Food Diary

It is difficult sometimes keeping track of what you are eating.
Especially if you are transitioning to eating healthy foods. Healthy foods mean you eat in larger quantities and thus making it harder to keep track of everything you are eating in a day. Not only this but meals are a combination of different foods and ingredients.

20/01/14:
Breakfast:
1 Egg Omlette with 1 Chestnut Mushroom

Lunch:
2 Rye Crackers with Iceberg Lettuce
Banana

Dinner:
Leftover White and Brown Rice Tikka Masala Curry
Boiled Chicken Thigh with Skin
Sweet Potato
Granola
Strawberries
Yoghurt

So the list looks extremely long, but the foods are all nutritious, so to feel guilty or to not feel guilty?
Sticking with a healthy nutritious diet has its benefits at the end of the day.
Just stick with it.

Diet

Embarking on a diet is extremely difficult. Especially for an individual like myself. One that has over indulged over all these years and has eaten whatever her heart desires. I'm not quite sure what happened to me, I suddenly just became infatuated with the high saturated foods, and all these little snacks here and there. However over this past year my weight has extremely yo-yoed and it is now time to take care of my weight once and for all. Not because I am at an unhealthy weight, but more for the aesthestic and personal reasons. Also because it becomes such a strain when individuals around you are constantly picking it out. So here goes.

Day 1:
Pre-Breakfast Snack: Cucumber
Breakfast: Omelette, Salmon, Lettuce
Snack: Cucumber
Lunch: Vanilla Chai Latte
Snack: Cucumber
Dinner: Sweet Potato, Chicken, Lettuce, Broccoli, Fish

Domino's

My first love, my last love, my real love.

Nothing makes my mouth water as much as pizza. Who doesn't love pizza. Most people would say me, because I hate cheese with a passion, but pizza. There is nothing that will not stop me eating a slice. Unless it is margherita pizza then that is a different story. That's not pizza anymore, it is just dough, cheese and tomato sauce.

Domino's is especially my favourite place to order. Besides the extortinate prices for what it is, the food is just delicious. I mean I know everybody says eating one food can get boring, and I am sure it will eventually but for now I could eat it all day everyday. Considering you can have different toppings on it, and now a variety of crusts why wouldn't you?

My personal favourites are the full house and sizzler, although I have noticed as of recent they appear to have taken the full house off the menu. I'm not sure whether to be outraged or glad because it'll mean I order from them less and save money. However, full house was just a dream, a dreamy dreamy pizza. There's always different alternatives to my favourite though, for example the mighty meaty and the meatlicious. Which if you ask me I still wouldn't know the difference, but anything meaty will always be on my list of possible consumption.

Overall, despite having ordered too much pizza for myself I have managed to pace myself over with the buy 1 get 1 free deal and it has lasted me for a good 2 days for the price of £13.99.

Churros

Churros is becoming more and more of a sensation. Covered in sugar and cinnamon or in chocolate sauce (mainly Nutella) it just simply tastes delicious. If you have yet to try it, you really really have been living beneath a rock. They sell if everywhere now, especially as the Christmas season has come upon us and gone where there are food stalls everywhere.

I have tried them in 4 different locations, the first in Chiquito in Leicester Square. Who would think fried flour covered in sugar could be so delicious. Mind you back in those days I was able to resist sugary treats and yet I could not get enough of these wonderful treats. Chiquito you did yourself proud.

The 2nd time was on Brighton Pier, now wow these were just as delicious and watching them make them right in front of your face makes it all the more interesting. Not particularly cheap or expensive considering the portion size was quite good. Delicious dipped in the nutella (which costs extra mind you). I've never been disappointed by churros until this time at Tacos Locos, I mean I do love the place. The portion sizes for the food is always wonderful and the waffle just exquisite. But the churros, really.. really? They were just so measly, just not what I was expecting. They looked nothing a like the other times I have tried. So the 4th and final time I tried churros has just restored my love for them once again. Admittedly they did advertise them as white chocolate, and until this morning me and my sister had not realised that not white chocolate was given. Despite that, it was delicious, piping warm from having just been made. It seems those made in front of you seem to be the most delicious.

It seems churros will once again be my not so guilty pleasure.

Zizzi's

This is another one of my favourite restaurants and also my (sometimes not so lovely) ex boyfriend. However we always, ALWAYS order the same thing. This being Lasange, Sofia pizza and most of the time Spaghetti bolognese, this time being the exception.

