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The meals look great - and looks like they will boost your cooking confidence/enjoyment/recipe repertoire - (and then perhaps you can try the cheaper DIY suggestions later!). Good luck
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If you are trying to cook more at home and eat a lot of veg - another option is to stock your pantry with lots of staples (rice, pasta, timned tomotos, good quality pesto/pasta sauces etc) and fill your freezer with fish/meat portions (and veg) Add a veggie box delivery - and then you are all prepared. Always something in…
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How would I feel about a robot preparing my food? You clearly haven’t seen me cooking on a ‘oh god not another family meal to make’ day. I already am a robot ....
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Mine went away when I took up swimming - I am guessing all that kicking streched out my feet/calves etc. I do yoga now - so my ham strings are very much more flexible, so are my calves and my feet muscles are stronger. Haven’t had PF in a long while. There is a school of thought on PF that insoles can help but do not fix…
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Interesting - I find weekdays breakfast and lunch the easiest to make cheap and healthy (to me that is: as in high fibre, lower fat, lots of veg/fruit, oily fish from a can). I think this is because I don’t worry too much about variety. And my self discipline is better! Lunch - may be cook up (or buy in!) big batches of…
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Hello all. I just wanted to wave and say hello - I have CFS/ME and prioritising fitness and eating well has been super important to me for the past 4 years. (My thinking is you can have a chronic health condition and be unfit and unhealthy in so many other ways too or have a chronic health problem and try and look after…
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My understanding (from the uk health system) is to get your overall weight down, try to limit dairy fat and red meats (dont worry about eggs they are fine), add in nuts especially walnuts and oatmeal/porridge plus lots of fibre... And to excercise! 6miles a week isnt really that active you know (a mile is only about 20…
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That is some big news to get your head around - good luck. So - here are some ideas Use Wholemeal spaghetti to up the fibre content, (and brown rice not white, brown not white etc) Make vegetable chilli - or make your usual chilli but replace half the meat with a few handfuls of lentils. (And chuck in more veg to the pot…
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Missed last week - cant remember why now - and was very dippy today. Forgot: Money - had to go back home (that’s twice up the grrrr-ing hill on my bike) My latest lap counting/stroke and drill instructing pneunomic - decided it was Felafel (but have just checked and it was actually Focaccia) How to spell Felafel - and so…
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I know this one from the other side. When I was breast feeding I could eat like a horse - and developed a lovely daily cake habit. I still lost weight When I stopped breast feeding - I still had the daily cake. I put on weight. So about 500 cals a day I reckon..,,
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Or fish curry Onions, courgettes, good dollop of curry sauce (we use Pataks korma for fish curry), ginger - cook away til veggies nearly dond and add fish to the pan right towards the end to gently cook thru and break up into large pieces . You can add yoghurt to the sauce to make it ‘creamier’. I use coley fish for this…
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Mmm well If you have a freezer then batch cooking can really good and maybe could meet your needs? (Every time you cook do enough for 5 and freeze the left overs in individual meal containers - or set an afternoon aside and cook up large amounts of 3 or 4 different meals for the freezer. Again portioned out ready for the…
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I also found myself wondering why you are putting yourself under pressure here, not sharing the burden. We put our income into a joint account - and monthly transfer enough from it into another joint ‘bills account’ to cover all bills, and then equal amounts to both our own personal ‘fun’ accounts to spend as we like. (It…
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Well done on the first five - and best of luck with your hopes for another baby! Weighing in - I’ve done monthly (aligned to cycle), weekly, recording lowest only in any given 3 day period, and daily. Occasional. And not at all. My advice is to pick one and follow this for a while - and then change it if you want, as all…
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Mmmm Sounds to me like a good rest would do your body and your mind far more good than pumping iron. Stress is not good for you - you seem to me at least a bit stressed and possibly too self-imposed goal orientated rather than listening to what your body actually needs. That tortoise won the race...and enjoyed the view on…
