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I'm just interested to see what people have changed in they're daily routine, as there's no bread and cereal to be had, is it eggs only sort of thing, can you have porridge ?
While I'm on, what about sweet potatoes, pearl barley, cous cous, polenta, semolina and yams can you eat them at all as part of your daily intake. Thanks all
Proteinaceous spam with spam egg and spam n spam egg cutlett. Sue Townsend says go to work on an egg, and look how her literary prodigy turned out to be.
Here's my diet, it's f**ing boring but you WILL lose weight, but you WILL have to stick to it..
0. Learn about nutrition and feed yourself healthily
1. Easy on the booze
2. Don't sit on your arse all day
3. Don't stuff your face
4. Knacker yourself out as often as possible through enjoyable physical activity
I think that's a better plan over a lifetime rather than a short term diet, It's just common sense.
+1 Kevevs 🙂
Saleem, I get bored of eggs for breakfast and often have the previous nights dinner for breakfast blasted in the microwave, this morning was my ifriendly cottage pie!I've never been particularly traditional when it comes to brekfast though.
On the egg front I will often have an omelette, which keeps me satisfied for ages. I'm not on a diet, but I loosely follow the iDave principals and don't see why it has to be a short term thing, in a nutshell you are steering clear of rice, pasta, bread, cereal and dairy for six days of the week. You don't go hungry or really deny yourself and I admit I will have porridge if I fancy it, but I'm not trying to lose fat.
On your list it is a no to porridge,semolina, cous cous and sweet potato, but not sure on the others.
I was until now having poached eggs EVERY SINGLE DAY in various guises. I'm a vege so have a bit more limited options, but I have recently REALLY gone off the idea of eggs and so am a bit stumped as to whats quick and easy to have now.
3 boiled eggs. Every day. Good think I like eggs!
I was thinking of starting a STW fat fighters thread, we bought some scales the other day. Any interest in posting your weight every week, obviously if i do this on my own it would be the worst thread ever?
edit - apologies for thread jack!
porridge, for the first time in years, after some folk on here mentioning it. Christ it is grim, even with a splash of honey and sultanas. Not again. I'm going back to my bread
"0. Learn about nutrition and feed yourself healthily"
If you did that you'd not have posted anything else 😉
Granary toast with nutella and peanut butter, and fresh cracked black pepper, with a strong double espresso
not on the iDave can you tell
Raw rolled oats and milk.
Yours sounds nicer Ron but that requires about 2 minutes extra effort when I could be sleeping.
Small bowl of no sugar museli with milk, glass of OJ then ride to work. (destroying yourself is not optional). Works for me.
Chicken and salad for lunch
IDave dinner.
It's usually scrambled eggs here, combined with either- ham, bacon, mushrooms, refried beans or chickpea flatbreads, or as others have said if don't want eggs, I eat last nights leftover dinner. Chickpea flatbreads have become a regular slow carb snack, replacing bread, made properly they are pretty ok, and can be eaten for breakfast spread with peanut butter. I ride 12 hilly miles to work 3 times a week, so on those days eat museli on arriving at work.
Hand full of almonds this morning in the car as I was out the door at 6:00. Normally it is scrambled eggs, at the moment, I try to go for 3 whites with 2 yolks or there abouts.
Hotel tonight so I guess it will be crap scrambled eggs with bacon tomorrow.
Don't know about iDave diet. I am losing weight and eating healthily and for breakfast I have, either:-
Full fat bio yoghurt with mixed seeds (sunflower, pumpkin etc) on it. If you find this boring add some organic honey. If you find it not boring enough add some flax.
Or porridge made from Quinoa, with chopped fruit in in.
Or eggs - but I find them boring without tom ketchup or chilli sauce.
0. Learn about nutrition and feed yourself healthily
1. Easy on the booze
2. Don't sit on your arse all day
3. Don't stuff your face
4. Knacker yourself out as often as possible through enjoyable physical activity
iDave [s]diet[/s] [i]food[/i] = zero and one from that list?
