Here we are at Day 3 and I am posting in the last minutes of the day LOL! I was at a 12 hour crop yesterday so that cut into a good chunk of ‘Timmy time’. Here is my piece for today. It’s fairly basic, which is good as time was running short.
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Day 2
Wow, I can hardly believe it. I’ve already done day 2. I didn’t have any of the resist paper that Tim had, so I made my own :). I stamped some green spotted paper with Music from Dark Room Door. I then stamped it with a boarder stamp also from DRD. I embossed that image. I rubbed over it with the distress stains then stamped the two Christmas images from Kaisercraft. I added a ‘on the edge’ diecut then added some trim and a diecut from Kaisercraft. Woot. 2/2 :)
Day 1
I am stoked that I actually finished Day 1, on Day 1, with 7 mins to spare LOL!
Here is my interpretation of Tim’s tag, and his techniques. I embossed the background and just inked over it. For the bird I followed Tim’s ‘embossing – embossing’. I made scrunched flowers using the distressed flower die. My leaves are from the Autumn leaves die. The inking of the background paper/leaves/flowers was using the ‘baking paper technique’ (Distress inks on baking paper-glass-craft mat-whatever and then spritzing water over it and putting your paper on that)
I’ve not added a tie to the top, I am going to stick them down to a mini book
Tonight we had a beef vindaloo and the mint yoghurt, had a salad to accompany it. The curry was lovely and flavoursome, but it was really hot, I think the chilli I picked might have been a bit spicey.. that or I should have seeded it lol.. lesson learnt :)
A basic salad and oven cooked chicken. Unfortunately the chicken was tougher than old boots, and it wasn’t how I cooked it (was lovely and moist, just tough) returned the uncooked portion to Coles and got a full refund AND products to the value of the cost.. so we chose steak LOL.
I made the lemon cous cous from book 2 and had one of the ‘rubs’ from book one. Was really yummy!
A nice and simple chicken stir-fry with lots of veggies. I’m really getting into the whole stir-fry thing.. I love sesame oil..
Today was the start of a new week, which means weigh day. I lost 1.6kg this week.. Whoot!
Open sandwich with rocket, chicken meat and my home grown alfalfas.
I really don’t like apples, so I’ll do anything to ‘hide’ them in food lol. Here is a really yummy sandwich that was, apple, cheese, plum sauce, sun flower seeds and something else.. lol sounds bad but it was really yum.
Tea was steak with fried onion and capsicum. Had a big salad, fresh beans and beetroot from my garden.
I made the spinach and pumpkin frittata today for lunch.. It nearly killed me putting in the effort. The cold is getting worse and standing and cooking was a silly thing to do, but I wanted to make this so bad lol. It’s 2 serves of veg, 1 of protein, fat and dairy. The whole thing makes 4 serves which is perfect for the next couple of days.. and I can freeze some.
Was really nice! Next time though I’m adding 1/2 as much spinach and will add corn and zucchini instead.
I cooked up a double batch of the Stroganoff and will have that on Sat night as Michael will be away metal detecting. It will save me cooking for just me.
Have come down with a cold, so didn’t want to go to the effort of preparing veggies, so used frozen instead.
Today a bright fresh yummy day 
Lunch was to be left over Tandoori Chicken, salad, and bread and butter, but I skipped my bread, and had a half serve instead, so I could have Apple Crumble in the evening. I didn’t over cook the chicken at lunch, plus it had marinated overnight, so was much yummier than the evenings meal.
This is steamed salmon, with Thai sauce and stir fried veggies… OMG! It was divine, delicious, spectacular, stupendous, fantastic, phenomenal.. best fish ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Today was salmon and salad.
One complaint I have about the CSIRO’s Wellbeing Diet, is that I am using book 2 and it refers to a few recipes that were given in book 1. I don’t think that’s right. Luckily I was able to get book 1 out of the library. Tandoori Chicken with steamed broccoli and brussel sprouts. I didn’t feel like only those two, so I also steamed cabbage and pumpkin. Both are on the free list so a-ok. 
I saved a fruit, fat, and bread unit so that I could make the apple crumble from the recipe book from the CSIRO (it’s a separate book). Was great! I also had a serve of low-fat custard with it. Who said this was DIET food?
Start of week 2. With the big blowout reception, birthday cake and 1 extra piece of bread, I managed to loose 1kg. Not bad..!
Here is my lunch, was a tin of salmon, various salad items and 40g of Avocado.
Tea tonight was supposed to be a meat in a broth type thing.. It didn’t appeal to me, and as I have been a little ‘off’ today (sore throat) I didn’t want to go shopping for the various things I need for this week. So I used everything from my fridge and some porterhouse steak. The stir-fry is similar to last nights, but I added chilli and garlic as well.
For a late snack I had this shake/smoothie, I had a fruit and a dairy unit left, so I made this, fruit unit half half with banana and mixed berries and dairy was 1/2 yoghurt and 1/2 milk. YUM!
Ah back to the full diet lol. Last night was great, but I noticed when I woke up I was actually kind of hungry, which makes NO sense as we were all stuffed full of wonderful yummy delights.. When I’ve been waking on the diet, I’ve been able to eat, but haven’t actually felt hungry as such.
Here’s tonight’s tea, it’s fish and a warm salad, asparagus, 2 colours of capsicum, pumpkin and tomato.
Well yesterday was day 5 and we had a wedding to go to, so I tried to cut as much out of my day as I could so that I could enjoy my blow-out.
For lunch I cooked up a mix of veggies and my protein portion. In hindsight I should have skipped my protein… Live and learn lol.
Day 4 on the CSIRO’s total wellbeing diet. It’s going quiet well, I don’t get hungry and certainly get lots of variety, with out it being ‘over the top’. I photographed lunch, which was a turkey and cranberry sandwich with salad, I didn’t add the avocado as I that didn’t appeal to me.
Dinner was polenta 'crumbed’ chops with fetta & zucchini(it actually had onions and tomato in it, but that’s the name of it lol). I also added beans it. I included a salad with tea so I could have the avo from lunch lol.
Well I had a busy day today. My great friend Tracey rang me up and came over to my house to collect her table from Scrapping the other night. She surprised me with cake, belated, for my birthday and also for Holly’s birthday. So we went over to Holly’s and shared the cake joy :)
I had a small portion of the cake (which was a delicious Jam, Cream Sponge cake). For eating the cake I traded in 1 bread, 1 dairy, 3 fat and 1/2 a fruit serve. I thought I could do with out the extra sugar from the fruit lol not that the jam counted for 1/2 a serve of fruit :)
Later I had an appointment then Michael and I had to go shopping (again right?). This time it was a wedding present, pants for said wedding and a tie. I got myself a couple of kitchen goodies while out and about 
Anyhow tea was supposed to be fish and salad, but when I got home I discovered that the fish (which the boy chose) was FROZEN so I ‘stole’ steak that is an up and coming meal and we had that instead lol. Here is my meal.
