Week Five - Tiff

I have no comment... to comment might drive me to the Tim Tams...

Monday (72kgs) (1660 cals)
7am - Punnet Strawberries (60 cals)
10am Punnet Strawberries (60 cals)
1pm - Banana (125 cals)
5pm - 50g yoghurt (50 cals), cookies (285 cals)
7pm - Pie (900 cals), couple mouthfuls rice (80 cals), glass red wine (100 cals)

Tuesday - Work planning day @ Yorkeys Boat Club'
7am - strawberries and yoghurt
10am - fantalles, a custard danish and a chocolate danish
1pm - Chicken wrap and chips, lemonade, glass wine
3pm - Berry cheesecake (disgusting!)
8pm - Chocolate from the little girl who knocked on the door fundraising today for her sunday school.

Wednesday

7am - Berry yoghurt + 3 strawberries (210 cals)

10am - Fundraising Organic Carrot cake muffin (for the RSPCA) (600 cals)

2.30pm - Strawberries, parmesan roll with butter (400 cals)

Okay... this is it... I have decided to give this blog a miss... after 5 and a half weeks, I've actually gained weight... 73kg this morning and yesterday as well... thats a 4kg weight gain since March. Writing down my food is not helping, just depressing.

But I'll keep watching you and I am sure you'll be back to your pre-baby weight before you know it!!!

Hugs xoxoxo

Nadine's Food and Exercise Journal Week 5

Weigh-in - haven't done it yet but I'm afraid there won't be any weight loss this week! Okay so it's 56.1kg I must have converted some of the flab to muscle hence the gain - well that's how I'll choose to look at it!

Monday am - half my bowl of brekkie (usual gold kiwi, cherries etc
pm - other half of my brekkie, huge feed at the bistro including dessert!
Exercise - 1hr ZUMBA!

Tuesday am - paw-paw and cream, macadamia nuts,
pm - hot chips with mayo, crakers and cheese, paw-paw and cream, shortbread, ferrero
Exercise - 1hr ZUMBA!

Wednesday am - pancake with strawberries, cream and maple syrup, macadamia nuts
pm - left over baked fish and rice.

Nadine's Food and Exercise Journal Week Four

Weigh-in: 55.8kg (down 600grams)

Monday am - half a black sapote, tiny gold kiwi, macadamia nuts
pm - organic sweet potato chips, 2 corn thins with cheesymite n butter, bowl of gold kiwis, cherries, walnuts, dates and yogurt, big bowl of ramen
Exercise - 1hr ZUMBA!

Tuesday am - big bowl of gold kiwis, cherries, walnuts, dates, yogurt, little bit of cold pizza, few chunks of organic chocolate.
pm - handful of peanuts and dried pineapple, roast veg, salad n crumbed chicken, ferrero
Exercise - 1hr ZUMBA!!

Wednesday am - bowl of porridge, 2 corn thins with cheesymite.
pm - 3 egg omelette with roast veg, ham and havarti cheese, apple crumble and custard.
Exercise - 2.5 k walk with baby on board.

Thursday am - pancake (Anakin begged me to make them!) with strawberries, cream and maple syrup.
pm - corn thins with cheesymite, chunka chocolate, sausage n vege curry with rice (WAY too much!).
Exercise - 1hr ZUMBA GOLD

Friday am - a shortbread biscuit, sticky rice.
pm - kiwi, cherries, brazil nuts, dates and yogurt, bowl of curry, ferrero
Exercise - beach walk with kids (about 3ks)

Saturday am - pancake with strawberries, cream and maple syrup.
pm - wrap with tuna and salad, bit of baked makerel and prawns, cheese rings.

Sunday am - fruit (paw-paw, banana, kiwi), thai food (sticky rice, a spring roll, curry puff n bit of satay stick)
pm - shortbread, white chocolate, coral trout (baked with sweet chilli, garlic, honey, apricots, cherry tomato and pesto) with steamed vegies and rice. (Heaps!)

