10th
September 2014
Direct
is much more important than speed. Many
are going nowhere fast!
Another
day of Simple Start completed, I have to admit I am really appreciating the
simplicity of it, the fact that I’m not having to make either/or decisions,
this is my list, have anything off it and enjoy! My stinky head cold is raging too so being
able to eat is helping to stop me from eating rubbish and eating good food can
only be good for getting me well.
Yesterday looked like this;
Breakfast
– 2 crumpets, 2 eggs, mushrooms
Lunch –
salmon, Actifry chips (using daily oil allowance) corn on the cob, 1 slice of
calorie controlled brown bread.
Dinner –
gammon, beans, egg, 3 x cc brown bread
Treat –
WW low fat spread & bit of brown sauce.
I even
left some of my lunch because I didn’t really need that slice of bread; I just
wanted a chip butty.
I was
amazed yesterday when I got home, I’d ordered plants on Monday from Crocus
online because it said will be dispatched within 3 days and they were there
waiting for me, had come overnight! So
instead of doing my paperwork, I got changed and spent a couple of hours
planting them all out in the front garden, they don’t look much at the moment
but next summer they will hopefully look incredible. I will plant to bulbs over the weekend at
some point and then I can relax a little bit and wait for the earth to do its
magic.
I may
be full of cold but I haven’t got time to stop, it’ll soon be Friday and I can
take a beechams or lemsip to keep me going, and this morning I’m going to put a
big beef stew on, not sure whether to put in slow cooker or do as a casserole
in oven, but either way, I’ll end up with a big pot of comfort food to see me
through today and tomorrow. Good simple
food, mine will consist of beef, carrots, onions, potatoes and beef oxo cubes,
mmm nice. I’ll slice my potatoes thinly
and have them on the top probably, so really I guess it’s a hot pot, if I
wanted a stew I’d probably use this scouse recipe;
Scouse
Serves 3
420g Lean Diced
Casserole Beef
600g of
Potatoes, Diced
5 or 6 Carrots,
Sliced
1 large Onion,
Sliced
6 Beef stock
cubes
2 tsp Olive Oil
Spray Olive Oil
in a large pan and heat.
Add the beef
and cook on high to seal it.
Drain any fat
and add the onion and cook for a couple of minutes.
Add the carrots
and potatoes and add enough hot water to cover.
Add the oxo
cubes and stir.
Bring to the
boil and then simmer for about 3-4 hours until the liquid reduces and it goes
really thick – you know when it’s ready as you can stand a spoon in it!
Delicious the next day.
Or maybe a beef
curry to blow my cold away! I haven’t
got a beef curry recipe as such (so if you have a good one send it me please)
but this keema curry is good. I’ve also
just found this http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/slow_cooker_beef_curry_13533
which would be F&H if you used low fat natural yogurt.
Keema Curry
6
points, serves 2 takes 40 mins
250g
extra lean minced beef
½
finely chopped onion
1
tbsp medium curry powder
200g
potatoes (peeled & cut into 2.5cm diced)
100ml
beef stock
200g
tinned chopped tomatoes
salt
& pepper
75g
frozen peas
In
a large non stick pan, brown mince and onion for 5 mins, stirring to break up
meat.
Add
curry powder and potatoes and fry for 1 min.
Pour
in stock & tomatoes, season, cover and simmer for 25 mins.
Mix
in peas and cook for a further 5 mins until tender.
Or even a beef
chilli fry;
200g
frying steak cut into strips
1 onion
sliced
200g
tomato puree
2
heaped teaspoons curry powder
1
heaped teaspoon chilli powder
1
heaped teaspoon garam masala
1 beef
oxo
Brown onion in spray
oil. Set aside.
Cook steak in spray
oil. Set aside.
Combine tomato puree,
curry, chilli, garam masala & oxo in a pan with half a pint of water.
Bring to a simmer stirring all the time.
Add beef & onions
and cook through.
Note: Alternatively make with 300g chicken breast
See how
Simple Start food can be absolutely delicious and easy to construct, you don’t
need to be a great cook to create magic in the kitchen.
Right I
need to get on because I have a lot of paperwork to catch up on thanks to
spending time gardening yesterday; at least I’ve stopped coughing now I’m
sitting up!
Have a
great day, eat healthy, sleep well, breathe deeply & enjoy life BeYOUtiful.
xx
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