Saturday, day one-hundred and forty-six, weekend feed day Weigh-in at start of day wt. 111.6lbs (analogue scales corrected ~109.25lbs); 0.4lbs loss
... t.measures - ub. 28.8, w. 25.8, t. 31.0, h. 34.75 inches
Speechless. Okay - I know I'm *meant* to be losing weight, but that's a mighty generous loss over the last week. Indeed, the downwards trend on my tracker graph for the last eleven days is positively beautiful! Thank-you very much V&P vary-fairy, please don't stop.
So,
report for the end of week 29 on 4 : 3 4.5 : 2.5 - weight loss of 2.0lbs (total loss 34.4lbs), and a touch off waist, bit more off hips and 1/4 inch off stomach measurements.
That's "Day 3" of RC's toning done - lovely muscle burns in the biceps and the quads (separate exercises, of course!), very gratifying. Think that I managed to do the "chest shaper" properly this time so didn't get any "ouch, don't do that" warnings. Jolly dee.
Was playing with my recipe book stacks (?!) late last night and snooped into my veggie Arto Haroutunian at the 'chickpea with tahini' recipe - no wonder my effort yesterday was a little lack-lustre: Arto uses ten times the tahini that Gayler does and considerably more cumin and chilli. Right - *must* get books accessible, then I can cross check between them more easily.
Inspired by @gillymary, I'm wondering whether to have a shot at the rolls without using any xanthan gum, as this ingredient is missing from most store cupboards (okay, so is soya but *all* low-carb bakers should have a bag of this in their kitchen). Will have to forage for more eggs; might go for one whole egg plus one egg white, so now for a recipe that can use an egg yolk; I'm not sure how to work out the calories / macronutrients for just an egg white...?
Dinner. Well, bestest neighbour brought by a 200g lump of taleggio the other day, so I wonder if that could feature? And then there's the remnants of the roquefort. Otherwise, not a clue, except that that aborted pasta dish from yesterday is lurking in my head - will need to go forage for bargains, see if I can find things to go with it... Maria Elia (Modern Vegetarian, p48) has a rather delicious pasta recipe with mushrooms, Brussels sprouts and chestnuts - not sure if I can get the roquefort in there though. Why not? Instead of parmesan. Ha! As well as!
Well that was a foray and a half. Made two half-hearted attempts to find somewhere to have my hair cut, to no avail. Bargains hadn't been reduced below 3/4 price anywhere (I was out slightly too early, perhaps). Was going to get oyster mushrooms from Mr Akram's then noticed they were themselves growing other fungi upon them and decided against... Co-op has had a delivery failure with their egg supply - only four boxes of eggs upon their shelves: duck eggs all and, apart from them being £2.59 a box, I've gorn off duck eggs a little (see up-thread a while back for why). Back to Sainsers for (non-bargain, but reasonably priced) sprouts and mushrooms, eggstraordinarily eggspensive organic eggs (sorry, couldn't resist) and bargain salad, and bargain broccoli & cauliflower that will have something to do with tomorrow night's dinner. Heading to the near co-op before home, and can't resist the charity store bins: whole bleeping dinner service, and then some, in the bucket. [yet-another-rant] Oh for xxxx sake. Risk slitting my wrists on the shattered ceramics and fish the set out, along with near to a dozen Ikea plates. Even if we can't use the stuff we'll find some one who can. I really can't bear it - so criminally wasteful for it, hand-crafted vases and all, to end up smashed up in the landfill... [/yet-another-rant]
Pancake rags with chestnuts, sprouts, roquefort and mushrooms served with rocket. Yum and double yum. And, yay, just as I was muttering to the OH that we really needed a third diner, bestest neigbour is at the door bearing *more* bargain veggies - ha! dinner victim number three.
The cooking had some bumps along the way - the lovely looking fresh chestnuts that I bought the other day were more than half rotten, and the remains were, mostly, rock like (mea culpa? too long in the oven? only too late did I realise that I could have whizzed them and subbed them in for some of the soya flour in the pancakes - as the Elia recipe does with the pasta flour). So, BN was sent to the co-op clutching a couple of quid and Merchant Gourmet vacuum packed chestnuts came to the rescue (not cheap at £1.51 for 200g, but much cheaper than a bag of rotten / inedible ones at any price, any day). And I shouldn't have been nearly so stingy with the butter - *blushes*, just 5g for the mushrooms then no more - and Elia uses 50g. Maybe I should have found a better compromise... but... but... I had a roquefort sauce (~80g cheese melted with a wee bit soya milk) instead, surely that counts (Elia has no sauce)? I'm still minded that 20g of butter would have made it utterly lush, rather than just double yum.
