This healthy lunch required pretty much no cooking or skill, not sure how cost effective it is though. I used a seedy pitta bread, 2 poached eggs, cucumber, Quorn chicken pieces, microwavable veg, lentil thingies, and a chunk of feta. This was me trying to eat protein after a run, and more veg after Christmas.
I calculated it at 712 calories which seems like a lot for what looks like a salad but protein does bring the cals.
I posted a week ago about my healthy (and tasty) cereal bars, and since then I have augmented the recipe and made it a bit healthier. They still only have 6 ingredients and don’t require any cooking.
I added some Rice Puffs with the intention of bulking up the bars without adding any extra fat or sugar. I was just going to buy some Rice Crispies but found them to have loads of added sugar, so I went to Holland and Barrett and bought some, slightly pricier, gluten free, Rice Puffs.
Last time I used Hemp Seeds last time which were a bit too crunchy so I omitted them this time around. The result is the bars have fewer calories, and less fat and sugar.
These quantities make 32 bars.
All you do is mix the ingredients together. You need to make sure they are all mixed evenly, so I found it easiest to mix the dry ingredients in one bowl and the wet in another before combining them all. Coconut oil is solid at room temperature but melts at 24 celsuis so I put mine in the microwave for 30secs first to melt it.
Nutritional value per bar:
I like eating, and snacking, and am simultaneously failing to lose weight. For some reason…
The cereal/energy bars in the supermarket are rarely as healthy as you think, especially when you look at how much sugar is in them. I, nerdily, looked at the nutritional values of 23 cereal bars and tried to find ones with less than 150 calories, 5g fat, and 6g sugar, and more than 3g protein, and 3g fibre.
Ok it’s happening…I am being healthy…
I made a salad, with poached eggs. It’s not super glamourous but it’ll do, in fact it reminds me of the ‘face’ salads my dad used to make us.
I found this recipe for a Banana Oat Muffin and decided to give it a try as a healthy snack or quick breakfast. I would have omitted the protein powder because I don’t use it and it’s quite expensive for a one off recipe.
I also would have missed out the applesauce because where on earth do you buy that in the UK? So I did a bit more searching and figured out my own recipe:
It’s healthier than normal muffins because there’s no flour or gluten, and no added sugar it just relies on the honey and banana for sweetness. It’s nonsense to say there isn’t sugar in it though as honey is 80% sugar and there’s about 12g per 100g in a banana.
Anyway, you just mix the dry ingredients together, then slowly add the wet ones. Mix it all up and dollop into muffin cases. I made 12 muffins with that much mixture.
I then baked it at 450 F/ 230 C. It should have taken about 15mins, I think they were in there for about 45mins!
They tasted ok, quite bananay- duh! And they didn’t rise very much. Chocolate chips would have improved them but made them less healthy. The eternal dilemma!
Another healthy, vegetarian main meal! And I’m very pleased because I made this recipe up myself! I have been all about porridge for breakfast for a while so have loads of oats about the place which are really cheap, so I’ve been looking at other recipes that use oats. I found a few for Oat Burgers and made my own recipe. This was my first attempt. 
I liked the burgers although next time I would add more mustard and perhaps experiment with other seasonings/flavourings. Adding cheese was a good move!
Bit of a weird title for this post but I didn’t want to mislead all my fans that I had cooked my own mushroom burgers. I did not, I bought them pre-made and put them in the oven. I don’t like mushrooms and am trying to introduce them into my diet as they are in so many vegetarian meals.
I fried some onion and spring onion, and cut some celery and avocado and mixed them all with spinach to create a little green bed for the burger to sit on.
I’m not a big egg fan but it’s quite a useful, healthy food so I’ve been trying to eat more poached eggs. And I’ve been jazzing them up with salad (erm, yeah just spinach really!) and pitta bread.
I’m not an expert poacher- I’d like proper things to put the eggs in to poach them but I bought some silicone poaching cups that I crack the eggs into, then place into boiling water for a few mins until they look done. Then I poke the yoke with a fork to check it’s all cooked- I do not eat runny eggs!
I found this good tip about freezing leafy greens to keep them for longer for green smoothies, and there was also a tip somewhere on that site about freezing all your ingredients in advance and then you can just whack ’em in the blender in the morning (with some liquid).
So I just bought some freezer bags with a proper closure and filled four with spinach, plums, banana, courgette, and some matcha. Then I flattened the bags to get rid of excess air, fastened them, then put them in the freezer.
And in the morning I can just grab a bag and I don’t have to mess around and chop stuff.
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