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One of the threads recently asked if meals were laid out to be photographed or were actually what we are. In my case it is what I eat. I make the salad that way to start of with...
So I thought I would put together a quick guide on how today's salad was made and post up some pictures of previous dishes as well.
First of all... An empty chopping board and the items from the salad drawer... The veg is pretty much just dumped on the board, along with some leaves from one of the living lettuce and today some spinach and flowers which were in the container of water with the kale. It lasts longer that way.
Grab your bowel, dish or plate... And put the wanted lettuce on one side.
As I top and tail the veg and then cut to size, I add the greens to the side without the lettuce and the other coloured veg on top of the lettuce, more or less. I literally just put all the same stuff together. There's some cooked, but not pickled, beetroot in the middle. Sometimes that will be the dip or a mushroom cut into 1/8ths.
I try to cut all of the veg to roughly the same length. There's no real reason other than presentation I guess. Once everything from the salad drawer is done and in the bowl, I'll add the dip and the protein to the meal. Here I have 2 lots of protein, tofu and boiled eggs. There's a little in the hummus as well, but we are talking only 4.5g in a generous 2.5 servings, so hardly anything when your aiming for 75-100g protein a day! The tofu provides only 7.5g protein per 100g so again not much here in the 75g of so if tofu. There is more in the hard boiled eggs, 50g after peeling. Hard boiled eggs typically have 13g of protein per 100g of egg, so there's 6.5g of protein here.
I weighed and recorded all of the ingredients I added today. I actually added in a little more that usual because I woke very hungry during the night.. More protein needed! Even this meal only had 18.5g of protein! Maybe 20g if I'm generous and include the very small amounts found in some of the other items.
So
46g red grapes 32Kcals
8g spinach 2Kcals
33g snow peas 15Kcals
76g celery 12Kcals
46g carrot 19Kcals
79g cucumber 13Kcals
7g spring onion 2Kcals
33g yellow peppers 9Kcals
50g cooked beetroot 22Kcals
20g lettuce 3Kcals
25g green olives 29Kcals
Total for the veg side of life is 158Kcals
73g tofu 94Kcals
50g hard boiled egg 77Kcals
So the protein comes in at 171 Kcals
And finally the rather generous (empting of container) 2.5 servings of hummus... This one is 52Kcals per 20g, so 130Kcals for my dip. There's no other dressings so that's it.
158 + 171 + 130 = 459 Kcals for lunch and 2 snacks during the day.
Lunch... As prepared inside
And outside in better light
So I thought I would put together a quick guide on how today's salad was made and post up some pictures of previous dishes as well.
First of all... An empty chopping board and the items from the salad drawer... The veg is pretty much just dumped on the board, along with some leaves from one of the living lettuce and today some spinach and flowers which were in the container of water with the kale. It lasts longer that way.
Grab your bowel, dish or plate... And put the wanted lettuce on one side.
As I top and tail the veg and then cut to size, I add the greens to the side without the lettuce and the other coloured veg on top of the lettuce, more or less. I literally just put all the same stuff together. There's some cooked, but not pickled, beetroot in the middle. Sometimes that will be the dip or a mushroom cut into 1/8ths.
I try to cut all of the veg to roughly the same length. There's no real reason other than presentation I guess. Once everything from the salad drawer is done and in the bowl, I'll add the dip and the protein to the meal. Here I have 2 lots of protein, tofu and boiled eggs. There's a little in the hummus as well, but we are talking only 4.5g in a generous 2.5 servings, so hardly anything when your aiming for 75-100g protein a day! The tofu provides only 7.5g protein per 100g so again not much here in the 75g of so if tofu. There is more in the hard boiled eggs, 50g after peeling. Hard boiled eggs typically have 13g of protein per 100g of egg, so there's 6.5g of protein here.
I weighed and recorded all of the ingredients I added today. I actually added in a little more that usual because I woke very hungry during the night.. More protein needed! Even this meal only had 18.5g of protein! Maybe 20g if I'm generous and include the very small amounts found in some of the other items.
So
46g red grapes 32Kcals
8g spinach 2Kcals
33g snow peas 15Kcals
76g celery 12Kcals
46g carrot 19Kcals
79g cucumber 13Kcals
7g spring onion 2Kcals
33g yellow peppers 9Kcals
50g cooked beetroot 22Kcals
20g lettuce 3Kcals
25g green olives 29Kcals
Total for the veg side of life is 158Kcals
73g tofu 94Kcals
50g hard boiled egg 77Kcals
So the protein comes in at 171 Kcals
And finally the rather generous (empting of container) 2.5 servings of hummus... This one is 52Kcals per 20g, so 130Kcals for my dip. There's no other dressings so that's it.
158 + 171 + 130 = 459 Kcals for lunch and 2 snacks during the day.
Lunch... As prepared inside
And outside in better light
In our house, if you had salad, it was your main meal, and you only ever had it when the various veggies were in season because Mum and Dad grew their own more often than not. We certainly never had any form of salad at school either, let alone dressing.