Thursday, 3 October 2013

Mmmm.... Autumn

It's definitely Autumn today. The murk has descended, everything's wet and there are leaves all over the lawn. It's Donna's favourite season. For me, it's a constant reminder that summer is over and it's a bloody long time til the next one. I can appreciate the colours of Autumn, of course. Donna likes digging out the hats and scarves and the coats. I just wish it was 10 degrees warmer.

But colours aside, there's something special I do like about Autumn... The FOOD!!
I got the slow cooker out this morning and threw in a pound and a half piece of beef (topside rump, without the block of fat) a punnet of mini portobello mushrooms*, half a dozen beetroot (quartered), a couple of sticks of celery (fine sliced), a red onion (sliced), 3 cloves of smoked garlic (smashed) and two tins of tomatoes. I had a large round courgette from Donna's school gardening project, so that got roughly diced and thrown in, along with half a dozen chillis what we grew. Seasoned, then added the (hopefully) killer ingredient, smoked paprika. Left it on while I'm at work today... Can't wait to open the door and smell it later!
*mushrooms are High GI?! Who knew!? Well, not me until it was a little too late...
Beetroot fingers - a great way to start the day.
7:30am, Breakfast: 3 eggs, scrambled with 1tsp coconut oil and a bit of chilli sauce. Espresso.  Morning supplements (as yesterday).

11:00am, snack: Apple (an autumnal gift from the garden)

12:30pm, lunch: Salad with leaves, a small orange pepper, two tomatoes, half a medium avocado and a piece of grilled chicken breast the size of my hand (fairly big!). Dressed with olive oil, balsamic and chilli sauce.

Hippy tea. Rank.
I had a cup of organic jasmine tea with my lunch. I'm a coffee person. The tea smelled like hippies. I've never tasted a hippy, but imagine that if you boiled up a hippy's jumper and drank the juice, it would taste no worse than this. Tea sucks. Coffee rocks!

I was hungry this afternoon. I turned down biscuits and snack-a-jacks that were offered to me, choosing to tell colleagues that I "can't" eat these and telling them about the challenge and what it means and why I'm doing it. Ramping up the accountability. They've decided to call me Captain Caveman.


Instead I had the following:

3:00pm: Apple
4:00pm: 2 celery sticks with 2tsps cashew butter
5:00pm: Nectarine
5:30pm: 6 Almonds and an espresso with 1 tsp coconut oil

Workout (active rest?)
5:50pm: Rolling my knackered legs and some couch stretches
6:15pm FERINO'S FAB ABS!!

This was my first time at Fab Abs. I was kinda looking forward to it, but also kinda thinking it might just be a whole new world of pain. It was fun... and a bit painful!!

7:40pm: Came home and got tucked straight into* the slow cooked beef and veg. Had a bowlful. And it was good!

*due to the high GI mushrooms, obvs!

Crap photo, good food.
My one criticism of this concoction is that it was a bit 'thin'. Ordinarily, I might have used the cornflour thickening trick, or opted to throw in some lentils to the recipe. Any ideas on how to thicken would be appreciated!!

I've not supplemented with protein powder today. The only other thing I intend to have is another coffee with coconut oil and my evening supplements (as yesterday).

Things to work on: shortening my blog entries...!!

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