We were invited to have lunch with some friends today. They were going to shout us to Sizzlers. Nice but we really were unsure of the menu. So I rang Sizzler and asked about the options. We could have no soups, no salads with dressing, no chips, no bread and only specially prepared steaks and fish with salad minus dressing. As we are used to indulging in the full salad bar I found this very unappealing. We decided instead to go to a local pub. Here we had 2 GF options.I had a vegetable stack with halomi cheese and DH had the lamb skewars with halomi. We traded and had half of each and enjoyed our meal. Challenge passed with flying colours.
After this adventure DH was feeling quite negative about this and wondering if he could go the distance. ( we are just intolerant not cealiac), however tonight we had a beautiful meal of Cyndi's slaw, left over vege hash with quinoa added and chicken thighs on the webber. Life is good again and we think if food can taste that good we can stick to it.
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Friday, January 28, 2011
Gluten Free Flatbread
I am cooking up some GF flatbread at the moment in my quest to find some substitutes for the now missing wheat products- bread etc in our diet.
Time will tell if this is a wonderful eating experience or not. It uses quinoa which is fast becoming one of my favourite foods. It has so much nutrition. This is also a personal goal to produce homemade food that has good quality nutrition instead of empty calories.
Later...it was good and I will be making it again soon.
Time will tell if this is a wonderful eating experience or not. It uses quinoa which is fast becoming one of my favourite foods. It has so much nutrition. This is also a personal goal to produce homemade food that has good quality nutrition instead of empty calories.
Later...it was good and I will be making it again soon.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
New challenge letting my little girl grow up.
Isn't it hard to let go. My daughter is starting to make her own decisions and do all her own stuff in life. It is hard for all mums when this happens- whilst we are glad that we have prepared them to take this step we are sad that they no longer need us as much any more. I find this challenging.
....and the adventure....the life that my husband & I can now pursue as we really no longer need to consider the children in our every plan :)
....and the adventure....the life that my husband & I can now pursue as we really no longer need to consider the children in our every plan :)
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Australia Day
No big challenges today....
I celebrated by watching the movie Australia, swimming with a friend and generally recovering from our big day yesterday and getting ready for the first day of school students) tomorrow.
Meals- B-Bacon eggs mushrooms and tomato, L-Gluten free pizza base with pepperoni, mushrooms and baby spinach leaves, D- Salmon steaks BBQ'd in a butter,basil,lemon & parsley packet, chips from takeaway (my son was going) and green sala.
Snacks- overindulged a little with my new Raw cacaoa treat balls ( thanks Jo) and corn chips, nuts and fruit trail mix. It is easy to do this when at home and watching a movie.
I celebrated by watching the movie Australia, swimming with a friend and generally recovering from our big day yesterday and getting ready for the first day of school students) tomorrow.
Meals- B-Bacon eggs mushrooms and tomato, L-Gluten free pizza base with pepperoni, mushrooms and baby spinach leaves, D- Salmon steaks BBQ'd in a butter,basil,lemon & parsley packet, chips from takeaway (my son was going) and green sala.
Snacks- overindulged a little with my new Raw cacaoa treat balls ( thanks Jo) and corn chips, nuts and fruit trail mix. It is easy to do this when at home and watching a movie.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Second challenge today.
I tried making my first gluten free pizza base using the flour substitute mentioned previously.I just put the flours in a previously tried dough recipe with some xanthan gum and guar gum. Wasn't wonderful....sigh! I thought that we are pretty much used to cardboard pizza bases so it could't be too bad.Should start taking some photos- getting used to this blogging stuff.
Monday, January 24, 2011
We started the day with our tables overflowing with maths and English games and resources and by the end of the day the tables were empty. We issued 3535 items- 590 an hour. Now we need to get ready for the classes to start in 2 days in the library.
Sunday, January 23, 2011
The start of a new year...
I feel that we have got this gluten dairy free stuff sorted (at least for the moment). Sunday we had
Breakfast- zucchini potato and carrot hash browns and baked beans.
