nice breakfasts

I've been experimenting with different combinations for breakfast too, the past few months.

A nice one to start the day is a salad of half a cucumber, cut in pieces, three tomatoes (also in pieces), and a can of tuna (on brine, the tuna with oil has more calories). I also add some mixed nuts, and eat an apple when I'm in the train on the way to work. This breakfast keeps me going until lunch time ...

In the weekends I tend to take a little more time for my breakfasts. The past two weekends I made myself an omelet with some bacon (50 grams), mushrooms (approx. 130 grams), cut in small slices) and two eggs (stirred), I sprinkle the omelet with rasped cheese ... No it's not paleo-approved, but it's great none the less! After some experimentation (and complicated by my absent sense of smell) I found the right way to make the omelet without letting it burn. Delicious! And I take an apple for the vitamins.

For lunches at work I still tend to take carrots (500 grams, it's cheaper than the packages with 300 grams. It's a strange world we live in...), and some meat.

Johan

The chicken or the egg?

This is chicken with broccoli, courgette (aka the amazing zucchini) and some spices - garlic and mustard seed.

Cook by Colour

The chicken goes with broccoli, leaks and red cabbage.
Then there's a dish with smoked mackerel and olives, and one with smoked salmon and bellpepper, witlof and iceberg lettuce.

KISS

Today's motto was "Keep It Simple, Stupid!".

Breakfast was so simple I didn't even take a picture - two apples and an orange. No protein made me a bit peccish, so I made a nice big lunch.
It was stir fried tenderloin and broccoli with the simplest of salads - tomato and cucumber.

Hardly had time for dinner, so to eggs and a salted herring with some veggies hed to do. They did.

All in a day's work

All right, that's too many posts. So I'll just do one post a day. That seems reasonable.

Breakfast is what you see, no surprises.

Lunch is a nice (though not so nicely displayed) Victoria bass with some salt and lots of thyme, accompanied by stir fried tomatoes, fennel and celery stalks. Also some fresh ones there.


Dinner is two eggs with stir fried mushrooms, red cabbage and aubergine, or eggplant if wou will.

Nuts!

Ah, the absence of lettuce...
This was supposed to be an omelet, but it worked out differently. There's two eggs less one yolk, half a courgette and a tomato with a seasoning of paprika, chilli, chives and strips of nori yaki. A very chuncky salad of celery stalks and nuts (pecans, hazelnuts, walnuts, paranuts and almonds) in the centre there and since I'm starting to get the hang of this mammoth plate, I made sure dessert was already included: strawberries, cherries and grapes.
This would have made an exelent breakfast, by the way.

Russian Roulette

Dinner:
Three fried eggs (just one yolk) with tomatoes and strips of yaki nori. Yaki nori is the fried seeweed used to wrap sushi in.

The sidedishes are stir fried broccoli and a salad of cucumber and lemon pieces. Seriously refreshing. It almost makes you wish there were some dried chili peppers in the broccoli. Maybe there will be next time.

The yaki nori went well with the egg, but I think it would have been even better to cut it into small pieces, do the same with the tomato and make an omelet. I'll try that next time and add something a bit spicey. Oh, and I'll go for just two eggs. This was a bit much. Maybe better as a lunch.

To the left you can see desert - a mango.

I eat this way because it just tastes better, and I'm lovin' it!
Also I'm going to pass up on the diabetes, I think it's a tad overrated.