My new
cookbook, The Low-Carb Gourmet by Karen Barnaby
One of the
things I need to consider this week is vegetables. So far most of my meals have
been served with salad. There are two reasons for this. Firstly, it’s an easy
option and secondly, I lack imagination in the vegetable area. As I’m in Phase
One my vegetable intake is pretty much limited to green stuff and these are the
ones I’ve never been that keen on. To shake things up a bit I really need to
start adding a few more vegetables to my meals. I have bought a lovely joint of
pork for my dinner tomorrow, but obviously salad isn’t right when I’m trying to
achieve a ‘roast’. Broccoli and cauliflower mash will replace the potatoes (not
quite roast spuds, but beggars can’t be choosers) but I need some veg to go
with it. Trying to navigate the low-carb forums for inspiration is a nightmare
and time consuming, so if anyone has any great ideas or recipes, I’d love to
hear them.
I finally got
my Brita water jug sorted, but I now know why it was so cheap. The spout lid
broke off the main lid the first time I attempted to open it and although it
should just clip in, I can’t get it to stay on the lid, so I’ve given up. Not
sure how long the cartridge is going to last me though. Each glass of water I
have takes up almost the entire jug and having run out of sparkling water I’ve
got through about 5 or 6 jugs full today so far.
Talking of
sparkling water I’ve just ordered a Soda Stream from QVC as they are doing easy
payments to celebrate their birthday. I’d been debating this for a while, but
having realised that I’m getting through roughly twelve litre bottles of
sparkling water a week, I’m sure it’ll work out more economical – at least
certainly on the recycling front as I won’t have so many empty bottles to deal with anymore.
Breakfast
today was some gluten free sausages that I found at the back of the fridge with
peppery, buttered hard boiled eggs. I stopped cleaning for a couple of pieces
of cheese mid morning and had a (slightly smaller than normal) protein shake
for lunch. Mid afternoon I had some prosciutto and have just finished a rather
late (and not really wanted) dinner of chicken salad with blue cheese dressing.
This brings my carbs in at a very low figure for the day, but with pretty much only
cheese left in the fridge I can’t really think of a way to increase it without
either sending my calorie count into the stratosphere (I know calories don’t
matter with this way of eating but I’m pretty certain too much cheese isn’t a
good thing regardless of carb content) or without resorting to alcohol or
forbidden desserts. Unfortunately, the only dessert I have is a packet of mint Aero
Angel Delight type stuff and apparently that works out at about 19 grams of
carbs if I made it with soya milk. Whilst this would only just put me over the
daily limit I can’t bring myself to have it. The alcohol has less carbs, but it
seems pointless to have a glass of something alcoholic just because my carbs are
so low.
Today’s
exercise: Housework - not quite the gym, but not bad
Carb's
Eaten: 11.5G
Exercising to: Podcasts and QVC
Weight
Loss = 10lbs
Inch Loss = 0
Mood: Busy
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