What I ate last week

Last week I showed you a sneak peak into what I ate in a day.  As a nutritionist, people are always interested in what you’re eating.   I thought I’d take a photo diary of what I ate this week to share with you. I almost didn’t share this as people can be quite judgemental about others eating styles, but I thought it would be a useful exercise to that I’m not perfect! In fact, I don’t believe in perfection 🙂

I can honestly say I’m not “hiding” anything or not eat anything because I didn’t want to show it on here, I thought I’d be totally honest and give you a snap shot of what I eat.  I guess my philosophy is to eat a wholefoods diet high in plant foods the majority of the time yet still allow those foods I love sometimes.  Some days are healthier than others, but I don’t stress out if I eat something that’s not “healthy” because I don’t think that’s a healthy mindset.  I think if you aim to eat well 90% of the time then you’re doing great.

Soooo hear it is!  I didn’t take pictures of everything – eg hot drinks/water – but in general I’ll have 1-2 coffees a day, a green tea, plus sometimes a tea in the evening.

Day 1 is published here:

Day 2:

Breakfast:  Crunchy peanut butter on vogels toast.  A lazy breakfast, but one of my favourite things!  Mid morning: Green tea + a banana, plus some carrot sticks
Lunch: Left over fish cakes with a big salad – red onion, mixed greens, red capsicum + tomato.  Also had 2 x dried figs.
Afternoon tea:  A handful of “Brain power” mix from Alison’s Pantry – has lots of walnuts, dried kiwi fruit, almonds. Also had some natural yoghurt + 1 kiwifruit.
Dinner: I marinaded some chicken thighs in tandoori paste + natural yoghurt and had that with an Indian brown rice + broccoli and beans.  The rice had garlic, onion, ginger, currants, cashews + spices.

Not pictured, I had two instant coffees and water throughout the day.

Day 3:

Breakfast:  Oats, natural yoghurt, berries, chia seeds + milk. Love this breakfast!
Mid morning: Was on the road for work today in the morning, got a coffee for the road and ate a banana too.
Lunch: Left overs from last night + 2 boiled eggs
Snack: Fruit/nut mix – mindless munched on  this – I bought 80g and ate it all. Whoops.  O well – at least it’s nutrient rich.  Also had some carrot sticks
Dinner:  Tastier than it looks – Mexican corn tortillas with spiced chicken, avocado, salsa, salad and grated cheese.  Had two of these, plus had a few extra pieces of chicken + slice of cheese

Not pictured: Water + a green tea + decaf tea after dinner

Day 4:

Breakfast: Avocado + marmite on vogels + peanut butter on Vogels (ps had some beautiful weather so been eating breakfast outside past couple of days)
Mid morning: 1 wholegrain cracker with hummus + blue cheese, 4 carrot sticks, a few grapes, and 1/2 a banana.  Today was a training day – I actually took a platter for morning tea to the training and I’m glad I did as the other food options were muffins or lamingtons.
Lunch:  Bought lunch at a cafe near our training.  Sandwich was pretty average, was roast beet, salad and beetroot but it was quite dry.
At the training, there were bowls of lollies on the table + chocolate freddos being handed out left right and centre.  I ate 2 fruit bursts and 2 milkshake lollies.  Milkshakes are my fave! Never buy them. Don’t know why I ate the other lollies as I didn’t enjoy them – I think it was just because they were in front of me.  I also ate a freddo frog.
Dinner:  Had cravings for a steak sandwich, so it was Steak sandwich on ciabatta bread.   Had lots of lettuce, onion, schnitzel, avocado, tomato and some cheese.  Also had a beer.  I rarely drink alcohol during the week but there were beers in the fridge and I felt like one.

Not pictured: Ate an orange after dinner.

So day 4 not the most healthiest day, but hey, it happens sometimes for me too.

Day 5:

Breakfast: oats, natural yoghurt, kiwi fruit, berries
Mid morning – latte. Had a busy morning, not really hungry.
Lunch – lettuce, kale, baby spinach, beetroot, grated carrot, avocado, chickpeas, a boiled egg and some feta cheese
Afternoon tea – we had  a farewell at work for one of the nurses.  I didn’t want to be weird at the afternoon tea and take photos of everything I ate, so I took a photo of 1/2 the table (there was more food) – I ate some grapes, a few crackers with hummus, some cheese and a couple of chocolate hearts.
Dinner:  I went to farewell drinks after work too  for the same girl – had 1 glass of cider.  Left about 7.45pm and picked up Thai takeaways on the way home.  Had chicken stir fry and  beef fried rice.

Day 6:

Breakfast: Had two of these – banana on wholegrain toast with chocolate peanut spread underneath.   This was my pre run breakfast
Mid morning: Got home, had a coconut water, then shower, then quick glass of milk + banana for protein + carbs to refuel.  Didn’t have time to eat properly as had to go straight out to get stuff for a birthday lunch.
Not pictured – toast with peanut butter.  Had this before my hockey game at 1pm sort of a pre lunch as knew I’d be eating lunch late after hockey.
Late lunch – Went to mother in laws for birthday – Ham off the bone, salads, rice salad + potato were on the menu.  Also had a little bit of pavlova (bad photo of the pav but was a sneaky photo as didn’t want to draw attention to myself photographing food!).
Dinner: Had a late dinner, but was quite hungry.  Had salmon fillet, baked kumara, veges.  Also had a spoonful of some birthday cake that we got given to bring home.  Was a chocolate coffee sponge.

Day 7:

Breakfast:  Scrambled eggs with avocado on a piece of ciabatta bread
Lunch:  Tomato soup, piece of wholegrain toast.  Snacked on some homemade roasted chickpeas.
Snack: natural yoghurt, kiwifruit and banana with some pumpkin seeds.   Hubby made popcorn so ate a few handfuls of that too.
Dinner:  Made creamy chicken and mushrooms which had leeks and green beans in it.  Was made with chicken stock and a little sour cream.  New recipe – was average.  Ate with roasted pumpkin, broccoli, carrots and some mashed potato.
After dinner:  Had 5 pieces of Whittakers Almond Chocolate (husband bought – I ate hehe)  plus a cup of tea.

 

Supplements – I take Blackmores Omega 3 supplements a few times a week, and also iron tablets as i’m iron deficient.

So that’s a week in my life of food!  This week it could be totally different. Comparing this to my overall food pattern, I normally eat red meat 2-3 times a week whereas I only had it once this week and day 6 was a bit out of wack due to it being such a full on day and a birthday as well.  I also had training and a farewell which changed usual food options for me.   If you found this post interesting, I often post food photos on my instagram account – so you can check me out there – here’s the link.