This morning: two egg omlette, trimmed bacon and a handful of button mushrooms.
I really hope the mushrooms are OK on the iDave 'cos it all tasted OSSUM 😀
a quick check of my food diary for the last week
Monday - 2 poached eggs and some aduki beans
Tuesday - 2 poached eggs and a flatbread
Wednesday - 3 egg omelette with 1 onion and 100g of chicken
Thursday - 3 grilled bacon medallions, 2 eggs scrambled
Friday - 3 egg omelette with 1 onion and 150g of brocolli
Saturday - 50g of oats & 1 tblsp of syrup (off day)
Sunday - 4 egg omelette with 75g of smoked salmon
Non-iDavers often slag off the eggy breakfast that seems to become default - as they of course have eaten the same toast and cereal combo for years which is just as lacking in variety.
Eat anything for breakfast. Curry, steak, fish, veg. The entrenched view that a certain meal has to have certain ingredients has no logical basis.
For breakfast today I had the left over iDave prawn & chilli stir-fry from last night. Wasn't loads left so cracked a couple of eggs into the pan to bulk it out. Best brekkie yet!!
Other than leftovers I'd normally have scrambled eggs with smoked salmon/bacon and some fried asparagus/mushrooms/tomatoes. If I'm feeling egged-out I'd have a ham salad. Still thinking about ways I can incorporate beans/lentils into breakfast and still stomach them first thing.
2 eggs very quickly scrambled in a pan. maybe a few mushrooms as well if i have some. thats it. quick and easy.
sat and sun i have toast with marmalade.
not on a strict idave, very aware of it, but will adapt to it when i get down to the last stone i want to lose as i'm thinking that will be hard - it was last time, thats why i failed.
Eat anything for breakfast.
Except today - fish or eggs are ok , but no meat. 🙂
The entrenched view that a certain meal has to have certain ingredients has no logical basis.
Personally I've found the "reprogramming" aspect of iEating the most interesting - you really overlook how conditioned to eating certain things at certain times you can become.....
I'm putting 500 - 700 road miles in a month and TBH it doesn't matter one little bit what I eat the weight is falling off. Although on days I am not in the saddle I do try and eat a carb fee breakfast. Big bowl of scrambled eggs. Mmmmmm
a quick check of my food diary for the last weekMonday - 2 poached eggs and some aduki beans
Tuesday - 2 poached eggs and a flatbread
Wednesday - 3 egg omelette with 1 onion and 100g of chicken
Thursday - 3 grilled bacon medallions, 2 eggs scrambled
Friday - 3 egg omelette with 1 onion and 150g of brocolli
Saturday - 50g of oats & 1 tblsp of syrup (off day)
Sunday - 4 egg omelette with 75g of smoked salmon
Pppaaaaaarp.! 😯
Still thinking about ways I can incorporate beans/lentils into breakfast and still stomach them first thing
I had an omelette with aduki beans this morning.
100g of aduki beans fried in a little olive oil for about 5 minutes. Chucked in some tabasco sauce.
3 eggs whisked then poured over the beans, fold in half after a couple of minutes then cook for another couple of minutes before flipping over
Pppaaaaaarp.!
Actually, before when I ate loads of bread and pasta my guts were rotten. Constant farting, crapping loads, diarrhoea constantly
Since I've switched to idave my insides are massively improved. No more farting and bowel movements are vastly improved.
3 egg omelette with a combination of spinach, tomatoes, ham. i'm loving brekkie
The entrenched view that a certain meal has to have certain ingredients has no logical basis.
religious basis.
[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakfast_cereal#19th_century ]wiki link[/url]
I spent the last couple of days eating from a catering truck on a film set. Breakfast was easy - bacon, tomatoes, mushrooms, beans (OK there's a bit of sugar in them) eggs (fried, scrambled or poached) - perfect.
