What I Ate - 28 July - 3rd August

Monday:
Breakfast: Leftover pork sausage and coffee with cream
Lunch: 2 hot dogs with mustard, glass of diet cola
Dinner: Bolognaise (made with ground beef, tomato paste, canned tomatoes, garlic, oregano) on zoodles, with fresh mozzarella. Dessert was a Chocolate Cream Pot (dark chocolate and cream melted together, then set in the fridge to make a very rich ganache). After dinner snack: handful of smokehouse almonds, cup of tea with cream, and a can of ham in mayo

Tuesday
Breakfast: Coffee with cream
Lunch: Half a jar of sauerkraut, 2 kassler steaks (German smoked pork, kind of like very thick cut bacon!)
Dinner: Chicken breast strips with Nando's hot sauce and bok choy. Some dark chocolate and a handful of macadamias for dessert.

Wednesday
Breakfast: Coffee with cream, leftover spaghetti squash from Monday's dinner.
Lunch: 2 hot dogs with mustard (last hot dogs for the week!)
Dinner: Roast beef, roasted brussels sprouts, and a couple of roasted yams (NOT SWEET POTATO!). Dessert was whipped cream, half a dozen frozen raspberries and some macadamias smushed together.

Thursday
Breakfast: Coffee with cream
Lunch: Leftover roast beef with mustard
Dinner: More leftover roast beef, this time thinly sliced and served with roasted cauliflower.

Friday
Breakfast: Coffee with cream
Lunch: Leftover roast cauliflower, sauerkraut, and 2 kassler steaks.
Dinner: Chicken breast with taco seasoning, cubed zucchini and lots of cheese. No sour cream, since my husband forgot to pick any up after work.

I forgot what I ate in the weekend, but I know it involved pork belly and broccoli for lunch on Saturday, along with a large helping of capsicum from my husbands plate- he hates them and his beef with black bean sauce was full of them! We ordered pizza on Saturday night for dinner, so I ate a LOT of pizza toppings for dinner and lunch on Sunday. We shared a fresh coconut at the Queen Victoria Markets when we picked up some vegetables for the week, and then shared a sugar free Slurpee on the way home, since I had a sore throat and felt like something cooling.

What I Ate - 14 - 20th July

Monday:
Breakfast: 3 hot dogs with mustard, and 2 coffees with cream
Lunch: 2 fried eggs, 2 slices of cheese and a serving of Blue Diamond smokehouse almonds
Dinner: Beef ragu with zoodles, fresh mozzarella torn over the top.

Tuesday: I was soooo hungry today! felt like I had the munchies!
Breakfast: Burger patty with a slice of cheese and a fried egg, coffee with cream
Lunch: 3 devilled eggs, 2 string cheese, coffee with cream, salami, slice of coconut flour brownie.
Dinner: Salmon with mixed herbs, roasted cauliflower, chai tea with cream. 2 Atkins peanut butter cups, strawberry cream cheese with ground almond.

Wednesday:
Breakfast: Small can of salmon, mixed with dijon and mayo.
Lunch: Tea with cream, salami and fresh mozzarella sprinkled with oregano and basil, baked in the oven to make a kind of pizza!
Dinner: Baked chicken wings with sesame sriracha and ginger marinade, lots of stirfried bok choy. For dessert, a Quest bar, a handful of peanuts and a sugar free lollipop.

Thursday:
Breakfast: Coffee with cream, 2 leftover chicken wings
Lunch: Coffee with cream, 2 burger patties with cheese.
Dinner: Massaman beef curry and green beans. Chocolate chia pudding and some peanuts

Friday
Breakfast: Coffee with cream, 2 burgers patties with mustard
Lunch: Chocolate chia pudding, 2 teas with cream, a handful of peanuts.
Dinner: Braised speck with cabbage and butter. Chai tea with cream, some peanuts, hot chia pudding, 2 string cheese and a handful of peanuts.

Saturday
Breakfast: Coffee with almond milk and cream (i only had a drizzle of cream left!), and a handful of macadamias
Lunch: Chinese style chargrilled chicken wings, pork belly and lamb, and a can of diet coke
Dinner: Rotisserie chicken with some mayo, hot chocolate chia pudding for dessert.

Sunday:
Breakfast: A handful of jerky
Lunch: About 1/3 of a Nando's chicken with mild sauce, and a side salad.
Dinner: Leftover rotisserie chicken, and coconut chia pudding for dessert.

Grocery Shopping - 12/13 July

I learnt a pretty big lesson this week-  BE PREPARED! I completely forgot to buy more hot dogs, which you can probably see, is my staple lunch food. I ate the last couple on Monday, and on Tuesday there was sort of a panic. It's Thursday now, and I'm sort of enjoying the variety and the challenge of having to come up with something edible for lunch. Yay me!

This week, we didn't go to Costco. It felt weird breaking our routine, but I wasn't tempted to eat any of their hot dogs or pizza, which was a nice change.

We went to Aldi. We got:

Pack of gravy beef (around 600 grams) - $4.81
Beef mince (just over 2kgs) - $10.40
Piece of speck - $3.21
Tub of bocconcini (fresh mozzarella) - $3.69
Sugar free energy drink - $0.99
1kg cheddar cheese - $6
Flaked almonds - $3.29
Jar of Massaman curry paste - $2.49

Plus for my husband:
Vanilla cheesecake: $2.99
Hot dog rolls - $1.49
1kg basmati rice - $2.99
Can of apricots - $2.49
Udon noodles - $1.79
Loaf of bread - $0.99

For a total of $47.60

We then went to the South Melbourne Market. We mostly went for a walk, not to buy anything in particular, and there we got:

Bag of turmips and parsnips - $0.50
Coriander micro greens in a pot - $0.50
Bag of nectarines (around 1.5kg) - $1
Bag of muffins - $1.50
Bag of hamburger buns - $1.50
2 butternut halves - $2

Total spent: $7

So we were WAY under budget, which is nice sometimes, because yay, money saving. But I did struggle a little this week to make tasty keto food, and I can't wait to buy some more hot dogs! It's nice to empty out the freezer a bit, and make our way through the chicken I appear to have been stockpiling. We also had plenty of vegetables, so I guess i didn't do too badly.

Baby, I'm back! + May Challenge

Life can wear you out.

Nobody knows that quite as well as someone (like myself) who suffers from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

Couple that with bronchitis, a nasty dose of the flu, and some casual work, and you've got a pretty good reason for not blogging for over a month. Ouch. 

I could barely get out of bed for a week there- my poor husband had to fend for himself. Luckily he didn't get get food poisoning or burn down the house! (Love you, babe!)

I assure you, I'm really sorry and I'll never EVER do it again! I promise!

I come bearing good news though!

My friend xHelenSarahx is running an awesome May Challenge- and I'm totally committed to it. Even to the point where I'm considering giving up a special dessert on my birthday (which is on the 14th) so I can give this my all. 

I love a good challenge, and having an awesome bunch of people to share it with should make May a pretty great month.

My personal goals are:

1. Keto. 

The whole month of May I'll be ketoing my butt off. Literally. There's plenty of it to last the month.

2. Blogging

Blog at least once a week. This has been in the way too hard basket for me, after a SUPER enthusiastic start. So, that's gotta change.

3. Knitting

This is totally the most Nana goal ever, but I'm knitting a Queen size blanket, and I need to get this puppy going faster! I am going to knit at least two rows a day, every day for the month of May. 

So, who's going to join me?

(Knitting is optional- maybe try an exercise related goal instead!)