Better late than never (I did Sam's challenge)

I know I am very late with this challenge but my excuse is that I went on holiday before the end of the challenge and have only just got back. I did consider chickening out but then thought better of it. Who would dare to ignore Sam's challenge so I continued taking photos for the full week (well when I remembered but you know what it's like on holiday and I didn't want everyone to think I was a total nut case). Overall it turned out to be rather a boring food week and I realise I have a very repetative diet especially when I don't have much time. I cannot download any of the free photo systems. I did try but apparently my computer systems are too old so should you read this there is no slick little slide show. This means I will just be posting day by day record with photos, this could be a big mistake, given I'm not a good photographer it's probably a bit boring:

I always start every day with a cup of boiled water when I am with Beccy she puts lemon in it I don't at home.










This is followed by a glass of freshly juiced fruit and veg as much organic as I can get and usual is apples, carrots, cue, pepper, celery, toms, courgette.

I always end the day with camomile tea.





Monday 20th
This winter I have started having porridge oats with fruit. On Mon it was blueberries and my last meal with Beccy before she took me to the airport.









I normally don't eat at the airport but I had a long wait so bought myself a sandwich and bottle of water; I could have chosen a salad but got tempted with this instead. However it was organic!









I was trying to take photos without drawing attention to myself. If anyone saw me take this they would have thought I was mad. Well Sam did say everything you ate, and I like to suck a sweet as the plane takes off.


Now this is where it gets embarrassing; returning home no food in the house and Mike saying let's have fish and chips. So I reluctantly agreed as I did not really want to cook. No one will believe me but I did only eat the fish (no batter) and very few chips leaving the rest. I should have taken a second picture what did not get eaten.




Tues 21st
Breakfast








Lunch of carrot and ginger soup.










Dinner- well I did have the healthy broccoli oh I nearly forgot to mention the little tipple.











Wed 22nd
Breakfast and lunch as yesterday.

A little afternoon snack of malt loaf (ok I confess it's not home made)









Braised steak with mushrooms and carrots (this needed a little more flavour I should have added some red wine) and mashed potato and purple sprouting.. Yes that is a wine glass you see and no I don't indulge every night.




Thurs 23rd
No change to b'fast also had juice and finished up the soup for lunch.







Fresh pineapple makes a delicious snack and I saved some for Mike.











Some thing quick has to be a bog standard pasta bake ( cheese and tomato) very unimaginative but Mike likes it.







Fri 24th
B'fast porridge and juice. I was so busy I didn't really stop for lunch it was an apple and a piece of toast which I forgot to photograph at the time.

Yes I hold my hands up- I found four squares of choc in my cupboard and I ate them without thinking, those who read my post for this day will know I have already confessed, so I had to photo the wrapper instead. I promise it was only four squares but that's four too many and there was no one around to share.






Just a quick bean sprout meal as I had a very busy day getting in food to leave for mum and Mike as I was leaving for the Costa del Sol the following day.






Sat 25th
Frantic morning, usual juice and porridge for b'fast, cooked a pack of sausages to leave for Mike who coud not resist eating one immediately- they were supposed to be for his lunch when he got back from driving us to Cardiff airport.
I had some natural organic yoghurt, strawberries and blueberries to use up so made us a smoothie, oh added a banana as well.









Lunch at the airport was a little something I prepared at home (houmous in the pot). I did have a mint sweet on the plane and a tomato juice didn't have the camera out to photograph.





Having arrived at our destination rather later than anticipated (useless taxi driver will explain in future post) we went for a meal in the pool restaurant. This believe it or not was supposed to be a lasagne and it was every bit as bland and boring as this photo. Serves me right I should have stuck a salad as I discovered later in the week the salads were good. Of course the challenge was over by then.

Sun 25th
Holiday or not I still started the day with boiled water, my porridge had dried cranberries added. It took me several days to get the consistency correct ( different microwave) sorry didn't photograph the gooey splodge of the first day. As you have guessed we were self catering but we only made b'fast in the appartment. I didn't have lunch but did have a few nuts and crisps with a glass of Sangria again didn't take photo but I am owning up.

We decided to try the paella for dinner, it was meant to be for two but would easily have been enough for the three of us. I was even halfway through this before I remembered to take a quick snap; this is why it looks a bit messy as it's half eaten. I left quite a lot of the rice but I have discovered that I actually like mussels and I cannot remember ever having had them before.

I know there were far too many calories consumed by yours truely and I have told myself that now I am back from holiday I will be watching what I eat. The trouble is there is a lot of socialising to be done leading up to Christmas and who can be careful over the festive season. Well I am full of good intentions but maybe that's for the new year !!
I'll start telling you about my holiday tomorrow. I have a lot of blog reading to catch up on as well.