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This thread reminds me of an experiment where they had two groups - one ate veggie soup at the beginning of each main meal, the others didn’t, for a few weeks. The soup eaters ate less calories overall (and lost weight) - their stomachs were already filling up by the time the calorie rich main course arrived so they ate…
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Er - you are a lot faster than me (and I am a lot faster than a lot of people in my pool!). There are lots of ways to approach swimming - going steadily for long endurance type distances (2-3km or many many more), targetting a briskish mile or kilometer, or picking up the pace and doing lots of 50m sprints with rests and…
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So another Monday swim for me - my old habit was a mix of drills and strokes to a pneunomic (sp?!) to keep it interesting (and avoid lap counting as many methods tried and failed). My favourite fall asleep game this week was to find a new one that has lots of free/crawl and no drills. I came up with ‘focaccia’ (ie free,…
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Lots of ideas already - another game I have played is word games. Eg all the flowers i can think of starting with letter a on frst lap, letter b on second etc - or think of something beautiful (amethyst, baby, coastline) if you are feeling meditative. Or why not just swim for 30 minutes? If you dont do the up down slog but…
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Made a dead simple lentil soup for lunch today. One onion 3 large carrots chopped 2 tins chopped tomatoes A good squeeze of tomato paste A cup or si of red lentils Some extra water (about 3/4 pint this time) Bay leaf and generous quantity of herbs (i did oregano) and seasoning Lightly fry onion, add all other ingredients…
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When I was a teenager I worked at a nursery gardens - run by a man from his wheelchair, whose dad was cycling everywhere and mending chimneys at 86. Both amazing role models for concentrating on what you CAN do - whatever your obstacles. I certainly aim to be cycling and climbing (hills not ladders on chimneys) at 86. My…
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I walk a lot - with the dog. (He’s the main reason I got out of the habit if swimming.) And I do yoga - nowadays pretty much daily. The daily yoga is great for your mood etc and it has really increased my flexibility and reduced muscle tension. And improved my posture. Hams, hips and shoulders all much happier .... And the…
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So the New Year resolution was to get back to a weekly swim,.. Hello again everyone whom I know from old - its good to catch up on your swimming news - and hi to the ‘new to me’ swimmers. Had to dust off the resolution - as Jan/Feb disappeared to a virus. But Monday I made it - yay - just a gentle 30 mins (and a very steep…
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I use canned salmon or canned salmon to make fish cakes.... And corn beef for corn beef hash - its even better with betroot and cougette in the hash mix.
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Very interesting podcast interview this week by Dr Chatteejee - talking to a scientist doing research into brain cell regeneration. (He’s well known in the Uk - ‘doctor in the house’ tv series radically transforming people’s health through non-medicine based approaches even tho he’s a GP) Exercise, ‘Mediterranean’ diet,…
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You can add more veggies (grated carrot or courgette works well) into your home-made burger, and use a lean mince. Maybe skip the cheese on yours or have a thin slice of a strong/mature cheese rather than a bigger slice of a milder cheese? There is a good cook book called ‘cook yourself thin’ that does meal exchange ideas…
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No advice on the calories now - but a word of warning for what might come ahead. I developed a serious cake habit when breastfeeding - and it all happily turned into milk... Now when my kid stopped feeding, and I was no longer pushing a heavy pram up the hill but walking at small child pace and I kept up those lovely…
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I’m doing it too - I did 3 of her other challenges last autumn/winter (ok it might take me a little more than 30 days - maybe 35 - to complete each one) and thought it would be good to do one more ‘real time’. I’m actually finding this one harder as ahe is talking so long in each pose and so holding them for longer (!) -…
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I sometimes make 'oatcakes' - which is milled oats, a very small amount of melted butter mixed with water - rolled out thin and cooked in a very slow oven. A Scottish savoury biscuit usually used as a biscuit for cheese. I sometimes add parmesan I sometimes add eg raisins or chocolate, cinamon and a sugar/stevia mix - or…
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Yoga with Adriene....
