Healthy Lunch Ideas

I've been meaning to do this post for months. I take pictures of my lunches but just never got round to writing the post for it. I did a post back in March called Post Gym Lunch where I had a toasted New York Bagel Co bagel with smoked salmon, avocado & poached eggs. All these are healthy ideas if you're struggling to make something. They're all really quick to make & don't need hardly any prep for! Don't even involve that much cooking either!

Baked sweet potato, smoked salmon, half an avocado & cucumber 

Whole wheat pasta, tuna, sweetcorn, carrots, cucumber & tomato

Egg noodle stir fry with roast chicken, shredded carrot, red onion & asparagus

Whole wheat pasta, pesto, sweetcorn, roast chicken, tomato & cucumber 

Toasted New York Bagel Co, avocado, cucumber & tomato

Toasted New York Bagel Co, baby spinach & poached eggs

Toasted New York Bagel Co, spinach, cucumber, tomato & poached eggs

Tricolour pasta, pesto, spinach, carrot, pepper, tuna, sweetcorn & cucumber

Toasted white seeded bread, avocado & poached eggs

Toasted white seeded bread, avocado & spinach

These are just some of the lunch I've been having I do have porridge a lot after the gym. Just normal porridge oats microwaved using semi-skimmed milk. 

1 cup of porridge oats, 1 cup of semi-skimmed milk. Microwave for a minute. Take it out, stir it, back in for another minute. Then put some sultanas in, a banana & some berries if you have any.

I'll even have any left over dinner we have from the night before. It's very varied what I have but I do try to have some sort of protein as you body needs it after a workout to repair your muscles. I need to try & eat more protein as I'm trying to not bulk up but be more muscley. Have some definition & tone up. I'll try to post more photos of the food I eat just to give you some ideas of what to have. 

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What Asian?

Pasta Bake

I made a pasta bake for dinner last night, the cheese on top is a little burnt but it was fine & really nice!

This is only one of the ways I'll eat cheese if it's melted on top of pasta, lasagne, pizza, cream cheese or cheesecake. I won't eat a cheese sandwich or have slices of cheese.

This is going to sounds like a really rubbish recipe as I'm not going to be giving any measurements really it's all down to personal preference. I did follow a recipe from when I did food tech in like year 7/8 but all the ingredients & the amount I used was what I liked & wanted.

I used peppers, parsnips, bacon for the filling but it's up to you what veg you want to use, in the past I've used carrots, courgettes, onions. But I've always used bacon.

Boil your pasta & drain it however much you want & place it at the bottom of the baking dish you're going to use. Then fry the bacon & veg, once that's cooked put it on top of the pasta. Pour a whole can of tomato soup & 100ml of milk (you can add more if you want it to be more creamy) Then top with cheese. My mum bought cheddar but I think parmesan is a better cheese to use. You can put as much as you like, I didn't put that much as cheddar is quite salty & I don't really like cheese!
Then back it in the oven at 190°C for 45 minutes or until the top is golden & crispy.

That's how easy it is! No messing about with quantities just all down to personal preference of what you like & want!

Pesto Pasta

Today's lunch... Yet again for pesto pasta it's all down to preference to what you like as I didn't follow a recipe it's all the veg I like.

I boiled bacon, then a whole 200g bag of spinach. Drained it & put them back in the same pan. I used the left over pasta from last night, put that in the pan, chopped some peppers, lettuce & some sweetcorn. Then put about 4 teaspoons of green pesto. Yet again it's completely up to you how much pesto you want to put in depending how much you like & you can put whatever you want in it!

Fajitas

For tonight's dinner I made fajitas, with chicken, peppers, onions. I use a jar of fajita powder but you can buy the packs that come with the wrap & sauce where you just add chicken & veg to it. I prefer using pork as you it's not as dry, as this was really dry & I could have done with some salsa or sour cream, but it was ok.

I think fajitas are one of the easiest things to make all you done is fry the onions, fry your chicken making sure it's cooked thoroughly, throw your peppers in & add about 2 tablespoons or more of the fajita powder then you can use tortilla wraps, pita bread any wraps you want so easy & quick! I tried these Warbutons easy roll wraps for the first time, I cut it into quarters then toasted them & thought they were really nice, you don't have to toast them it's up to use. I prefer pita bread cut in half to have 2 pouches cos it's less mess that way.

This post is to show yes I am Chinese but we don't actually have Chinese food for dinner every night well not when I'm in charge of cooking anyway! I actually love pasta & would rather we ate pasta every night instead of rice. It also shows that you don't always have to follow a recipe when it comes to cooking. It is all down to personal preference to make it how you like it which I think what cooking is about. This is why I prefer making my own food rather than eating out as you know exactly what is in it you can control the flavourings. Experiment different things, if it works great if not try different things until you find what fits for you! Apologies again how vague this post sounds but at leas it doesn't restrict what you can & can't do!

Julie

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