Category Archives: daily food project 2012

I am embarrassingly late with my Daily Food photos, I confess to being utterly fed up of the whole thing!
Despite that, here’s another batch of Daily Food pictures – the whole of September this time!

Afternoon tea at a friends after playing croquet in the garden.
Squash wedges with cumin for roasting.
Fist night in Crete for yoga holiday – little fishes and the most delicious beetroot and walnut salad.
A sort of Svakian pie for breakfast.  Goat or sheep cheese in pastry, fried and served hot and delicious!

A mountain of small, sweet black grapes for pudding.
Home made sheep’s yoghurt for breakfast.  Every day.
Dakos with tomatoes and feta type cheese, ubiquitous Greek salad in the background.
Grilled chicken.

Calamari for lunch – you can’t have a week in Greece without some octopus.
Hard boiled eggs and bread for pre-yoga snack in the afternoon.
Packed lunch for the flight home – chicken souvlaki with dakos and tomatoes.
Back home to dull food – chopped salad for lunch.

Home made vegetable soup with red lentils.
Roast chicken thighs and veg.
Turkey keema peas with brown mushroom basmati rice.
Mushroom and haloumi burger at Mello Mello in Liverpool

Hot chocolate at home.
Strange lunch of pear, home made chutney and chicken breast.
Smoked mackerel for starter at Albert’s Didsbury with friends (mine is better!)
Remains of the turkey keema from a few days previously.

Roast chicken thighs and veg.
Yaki Soba at Wagamama with friends before Anna Karenina at the cinema.
Guinea Fowl for Sunday lunch at posh pub in Yorkshire – treated by new friends.
Home made veg soup with red lentils.

Home made turkey patties (Ottolengi’s recipe)
Cold lunch at home.
Mushroom omelette.
Steak, polenta, tomatoes and watercress from the pond at friends’

Chicken casserole Italian style (at friends’)
Fish-cakes for lunch at the lovely Quince Tree in Henley after the Literary Festival weekend.

I have recently embarked upon The Dukan Diet so my daily food pictures have changed somewhat, gone are the lovely pastas, breads and daahls and in come endless pictures of hard boiled eggs, cottage cheese and chicken breasts!  I think that it’s worth a bit of food tedium to have lost 3.5kg so far, so this current regime shall continue for a couple more kgs and then I’ll be back to (almost) normal eating habits.  There are a few meals out, we’ve had a few meals at mum’s since starting this diet, but she does it too, so the food fits in perfectly.  Other than those feasts, we’ve been out for Japanese, a slap up birthday Italian (carparcio, veal chop, loads of salads, prosecco and red wine – oops) and a Christening (poached salmon, ham, divine chocolate cake, cheese and Pavlova – oops again).

Here’s what I’ve eaten since April 22nd:

On the top row:

Chicken Tikka at our favourite Indian cafe in Manchester, perfect Dukan Diet food.
Fishy starter at mum’s for lunch.
A typical Dukan lunch, sliced homemade burger, boiled eggs, cottage cheese, salmon with homemade tartare sauce.
Chopped salad.

Second row:

Slicked chicken breast, chopped up boiled egg with yoghurt dressing.
Stirfried chicken thighs with five spice & Chinese flavours with green veg.
Boiled eggs, cottage cheese, gherkin.
Smoked salmon, prawns, celery, squid, smoked mackerel pate, yoghurt

Third row:

Tinned tunal salad with fat free fake eggy mayonnaise.  Very odd.
Cooked turkey breast and homemade turkey patties with Indian spices.
Sashimi – yum!
Cottage cheese, chicken breast.

Fourth row:

Carparcio with rocket and Parmesan salad – out for a birthday supper.
Dressed crab.
Pavlova – at a Christening.
Fishy starter at mum’s again.

I’ve just found a whole batch of Daily Food pictures which I had formerly ignored and not posted, so here’s giant batch of my nosh.  Towards the end of this batch Peter and I embarked on the Dukan Diet to undo some of the recent damage caused by enjoying ourselves too much!  The Dukan involves an initial ‘attack phase’ of eating only pure, low fat protein for a length of time depending on how much weight you wish to loose.  After this you carry on eating pure protein every other day, alternated with days of yet more protein, but livened up with vegetables.  No oil, butter, alcohol, chocolate, rice, pasta, bread, potatoes, cereal, lentils, junk and plenty more as well.  You’ll notice the change in the pictures!

The top row:

I’m still photographing my food every day, but it’s great to be posting them to Flickr rather than here every day!

Here’s some of what I’ve eaten in the last fifteen days (click on a thumbnail to see larger or click here to see all the pictures with longer descriptions in Flickr)

On the top row

Roast veg, puy lentils and mushrooms with goats cheese.

Mid week fizz as a treat

Soup and wrap out at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation.

Scrambled eggs with smoked salmon.

Second row

Ingredients for supper.

Bircher Museli.

Chinesey chicen thights, spuds and choi sum.

Miso soup with noodles and veg.

Third row

Chargrilled chicken breast burger at the Horse and Jockey in Chorlton.

Lazy and sunny lunch at home – deli, cheese and salad.

Found in the fridge lunch.

Healthy breakfast.

Fourth row

Strange breakfast.

Bircher museli and tea for breakfast.

Noodles for lunch.