@ tomthumb
Not really, even your own link link talks about the popularity of breakfast cereals in Russia and China - vast atheist populations.
Even in the USA, marketing (and food company profits) is the driver.
Nothing to do with iDave but i have either
Toasted seeded bread with bacon
Porage with bluberries and natural yogurt
Scrambled egg cheese and seeded toast
Boild egg & toast.
Natural muesli with milk or yogurt.
And every now and then a big meat feast.
Sausge, bacon, balck pudding, scrambled egg, toast. 😀
Actually, before when I ate loads of bread and pasta my guts were rotten. Constant farting, crapping loads, diarrhoea constantlySince I've switched to idave my insides are massively improved. No more farting and bowel movements are vastly improved.
Likewise. Had wheat last night (pancakes + bread). Guts really off this morning.
Looking forward to my haira (north african squash and chickpea stew) for lunch. Proper food made by me.
Not iDave, but so far today I've had a bowl of Alpen (less calories than Fruit n Fibre) a few cherry tomatoes, a bag of French Fries (low carb and low fat) a few slices of ham, a seafood selection and a Go Ahead bar. That will do me till mid afternoon and I'll have a four bean salad and some more ham. About 900 calories all in and I won't eat much after that. A few cups of coffee throughout the day with half a sugar will bump it up a bit.
BigJohn - baked beans are not good. There's a little sugar, but apparently something to do with the the length of time they are cooked denatures the proteins, which is why in the few studies that have been done on insulin index baked beans are sky high. Worse than bread and potatoes.
Which is a bummer, quite frankly.
As for my own breakfasts, it's eggs and bacon mostly, sometimes sausages. Sometimes I also have half a tin of refried beans with a little grated cheese (yes I know).
Oh, I eat when I'm hungry too, not at a set time - usually little and often. Could be called snacking, but I'm not doing it on top of set meals.
Looking forward to my haira (north african squash and chickpea stew)
sounds interesting, how do you make it?
baked beans are sky high. Worse than bread and potatoes.
balls, half a tin of beans are a regular lunch for me.
I'm hoping refried beans can fill that void, although they are quite well cooked also.
Oh well thanks for the info, as I thought, left overs and eggs for those on iDave.
"0. Learn about nutrition and feed yourself healthily"
If you did that you'd not have anything else.
There is nothing wrong in asking what others do on there diet. I'm not on a diet as I don't need to lose weight, I am always interested in them as I'm a chef and have been for 20 years. The cooking of your meals is easy but this still didn't answer my question about the pearl barley and such.
saleem - I eat a fair bit of cous cous and I seem fine on it, but then I'm not iDave'ing. Biggest one for me was cutting out bread I reckon.
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Well, now I'm back from the [i]Slammer[/i]
Unless I've missed it, there seems to be a lack of fish for breakfast.
What about a Mackerrel fillet in the morning, or a Salmon steak, accompanied with the usual condements, dill, lemon juice, etc.
Anyway, as iDave points out.
Try to break the preconception that breakfast should be selected from a small list of "morning goods".
This really shouldn't be the case.
So go for it, anything, within the iDave diet context.
Goes.
🙂
possibly the most unIdave breakfast ever:
one weetabix
cover with a generous sprinkling of rolled oats
cover with a generous sprinkling of bran flakes
cover with a less generous sprinkling of good granola
top with a light sprinkle of currants/sultanas/cranberries
(I like sprinkles)
Mackerel fillets in spicy tomato sauce on a layer of cottage cheese & chives on seeded ryvita is one of my faves
Unless I've missed it, there seems to be a lack of fish for breakfast.What about a Mackerrel fillet in the morning, or a Salmon steak, accompanied with the usual condements, dill, lemon juice, etc.
I'll chuck in fish now and again. Getting a bit fed up of mackerel fillets full of bones though, which has put me off them.
my question about the pearl barley and such.