Lunch- chicken and grilled halomi and salad
Dinner- Chilli con carne and cornchips
I t wasn't so hard. I have also made some flour substitute that consists of maize flour, brown rice flour, besan flour, soy flour, potato flour, arrowroot flour. Can't wait to try it in some recipes. I will give it a good whiz in the Thermomix to make sure it is well mixed.
Monday meals-
Breakfast- Egg & veges (tomato, Asian greens, mushrooms, onion & garlic ( I forgot to put that into the chilli the night before)
Lunch- leftover fish cakes and salad with chilli lime dressing.
Dinner- BBQ chicken and veges
Snacks- orange, banana & yogurt, nuts, fruit & nut mix.
Work today included a day full of meetings. I am a bit worried as we have hundreds of items to issue to our classes and one day to do it in before the students need to use our library as classrooms.
This will be the challenge of tomorrow.
Breakfast- zucchini potato and carrot hash browns and baked beans.
Lunch- chicken and grilled halomi and salad
Dinner- Chilli con carne and cornchips
I t wasn't so hard. I have also made some flour substitute that consists of maize flour, brown rice flour, besan flour, soy flour, potato flour, arrowroot flour. Can't wait to try it in some recipes. I will give it a good whiz in the Thermomix to make sure it is well mixed.
Monday meals-
Breakfast- Egg & veges (tomato, Asian greens, mushrooms, onion & garlic ( I forgot to put that into the chilli the night before)
Lunch- leftover fish cakes and salad with chilli lime dressing.
Dinner- BBQ chicken and veges
Snacks- orange, banana & yogurt, nuts, fruit & nut mix.
Work today included a day full of meetings. I am a bit worried as we have hundreds of items to issue to our classes and one day to do it in before the students need to use our library as classrooms.
This will be the challenge of tomorrow.
Saturday, January 22, 2011
New adventure- blogging!
I have not seriously considered doing this before but now seems like a good time to start.Life seems to be full of new challenges and adventures- they pop up weekly!
I thought I might write about some of these as the time seems right.
This months new challenge is eating gluten and dairy free.
My husband and daughter seem to have some trouble with their gut that will probably be solved by eating gluten and dairy free. My husband is keen and my daughter is too but, being 18 she has a lot of challenges with all of her social events.
So after a poor start we are now getting ready to really begin.
I had already started this way of thinking when I realised that we seem to be very dependent on wheat in just about every meal- I had already started varying the types of flours we were eating to increase the types of nutrients ingested.
I also really want to try to eat food that has very little processing. Fortunately I have a Thermomix. This wonderful little machine really helps me to achieve this goal.I LOVE this machine and use it daily creating all sorts of yummies. Our meals should have some protein, veges and a little fat.
So in an attempt to share my journey here is our menu for the day
Breakfast- asian greens, mushrooms, tomato and eggs with home made tomato sauce.
Lunch- Home made baked beans on a bed of salad with avocado
Dinner- Thai fish cakes (Cyndi O'Meara), salald and homemade Chilli Lime dressing (Cyndi O'Meara), yogurt and fruit
Snacks- handful of fruit and nuts
I thought I might write about some of these as the time seems right.
This months new challenge is eating gluten and dairy free.
My husband and daughter seem to have some trouble with their gut that will probably be solved by eating gluten and dairy free. My husband is keen and my daughter is too but, being 18 she has a lot of challenges with all of her social events.
So after a poor start we are now getting ready to really begin.
I had already started this way of thinking when I realised that we seem to be very dependent on wheat in just about every meal- I had already started varying the types of flours we were eating to increase the types of nutrients ingested.
I also really want to try to eat food that has very little processing. Fortunately I have a Thermomix. This wonderful little machine really helps me to achieve this goal.I LOVE this machine and use it daily creating all sorts of yummies. Our meals should have some protein, veges and a little fat.
So in an attempt to share my journey here is our menu for the day
Breakfast- asian greens, mushrooms, tomato and eggs with home made tomato sauce.
Lunch- Home made baked beans on a bed of salad with avocado
Dinner- Thai fish cakes (Cyndi O'Meara), salald and homemade Chilli Lime dressing (Cyndi O'Meara), yogurt and fruit
Snacks- handful of fruit and nuts
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