Pescetarian Diet vs Low Carb Diet, Day 1

Today was my first day of preparing meals for 2 completely different diets.  I started very late last night with breakfast.  Gareth was going in a little early so I wanted to make sure he had breakfast in the morning.  So I made us an omelet!  Omelets are easy to make, yummy and very easy to accommodate to many diets.

 

Breakfast 'meats' cooking.  Luckily I don't have a problem with meat, other than I'm just burnt out eating meat, or cooking my soy products with meat.  From bottom left, clock wise... Homemade tempeh "bacon", Gimme Lean Soy Sausage, Bob Evan's Breakfast Sausage and Hormel Black Label Bacon.

 

 Vegetarian and Low Carb Omelet ready to be folded and plated... Can you tell which side is which?

The finished product!  My vegetarian omelet on the left, filled with tempeh bacon, sausage substitute, diced tomatoes, and Dubliner cheese.  Gareth's Low Carb omelet is on the right, it's filled with bacon, sausage and Dubliner cheese.  Both were very yummy!

Now... moving on to lunch. 

We started making a lot of salads for lunch while doing the LC thing.  It's just so easy to throw together a salad with some protein.  It's also a good way to keep the carbs and calories down.  Today was no exception to the easy salad lunch. 

Gareth's steak lunch.  Simple grilled steak and salad.

My lunch.  Grilled Bocca Burger, a couple grilled barbeque shrimp and salad.
The salad consisted of iceburg mix, organic arugula, raw celery and carrots.  I added a little bit of diced vine ripened tomatoes and more carrots.  The salad dressing was a splash of red wine vinegar, white wine vinegar, spicy brown mustard, salt, pepper, dash of cumin and olive oil.

My grilled shrimp were over cooked but they came frozen and precooked so they just needed to be heated.  I heated them a little too long :/  The grilled Bocca burger was filling and taste better than it looks, it looks pretty boring!
Gareth said his steak was good but a little bit over cooked to his liking.  That's my fault.  I know how he likes his steak, barely cooked!  I'll blame it on the new gas canister, it was burning a little too hot ;)

While I'm at it here's a shot of Layla's lunch...

Luckily for me, Layla isn't too picky of an eater.  Don't get me wrong, she has her moments where she will refuse something or everything.  When she's hungry tho, she'll usually try anything.  She's not a big fan of chunks of meat but she will eat deli meat.  I usually give her a good quality deli meat.  Today she get's Trader Joe's roasted turkey breast.  She wasn't in a meat kind of mood today and didn't eat much of it or the cheese.  She did all of the pickle and strawberries.

Dinner tonight was nothing fancy.  Gareth wasn't in the mood for meat and was going to settle with just a salad.  I can't have that!  So I made a vegetable stir fry with broccoli, carrots, baby bok choy, bean sprouts and onions.  With a little bit of soy and mustard.  It was pretty tasty!

Layla gets her dinner first, she gets cranky if she has to wait too long ;)  She gets vegetable noodles tossed with a little bit of canned tomato liquid.  She looooves her some noodles!  She also gets stir fried veggies and some strawberries.

Tonight Gareth had a Bocca vegan burger and veggies.  He was less impressed with the vegan burger and really didn't like it :/  At least it's low carb and he ate it.

I had a Bocca 'chicken' patty.  I wanted a little crunch!  I also had veggies and sauteed mushrooms.  Mmmm!

Now it's time for a walk!

So, this was my first real blog post, I need feedback, suggestions, comments.  I'm thinking that maybe it's too long and I should do more than 1 post?