Reflection - feel like my serving sizes are getting too big again, snacks and treats too frequent! But at least lots of exercise this week.

Week 4 - Tiff

Reflection
Well this is just getting ridiculous... actually gaining weight despite writing down what I am eating... The treaties have to go and I have to do some sort of exercise... that said, I still think its unfair that I gain weight and I really dont eat heaps and heaps (although I'm not starving lol), whilst others can subsist on cream and still be stunningly gorgeous! lol

After trying on bridesmaids dresses at the weekend almost made me want to lock myself in a dark room for the next decade, I figure its time to get more serious if I dont want to look like a circus big top in those flowy dresses.

Monday - 72 kg (total: 1370 cals)
7am - 100g mungalli passionfruit yoghurt (100 cals)
11am - Tangelo (100 cals) + Strawberries (60 cals)
1pm - Strawberries (60 cals) + 6 passionfruit (150 cals)
4pm - 150g Mungali passionfruit yoghurt (150 cals)
7pm - Homemade burgers (1.5 homemade bread roll, 2 rissoles, tomato, lettuce, bacon, caramelised onions, tomato sauce) 750 cals

Tuesday (1440 cals)
7am - Strawberries (60 cals)
11am - 1 tangello (100 cals)
3pm - Healthy Habits berry yoghurt (200 cals)
4.30pm - Homemade hamburger roll, 3 patties, tomato, lettuce, tomato sauce (600 cals)
7pm - Small slice chicken pizza (200 cals)
Midnight - Krispy Kreme donut (280 cals) - Rene's home from Brisbane!!

Wednesday (1720 cals)
7am - 1 Tangelo (100 cals)
11am - 1 Tangelo (100 cals)
1pm - small Teryaki Chicken Noodle Box (530 cals)
7pm - Lemon Myrtle yoghurt (290 cals), Lamb Schnitzel - cooked in butter and oil (570 cals), mashed potato and carrots (130 cals)

Thursday (1600 cals)
7am - Thick slice of homemade bread with butter and honey (210 cals)
1pm - Wonton soup (550 cals), Ginger beer (150 cals)
6pm - Glass red wine (100 cals)
8pm - Honey chicken , omelette (180 cals) (1/2 of chinese takeaway container
9pm - Crunchie rocks (200 cals)

Friday (1170 cals)
7am - Thick slice of homemade bread with butter and vegemite (180 cals)
10am - Punnet strawberries (60 cals)
12md - Punnet strawberries (60 cals)
2pm - 1 tangelo (100 cals)
5pm - Punnet strawberries (60 cals)
7pm - Toast (200 cals) , tomato sauce (30 cals), BBQ chicken (220 cals), Lettuce (5 cals), Tomato (10 cals) , cucumber (5 cals), glass shiraz (90 cals), vodka & orange (150 cals)

Saturday (2150 cals)
9am - Banana (120 cals)
11am - Chicken roll (500 cals)
2pm - Strawberries (50 cals)
3.30pm - Steak (180 cals)
5pm - 2 slices vegemite toast (350 cals)
7pm - Pizza (650 cals) & 2 Vodka + orange (300 cals)

Sunday (2070 cals)
9am - Mungali Yoghurt (150 cals)
1pm - Peanut bar (190 cals), strawberries (60 cals)
3pm - Cookies (760 cals)
7pm - Beef & Mushroom casserole with Rice (760 cals), vodka + orange (150 cals)

Nadine's Food n Exercise Journal Week 3

Weigh in: 56.4kg (down 100g)

Monday am - paw-paw, banana, sunflower seeds n cream, 2 x little homemade bikkies.
pm - bit of thai curry, wholemeal bread roll with antipasto, vege patty, lettuce, tomato n cheese,
paw-paw, banana, sunflower seeds n cream, skinny bit of pumpkin pie.

