example of my eating plan

Ok so I’ve been "clean eating", "eating right" "eating fresh" whatever you want to call it for about 2 weeks now. I haven’t been as strict as I probably should be but it takes time to change your eating habits for good and permanent change.

I have been trying to make everything from scratch that go's in my mouth, I have a free day or two depending what is happening that week.
There are a few things I LOVE, I’m a huge PASTA fan. I love spaghetti, macaroni, and any pasta. So I TRY to buy the whole meal or brown pasta which isn’t really available here and I limit to maybe 2 meals a week.

Rice, well it’s really hard to eat out here and not order something that does have rice. So eating out has been limited, well trying.

Also Indonesians LOVE sweet stuff, bread here is disgustingly sweetened with sugar.

I’m really lucky here because I have the time to cook from scratch, all the time. I tend to have a BIG cooking day; usually the day after Tatie (my maid) goes to the market. I do up a huge chicken and veg soup, spinach and lentil soup, beef and red wine casserole, and a quiche and portion them into freezer containers.

So like I said there are a few things I just can’t live without: REAL FATTY MILK!!!! Pasta hit now and then, mint slice biscuits and a few beverages... All of these things are ok in MODERATION!!!!
MODERATION!!!!-this is one word that has been lost in our society for far too long! People over eat, and not good food. They get UP-sized meals; really did you need those extra chips full of sugar? And that Pepsi full of sugar? NO you really didn’t.

I get very angry when I hear or read usually oh I didn’t know that was bad for me.......REALLY you had no idea that if you sat down and ate that whole packet of chocolate biscuits that there would be no side effects?

ahh anyway totally of the track, all I’m trying to say is that people need to stop playing dumb, ask for help, or research and take some accountability for their own lives.

ok so just 2 short weeks into changing my eating for the better, (not that it was veer really bad) iv never really been a junk food person but with kids you find that pasta's and rice dishes, and breads are on your main shopping list a lot of the time because their easy, cheap, and you know the kids will eat it! But our children have to learn the difference between fresh eating and bad habit eating as well and grow and expand there taste’s.
I only had knee surgery in March; I’m really impressed with the results so Far., following is an idea of what I have been eating:

DAY 1
Breakfast: Oats with brown sugar and whole milk
Snack: Banana and berry smoothie with whole milk
Lunch: Lentil and spinach soup
Snack: Muffin (Homemade) Sometime miss this snack if I had a late lunch or having early dinner
Dinner: Baked Lemon chicken with steamed veg.

Day 2:
Breakfast: scrambled eggs half a piece of toast (homemade bread) (whole meal)
Snack: smoothie
Lunch: tuna + a quick salad
Snack:  strawberries
Dinner: Grilled salmon fillet with stir fry veg.

There are just 2 examples of some meals that we eat. I will be posting a recipe a day so stay tuned.

Tash xxx