Sunday
Sunday brunch, mortadella fold overs:
- 73g mortadella (x 4 discs)
- 104g Dutch Emmental cheese (x 4 slices)
- 2 hard-boiled eggs
- 2 tbps avocado mayo
- 10g French’s classic yellow mustard
- Finished off with a good grind of black pepper
Laid the mortadella out and spread avocado mayo on one half, drizzled French’s classic yellow mustard on the other half. Cut the cheese slices in half and laid them centrally on the mortadella. Sliced the eggs and placed three sliced on each mortadella disc before folding the sides over.
Monday
Dinner tonight was coriander chicken tandoori. This is a very simple curry dish with lots of coriander.
I used a tandoori chicken breast I purchased at the Curry Kitchen in Cwmbran.
The curry sauce was made from:
- Half a medium onion diced up small
- a tin of peeled plumb tomatoes
- 2 cloves of garlic
- 1 tsp ginger
- 1 tsp cumin
- 1 tsp coriander powder
- 1 tsp porcini mushroom salt
Melted 30g salted butter in a pan, added the onion and allowed it to cook out. I then added the garlic, ginger, cumin, coriander and salt. Gave this 5 minutes to cook in before adding the tomatoes.
I allowed this to simmer for 10 minutes on a medium low heat. I then added 1 chopped and diced scotch bonnet chili pepper and 50g green pepper, then the chicken.
Placed a lid on the pan, turned the heat all the way down and left to reduce for another 20 minutes. Finally added 30g chopped fresh coriander.
If you want to try a tandoori dish the rub is easy to make:
1 tsp of each of the following dry spices: ground ginger, ground cumin, ground coriander, ground hot paprika, ground turmeric, cayenne pepper and ½ tsp pink salt.
This can be applied directly to the meat / fish / shell fish being cooked or it can first me mixed with full fat yogurt and then applied to the produce being cooked.
Tuesday
Dinner prep for tonight, its crockpot season so I am making a kind of an Italian chicken dish. This will feed myself and my stepson tonight:
- 412g chicken breast (2 breasts)
- 165ml coconut milk
- 37g salted butter
- ½ tbsp of the following: basil, oregano, parsley and fenugreek
- 1 tsp of the following: garlic powder, bay, bacon salt and herb pepper.
Put the butter into the crockpot and added the herbs and spices. Once the butter melted I added the chicken which I had cut into bite sized pieces. Made sure that it got a good coating of the herbs, spices and butter.
Finally added 165ml coconut milk. This will cook on low for about 3 hours.
Just before serving I will grate in about 40g parmesan cheese, will help thicken the sauce and add to the taste.
Wednesday
Made a crustless quiche this morning which made up part of my lunch. Quiche was made from
- 6 large eggs
- 57g parmesan
- 52g extra mature cheddar
- 49g red Leicester
- 140g spinach (it was 300g frozen but after I thawed it out and squeezed the liquid out it reduced by over half)
- 75g mortadella bologna
Grated the cheese, beat the eggs, chopped the spinach and mortadella. All went into a bowl with a good grind of pink salt and black pepper. Mixed together.
Poured into a glass oven proof dish and cooked at 355f / 180c for 30 minutes.
This made four servings.
For my lunch I added 63g chines leaf (napa cabbage), 30g red cabbage and 45g cherry tomatoes.
I dressed the salad with 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil and 1 tbsp lemon juice. An easy quick lunch before work.
Thursday
Food prep, making crockpot spicy beef which should get me three meals.
Started by putting 37g salted butter into the crockpot on high to melt.
Chopped 77g onion and crushed 15g fresh garlic (4 cloves), added half tbsp dried fenugreek leaf and half a tsp of the following: porcini mushroom salt, black pepper, ginger, turmeric and savoury paprika.
This all went into the pot and I gave it a good stir around with the melted butter.
I then added the joint of beef, skin side down.
This will cook for about an hour on high then I will leave it in the pot over night until the beef is ready to be pulled.
The joint I have is known as the ‘round’ which comes from just above the hind legs. Its normally roasted but I prefer it this way, once you have got it in the pot, pretty much you can forget about it.
Friday
Last piece of quiche for lunch today with a stir fry of onion, mushrooms and red cabbage.
Quiche:
- 5 eggs
- 19g mortadella
- 14g parmesan cheese
- 13g extra mature cheddar
- 13g red Leicester cheese
- 35g spinach
I spread a layer 24g of Phily cream cheese on top of the quiche and gave a good shake of Everything But the Bagel seasoning on top.
The stir fry was made up of
- 56g mushroom
- 45g red cabbage
- 40g onion.
I used 35g salted butter to stir fry them in.
Saturday
Snack attack style breakfast this morning, ham and cheese stack with pili nuts.
- 80g smoked Bavarian ham (4 slices)
- 60g Danish Jarlsburg cheese (3 slices)
- 50g pili nuts.
Really easy, layer of ham with a smear of avocado mayo and a drizzle of French’s classic yellow mustard, next a slice of cheese and then repeat the process to build the stack.
Had 330ml tea with 2 tbsp spoons of double cream to complete the meal.
So who is this bloke, I hear you ask, taking space on Carrie Brown’s chunk of worldwide web Real Estate?
Well I am Vic Fleming and I have been following a ketogenic lifestyle since Oct, 2016. In that time I have reversed type 2 diabetes and lost 150lbs+ to regain some control over my health.
I have done this by revamping my whole way of eating and my approach to food and I hope to show that keto meal times don’t have to be stressful or complicated. I am not an expert or a trained culinary professional. I am just a regular guy who got sick of being told by his medical professionals that the rest of his life would be one that would be reliant on diabetes medications for survival.
Basic meals and meal prep are how I have been able to stick with keto and kick diabetes. I am now drug free and so much healthier. I am still a work in progress, and I will be for the rest of my life, I just wish I started this keto experiment many years ago.
Renée Jones is a counselor and coach specializing in overcoming emotional eating. After 40 years on the Diet Yo-Yo, she struggled to find what worked for her while emotional eating sabotaged every attempt. When she finally overcame that emotional eating to lose her weight, maintenance on a low-fat diet left her tired, hungry, and cranky. In April of 2015, she found the ketogenic lifestyle and later Carrie Brown’s recipes, which freed her from the Diet Yo-Yo and dark mood swings.
