Recent eats

As i mentioned in my previous post recently i have felt a little "tired of eating", might sound strange. But when im tired or just eat the same thing too often its like i get tired of eating - not to mention when i just eat on my own all the time. I invited friends over to eat pizza and drink wine this weekend however most of them are away this weekend as we have a 4 day weekend, so hopefully the following weekend works! But like mentioned, sometimes food gets boring and then my best advice for myself is to just mix it up.... buy a new type of vegetable, try a different type of potatoe, eat my food in a wrap or rice paper. Buy a new food/browse the store and find food i dont usually buy or have never eaten before.... or sometimes its just to resort to some expensive favourites which i i know i like and will make me feel hungry/want to eat. I know i am not alone with this feeling, i have friends who can sometimes lose appetite from stress or anxiety or just that they find it boring to eat on their own so they just eat oatmeal or bread for dinner.

I thought i would share some of my recent eats for those of you who need some inspiration or just need some plant based food inspo. And maybe YOU can comment below some of your favourite meals or things you have eaten recently?

I think i need to make some falafels or lasagna soon, or maybe try making potatoe waffles or home made pizza or makybe my own bean burgers! Or just a delicious salad filled with beetroots and kale and walnuts and brussel sprouts and sweet potatoe - yumm. Hahha, now im starting to feel hungry and might need to go to the store again tomorrow!


Homemade falafe which didnt turn out so great, vegan cheese, hummus, brussel sprouts and veggies



Oatmeal with chocolate tofu mousse, caramel popcorn, cashew nuts and sirap


Egg free omelette, pancakes, oumph (soy protein), veggies and crisp bread with vegan cheese

Pancake stack (oatmeal, flour, soy milk, baking powder - p.s use an actual recipe!), with tofu chocolate mousse and caramel popcorn and peanuts

Mix of veggies and topped with nutritional yeast and srircha

Potatoes and avocado - my first time trying purple potatoe and i can say its delicious!

Egg free omelette with potatoes, veggies, avocado and ketchup

My favourite type of salad and always an extra treat when i have long days of study!

How i eat - analyzing my food intake after a 4 day food registration

As a part of my university course i have had to do a 4 day food registration and now i have calculated how much ive eaten. I said i would write out the 4 days on here as i needed to write down everything i eat anyway, however on Saturday i didnt do much blogging and wrote what i ate in a post anyway (though not everything i ate), and my intake yesterday was far from a normal day of eating because of moving, so i didnt feel like sharing how i ate - even if i had to log/write down anyway - and then today is my last day to register however i have ended up with so much stomach pain (most likely from the raw carrots i just ate) so i dont know how much more food i will manage to eat the rest of the day (most likely just stick to cashew nuts (i bought 1kg cashews today, haha!) and sweet potatoe.)

I have begun to analyze the data of my food resigtration and first off i can say that there is ALOT of wrongs with the data. 1) I didnt weigh everything i ate, but i used eye measurements or measurement cups... but then translating the measurement cups to gram was much harder and meant alot of googling and i am sure it was wrong in some cases. But also having to make sure that the nutrition i tracked into the program was either the weight before cooked or after cooked as there is of course a difference in nutritional value i.e 100g raw potatoe doesnt have the same nutrition value as 100g cooked potatoes (because water is absorbed into the potatoes i.e so the weight is different after cooked). So there were a few guesses with that... for example i have no idea whether the avocado was 50g or 80g and had to just put in "half a small avocado" or "half a large avocado", but of course it could be a huge difference. And then of course the data system i use isnt the most updated and didnt have all the vegan foods i eat so i just had to make the best of it. But all of this means that the numbers arent accurate and in all honesty there could be a 500kcal+/- difference in what kcal i ate, and the same with the different macronutrients.

But also need to mention (this will all be written in my analysis that i need to do with my diet registration and activity tracking i have done) that i havent eaten "like normal" either. I.e i was craving pasta one day so bought a box of bean pasta and ate that because i bought it, but i wouldnt eat pasta normally because i dont like pasta, but also that Sunday definitely wasnt a normal day of eating for me so that of course had an impact on the results, and then there is today where i have alot of stomach pain and so my calorie intake will most likely be less than normal which once again has an impact.  Of course this registration is just done for my sake so that i can learn to analyze an intake, analyze how i eat myself and learn to use the tracking program as well as different calculations and references and such, and then of course the essay involved with all the tracking. But as someone who will work with nutrition its important to take all these factors into consideration, not everyday is the same and calorie intake varies just like food type varies!

