I cooked a big roast chicken tonight for tomorrow. I want to strip the chicken and make a curry, any tips?

 

[Northerner]

Hi northerner, your homemade curry caught my eye. I cooked a big roast chicken tonight for tomorrow. I want to strip the chicken and make a curry, any tips? ��

Well, it's really nothing special, I just dice some onions and peppers, maybe mushrooms as well, add a couple of jars of shop-bought curry sauce and a tin of chopped tomatoes (to stretch out the amount!), a teaspoon of 'very lazy chilli' for extra heat and leave it to stew for an hour or so 🙂 Makes about 6 portions which I then freeze 🙂 It's not worth me keeping a load of spices, I wouldn't use them often enough as I only cook for 1 🙂

 

[mum2westiesGill]

Your curry sounds lovely Northerner it will deffinitely be going on my meal plan. What meat do you put in it?

Please can you share your recipe for chilli?

 

[Northerner]

Your curry sounds lovely Northerner it will deffinitely be going on my meal plan. What meat do you put in it?

Please can you share your recipe for chilli?

I put chicken in the curry - thighs make a good cheap meal, especially if you can get them when they are marked down 🙂

For Chilli I fry some mince in its own fat, then drain the fat. I fry some chopped onions and peppers in oil, then add the meat back, add a tin of red kidney beans, three tins of chopped tomatoes, 2 oxos, a teaspoonful of marmite, six teaspoons of hot chilli powder and a teaspoonful of 'very lazy chilli' (I like my chilli hot!). Then I leave it to simmer for 1 - 1.5 hours 🙂 I ain't no Jamie Oliver! 🙂

**forgot to mention - I also put some sweetcorn in it so that it is easy to distinguish from the bolgnese sauce once it is frozen! 🙂

 

[robert@fm]

For the authentic[*] Mexican flavour, a chili con carne recipe should also include at least a teaspoon of unsweetened cocoa powder. 🙂


[*]Mind you, chili is actually faux-Mexican; it's a Texan dish. 🙂 But I like the cocoa overtones anyway...

 

[Northerner]

For the authentic[*] Mexican flavour, a chili con carne recipe should also include at least a teaspoon of unsweetened cocoa powder. 🙂


[*]Mind you, chili is actually faux-Mexican; it's a Texan dish. 🙂 But I like the cocoa overtones anyway...

I'm making some tonight, so I will do that, thank you Robert 🙂

 

[Austin Mini]

Breakfast= Quaker Oats So Simple + 1 slice wholemeal toast with marmalade
Lunch= 2 slices wholemeal bread toasted+small sugar free jelly+orange+pear
Dinner Sunday= Roast Lamb or Pork or Beef or Pork chops+roast potatoes+veg+gravy
Monday=Jacket potatoe with grated cheese and baked beans
Tuesday= Fish fingers+roasted potatoes+veg
Wednesday= Liver and onions+mash+veg
Thursday= Steamed Haddock+roasted potatoes+veg
Friday= Jacket potatoe+salmon steak+salad
Saturday= Steak and roast potatoes+veg

 

[KookyCat]

I found a lovely recipe for chicken in white wine which is great with left over chicken if you roast one for Sunday dinner. Chopped onion sweated gently with garlic in butter or oil, 200mls of white wine and 150ml of stock simmered gently with the onion and garlic to burn off some of the alcohol, then chopped spinach thrown in and the pre-cooked chicken with 200ml of cream, heat gently for five to ten minutes making sure the chicken is warmed through and bob's your uncle. Lovely with pasta, green veggies or mashed sweet potatoes. I also used it as a sauce for prawns for a dinner party which I'm told was delicious but since I'm allergic I didn't taste that one. Not a healthy option but really rather delightful 🙂

 

[mum2westiesGill]

Hi Northerner,
Just to let you know that we had your chicken curry for tea tonight & it was absolutely delicious. The hubby, daughter & son all said to say how lovely it was.

Ps we're having your chilli one night this week 🙂

 

[Northerner]

Hi Northerner,
Just to let you know that we had your chicken curry for tea tonight & it was absolutely delicious. The hubby, daughter & son all said to say how lovely it was.

Ps we're having your chilli one night this week 🙂

There's a coincidence - I had the chicken curry myself tonight! 🙂 Glad you enjoyed it! 🙂

 

[mum2westiesGill]

It's a thumbs up to you again Northe because we had your chilli tonight, it was delicious, my family & I would highly recommend it 🙂

 

[Northerner]

It's a thumbs up to you again Northe because we had your chilli tonight, it was delicious, my family & I would highly recommend it 🙂

Good to hear Gill, glad you enjoyed it! 🙂

 

[John D M]

Breakfast:
Porridge made with skimmed milk ground flax seed and served with no fat yoghurt

Lunch:
Bean salad with feta or oily fish hummus and apples

Dinner:

Pretty much anything with modest carbs

 

[ukjohn]

My choices...

Breakfast....grapes with no fat no sugar Greek natural yogurt. Never changes

Lunch... whole wheat seeded bread with slice of salt beef, ham, cheese and gherkins.


Dinner...Like D. M. John, pretty much anything within reason....tonight I am making Lamb Shank Stew...


John.