Saturday, day one-hundred and fity-three, weekend feed day Weigh-in at start of day wt. 110.8lbs (analogue scales corrected ~108.0lbs); 0.6lbs loss
... t.measures - ub. 28.8, w. 25.8, t. 31.0, h. 34.75 inches
Report for the end of week 30 on 4 : 3 4.5 : 2.5 - weight loss of 0.8lbs this week (total loss 35.2lbs), and there has been a wee bit shrinkage measured but I'm just not ready to register it yet....
With a sub 2000 calorie deficit for the week, I'm lucky to be reporting any loss at all! Oh, and should mention that I *did* do RC's "Day 9" yesterday - split into two sections as unexpected droppers-by dropped by, but was fine.
Noooooo... Have just received my "The Gate" cookery book and it's *soggy*!!! The packaging has come open, more than once by the looks as the cover is badly torn too and there's sellotape all over it, and the book has escaped into a puddle (of what I sadly know not! Anyone know how to sterilize a book?) so the pages are wrinkled and the cover is spongy (I know the book "escaped" and that the whole package wasn't dropped because the packaging itself is bone dry). I'm heart-broken, I can't bear books being hurt. Have no idea who gets to "fix" the situation, but if it's Royal Mail that'll be one penny, as its value, in recompense, as the remaining £2.80 of the cost was for postage (is that irony?). Have amazon-mailed the seller - two hours later (now thirteen hours) and not even an auto-acknowledgement. Bodes not well.
Have realised that the reason I keep blowing my nose is that I have a stinker of a cold; good thing that RC's "Day 10" is aerobics only today - which I've not really bothered with so far (count 'energetically doing stuff' as compensation).
Feeling sufficiently xxxx that bread making is off the menu - the carbivores can eat the loaf our freegan friend brought by the other day, and I'll scran one of the last two of my rolls, so that's that sorted. The rest of dinner shouldn't be too arduous. Sauce the carrots, boil the soya beans (for once I remembered to soak them overnight), ping the broccoli & carrots, bung the cheese and carrot sauces over the veggies, along with some wholegrain mustard, and throw it into the oven. That's it, I think.
Well, never quite that simple - 'twas semi-arduous - but was done in time and edible, which is what matters I guess. Wee bit like veggies in an orange coloured cheesy custard. Bestest neighbour agreed with me - bizarre; other guest said to let him know when I was next doing the recipe and he'd be here - friend for life; OH said it was excellent - but then, he has to live with me
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Horribly over on cals / carbs / everything, but I don't care: I'm being nice to myself as I feel snotty-bogged-headed and monumentally sh*te. So there. Anyway, one is meant to "feed a cold and starve a fever", right? Best indulgence so far is lemon and ginger tea with a shot of gin in it, just wish I'd thought of it earlier (need to stock up on more gin, excellent stuff). It was the closest I could manufacture to a hot toddy - bit like tonight's dinner: bizarre but very good. Oooh, think I could manage another couple of those. Best not, I'll be snoring enough as it is (and I've only one shot of gin left anyway)!
........ Calories 2009.50 Carbs 62.83 Fat 111.34 Protein 57.79 Fibre 22.81
broccoli, carrot and soya bean cheesy bake, a FatDog bottom-of-the-fridge concoction
broccoli & carrot mix, co-op, 35c/C4.8/F0.5/P1.7/Fi2.7/100g
......... 465g 162.75 22.32 2.33 7.91 12.56
carrot, batons, co-op, 35c/C6.0/F0.5/P0.7/Fi2.8/100g
......... 414g 144.90 24.84 2.07 2.90 11.59
soya beans, pre-soaked, cooked, 446c/C21.0/F2.9/P36.0/Fi9.0/100g (dry weight)
......... 120g 535.20 25.20 3.48 43.20 10.80
onion, tesco 'sweet', fine sliced, 25c/C4.4/F0.2/P0.8/Fi1.3/100g
......... 167g 41.75 7.35 0.33 1.34 2.17
wholegrain mustard, 150c/C6.8/F9.5/P8.8/Fi7.8/100g
......... 15g 22.50 1.02 1.43 1.32 1.17
sunflower oil, 125c/C0/F13.8/P0/Fi0/15ml
......... 5ml 41.67 0.00 4.60 0.00 0.00
four cheese sauce, co-op, 145c/C5.9/F10.8/P6.4/Fi0.5/100g
......... 300g 435.00 17.70 32.40 19.20 1.50
extra mature cheddar, co-op, grated, 415c/C1.4/F34.5/P24.4/Fi0/100g
......... 42g 174.30 0.59 14.49 10.25 0.00
fennel seed
......... 5ml 0.00
cumin seed
......... 5ml 0.00
total for broccoli, carrot and soya bean cheesy bake 1558.07 99.02 61.12 86.11 39.79
FatDog's 826/3342 portion of broccoli, carrot and soya bean cheesy bake 385.09 24.47 15.11 21.28 9.83Method: 1. boil the carrots, with fennel seed and a wee bit salt, then whizz to a puree and mix in the cheese sauce (soup-maker job), check seasoning; 2. meantimes, rinse the broccoli & carrot mix in salted water and roughly drain, cover and ping for about 5 minutes until al dente, then drain thoroughly; 3. double meantimes, heat the oil in a non-stick pan and fry the onions along with the cumin until they're caramelizing; 4. mix the pre-cooked soya beans with the veggies in a grill-proof dish; 5. layer the fried onions on top and then pour the carrot & cheese sauce over the top, shoogle the dish to get the sauce down into the veggies; 6. sprinkle the grated cheese over the top, give it a flourish or two of black pepper then bung it under a hot grill until the cheese is golden brown...