Tuesday am - bowl of gold kiwi, cherries dates, brazil nuts and yogurt, a little bikkie.
pm - 2 pumpkin scones and butter, homemade burger, vanilla milk.
Exercise - 1 hr ZUMBA!

Wednesday am - gold kiwi, cherries, dates, walnuts and yogurt, corn on the cob.
pm - Some of Anakin's left over lunch - vege sticks n mayo, ham and corn, pumpkin scones and rosella jam and cream and a bikkie

Thursday am - gold kiwi, cherries, dates, walnuts and yogurt.
pm - homemade chips with sour cream n sweet chilli sauce and salad, corn cobs, other stuff??

Friday am - 2x dinner rolls with butter n vegemite,
pm - 3/4 cherry ripe slice from bakery, crackers n camembert, dinner roll n vegemite, cherries, 2 ferrero rochers, celery n cream cheese, organic popcorn

Saturday am - organic ministroni soup, 3 raw spring rolls, half a sticky rice, cheese, avo, chicken and salad sandwich on grainy bread, vanilla cornetto

Sunday am - gold kiwi fruits, cherries, almonds, cheese, arvo, chicken, salad on wholegrain, some of Izzy's wicked chocolate shake from Wendy's, half a pizza, half a bag of prawn chips.

Week 3 - Tiff

Goal - TWO days treatie free, focus on portion size

Monday - 71.5kg
7am - 2 slices homemade bread with quark and honey (should have just had 1!)
1130am - 1 apple, 1 choc covered licquorice log.
4pm - Punnet strawberries, 2 bites of Ivorys noodles, a bite of Rene's fried noodles, a slice of crust with Avocado (I was starving after work!)
7.30pm - Morroccan lamb balls and couscous with harissa and greek yoghurt

Tuesday
7am - Punnet strawberries
12md - Left over moroccan lamb balls and cous cous
2pm - 1/2 packet of clinkers (after my car broke down & I was totally stressed!)
6pm - Cherries
8pm - Homemade pizza
Exercise - walked from Central to Raven's school, back to town to the bike shop then back to Central... in heels!

Wednesday
7am - Punnet strawberries
12.30pm - Chicken/bacon burger (yikes) and OJ
6pm - 2 steak and salad sandwiches

Thursday
6.30am - Punnet strawberries
2pm - 6" subway Tuna roll
6.30pm - 3.5 cold leftover chipolati sausages (you know the little ones)
9pm - half a tropical baked potato (made by Ivory at work lol)

Friday
6.30am - cherries & punnet strawberries.
12.30pm - Rosemary & seasalt crackers, about a half a cambert (!!) and strawberries
6.30pm - Barramundi burger & chips, glass wine at the Green Ant Cantina
8pm - 1 vodka, lime & soda, 1 lemon ruski

Saturday
8am - Strawberries
11am - 3 cherries & a sliver of watermelon
12.30pm - 3 chicken spring rolls with chilli dipping sauce and crushed peanuts (not the fried kind - the rice paper kind).
2pm - Cornetto (thanks to Nad telling me they were on special!)
7pm - Curry, rice & salad, springrolls and nibblies at Kirin's housewarming, 1 bottle sparkling wine.

Sunday - 73kg (Just ridiculous right!)
10am - strawberries, banana and mungalli yoghurt
11am - a few more strawberries with a huge blob of yoghurt and some crushed hazelnuts on top.
1pm - 2 cornettos
3.30pm - 1 Mandarin, cookies
6.30 - Home-made pork schnitzel, tomato, lettuce and spinach tortelini with burnt butter and sage.
7.45pm - Cookie (only 1 cos Rene actually COUNTED them and freaked out that some were missing!)
9pm - More cookies (barharharhar)

Nadine's Food n Exercise Journal Week 2

56.5 kilos. (Down 1.1kg)

Monday am - 2 glasses of fresh juice (orange, mandarin, pineapple, apple, beetroot, ginger, carrot, tangello.) Small bowl of peanuts and dried pineapple.
pm - 2 skinny pieces of homemade bread with butter and vegemite, half a vege roll from the bakery, 1 glass of juice, dried fig, big bowl of bacon, tomato n vege pasta, 2 bits of choc

Tuesday am - a bit of cornflake coconut choc-chip biscuit dough and a biscuit.
pm - tuna n lettuce sandwich, sticky rice, small bit of choc cake, jarrah vanilla coffee, small bowl of bacon veg pasta.
Exercise - ZUMBA!!

