#dieting
Monica & Me: Fat Girls Of The ’90′s
I always liked Monica Lewinsky.
Back in 1998, I was 20 years old, just a few years younger than she was at the time. Superficially, I looked a little like her — the plus-sized body (though she was probably smaller than me), the round face, the modified “Friends” haircut. People literally would yell out “Hey, Monica!” to me on my way to class at NYU. She lived just a few blocks away from my dorm…
Healthy af spaghetti bolognese for 2.
Sauce
1 medium carrot
1 stork of celery
1 small onion
1 tbs garlic (or more if you are a garlic lover like me)
1 can lentils or about 1 ½ cups soy mince
1 tbs dried Italian herbs
1 tbs tomato purè
1 can tinned tomatoes
2 tsps miso
(Optional)
1 tbs liquid amino (I use maggi liquid seasoning)
½ tbs chilli ( I used West Indian chilli sauce)
¼ cup red wine
Method
Dice onion, celery and carrot + mince garlic
Put onion + garlic in a nonstick saucepan with aprox 2 tbs of water
Sweat of onion and garlic until soft (if things start to stick just add a little more water)
Add in the carrot and celery and cook down until tender (again if things stick just add a little water)
Stick in your mince/ drained lentils and give a mix around
Put in all the other ingredients apart from the tinned tomatoes and mix
Add tinned tomatoes and mix thoroughly then turn heat down and simmer for 30mins-1hr stirring occasionally
I served it with buckwheat penne, steamed kale, ½ an avocado and some nutritional yeast
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Tried the violife “halloumi”. Tasted the same as all the regular violife cheese with a firmer texture but hey who hates eating a bock of fried cheese
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So it’s bank holiday and I am recovering from a day at a food fair in which I might have had more raspberry cider than is my usual want so an elegant brunch of spaghetti hoops on toast was in order
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So I have made a giant vat of porridge to have this week. This is my favourite flavour which is oatmeal raisin cookie. I did enough for about 7 days or for a family of 4 for 3 days
Ingredients
6 cups plant milk ( it doesn’t really matter but I used almond milk
2 cups oats
1- 1 ½ raisins
3 tea spoons cinnamon
¼ ground ginger
1/8 tea spoon all slice
2-4 tea spoons vanilla extract
2-4 tablespoons stevia
1-4 tablespoons maple syrup
Method
Stick it all the ingredients apart from the stevia and syrup pot at the same time and bring to the boil the simmer on low until it’s your preferred consistency ( I like it slightly looser but I think that’s more a uk thing. If you rather a thicker consistency just reduce the liquid slightly and cook a little longer.
Stir it every so often and tip into a container
cool.
Ps. I have just finished watching land of hope and glory on YouTube and it was so informative and heart wrenching ✌
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So Lidl has vegan options this week .
I went a bit mad…..
There is falafel, plain “chicken”, seasoned “chicken”, tofu, “mince” and a bunch of other stuff. All under £2 so cheaper than the usual suspects for uk peeps!
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So there I was faffing about with my apple (as you do) and thought “hey this would be a good thing to do for people looking after bored kiddies this summer”
Apple “doughnuts” aren’t a new thing but never the less they would be such an easy way to pass time and encourage food interaction with the youngins’
Just core and slice a few apples and stick what ever decorations you want them to use and boom a fun interactive (sort of healthy) dessert
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Sunday cake. I tried yet another chocolate covered Katie recipe but not gonna lie, this turned out a little disappointing. It may have a small amount to do with the fact I ( being ever observant) used buckwheat flour instead of spelt . I will now have to keep making carrot cakes until I am satisfied with the results haha. Bright side is its gluten free I guess!
Will keep you posted.
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