I rather liked this - I'd certainly do / eat it again, odd though it was, but the likelihood of bargain cheese sauce and bargain veggies happening simultaneously isn't that high.
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Sunday, day one-hundred and fifty-four, weekend feed day Weigh-in at start of day wt. 110.6lbs (analogue scales corrected ~107.75lbs); 0.2lbs loss
... t.measures - ub. 28.7, w. 25.7, t. 30.8, h. 34.6 inches
Thank-you. And I'm registering the incy-wincy shrinkage on the tape measure too - it's nice to see those numbers going down...
RC's "Day 11" will be deferred until this horrid cold has dribbled its last - no point in stressing the immune system unnecessarily, and I'm not in any hurry.
Bestest neighbour didn't come by empty handed yesterday evening, oh no: 360g mixed veggies (broccoli, carrot, green beans and baby corn), 300g cherry tomatoes, 200g chiquino mini-peppers and 300ml extra thick cream. This initially spoke to me of something with coconut milk and reminded me of World Food Cafe's "Borneo rainforest vegetables"... but that didn't quite work, the tomatoes didn't really fit in, nor the cream. Heading for bed last night and I was struck by the obvious: veggie fajitas with sour cream (think I can sour it with lemon?), salsa and guacamole - all I need to acquire is fresh coriander and an avocado.
....... Calories 2155.35 Carbs 44.55 Fat 131.21 Protein 61.57 Fibre 25.05
Edit: the sharp-eyed might have spotted that those numbers were, rather strangely, just the same as last week... (cut&paste error - sorry)
........ Calories 1590.01 Carbs 59.59 Fat 76.68 Protein 35.08 Fibre 16.44l
ow-carb tortillas, experiment no. 1; a FatDog mad half hour, based on basic wheatflour tortilla recipes that are ubiquitous on the internet
gram flour, 352c/C55.9/F5.3/P20.1/Fi4.7/100g
......... 60g 211.20 33.54 3.18 12.06 2.82
soya flour, 424c/C16.0/F20.0/P39.0/Fi12.0/100g
......... 90g 381.60 14.40 18.00 35.10 10.80
coconut oil, warmed to liquid, 39cal/C0/F4.5/P0/Fi0/4g/5ml
......... 20ml 156.00 0.00 18.00 0.00 0.00
water, warm
......... ~115ml 0.00
coriander seed, fresh ground
......... 3ml 0.00
baking powder
......... 10ml
xanthan gum
......... 3ml 0.00
total low-carb tortillas, experiment no. 1 748.80 47.94 39.18 47.16 13.62
1/12th (single tortilla) low-carb tortillas, experiment no. 1 62.40 4.00 3.27 3.93 1.14
¼ portion (three tortillas) low-carb tortillas, experiment no. 1 187.20 11.99 9.80 11.79 3.41Method: 1. sift the dry stuff into a biggish bowl and mix it well; 2. make a well and fill with the oil; 3. gradually work the dry stuff into the oil (I use a big flat bladed old knife for this), then 'using finger tips' work the oily bits in so there aren't any big lumps of anything - you want something like rough breadcrumbs; 4. gradually work in your water, tablespoon by tablespoon until you have a nice squishy (but not wet) dough; 5. form a ball and set it aside in a bowl covered in a damp tea towel whilst faffing with the other stuff, an hour at least... ; 6. split your dough up into 12 equal wee nuggets (I weighed them - hey! I'm an OCDer counting carbs and calories, so...); 7. here's the neat bit - use small sheets of non-stick cooking liner: squish a nugget into as flat round as you can get, using your fingers / knuckles, on one liner sheet then plonk another sheet of liner on top and roll the nugget into a nice thin tortilla thickness (or you can do the usual stuff dusting the board & pin with flour etc.); 8. peel one of the liners off, place the other with the tortilla stuck to it (tortilla side up) in a medium hot frying pan and cook for up to a minute (no oil needed - even if the pan is a non non-stick), then flip the tortilla over and do the other side the same; 9. set your cooked tortilla in a warm place and cover with a damp cloth to prevent it drying out (we didn't, they dried a bit); 10. "rinse and repeat", as they say...
The tortillas worked rather well - could have done better by covering them with a damp tea towel to stop them drying out a little - but, in combination with the veggie fajita, salsa, cream (we didn't bother souring it in the end), "refried beans", and guacamole, managed to elicit a "superb" from bestest neighbour and a 10/10 from the VBF (that's a first!), plus an "excellent" from the OH. Happy eaters all round. Now, you don't *really* want the other recipes do you? You'll have to prod me if you do
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