Sooo.... what have i learnt from my analyzes so far.

I eat less than i think i do.... of course i think that has alot to do with the miscalculations, and that i maintain my weight (i think... i dont weigh myself though, but im sure i would notice if i lost weight) so i amnt eating too much or too little.

2) I get enough protein roughly 1,3g per kg body weight. And i am going to do an analysis of the protein quality and the combining of protein sources as well. Thats the next step.

3) I get a whole lot of iron into me from all the dark leafy greens, raisins and fortified soy milk/oat milk i consume, which is a great thing.

4) I get a whole lot of omega 6 into me and not alot of omega 3... but i do take  a vegan omega 3 capsule to balance that out.

5) I get alot of fiber, basically 200% of the recommendation! haha This isnt so strange though.

6) I dont get alot of calcium i.e 50% of what i should be getting, and i should consume even more than the recommendation because of the vegan diet and the calcium not being as easily absorbed. So im going to double check my multivitamin and make sure that i get enough calcium into me through that but also think more about eating foods with a high calcium intake!

So yeah... that was basically my analysis over my 4 days. Though of course these numbers could be very wrong but i guess its something to use as a base for self reflection anyway. I think its a great thing for everybody to go to a dietician or nutritionist every year or so just to check up how you are eating and get blood tests done as well. Its always good to get different tips and advice about what can be done differently for optimal nutrition! Sometimes you might not notice that you are lacking something until symptoms begin to show and then its gone "too far", for example im planning on getting blood tests done sometime soon just to check up and also make sure that my calcium levels are ok because i definitely dont want to end up with low calcium levels as i was in the risk for developing osteoperosis in the past due to my anorexia and low bone density (but then with the help od strength training and the right nutrition i was no longer in the risk zone.)

So.... if you want me to write more about nutrition or have any questions just let me know and i will try my best to answer!!!

Todays lunch


Yesterdays meal prep

Snacking!

Yesterdays lunch

The huge avocado i ate!

Life and vegan dinner recipe (lasagna!)

Hello and good afternoon!!

Finally a long day has come to its end and i can creep into my bed and just watch series!!

Yesterday i finally did my chemistry test - the test ive been worried and stressed about, but now its over. And the results - it is impossible to know,  but i am reminding myself that if i didnt do so well its ok, its not the end of the world. Not to mention that when you have 101 other things in your life and worries in your head its not easy to sit and concentrate and remember new information for a test. But whats done is done!

And to celebrate that my test was over i used my present card which i got from my mum and bought myself a new pair of pants and a cardigan which is much needed in this cold weather!!

And then the rest of the day i spent with a whole bunch of stomach ache and had to lie in bed curled into a ball because of stomach pain, so i didnt get much else done, hahaha.

Today its been a long day in school where i had lectures from 9 until 4pm. I love university and what im studying but to have 6 hours of lectures in one day is just a little too much, the brain stops taking in new information after the 4 hour mark and the next 2 hours i just spend feeling irritated and restless and tired, hahaha. 

During one of my lectures i sat scrolling through Instagram (hmmm, maybe i shouldnt mention this XD), and i saw so many photos of lasagna and so i got so many cravings for just that! So finally when it was 4pm and time to head home i got the information that no trams were heading in my direction because of a crash, so it was just to put on a smile and a podcast and walk home instead - my only motivation was that when i got home i would make lasagna!!!

I never follow recipes, so its best that you Google to actually follow a recipe, but i can atleast write out what i did. And also to mention that it tastes AMAZING and that half the lasagna is now gone XD

Step 1) Boil lentils with spinach for 15-20 minutes

Step 2) Meanwhile microwave the sweet potatoe (make fork holes in it before hand!), so that it softens and has time to cool down as well.

Step 3) Either 1 make a vegan bechemel sauce or do like i did and just mix oat cream with the cooked lentils.

Step 4) Place the lasagna plates in the form (and dont forget to grease the pan!)

Step 5) Either 1) mix the sweet potatoe together with the lentil mix, or do like i did and do different layers. I.e first lasagna plates then mashed sweet potatoe, then the lentil mix, then vegan cheese and REPEAT!

Step 6) Keep making the layers until everything is gone.

Step 7) Into the oven for roughly 15 minutes. Then take out and add vegan cheese ontop and then back into the oven for roughly 5 minutes.