Wednesday am - poached egg on toast, about half a litre of pumpkin soup!
pm - about a litre of pumpkin soup! Couple little homemade bickies. Gold kiwi, pecans.

Thursday am - big bowl of kiwi, cherries, fresh date brazil nuts and yogurt for brekkie.
pm - Little bit of left over pasta, couple bites of hot chook. Huge dinner at Amanda's - almond chicken stir-fry, roast veg, savory muffins and bruschetta, chocolate almond mud cake, berries and cream for dessert (got some left over if you want to come down!) plus a sliver of caramel tart!!!!!

Friday am - kiwi, cherries, fresh date brazil nuts and yogurt for brekkie.
pm - sml chunk o mud cake with fresh cream and strawberries.
At the Show - Half cup chips and sauce, waffle with fresh cream, 1/3 of a plate of Girl Guides chicken korma curry and rice, fairy floss.
Massive bowl of cereal when I got home. (Had to finish of a few different pkts to make room in the pantry!)
Exercise - 40 minute hill walk, 3.3 k's.

Saturday am - porridge with honey, pumpkin soup and italian herb bread
pm - red deli chips, gold kiwi, dates and yogurt, couple pieces of white choc.

Sunday am - 2 spring rolls, bit of sticky rice and some thai vege curry
pm - Izzy's favourite tuna chilli pasta, piece of homemade sweet pumpkin pie n cream, n homemade peanut butter n chocolate chip biscuit (n dough).

Tiff - Week 2

Goal for the Week - Cut treaties from ONE day this week and do ONE session of meaningful exercise.

Monday - 71kg
AM - Punnet strawberries, 2 tangelos & granny smith apple
Lunch - punnet of strawberries, bit of olive roll with Quark drizzled teaspoon of honey
PM - Apricot chicken & Rice, bacon & cheese muffin
Do you think walking in high heels could be considered exercise??

Tuesday - 72kg (WTF?!)
7am - Punnet strawberries, 2 tablespoons passionfruit yoghurt.
12md - 1 pancake with a blob of cream and teaspoon maple syrup
3pm - Punnet strawberries, 3 bacon & cheese muffins
5pm - 3 choc drop cookies (had someone over for afternoon tea)
9pm- 2 slices toasted olive roll with leftover apricot chicken, 2 choc drop cookies

Wednesday
7am - Punnet strawberries, 2 tablespoons yoghurt
1.30pm - Chicken, pineapple, cheese toasty
5.30pm - Punnet strawberries, bite of Ivorys biscuit, 2 bits of kabana (first time I've tried it and it was totally gross).
6.30pm - Olive roll and BBQ chicken with slathering of tartare sauce.
8pm - 6 cookies (Ivory stop baking!)

Thursday
7am - Punnet strawberries, mungalli yoghurt
4pm - Muesli bar (thanks Rave) and berry yoghurt
6pm - 5 Cookies
8pm - a few sucks of Ivorys strawberry boost smoothie
9pm - half a tropical baked spud from Ivorys work

Friday
7am - Punnet strawberries, mungalli yoghurt LUNCH -
1130 - Small chinese takeaway - egg, lemongrass chicken and chow mein noodle.
4pm - Cookies... I dont want to say how many, but they're all gone now, so no more baking Ivory or Rene!!
7pm - nibblies at Mary's party - a stuffed vine leaf, a handful of vintage cheese chips, a couple of bocaccini stuffed capsicum... a whole bottle of sauvignon blanc
1am - Spag bog (thanks Rene).