AFAIK all grains are out. Quinoa is in because it isn't a proper grain. Apparently you can make porridge from it but I've not tried that yet.
[i]I'll chuck in fish now and again. Getting a bit fed up of mackerel fillets full of bones though, which has put me off them.[/i]
I get mine from the fishmonger on the Market.
He will completely fillet them for me.
I may get the odd bone still, but I spot it before I put it in my mouth.
Two sides of a Mackerel, grilled and dressed with a few splashed of soy sauce and cider vinegar, drop of olive oil.
However, it could really be any oily fish, Sardines are another.
Also, has anyone thought about some of the flat bread recipes that have been posted here ?.
Some flat bread with fish or chicken.
How well do the flat breads toast up under a grill ?.
Flatbread and salami / chorizo slices, etc ?.
Yes I like smoked haddock in the moorings but it wouldn't be everyone's cup of tea.
Also, has anyone thought about some of the flat bread recipes that have been posted here ?.
The taste/texture is so different that they don't work as a bread substitute for me. I prefer to make a very thin gram flour batter, add finely chopped onion/chilli/coriander/whatever and make savoury pancakes.
Quinoa is great, always have in the house along with all the other pulses and the such, nice with almond milk in the morning, I quite like smoked salmon with shaved fennel, celery and radishes.
Zilog6138
That sounds more like a prata?
[i]I prefer to make a very thin gram flour batter, add finely chopped onion/chilli/coriander/whatever and make savoury pancakes[/i]
Top stuff.
At least you're creating variety in your choices /options for breaky.
Don't suppose you have the exact recipe ?.
😉
I've recently been looking into slaws, like a cabbage based coleslaw and a beet based coleslaw, " Beetslaw ".
I'll sometimes mix up a tin of tuna in spring water, drained.
With a thinned down hummous.
Like 100g hummous
50ml olive oil
50ml Cider vinegar
black pepper or tabasco sauce to taste.
It turns out to be a slightly thinner consistency than mayonaise.
Mix that with my tinned tuna.
Smear that on a flat bread and you're away.
Haddock is good too, ime.
I am also partial to Pollock, when I can get a nice bit.
Sainsbury's went through a phase of stocking pollock after that Hugh and Jamie show about UK food, last year.
But it is no longer stocked by my local Sainsbury's.
Since trying pollock, I prefer pollock to cod.
Grilled kippers with a poached egg and some wilted spinach are a cracking breakfast combo, as long as you don't mind the great smell of smoked fish throughout the house for the rest of the day.
I normally do my own baked beans, but when you're at the front of a big queue of luvvies and background artistes you can't really ask them to rustle you up some borlotti beans.
^^^ don't they know who you are?
They do now.
EDIT - Unfortunately, because I don't watch much telly, or go to the cinema, I didn't know who they were. Which is a faux pas, apparently.
[i]I normally do my own baked beans, but when you're at the front of a big queue of [u]luvvies and background artistes[/u] you can't really ask them to rustle you up some borlotti beans[/i]
Funny that. Cos I'd have thought all they'd want is a black coffee and a Marlboro.
On most Fridays that I find myself at work.
We pop to the local Cafe for eggs, fried or scrambled and bacon, Cafe stylee.
Mine get to go swimming with the odd tinned plum tomato along with some worcestrshire sauce and a few good splashes of tabasco.
But I rarely do eggs and bacon at home, for any meal of the day.
[i]Unfortunately, because I don't watch much telly, or go to the cinema, I didn't know who they were. Which is a faux pas, apparently[/i]
Its of no consequence to me.
I've seen and been in the vacinity of a few [i]famous[/i] folk.
I'm indifferent about it.
They're just regular people, imo.
Whether they know it or not.
Theres never any need to make a fuss.
@[b]Solo: [/b]
[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/chickpeaflourpancake_5094 ]http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/chickpeaflourpancake_5094[/url]
Cheers, Zilog.
😉