........ Calories 1594.51 Carbs 55.09 Fat 88.17 Protein 48.76 Fibre 18.75
pancake rags with chestnuts, sprouts, roquefort & mushrooms, nod to Elia, the Modern Vegetarian, p48
pancakes gram flour, 352c/C55.9/F5.3/P20.1/Fi4.7/100g
......... 30g 105.60 16.77 1.59 6.03 1.41
soya flour, 424c/C16.0/F20.0/P39.0/Fi12.0/100g
......... 45g 190.80 7.20 9.00 17.55 5.40
eggs, brown, organic, 151c/C0.0/F11.2/P12.5/Fi0.0/100g
......... 63g 95.13 0.00 7.06 7.88 0.00
basil, dried leaf
......... 10ml 0.00
chilli flakes
......... two good pinches 0.00
garlic flakes
......... several good grinds 0.00
s&p 0.00
water
......... 135ml 0.00
sunflower oil, 125c/C0/F13.8/P0/Fi0/15ml
......... 7.5ml 62.50 0.00 6.90 0.00 0.00
rag topping chestnut mushrooms, 6thd, 16cal/C0.4g/F0.5g/P1.8g/Fi1.1g/100g
......... 262g 41.92 1.05 1.31 4.72 2.88
brussels sprouts, sainsers, ¼'d, 42c/C3.9/F1.4/P3.5/Fi4.1/100g
......... 240g 100.80 9.36 3.36 8.40 9.84
chestnuts, Merchant Gourmet, ¼'d, 163c/C31.6/F1.0/P4.3/Fi5.2/100g
......... 200g 326.00 63.20 2.00 8.60 10.40
butter, melted, 720c/C0.6/F80.0/P0.5/Fi0/100g
......... 5g 36.00 0.03 4.00 0.03 0.00
roquefort, tesco, crumbled, 375c/C0.0/F32.0/P21.0/Fi0.0/100g
......... 79g 296.25 0.00 25.28 16.59 0.00
soya milk, coop org unsw, 30c/C0.1/F1.9/P3.4/Fi0.6/100ml
......... 25ml 7.50 0.03 0.48 0.85 0.15
s&p 0.00
total for pancake rags with chestnuts, sprouts, roquefort & mushrooms 1262.50 97.63 60.97 70.64 30.08
FatDog's portion of pancake with chestnuts, sprouts, roquefort & mushrooms 403.89 31.23 19.51 22.60 9.62Method: 1. pancakes as before, then shred them to make the 'rags' (I'd make these shorter - 4cm max - next time, easier to mix in); 2. rinse the sprouts in salted water, drain crudely and ping in a lidded dish for 3 minutes, then drain thoroughly; 3. meantime heat the butter in a non-stick pan and cook the mushrooms until their 'juice' has gone; 4. ping the roquefort with the soya milk to make a sauce; 5. add the chestnuts and sprouts to the mushrooms, then the rags and then the roquefort sauce; 6. check seasoning and serve with a sprinkle of parmesan and a leafy salad (such as rocket).
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Sunday, day one-hundred and forty-seven, weekend feed day Weigh-in at start of day wt. 112.0lbs (analogue scales corrected ~109.25lbs); 0.4lbs gain
... t.measures - ub. 28.8, w. 25.8, t. 31.0, h. 34.75 inches
The black dog was nipping at my heels as I clambered out of bed this morning, and then this ^ to cheer me up, not. Yeah, yeah, I know - it's the V&P vary-fairy at it but... That lovely downwards slope was too good to last, I suppose. Still did RC's "Day 4" though - thought that exercise was supposed to generate "feel-good endorphins"?