Saturday
12.30 - 3/4 of a pancake with maple syrup
4pm - 2 muesli bars, 1/2 punnet strawberries
7pm - A bowl of spag bog with cheese, a glass of ginger beer and a few of Rene's cookies.
9pm - Thick slice homemade bread with Quark and honey

Sunday
9am - punnet of strawberries
10am - a few of Rene's cookies
12.30pm - 2 slices homemade bread, toasted with butter and vegemite
4pm - Muelsi bar
7pm - Chinese noodles and fried rice


Reflection
I think portion size (over-eating) is the most notable thing thus far this week...

Tiff's Journal Week One

Now I am a contributor under my own account, I can't access my last post without signing back in as Nad...

I think this is going to be a transition week... although there is no devilish triple layer sponge with chocolate mouse layers, choc chips, ganache and butter cream sitting in my fridge... there IS almond bread and macaroons from the Mission Beach markets yesterday and Giant Fruchocs that came in the mail today from Adelaide...

Monday - 72kg
AM - 1 passionfruit, 1 apple, 2 tbsp Mungali passionfruit yoghurt, cherries, tangelo
Lunch - Beef hot pot from Corea Corea (Thai food restaurant),
Dinner - omelette
Treaties - almond bread, macaroon, 2 Fruchocs and lots of green tea.

Tuesday - Couldnt do up the pants I fit into last week!
AM - 2 punnets strawberries, 2 tangelos
Lunch - fruit salad
After work - slice of omelette
Dinner - bacon, beef, tomato pasta
Treaties - a handful of dark choc drops (for cooking!)
Exercise - walked a couple of blocks between Cairns Private and the Base.

Wednesday
AM - 1 Boiled egg, 3 strawberries and a couple tablespoons of Mungali passionfruit yoghurt
Lunch - Mini chicken wrap (sounds healthy right? but it was from Hungry Jacks in the car between clients)
After work - Vanilla & honey Mungalli Yoghurt
Dinner - Crumbed fish (the yucky frozen kind picked up on my way home from work) and salad (raw beans, grape tomatoes and cucumber), slatherings of tartare sauce
Treaties - oh my gosh I am shamed to say, another handful of choc chips from the freezer! I felt sick afterwards if its any consolation.

Thursday
AM - Vanilla & honey Mungalli Yoghurt, 2 passionfuits
Lunch- 4 jelly snakes (someone brought them to work! I HAVE to learn to say no!), 2 passionfuit, cheese crackers
PM - HUGE chicken, cheese & mayo roll

Friday
AM - Handful of cherries, 1/2 punnet strawberries & 1 tangelo
MT - Slice of chocolate cake at what would have been Angelbaby Brooke's 1st birthday
LUNCH - BBQ chicken leg (skinless), lettuce and an olive roll
PM - 2 slices pizza, cherries, 1 tangelo
Treaties - 2 NICE cookies, passionfruit cheesecake

Saturday
AM - 1 punnet strawberries, Carmen's apricot muesli bar, soy crisps (thanks Anakin!)
Lunch - Slice homemade chive & parmesan bread with butter
PM - 6 inch meatball sub
Treaties - 3 NICE cookies, slice passionfruit cheesecake, grainwaves (at the movies)

Sunday
AM - 1/4 left over subway & thick slice homemade chive & parmesan bread with butter
Lunch - Strawberries
PM - 1/2 a pizza... yep half a fricken pizza
Treaties - Cookies that Ivory made... one from every batch.... dont ask me how many batches! THE TREATIES HAVE TO GO!

Reflection
What a shock... If you asked me before this week I would have told you "I don't eat much junk" but looking back on this week I have eaten something 'junky' every single day this week... and I don't even really like sweet stuff!!!!

