What have I been eating?

What have I been eating? To be honest, I don’t really know. A bit of this, too much of that and just a smidge of that, I swear.

Kathryn over at Limes and Lycopene has been listing the variety of foods she eats drawing attention to the realities of a well rounded and balanced diet.

A few years ago I read an article discussing the benefits of eating a colourful diet, so when I’m feeling guilty and a little too round I half heartedly count the number of food items I have eaten in a day, and what colour they are – and mostly, I am pleasantly surprised. I will update this post for the next week detailing what I have eaten each day, and I hope to be pleasantly surprised again – but I’m sure not counting on it.

Hey, do you remember that book where families from around the world are photographed in front of a weeks worth of groceries? This will be sort of like my entry in that book, with out the photos, or the maths.

Wish me luck!

Edit: I have done it, and boy am i glad. See, I don’t think that I could have predicted the outcome of this exercise – that is, actually eating a more varied diet that I would normally. See I was thinking about the foods I had consumed in the previous few days. At the shops and in restaurants I would actively choose items that contained ingredients I hadn’t eaten lately, instead of either what sounded amazing, or what i normally bought.

I have no idea how healthy my diet is, I know that out of 21 meals I ate 5 out (pakistani take away, steak sandwich pub lunch, thai dinner, sushi lunch and a sandwich), Cooked 7 fresh and had left overs 3 times. All the desserts I ate were homemade (except the ice cream and the croissant), and the only convenience foods were Vita Britz and rolled oats for breakfast.

Although I won’t continue to document my eating habits here, I will think about them more – and hey, I might do this again come summer time.

Tuesday
- Breakfast: Vita Brits, rolled oats, sultanas, milk
- Mandarin
- coffee
- banana
- walnuts, almonds and cashew nuts
- Lunch: pasta with tuna, ricotta, carrot, capsicum, mushroom, zucchini, broccoli
- chocolate croissant (melting and fresh with a generous amount of chocolate). (flour, butter, chocolate)
- Dinner: Egg and vegetable stir fry with Rice (chinese cabbage, field mushrooms, enoki mushrooms, garlic shoots, garlic, egg and coriander) + homemade pickled carrot.
- Polenta, fig, pine nut and rosemary cake with yoghurt.

Count:34

Wednesday
- Breakfast: Vita Brits, rolled oats, sultanas, prunes, milk.
- coffee
- mandarin
- apple
- Lunch: Wholemeal bread, chicken, carrot, alfalfa, lettuce, beetroot, cucumber, tomato, capsicum
- chocolate biscuit (weird, and cardboardy – supplied by work) (flour, sugar, butter, cocoa)
- green tea
- Dinner: Red Rice with Chickpea and veg stuff (carrot, mushroom, tomato, capsicum, green zucchini, golden zucchini, garlic, rosemary, ricotta and pecorino, balsamic vinegar, olive oil, pine nuts)
- Poached buerre bosc Pears with ice-cream.

Count:39.

Thursday
- Breakfast: Bircher Mueseli – rolled oats, almonds, pepitas, sultanas, sunflower seeds, apple, yoghurt
- manadarin
- coffee.
- fresh green crunchy pear
- cashews and walnuts
- Lunch: Leftovers from last night: Red Rice with Chickpea and veg stuff (carrot, mushroom, tomato, capsicum, green zucchini, golden zucchini, garlic, rosemary, ricotta and pecorino, balsamic vinegar, olive oil, pine nuts)
- Dinner: Pakistani take away (so so good). These are just ingredient guesses right now.
Garlic Naan (flour butter)
Tandoori Chicken (fresh from the tandoor, crispy and charred on the edges, juicy and flavourful inside) Chicken.
Lamb Lentils – Lamb, Lentils, tumeric, chilli, ginger, oil
Aloo somthing – eggplant, potato, coriander, cumin, cinnamon
- Dessert: Poached beurre bosc pears, chocolate ice cream (sugar, milk, chocolate)

Count: 44.

Friday
- Breakfast: Bircher Mueseli – rolled oats, almonds, pepitas, sultanas, sunflower seeds, apple, yoghurt, poached pears
- dried apricot, dates
- coffee
- Lunch: Turkish Bread, onion, cucumber, steak, tomato, potato, rocket.
- beer
- Dinner: Tom Yum Soup – carrot, mushroom, cabbage, fish sauce, schallots, chilli, tamarind, galangal.
Pork, rice,
Pumpkin stir fry – pumpkin, carrot, capsicum, cauliflower, mushroom, lettuce, garlic, chilli, ginger.
- Dessert: Green Tea Ice Cream (from passionflower and delicious) green tea, milk.

Count: 40

Saturday
- Breakfast: Bircher Mueseli – rolled oats, almonds, pepitas, sultanas, sunflower seeds, apple, yoghurt, poached pears
- dried fig
- coffee
- Lunch: Salad- tomato, carrot, capsicum, cucumber, ricotta, olive oil, balsamic.

- Dinner: Pasta with tuna, carrot, tomato, capsicum, zucchini, cheese.
- Dinner (Number 2): Sweet potato chips, soup – sweet corn, leek, potato, cream, stock.

- Dessert: Poached plum, brioche, mascarpone.

Count: 32

Sunday
- Breakfast: Baked Eggs – Tomato, fennel, garlic, olive oil, chorizo, eggs, turkish bread
- coffee
- Lunch: Sushi – eggplant, pumpkin, chicken, avocado, cucumber, nori, rice, soy sauce, pickled ginger. Miso – tofu, miso. (amazing sushi).
- Chocolate and chilli cakes – eggs, butter, chocolate, flour, sugar, chilli
- Dinner:Cauliflower soup (experimental and tasty): Cauliflower, onion, garlic, olive oil, white beans, basil, fetta, pine nuts, lemon juice
- Dessert: Chocolate chilli cakes and chocolate ice cream. milk, cream, chocolate, eggs.

Count: 35

Monday
- Breakfast: Bircher Mueseli – rolled oats, almonds, pepitas, sultanas, sunflower seeds, apple, yoghurt, banana
- mandarin
- coffee
- apple
- Lunch: Pasta with tuna, carrot, tomato, capsicum, zucchini, mushroom, fennel, onion, garlic, cheese.
- Dinner: Chickpea, potato, tomato, carrot, chorizo, zucchini, green pea, fennel, capsicum, mushroom, fetta.
- Dessert: Chocolate chilli cakes and chocolate ice cream. milk, cream, chocolate, eggs. eggs, butter, chocolate, flour, sugar, chilli

Count:35