Sunday 26 January 2014
Saturday 11 January 2014
I have no idea why it is called oopsie bread! But ultimately it is an LCHF bread substitute.
The three ingredients I used were eggs, cream cheese and salt. You can get full recipe and and loads of other interesting stuff on the diet doctor's page here.
So the below pictures are a summary of my oopsie bread journey.
I have put a few comments about each pic down below.
1. Splitting yolks and whites is stressful. Phew.
2. Yolks and cream cheese is mixed up.
3. & 4. You end up with a very liquid mixture
5. The egg whites need to be mixed very very stiff!!!
6. And then folded into the yolks trying to avoid getting rid of the air
7. I need to work on my sizing of the oopsie on to the baking tray :-)
8. Lovely and golden!
9. Oopsie bread with butter, topped with cheese and prosciutto ham.
Nyom!
Monday 6 January 2014
Sunday 5 January 2014
Saturday 4 January 2014
Today David and I popped over to petstore in the Blanchardstown Towncentre to get some supplies for Harry's new diet (see previous post!)
There is a GAP outlet very close to the petshop and as we were passing we saw some nice stuff in the window so decided to check it out.
David ended up buying a few nice items. There was some great value to be had. All these items below at full (not outlet) prices added up in value to €300. At outlet price they were €183.50 which is great to start with. BUT then I completed a customer survey on my phone which you get a 20% discount for completing. I showed my phone/the voucher at the till and total bill came to €154.
Pretty good I think!
Black cardigan
Navy GAP hoodie
Greeny colour jeans
Tweed jacket
Fawn vneck wool jumper
Green vneck wool jumper
Poor Harry has been looking rather "portly" over the last while.
I was shocked when I weighed him to discover he was 1st 2lbs or 7kg. Eeek!
David got on to a friend of his who has recently set up a business selling pet food to talk to him about what is best for Harry. So on his recommendation we are trying out nutrarn weight control food,
We ordered it on their website and then today we went and bought Harry two smart new bowls for his dry food and for his water (he never used drink water when he was on the wet tinned food).
Things are looking good so far. He likes the new food but not so much that he is overeating the way he used to on the tins. It seems to fill him up much better or something. So all good!
A cup a day keeps the vet away!
Oh, and I also have one of these on order from Amazon. Poor Harry indeed!
Thursday 2 January 2014
If you have been following me for a while or since last January anyway you will know I am a big fan of the January diet. Particularly needed this year!!!
Well this year I am trying the Low Carbohydrate, High Fat diet (LCHF). Or as I prefer to think of it, less of a diet and more of a lifestyle change.
And the good news about this year's diet is that it has science behind it.
"Eat less saturated fat: that has been the take-home message from the U.S. government for the past 30 years. But while Americans have dutifully reduced the percentage of daily calories from saturated fat since 1970, the obesity rate during that time has more than doubled, diabetes has tripled, and heart disease is still the country’s biggest killer. Now a spate of new research, including a meta-analysis of nearly two dozen studies, suggests a reason why: investigators may have picked the wrong culprit. Processed carbohydrates, which many Americans eat today in place of fat, may increase the risk of obesity, diabetes and heart disease more than fat does." (From Scientific America)
If you are interested in reading more about it, see here but in the meantime check out a summary of what I ate today:
Nuts, seeds, cream (in coffee all day, plus in dinner), chicken, eggs, mayonaise, sparkling water, bacon lardons, parmesan cheese.
It seems CRAZY doesn't it.
But the research behind this diet says that fats are not to be feared, that it is the sugar that is the poison.
Wednesday 1 January 2014
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