Biggest Loser: Nadine

Okay, so it's been a couple of years since I looked in here and no, I never did shift that extra 5 kilos. In fact I've had another baby and now weigh, not 5, but 7 and a half kilo's above my ideal weight! I'm breast feeding so I think weight loss needs to be slow and steady so my milk supply isn't affected. I've developed a passion for ZUMBA which will hopefully work in my favour! During the last couple of weeks I've had plenty of visitors that needed feeding up and Anakin and I celebrated our birthdays with delicious chocolate cakes of course! Some of which is still in the fridge, so expect my food consumption to still contain delicious things, but just every second day I hope! As I've mentioned the mere thought of actual "dieting" makes me want to shovel things in my mouth twice as regularly. I love to bake with the kids and much of my social life revolves around shared meals and morning teas with friends and family and I don't want this to change too much. A few tweeks to my eating habits plus regular exercise to increase my muscle mass will have to be enough to give my metabolism the boost it needs to disappear the puddin' and give me back some bitching curves and muscular definition. A little modification has been made to the stats below and everything else still applies! xx

Nadine, 36, 161.5cms
Initial weight: 57.7kg
Goal weight: 50kg - 52kg
My Strategies: 1) Increase cardio' exercise (Zumba twice weekly, hill walks pushing Anakin and André in his Ergo, cross-trainer). 2) Choose fresh raw food before lunch. 3) Eat dinner as early as possible and then no more eating. 4) Ease back on the cream consumption and other unhealthy fats. 5)Try to get more sleep. 6) Drink more water.
Synopsis: I have a penchant for tea and cake (or danish or chocolate or whatever else is going...) and the dinners I cook are often rich and heavy (and tasty!) Although my diet is mostly healthy I tend to overeat and I don't help matters any by being less active than I should. My saving grace is that I don't drink sugary drinks (no softdrink, alcohol or sweeteners) and I've never really "dieted", (my body knows it's going to be fed regularly and in abundance so doesn't bother storing too much). Calorie counting is too much fuss for me but I do think keeping a "Food and Exercise Journal" will help me restrain from eating random things on-the-go (or every time I happen to be in the kitchen!) And help keep me motivated and accountable. I don't want to deny myself too much so I'm hoping the few strategies above will do the trick and shift the few extra kilo's I have retained since my last pregnancy.
My Motivation: Getting married in November! I can't wait to fit into my clothes nicely again, without it all squeezing out over the top and buttons popping when I sit down! I want to look scintillating for my partner ;) Love to see the cellulite disappear.
My Reward: If I reach my goal I'm considering buying myself a treadmill.
My Tips: Plan ahead so you don't have to prepare food when you're really hungry, this tends to be when you shovel any old thing in for a quick fix. Only eat calories, don't drink them as well(unless of course it's a healthy juice or smoothie and replaces solid food). If you are going to treat yourself to something nice, sit down and really enjoy it! Notice how good it is.

Nadine's Food and Exercise Journal

Week 1

Monday am - a few teaspoons of sticky rice, half a black sapote and cherries.
pm - chicken and salad wrap, gold kiwi fruit, dried fig, big dinner at the bistro.
Exercise - 15 min' cross trainer

Tuesday am - a glass of passionfruit, sml piece of birthday cake.
pm - piece of crumbed fish, 2 gold kiwi fruits, dried fig, chicken and salad wrap, date scone and butter.
Exercise - 1hr ZUMBA

Wednesday am - black sapote n honey, big omellete with roast veg, chicken, mushroom n havarti cheese.
pm - v.sml piece of cake, date scone and butter, fist size portion of tuna pasta, a dried fig n few pecans with cuppa.

Thursday am - Starting my days with apple cider vinegar and a big glass of water! paw-paw (they ripened!) n banana, home-made sesame, sunflower n walnut bread with butter n honey (you picked beautiful honey!).
pm - watermelon, said bread with vegemite, sushi rice with tuna n mayo, dried figs and pecans.
Exercise - 1hr ZUMBA NO JUNK FOOD TODAY!!!!

