What I ate Wednesday

So I thought I’d start off the health/fitness/lifestyle part of my blog with a good old What I ate Wednesday! 

I’m a Vegetarian with a Nut Allergy so I do find it hard to get a decent amount of protein into my diet. 

Hopefully I can share some of the things I’ve found that have helped me up my protein intake.

Now, I’m no Nutrionist/Health Guru etc, I’m just a girl who managed to loose weight by eating less and moving more and this is whats working for me. 

Now I’m closer to my overall target and working more on my strength training, as well as my Cardio, I’m trying to eat a healthy and balanced diet and trying to include as much protein and good fats as I can while reducing my carb intake (where possible!)

But please don’t take what I say as gospel, I try and eat a balanced diet, or what I think is balanced for me but I don’t deprive myself of anything – everything in moderation as they say! 

(Plus, everyone sticks the spoon in the tub of Marshmallow Fluff every now and again … no just me!?)

Breakfast:

Today is “Leg Day”, so a decent breakfast was needed! This morning I had a bowl of porridge made up of 35g of Quaker Oats and 250ml of semi skimmed milk.

Once cooked, I added 2 tablespoons of Virginia Harvest Cold Milled Flaxseed, ½ tablespoon of honey and ½ tablespoon of cinnamon.

To go with this, I had a glass of water, a mug of black coffee made in the Tassimo and 2 x phD CLA capsules and 3 x Maxifuel BCAA's – I choose these because they use non-gelatine caplets. 

Mid Morning Snack / Post Gym:

After my gym session, I normally have a protein shake. At the moment, I'm using MyProtein Whey Protein in Latte. It's nice and pretty pleasant to drink but I think I'll go back to plain chocolate next time as the flavours can get a little bit sickly.

Today however, I forgot my shake so had to buy a premix from the gym as I wasn't going straight home. So I ended up with a USN Protein Fuel 25 in strawberry cream. Yes these are expensive for what they are and they do have added sweetners but they do the trick and taste amazing - it was a one off treat I suppose!

Lunch:

My Post Gym lunch was 2 x Quorn Sausages (cooked off in a little bit of Olive Oil), 2 tablespoons of cous cous and chickpeas with a salad of little gem lettuce, 6 olives, red onion, red pepper and 15g of organic feta cheese. 

I left my BCAA's on the table, normally I'd try and take these straight after my workout but had to wait until I got home so took them with lunch.

Dinner:

Tonights dinner was a bit of an experiment and it did taste better than it looks! 

My boyfriend brought some of the Dr Zak's Protein Pasta to try so I thought I'd give it a go.

You get 100g of Pasta per serving, which gives you 50g of Protein and it has 50% less Carbs than normal pasta. 

I think the texture is what has left me undecided - I think it would be better in the Fusilli shape which would have given it more bite (I might do a seperate review on the pasta and the Dr Zak's Protein Bread, which we've been trying out this week as well)

To go with this, I made a Ratatouille with courgette, red pepper, red onion, mushrooms and white kidney beans. 

I made the sauce from passata, tomato puree, garlic powder and chilli flakes. This sauce was actually a lot nicer than I expected! The white kidney beans gave the sauce a creamy texture. 

Dessert:

My Brother and Sister-in-Law were round for dinner tonight so my Boyfriend created this little beauty of a dessert - http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1357/decadent-chocolate-truffle-torte

I had a small slice with a little bit of light cream – good job I got those extra heavy squats in earlier as I wouldn’t have missed this for anything!

I might stick to regular food diaries. It's amazing what it does to your food intake when you know people will be seeing what you put in your mouth!

All items mentioned were purchased by myself, with my own money. I have not been sponsored by any of the companies mentioned above.