Detox Diet Day Five. (Okay!)

Breakfast: One slice of toast, a banana and coffee.
Lunch: Egg mayo sandwich with lettuce and a glass of apple and raspberry juice.
Snack: A cup of carrot and ginger homemade soup and 3 gluten free oatcakes.
Dinner: Beans on toast with BBQ sauce.

I haven't done excellently today. The beans on toast wasn't very good but I didn't have any other food in and seeing as I haven't eaten a lot over all, I guess it's not too bad. I also had a couple meatballs and a taste of a chocolate truffle tart the Head Chef made. Amazing. But I'm not counting them as they were only a couple bites each!

Some of the tasty meals I've had this week.

Cheesy pasta with mixed vegetables.

(carrots, broccoli, green beans, sweetcorn and peas if I remember correctly!).

This was before I started my diet and made a nice wee lunch for Kieran and myself. I only had a little cheese on mine of course. I think this would be a great dish to give kids and was super easy to make because the veg was frozen. I might post the recipe later on.

Lamb kebabs with grilled mushrooms and a leafy salad. This took me ten minutes and was super cheap because I am a wizard at getting good food in the reduced section. 

Venison and mushroom salad.

I didn't make this myself, though I did come up with the idea. One of the chef's at my work made it for my lunch and it was delicious! Flash fried venison and mushrooms tossed with a mixed leaf salad and dressing.   

Baked cod with vegetable "chili" and broccoli.

I baked the cod in the oven with lemon juice, coriander and pepper. The "chili" isn't a real chili but I don't know what else to call it. It had mushrooms, mixed beans and sweetcorn with a splash of Worcestershire sauce in with the tinned tomatoes. I found it didn't have enough flavour though so next time I think I need to play about with more herbs and perhaps some spices.

Scrambled eggs on toast with mushrooms for Kieran

French toast with mushrooms for myself.

I love French toast so this made a nice treat and is allowed in my diet!

Seasoned pork chops with carrot and swede mash, corn on the cob, broccoli and salad.

I will admit I never made the mashed carrots and swede myself but it was still delicious and is a perfect example of the kind of meals I can have whilst on my diet. (Meat and lots of veg.)

Detox Diet (Days One-Four)

This is copied and pasted from my Tumblr. :)

Day One (Not successful!): 

Breakfast: Toast with coffee.
Lunch: Homemade veg and bacon soup with toast.
Tea: Chicken and veg pie, with mash and beans.
Snacks: Chocolate, chips, 1/2 chocolate twist, 2 chocolate caramel digestives.

The snacks alone are terrible but the dinner wasn’t very good either because it was basically all the things I told myself I wanted to cut out (pastry, potato, tinned food) but I hadn’t been shopping and I didn’t want to starve. The snacks were just munchied stupidity.

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Day Two (Getting Better!)

Breakfast: Toast, an orange and coffee.
Break: Courgette and potato soup and 3 gluten free oatcakes.
Lunch: Venison and mushroom salad.
Tea: Baked cod with veg chilli and broccoli.
Supper: Banana scone with golden syrup, a banana and coffee.

Today was much better. The banana scone was a treat for myself because I was struggling at work today to not eat everything in sight. This was a terrible time of the month for me to start this diet (sorry gents, but it was). I drank cup after cup of hot water with lemon which is delicious and very good for you and I highly suggest if you fancy a change. 

I was really, really tired today hence the coffee with supper. I wasn’t sure if it was the lack of coffee during the day, the four hours sleep or the long shift at work.

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Day Three (Great!)

Brunch: French toast with mushrooms and coffee.
Dinner: Pork chops, mashed carrots and swede, corn on the cob, broccoli and salad leaves.
Dessert: Peach and pear Alpro Soya yoghurt with a chopped banana and grated lemon zest. 

I haven’t eaten as much because I got up later. I also had a cup or two of hot water and lemon. 

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Day Four (Alright!)

Lunch: Southern Fried chicken goujons with BBQ sauce and chips. 
Tea: Mashed up egg in a cup with salad leaves. 
Dessert: Peach and pear Alpro Soya yoghurt with chopped banana and lemon zest with a mango and passion fruit smoothie.

I was had a hungover tummy today so we went to the Netherinn bar in Dundee for food. I ate the chicken first so I was quite full and didn't need to eat too many of the chips.

I can feel the difference to my tummy already and I feel more healthy and this is good.

The Detox Diet.

I am one of many, many people in the world who are unlucky enough to have a food intolerance and mine is dairy. Recently, no matter how much I try to cut out dairy products from my diet, I've been still finding myself feeling unwell and bloated and it's very uncomfortable. So, in a bid to make myself a bit healthier and to give myself a bit of a challenge, I've created a diet for myself to detox my system and so far, after a couple initial slip ups, it's going quite well!

The diet was firstly based on the Paleolithic Diet, which follows the idea of eating similar to that of a caveman (or woman!) and only eating meats, fruits, vegetables, berries and nuts and not eating anything "man-made" such as pasta, pastry, bread or dairy products. Potatoes are not allowed either as they didn't exist in Britain back in the cavemen days. However, to fit my lifestyle, I'm allowing bread into my diet but on a limited basis  and only wholegrain or seeded. As I can't drink milk I need to be sure I'm getting calcium from somewhere so I'm also allowing soya milk, soya yoghurts and have made the switch to soya spread to go on my bread as well.  There is some flexibility allowed which I will decide as I go along because life is unpredictable and I don't know what situations or restaurants I'm going to find myself in in the coming weeks. 

I plan on doing this for at least four weeks to see if there's any improvement in my health. I'm currently on day five and so far, it's been successful! I've been keeping a food diary which I'll start uploading every day on here. I have a few days to catch up on, so watch this space!

added note: I should also mention that coffee is not being cut out as I am a demon in the morning if I don't have my cuppa! But I am trying to limit it to just one a day and replace it with more nutritional things such as water and green tea.

It's been a while since I've posted! But I'm back!

I've recently started a new diet (I shall post about this in a minute!) and it's inspired me to come back to my beloved food blog to share my recent ideas, photos and recipe plans.

I've also applied to a Professional Cookery course at college after the summer. I'm still waiting to hear back from them and I'm really worried I won't get in due to lack of experience in a proper kitchen but I'm glad I've finally gotten my finger out and applied!