Friday am - paw-paw, porridge with honey.
pm - homemade bread n vegemite, 3/4 of a chicken teriyake foot long, slice of Tiff's baked cheesecake.

Saturday am - vegemite dinner roll.
pm - californian suchi roll, couple mouthfulls of Greg's Golden Wok, piece of Tiff's homemade bread, piece of cheesecake, dinner roll with chicken, anti-pasto and pasta salad filling.

Sunday am - bacon and egg muffin with hashbrown and iced coffee (not the creamy kind unfortunately!), dinner roll with chicken, anti pasto and pasta salad filling, half Anakin's vegemite dinner roll, Ivory's chocdrop biscuit.

Weekends away aren't crash hot for my dietary intake! STARVING FOR FRUIT after 2 days without it!! Need to go raid the fruit stalls tomorrow!

Crashing the Blog

Hi... I'm Tiff... I'm crashing Nad's blog in the hope that we can motivate each other to lose 7kg (hopefully by the end of the year!).

About Me:
Tiffany, 36, 162cms
Initial weight: 72kg
Goal weight: 65kg

I tend to eat when I am not hungry... I am not a huge junk food fan, but when I eat it, I go overboard. I have struggled with my curves since I hit puberty but since having kids have struggled with the bulge. I am peri-menopausal and spreading everywhere! My weight can yo-yo 3kg either way on any given day, then gets stuck usually on the higher number... I consume about 1400-1600 calories a day and still gain weight. If I dont exercise I cant maintain a basic weight and gain despite a good diet and low cals (increasing cals doesnt help, I just store more). I dont believe in diets - I think they are a croc! I don't expect I will ever be 50kg again, I am happy with 60-65kg to be healthy and comfortable.

My Strategies:

• Exercise sometimes in some form...
• Eat fresh raw food until dinner
• Keep my calories around 1000 (it sounds low, but much more than that and I store it!)
• Eat dinner around 5-6pm
• Keep my portion size about fist size
• Reread French Women Dont Get Fat for inspiration
• Limit alcohol

My Motivation: Nad's wedding... I want to fit into a dress that doesn't make me look like I am a frump in a satin sack!

My Reward: My health basically, and to feel comfortable in my own skin!

Nad! Its time to update yours too!!

Recipes

CHEESE, CORN AND BACON MUFFINS

Ingredients:
½ cup polenta or cous cous
½ cup milk3 bacon rashers
1 large onionparsley and chives
1 ½ cups s.r. flour
1 tbspoon caster sugar
310g tin corn kernels (drained)
125g tin creamed corn
100g melted butter
¾ cup grated chedder cheese
2 eggs lightly beaten

Method:·
Preheat oven to 180‘C·
Mix polenta and milk in small bowl·
Cook bacon and onion, add chives and parsley – cool for 5 minutes·
Sift flour and sugar into a large bowl·
Stir in corn kernels, creamed corn and bacon mixture·
Add melted butter, egg and polenta mix and cheese.·
Mix only until just combined·
Divide mixture into 12·
Bake until well risen and golden brown (approx. 20 minutes)


ENERGY SLICE

In a bowl combine:
2 cups of rolled oats
2 cups of chopped pecans
1 cup of All-bran
1 cup of wholemeal plain flour
1 n a bit cups of sultanas
a pkt of glaced cherries, chopped
1/2 cup of shredded coconut
1/4 cup of sesame seeds
1/4 cup of sunflower seeds
couple tbspn raw sugar

Melt together and add:
1 cup of butter
2 tbspn honey

Lightly beat n add:
4 eggs

Press mixture into a greased slice tin (or two) bake in pre-heated moderate oven til golden (25 minutes or so)

TUNA SALAD

Roughly chop:
lettuce
sugar snaps
snow peas
beans
red capsicum
corn (off the cob)
baby spinach
parsley
shallots
cherry tomato
dates
add:
big sprinkle of sesame seeds
tin of tuna with olive oil