Monday 23 August

morning - coffee, 2 boiled eggs

midmorning - half grapefruit

lunchtime - 2 meat muffins with big salad & dressing of pureed avocado, coconut oil and lime with black tea

evening - pan fried steak (bacon & beef fat) with steamed spinach, silverbeet, cauliflower and sweet potato leaves. I decided these didn't count as tubers.

will continue to eat my way through the tub of strawberries

Wednesday 25 August

bit of a weird day with some food I wouldn't normally have but it was an at home day and I wanted to push up the calorie count

interestingly it turned out that my proteins were up even though I ate more fat than usual

morning - the james bond eggs, with added parsley, which were quite rich

lunchtime - I've been coming across mentions of the cauliflower pizza a lot lately which got me thinking so I made a baked layered dish with cauli, egg and herbs on the bottom (baked first like a base but NO cheese) then layered onion, mushrooms, minced meat, tomato and some greens and baked.

dinner - lamb mince made into a rogan josh curry to which I added baby spinach leaves.

supper - pureed frozen mixed berries

Today I just wanted plain meats and fats

morning - rare steak cooked in beef and bacon fat

lunchtime - steak in ghee and garlic with big salad of red cabbage, kale, mesclun, cos. rocket, celery and a bit of tomato. Poured the leftover garlic ghee and meat juices over the salad as a dressing and added a bit of lemon thyme

mid afternoon snack of a few strawberries with some crumbled creamed coconut over them

evening - lamb liver fried in bacon and beef fat (still pink) with steamed broccoli, cauliflower and carrot, followed by a few strawbs and blueberries

might have some nuts later

Today I just wanted plain meats and fats

lunchtime - steak in ghee and garlic with big salad of red cabbage, kale, mesclun, cos. rocket, celery and a bit of tomato. Poured the leftover garlic ghee and meat juices over the salad as a dressing and added a bit of lemon thyme

Sounds good ... I like using Ghee.

Had the kale in salad - I'm new to this one. Just planted some in the garden - it's not well known in Australia, so it was hard to get. Apart from salads I should think it would be ok any place other greens are - stirfrys seem appropriate. It seems a bit peppery but not nearly as much as nasturtium (gah must plant some I miss them).

As it's going to get really hot soon anything that makes a salad is welcome, and I'll need light greens to balance out the increased fruit I'll be having.

If you're able to track down tatsoi it is one my new favorites. It does well in early to mid summer and gets a little bitter towards the end of the year.  Sort of like a cross between mustard greens and spinach in taste.  I like chard as well, but it requires more prep.

I grow tatsoi! It's quite robust, I've found and good in stirfry or salad ( or anything really).  Chard is called silverbeet here - I grow heaps of it - very easy and also very robust. I also grow a lot of other asian veg - they are common here. We also get lots of tropical fruit

Because I'm tropical I can grow lots and pretty much year round (provided I keep an eye on solstices so my plants don't immediately go to flower and put some in pots to keep them out of the sun). I live in a high rainfall area so that helps.

Temperatures here range from 12-22C in winter (53-72F) although rarely that cold but in summer it's more like 22-40C (72-104F).

If you look very carefully at my avatar you will see I am quite jealous of you right now. 

Look in recipes - I'll post about it there

Tues 31 August

Going to eat a bit more dairy for a while

morning - omelette (just 2 eggs whisked with water) but with couple of pinches of grated cheese and chopped parsley and chives and black pepper

lunchtime - salad and tinned sardines (really liking red cabbage and grated zucchini at the mo) mustard dressing on salad

evening - coconut chicken curry (korma paste), with steamed, sliced broccoli stalk, followed by... you guessed it - strawberries