Something a bit different....healthy eating week!

Me and my flatmate Jess (click to go to her blog!) have decided to try 

healthy eating.... we're students living in Manchester and rarely eat fruit and veg. We drink way too many fizzy  drinks and generally eat ready meals and snack throughout the day. This isn't about losing weight as such, but just to see if we can feel better through eating healthier stuff! We have made a meal plan, covering breakfast, dinner & tea Monday to Friday (excluded weekends as we both work and it's difficult to keep up with it....)

Below are a few of the meals we've already had. We're now on day three and we're doing well! Snacks we allow ourselves are nuts and dried fruit, sunbite crisps (soooo tasty!!) and sugar free jelly/custard/rice pudding pots.





Day #2 lunch 
- Reduced fat humous (1 tablespoon)
- carrot sticks (handful)
- wholemeal pitta bread (1)
- mixed leaves, spinach, watercress, rocket (handful)
- light salad dressing (drizzle)

Washed down with some sugar free cordial!

Day #2 tea Homemade Quorn Bolognese

serves 3-4

- 200g Quorn Mince
- one white onion
- half clove of garlic
- drizzle of olive oil
- 1 red pepper
- handful of mushrooms sliced
- tin chopped tomatoes
- 5  tsp red wine vinegar (to taste)
- parmesan cheese (optional)
- linguini or spaghetti pasta


This was a  really tasty meal, and Quorn is a great substitute for mince meat as it's 75% less fat! (e.g 75g mince = 220kcal & Quorn Mince = 79kcal)





Day #3 breakfast 

- 2x small seeded bread
- honey
- peanut butter
- half ruby grapefruit (tasty!!)
- cup of tea

I guess we're trying to cut out coffee and tea as well, but there's nothing wrong with a cup of tea now and again, especially with breakfast! Nice healthy way to start the day today :)


Other breakfasts have included....
- scrambled eggs on seeded bread
- porridge with honey





Today's lunch day #3

- small soft tortilla wraps (x3)
- roast chicken slices (wafer thin)
- cous cous (tomato & garlic flavour)
- dash of salad cream (light)
- handful of mixed leaves (spinach, watercress, rocket)

after lunch snack 
- sugar free hartley's raspberry jelly pot

We seem to be doing quite well with the healthy eating and haven't had anything naughty (i.e chocolate, crisps, fizzy, red meat...) so I'll probably try and update this post with other meals we've had! It's good to find filling meals to enjoy. We've actually been looking forward to all the meals, turns out we really like healthy food, we've just not been bothered to make any of it before!

If you can think of any healthy meal ideas then please let me know! We've made a weeks worth of meal plans, but we're running out of ideas!

Thanks for reading and check back for any updates on the health kick!!

Lucy x