Cheat day #3

Let the feast commence!

Or well all I got lined up for today is some breakfast rolls, a frozen pizza and a bag of potato chips

I've been looking at PAGG stacks the last couple of days, the first month's supply I got from a friend.. I didn't really think about the high pricing
I found the cheapest solutions I could (I doubt it can get lower) either £50 (about $77) for one month or 3 months for £125 (about $195)
That's about 1/4th of what I have left after paying my bills

Dinner Day20

A curry/stir fry

Fried:
Handful of sliced mushrooms
A couple of sliced chicken sausages
A bit of kebab meat
2 teaspoons of curry powder

Then added a handful of black beans, peas and a cup of water mixed with a veggie stock cube and a teaspoon of red curry paste and let it all simmer down to a lovely "curry"

Dinner Day19 + Morning Day20

I lost a total of 15 pounds now! (6,8kg)

Yesterday I made another batch of my Bolognese, my mom had some and my brother dropped by, they both loved it, but it means there was very little left over for today :(

Not really hungry this morning after the 1.5 liter of water, so thinking about skipping breakfast

Simple salad

A lettuce mix, added peas, black beans, chicken sausages and mixed with a bit of oil, salt and pepper

"Half" cheat day

Celebrated my grandma's 80th birthday today, I had a few crackers, a muffin and a beer

Dinner was a simple bean and snack/snap pea salad with chicken sausages

Morning Day17

Lost 500 grams - at a total of 6.6 kilos :)

It's my grandmoms 80th birthday today, so I will be busy, and I might cheat a little bit

Dinner Day16

Chopped up and fried mushrooms carrots and spring onions, then added beans, meatballs and 2 deciliter of stock mix (1 veggie stock cube and a teaspoon of red curry paste) and let it all simmer and reduce down

Tip: boil the carrots first, they were very hard even after simmering a good 10-15mins

Oh happy day

So today is a bit better than yesterday - i lost 400grams, and i got my phone exchange for a brand new one ^_^
And the GPS works!

Breakfast was leftovers from lunch yesterday, and so is lunch today ^_^

Dinner

Simple and easy

Storebought spiced beef rolls with boiled greens & beans

Day 15

Kind of a sucky day, gained 700 grams and found out the GPS in my brand new phone is faulty.. so now I guess I have to send it of to repairs before I can begin to track my walks on endomondo again

Eggs failed again, wanted an omelet.. ended up with scrambled

Lunch was decent boiled som frozen cauliflower, carrots and brocolli

Minced half a celery stalk, a carrot, handful of mushrooms, a spring onion and mixed it with 200grams of minced beef and made patties out of it - it was quite loose, maybe I will try and add an egg next time to keep it together

Reworked lunch for dinner

This was my leftovers from lunch with some shredded carrots with lemon juice.
And spinach with a bit of oil plus salt&pepper

Beef & mushroom "stew"

Today's lunch was sort of a stew

Contents:
2 handfulls of sliced mushrooms
A spring onion - chopped
3 sliced radishes
Salt & pepper
Black beans
200grams of minced beef
1 tbl spoon of tomato purée
1 vegetable stock cube
1 teaspoon of red curry paste

Add the mushroom ,onions and radishes to a pan with some oil and season with salt & pepper - let roast until the mushrooms are nice and golden.

Now add the beef and leet it cook through, no browning

While the beef cooks, dissolve the curry paste and stock cube in about 2-2,5 deciliter of hot water
Add the stock mix, tomato purée and beans to the pan, stir and let it simmer and reduce until most of the liquid is gone

Would go great with pasta or a simple baguette

Breakfast Day14 - Damn eggs

I wanted eggs with this but they kept breaking when I wanted to flip them :(

So its just mushrooms, pinto beans and beansprouts spiced with curry powder and some leftover frikadeller (danish meatball kinda)

A good cheatday

Had a good cheat day if you look at the numbers

I had toast for breakfast, tater tots and ketchup for lunch, and potatoes with gravy for dinner
Snacks during the day was: watermelon, potato chips and ice cream

Even after all this I lost 300 grams so I'm now at 6.4kilos total or 14 pounds :)

Meh....

It's a bittersweet cheatday..
All we had for breakfast was stale bread... I've got no sweets, no lunch.. and I was hoping to get a pizza for dinner.. but there's just no money for it :'(

Day 13 - cheat day #2!

So cheat day #2 has arrived - I will most certainly not gorge on bread for breakfast again ;)

Lost 700 grams since yesterday so I'm at 6.1 kilos total (13,5 pounds)

Day 12

Sorry for the late update, my phone died yesterday so I had to get a replacement (I blog via my phone)

But I was on the scale again today and the total is now 5,4 kilos so great progress there

Skipped breakfast since I was in a hurry, and lunch was the lovely Bolognese again ;)

And dinner! Bolognese on a bed of fried mushrooms and fresh carrots

Le Breakfast day 11

Mushrooms, black beans and spring onion - 2 fried eggs and some chicken sausages since I was out of turkey Bacon

I need inspiration for my breakfast meals, new ways of cooking eggs perhaps or something else than eggs

10 Pounds Baby!

So day 11 - I've lost 10 pounds! (4.7 kilos)
it just feels great to see progress :D
Now on to my water and the breakfast, catch you later

Amazing "bean" bolognese

I've never made bolognese from scratch before, it's always been the quick way with a glass of dolmio and some meat heated up in like 15-20 minutes.

Bits while back I saw Buddy Valestro (from cake boss on TLC) make a bolognese on his "sister" program kitchen boss which looked amazing, the trick was to let it simmer for hours at low heat

Contents:
a stalk of celery
Half a red bell pepper
Half a yellow bell pepper
Two spring onion
All of the above was minced/chopped
4 sliced mushrooms
2 cans of chopped tomatoes (I bought with basil)
Tomato can filled with water 1,5 times (for easy measurement)
400 grams of ground beef
1 veggie stock cube
Half a beef stock cube
A teaspoon of chili powder
A handful of black beans
A handful of pinto beans

Fry off the veggies and the add the beef and let it cook through,don't brown the beef.

Now add the tomatoes, water and stock cubes (possibly dissolve the cubes in the water first.

Reduce heat (I set it to 3, the Max is 6) and let it simmer for about an hour under lid, after the first hour put in the beans and lower the heat again (set to 2 of 6) and let it simmer for another hour to hour and a half

If you aren't on a diet, or your diet allows pasta, some fresh fettuccini would most likely be great with this, or perhaps some spaghetti

But I served it in heart lettuce leafs as a kind of taco shell