The quality of the food always seems to be immaculate, the portion sizes also not too bad. It is also situated in quite a lovely part of Whitstable too. Just by the seaside. Whether that is a good or bad thing on a freezing cold, previously snow day like this I am not sure. But still rather enjoyable!

Lasange has never appealed to me, and I doubt ever will due to the large amount of cheese used to cook it. However with Sofia pizza, adding a little bit of Lasange over the top seems to do the trick and adds more flavour to do it. Sofia can be enjoyable individually, although it is slightly dry and rather meek in toppings, so this definitely adds a bit of sauce and I love nothing more than MINCED BEEF. YUM. This I all must give credit to Mr Hannan for inventing such a dish (as he would have wished, haha)

The spaghetti bolognese is delicious despite it being no competition compared to my mother's. It is still enjoyable and they sauce is normally quite tasty and their portion of minced beef and tomato sauce tends to be quite good as opposed to other restaurants which prefer to it seems RATION their sauce.

This Zizzi's is a lovely place and is a pretty much a regular for us and I think will always be a place which we will go towards. (Partly due to the fact that we can never decide, but also because we do genuinely love it)

Lincoln

Cooking
Unfortunately cooking is not one of my strongest traits, and most of the time I don't even attempt. However on a 7 hour trip to Lincoln and starving me and a friend decide it is best we cook instead of waiting for a delivery. Having not seen eachother in a couple of months we were eager to catch up with eachother, cooking and catching up come hand in hand when we are both starving.

However as the conversation became funnier, sadder and more deep we had forgotten about the rice which inevitably became cold by the time we had finished cooking the steak and mushrooms. Upon us falls another disaster, the mushrooms and rice further getting colder the steak was undercooked; having to place it back into the pan again.

In the end we settled with cold rice and mushrooms but scrumptious steak which is all I could ask for! Overall not bad for two cooks who can hardly be called cooks.

Wagamamas
Chicken katsu curry is one of my all time favourite meals. It just never grows old, not too spicy like Indian and Thai curry and not too sweet like Chinese curry. Just utterly enjoyable. Though having been to Wagamamas a few times in my life and hating the food, this was one of two exceptions and I quite enjoyed it and I think purely for the dish I chose. Ginger Chicken Udon, this tastes delicious. The udon is perfectly fried, nice and crispy on one side and tender on the inside and the chicken tastes just as good. Though I hate vegetables and removed all of them from the dish before eating, it actually adds to the flavour whilst cooking.

The service at this particular branch in Lincoln was also brilliant. The staff were quick on their feet, kind and endearing. Though one did look like a muscle builder and like he didn't belong, he actually was the nicest waiter in the restaurant and overall was a great experience for a girl who absolutely detests Wagamamas.

Lunch
Having spent the previous evening drinking and dancing until 3am and unable to have the chance to recover at 7.30am in the morning to catch my coach towards London, and having slept the entire 4 1/2 hours journey I was starving. The only choice I had was a measly pasta and crisps to pick up from Sainsburys. This was neither satisfying or tasty, but it just had to do. This pasta and crisps may not be much to blog about, but it just shows to you that we require time to eat, to enjoy our food AND HAVE BREAKFAST.

Lincoln was such an enjoyable experience, besides the long coach journey and cold weather. The people at the University are kind and the area surrounding the University is beautiful, the lake during the sunset is a magical sighting and the early morning snowfall.

Wetherspoons Sunday Roast

People seem to assume that I am a picky eater due to me disliking cheese, apart from on Pizza. But in actual fact I don't think I am. Any meat to me is tasty, be it beef, pork, chicken, turkey, lamb. I love them all, nothing is tastier than the juiciness from these meats, so it boggles me when people find certain meats "weird" or "different" and therefore not eating it.

So in this case, on this gloriously chilly Sunday afternoon we went to Peter Cushing's Wetherspoons which was busy as expected. Though people like to criticise the food for being microwave (which I can neither confirm or deny) for the price, the food is exceptional. This being one of the numerous times I have eaten at Wetherspoons. Having accidentally ordered a large portion with all the trimmings and extra cheesy cauliflower to accompany it, unsurprisingly I did not finish it all. (Considering half the food I dislike, peas, broccoli, cauliflower) Despite this, the pork was scrumptious, nice and juicy and the gravy perfectly complimented the lovely potatoes which I must applaud as potatoes can go terribly wrong! The double yorkshire pudding also something I would happily have another portion of.

All in all, for the price and portion size Wetherspoons is a winner for me. Quick. Delicious and relatively cheap.
Maybe more gravy to compliment the larger portion and NO cheese on the cauliflower but aside from that a lovely Sunday Roast.