Self-medicating against the black dog with 85% chocolate - double dose - as this is *horrid*; and chocolate is better than meths or a bottle of vodka, though chocolate eating at any time other than after dinner is pretty much unheard of for a FatDog. Although I now find reporting on this paper (WebMD, NHS, BBC) 'suggesting' that higher consumption of chocolate is associated with greater depression
http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article ... eid=415834. A brief shufti and my hackles are going up - FFS, they don't even define what counts as chocolate (% cocoa and other ingredients *not* analysed) - 'chocolate candy' anyone? Their conclusion is okay "Whether there is a causal connection, and if so in which direction, is a matter for future prospective study". But all of the mainstream reporting fails to mention this. Utterly misleading. Grrrrrr.
Five for dinner and I can't even find the oomph for working out the recipe. Sh*te. Maybe I could just leave them all to it and go crawl under the nearest park bench. Gawd, or maybe I should just try a rock? Gah!
Sufficiently "recovered" (maybe "retrieved" would be a more appropriate epithet) to *do* dins... Aye, it did, just. Eejit features forgot to pre-reduce the mushrooms (as she'd originally planned, so somewhat soggy at base) but otherwise well edible. And there was nowhere near enough for five, or a possible six - so thank goodness for the forays of our bargain-hunting-lawyer-friend: nice big spinach naan bread to go with it for the carbivores. Extra nuts for the FatDog.
Too < choose expletive / expression of deep misery > to finish posting - will need to do tomorrow.
....... Calories 2155.35 Carbs 44.55 Fat 131.21 Protein 61.57 Fibre 25.05
broccoli, cauliflower & mushrooms with blue cheese bake - inspired by CBB p37
broccoli & cauliflower mix, tesco, 38c/C2.5/F0.9/P3.9/Fi2.1/100g
......... 524g 199.12 13.10 4.72 20.44 11.00
mushrooms, closed cup, co-op, 15c/C0.4/F0.5/P1.8/Fi1.0/100g
......... 444g 66.60 1.78 2.22 7.99 4.44
garlic, fine chopped, 149c/C33.06/F0.5/P6.36/Fi2.1/100g
......... 14g 20.86 4.63 0.07 0.88 0.29
butter, melted, 720c/C0.6/F80.0/P0.5/Fi0/100g
......... 26g 187.20 0.16 20.80 0.13 0.00
s&p 0.00
lentils, waitrose, 73c/C10.0/F0.6/P6.1/Fi4.4/100g
......... 265g 193.45 26.50 1.59 16.17 11.66
stilton, 410c/C0.1/F35.0/P23.7/F0/100g
......... 126g 516.60 0.13 44.10 29.86 0.00
soft cheese, full fat, tesco, 240c/C2.4/F23.0/P5.5/F0.0/100g
......... 98g 235.20 2.35 22.54 5.39 0.00
eggs, brown, organic, 151c/C0.0/F11.2/P12.5/Fi0.0/100g
......... 112g 169.12 0.00 12.54 14.00 0.00
soya milk, coop org unsw, 30c/C0.1/F1.9/P3.4/Fi0.6/100ml
......... 50ml 15.00 0.05 0.95 1.70 0.30
extra mature cheddar, co-op, grated, 415c/C1.4/F34.5/P24.4/Fi0/100g
......... 100g 415.00 1.40 34.50 24.40 0.00
tarragon, dried
......... 15ml 0.00
s&p 0.00
total for broccoli, cauliflower & mushrooms with blue cheese bake 2018.15 50.09 144.03 120.96 27.70
FatDog's 3/12 portion of broccoli, cauliflower & mushrooms with blue cheese bake 504.54 12.52 36.01 30.24 6.92Edit: helps if one includes the methods...
Method: 1. place the mushrooms on the bottom of a large oven-proof dish, sprinkle over the garlic and dribble over the melted butter, season and sprinkle half of the tarragon over; 2. then layer the lentils and then the broccoli and cauliflower mix on top, season; 3. ping the stilton and soft cheese to melt it, let it cool a little then mix in the soya milk and the remains of the taragon, then beat in the eggs, season to taste, and pour over the veggies; 4. sprinkle the grated cheese over the top, in particular the patches bald of sauce; 5. bake, covered for the first 20 minutes, in a pre-heated oven at 200C for about 30 minutes; 6. serve with good bread for the carbivores (a salad would probably go nicely too).