.....you make a seizure salad!
So with my new found motivation I decided to try to conquer....the salad. The green stuff. Let's face it - its what I hate. They're cold (mostly, definately so without meat involved), full of wet, stalky things that are either crunchy (gross) or limp (double gross). I find that salad appears to be considered a fashionable and female thing to do - magazines seem me to expect to "do lunch" with "the girls" with a caesar salad and a glass of pinot, discussing the latest Karen Millen line. Don't think that's quite me. I decided to try a variation on a BBC Good Food South Western Salad with beans, corn, avocado, tomatoes etc. In theory it looked quite pretty. On Monday, I waited so late to have my lunch I was so hungry I ate most of it, and it wasn't too bad, although it definately felt like a chore. Coming back to the same salad on Tuesday did not go down well - it made me feel physically sick and I couldn't eat it (just picked out the avocado and beans) and then ended up having a packet of crisps to drive away the hunger pangs. I think it was because I tried to go too full on with a food I don't really like. I think I need to try and have salad as a side dish to start off with, before going the whole hog.
Dinner on Monday night was much more successful - I used the dried soy mince I had purchased from Holland and Barratt in place of minced beef in a Burrito Kit. You basically get the tortillas, tomato/bean cooking sauce and salsa in a box and you add the filling and any extras like cheese. I was pleasantly surprised by this - we managed to have a completely vegan meal and get in some extra veggies such as rocket/spinach and slices of red pepper as well. Pushed the boat out with egg free mayo, jalapenos and some vegan cheese (totally not worth the calories, tastes like nothing). I was pleased that the soy mince was so cheap yet when you add it to water it bulks up loads so 150g dry yields about 550g wet meat equivalent. Its also low in calories - all the soy in my 3 pretty generous tortillas was only about 40g and about 140 calories so its very low in fat and high in protein.
I was really craving meat today again, but a really filling jacket potato with cheese, beans and jalapenos for lunch at work really went some way to satisfying these cravings. For a snack tonight we had apple slices with cashew butter (when I worked at a USA summer camp some of the kids would literally only eat apples with peanut butter every single day, so I felt like I was doing this, but without the anaphylaxis!) It was pretty amazing so I think this will have to be my go to snack when I'm craving sweets and chocolates. It still might be quite high in sugars and fats but at least they're natural and its one more piece of fruit I'm having at the same time.
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