Posts by dondons

Breakfast - big slice of home made bread with soy spread

Lunch: Ham and cheese sandwich on wholegrain bread, an apple

Snack: Semi Skimmed milk latte

Dinner: Fajitas with chicken, onion, peppers, lettuce, guacamole, salsa, bit of sour cream and bit of cheese on flour tortillas

Snack: handful of popcorn

I'm going to be 22 on Sunday! Big night out planned in cute dress on the saturday, so I have been amping up the exercise and healthy eating so that I feel more confident...and to eat cake guilt free :D

Breakfast: Steelcut oats cooked with dried fruit, almonds, soy milk, water

Snack: Skinny latte

Lunch: Tuna mayo and cucumber sandwich on brown bread, apple, orange, muller rice

Snack: Milky tea

Dinner: Pasta baked with sauce made out of lean beef, courgettes, onions, tomatoes, mange tout, carrot, with cheese on top

Chick pea curry can be made in a massive batch and heated up later - I actually prefer it heated up the next day, it seems to taste better! It's very easy and cheap too - veg can be bought cheaply from greengrocers/markets, cans of chickpeas are rock bottom. A great stand by meal!

1 large onion
Garlic (optional)
2 Large carrots
1 Stalk celery
Mushrooms
Peppers
Spinach
Basically any vegetable you have around

1 can chick peas, drained and rinsed (or kidney beans or any kind of bean)
1 jar of tikka massala curry sauce (I use this for speed, but you could easily just add curry powder/spices into the mixture, with a tin of tomatoes for the liquid)

Chop up all the vegetables, grate the carrot, cook them all in a tbsp oil in a large pan. When soft, add the chick peas and the sauce, then bring to a simmer. Let it cook for about 15 mins, or until the  veg is cooked through.

This can then be refrigerated and eaten with brown rice, or on top of a sweet potato, or with cous cous etc. I even have it cold on top of salads sometimes. Its very versatile and delicious, and is full of fibre and nutrients.

Breakfast: steel cut oats cooked in soy milk and water, dried fruit, almonds

Snack: Semi skimmed milk latte

Lunch: Tuna mayo and sweetcorn sandwich on brown bread, 1 pot of muller rice, apple, orange

Dinner: Lasagne made from wholewheat pasta, lean mince, bolognaise jar sauce, lots of spinach, onions, a good hunk of cheese (i think i overdid it on the cheese serving size....)

Could you not just half the liquid (or use less at least) in oatmeal recipes so that it comes out dry and chewy?

Suzushii, great tips, but I have always understood that it should go: Warm up-THEN stretch-exercise-cool down-stretch. Stretching cold muscles can do more harm than good and leave you sore the next day.

1) If you want a treat, walk/run/bike for it. E.g. A half hour walk to a nice ice cream shop for a cone on a summer day is fun and better for you than just loading a whole container of ice cream into a car with the weekly shop.

2) My bf plays alot of computer games. He does sit-ups during the 'loading screens' - I have no idea what these are but he informs me it is helping him get fitter!

3) Do things the long way round. I purposely keep things not at arms reach at my desk at work. If I need an envelope etc I must walk round my desk and go to the stationary cupboard

Breakfast: Steel cut oats cooked with soy milk, water, chopped dried fruit (dates, prunes, pears, apricots) and almonds

Lunch: Jacket potato with tuna mayo, an apple

Snack: Piece of banana bran cake with glass of soy milk

Dinner: small piece of veggie pizza, then egg noddles, brocolli, spinach and sweetcorn

Snack: Piece of vegan chocolate cake

mmmm that sounds good!

I don't know if it would do me very well for breakfast though. Whilst its a good amount of calories, the white rice and sugar might leave me hungry again pretty soon after. Perhaps a small lunch/dinner with this for dessert would work well too, yummy!

I like some kind of pasta dish. In the week I'm a wholewheat pasta/veggies and tomato sauce kind of girl. But every now and then I love just baking pasta in some kind of cheese sauce with an egg stirred into it, with cheese on top. Proper comforting, warm, european loveliness. No worrying about getting my 5-a-day, just flavour and pleasure, and having fun making creative things in the kitchen.

Or I'll eat a frozen pizza to myself - but I love veggies so a whole veggie pizza (with extra veggies on top) can be about 800 cals which isn't tooooo bad to fit into the day, and it makes me happy.

Or I eat at my bf's house and he is very much into his red meat, so normally its something like pasta with spicy sausages in it, sauce and white bread/garlic bread on the side. Or meat balls...mmmm

A big slap of home made millionaires shortbread that sits in my freezer. Shortbread made with real butter, with a layer of thick caramel on top, and dark chocolate on top of that.

I try and only bring it out for guests, or hack a small chunk off it then whack it straight back in the freezer after dinner so I'm not tempted to eat the entire thing haha. It's lasted a good 6 weeks now.

I make a pact with myself - I can have cake but only if I bake it myself so that I know whats in it and its not full of chemicals and preservatives.

I read on another forum that you can make a pretty tasty dessert by mashing an avocado with some unsweetened cocoa powder and sugar/agave nectar, it comes out into a sort of puddingy consistency. I've yet to try it myself though!

I did have a wonderful experiement result the other night though. Freeze a chopped banana, then whiz it up in a blender and it comes out the consistency of soft-serve icecream - it is truly quite amazing. It looks and tastes like banana ice cream, but fruit is its only ingredient! It has changed my life :D I bet you could experiment by adding spices like cinnamon to it before blending, or adding some blueberries or nut butters on top before eating.

I make a smoothie for breakfast sometimes but it comes out so thick that i eat in in a bowl with a spoon like soup for breakfast! I blend fruit with oats, seeds, nut butter and a little liquid (fruit juice/soy milk - is that classed as raw though??) It keeps me full for a good while.

You can make your own 'bars' by blending up dried fruit e.g. dates, prunes, raisens etc. with oats, nut butter and a little liquid (fruit juice, splash of water etc.) and press it all down into a baking tray and refrigerate, then cut into bars.

To jazz up salads and veggies i sometimes make a sauce out of blending up an avocado with varying combinations of spices/pepper/tiny bit of garlic/herbs/lemon juice etc, loosen it with some cold pressed olive oil or some water, or something juicey like a tomato, then pour it over your veggies.

I baked some chunks of sweet potato, then while they were cooking i boiled some quinoa and stirfried some celery/brocolli/carrot/spinach/sweetcorn/mang e tout, then i mixed it all together with chopped brazil nuts, sunflower seeds and some chow mein sauce and some spices. Very tasty!

I have grown to love it on almost any sandwich, instead of putting actual butter on the bread. It has such a nice flavor that goes with savoury fillings as well as sweet. Ham, avocado, salad and almond butter is a great sandwich combination!