Tuesday, May 31, 2011

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? 







Monday, May 30, 2011

First Post!

 Okay, so Why did I create a blog?  What is the point of all this??  This blog was created for me to capture all my creativity into one little blog!  ;)
  Example...  Gareth and I have been on the same dieting page for a few months now.  We've been doing Adkins.  He's had a more successful time with it than I have.  I lose but as soon as I introduce more carbs again I gain back what I lost.  Gareth is starting back on Adkins, this time I am going a completely different path.  I'm going vegetarian again!  I'm just burnt out on meat!  No meat for me please.  With the excepting of seafood.  I currently have a freezer, fridge, and pantry with enough soy, grains, beans, seafood for a week!  Gareth also has meat for a few days.  My job to to be able to successfully juggle making low carb meals as well as healthy vegetarian meals for me.  And let's not forget the meals for the sometimes picky toddler.  So back to the point... I'm going to document my endeavor into cooking for 2 totally different diets with pictures, recipes, meal plans, and probably some of me rambling!
  I would also like to keep track of my current gardening projects I've got going on.  I can't wait until we can eat and enjoy some of the things that I'm growing!  I've been bitten by the gardening bug this year, I just want to plant more things!  My "garden" is small, so small in fact, it's mostly in different pots and containers.  I'm really excited because, lately, everything is really growing.  I can't wait to take pics and blog about everything.
  Lastly I love arts, crafts and everything that has to do with the two.  I hope this blog will inspire the inner artist I've kind of hidden lately, to come out!  I love to paint, draw, collage, and make things!  I love making jewelry, I wish I could sew clothes.
In conclusion, this blog is for me to be me and to share who I am with anybody that feels like reading!  Any one reading this blog should expect pictures of food that I'm making, things that I'm growing, my sweet little Layla, the greatest husband/friend ever, a few cats, and anything that I make.  Also expect bitching from me, coarse adult language at times, rants, raves, dieting, sometimes the lack there of and all the other little quirks that make me who I am.