It might not look amazing, i am aware of this! But  it tasted so good (forgot to mention - add whatever flavourings you want, i just used salt and pepper!) and it is so simple to make. A little time consuming as you have to cook the lentils and such, but once you have made the lasagna it will last a few days so its worth the time. And if you dont want to use lentils you can use soy meat instead!

So... just a little dinner inspiration for you all :)

I hope you have all had a lovely day and i will hopefully to reply to comments sometime the end of this week (hahaha)

Full day of vegan eating (yesterday)

After a request about more vegan food diaries, here is what i ate yesterday. I am often asked how a "typical day of eating" is and i can never answer that question because it varies so much. Somedays i eat 4 meals other days i eat 8 meals. Somedays i eat 1kg apples for a snack and other days i eat chickpeas and nuts for a snack and other days its oatmeal with banana and peanut butter. Just like dinners vary alot as well but at the moment its alot of lentils and chickpeas and potatoes... lots of potatoes, haha!! I dont count, weigh or track what i eat. I just eat when im hungry and sometimes more just because the food is so good!! Yesterday wasnt a very varied day of eating, but i pretty much just eat similar food and what i have at home which is very limited!

Breakfast: 2 dl oatmeal with cacao powder and a banana

Snack/post walk: 6 crisp bread with spread and vegan cheese & 2 brownie pieces.

Lunch: chickpeas, baked potatoes, kale, peanuts and oat cream.  (mixed together)

Snack: 1/2 lenny and Larry cookie & 4 clementines & handful of peanuts.

Dinner: Red lentils, chickpeas, oatcream, 2 clementines, a banana and salted peanuts.

Night snack: 1/2 lenny and Larry cookie, 1 brownie piece, 1 clementin and remaining peanuts from the bowl

Weekend of studying and procrasti-baking (lots of food pictures)

Hello!

This weekend has passed far too quickly (though its only 3pm on Sunday!). Ive been productive and studied, somewhat, but still it feels like the more i read the more questions i have and it feels like the majority of my time studying is just spent googling definitions and terms, hahhaha. 

Trying to not panic or freak out about my test in 8 days time.... I still have a whole week to study, so it should be fine!

Anyway, yesterday my plan was to study at school however the school was locked so i couldnt get in, though supposedly you can study there if you have a student passage card, but i couldnt find the right door to use the card on. So instead i ended up sitting at a cafe for a few hours trying to get some revision done. 

Studying at a cafe definitely isnt optimal and not helpful when a family with 2 screaming babies decides to sit right beside me (despite there being many free tables elsewhere) and then talk really loudly and let their children scream..... I must say, that my irritation and nerves were bein tested at that moment. But i managed to find a quiet area of the cafe and spend another hour revising.

After that i got home, made myself lunch, watched youtbe videos about chemistry and made myself dinner and then in the evening i watched the film "Nerve".... i dont recommend it, hahaha. Would give it a 2/10 .

Then today, Sunday, i woke up to minue degrees and a small "snow storm" outside. I so badly wanted to go for a walk but i didnt feel like walking outside so instead i took my notes with me and did some treadmill walking and studying at the same time! After that it was home again, make brownies (as the ones i made before are all gone as i gave them to my friends. But i had promised to give some brownies to my step dad when he is here next week!), and try to study some more. 

So far my studying today has been "10 minutes revising", "3 minutes phone time" and repeat... !  Thats how it is somedays, hahaha.

Anyway, this evening i will make a "positives of the week" post where you can add your own positives from the week, and i also wanted to say that i am so happy that so many of you shared your recovery succeses in my previous post!!

I hope that you can find some inspiration from others there and realise that recovery progress and steps are positive ones and ones you should be proud over :)

So i will make that a weekly segment where hopefully you can continue to inspire each other :)

New week and new positive thinking

It's Monday, 12.30pm and i am finally home again after having 1) had a short morning workout, 2) Written my test, 3) gone food shopping for the week and 4) made myself a delicious lunch which i will now eat once this post is written!

Today i am feeling positive and more like myself again. A week of negativity and stomach pain and overwhelming anxiety, but this week i am focusing on the positives! My test is written and it feels ok. I wish i was one of the people who could feel confident after or before a test, feel like all the studying was enough and that the test went well... but i never really feel like ive done enough until i see on paper that i have passed. But i can say that all my hours of studying and focusing solely on my work hopefully paid off! It definitely feels like a weight has lifted off of my shoulders now, however its just 14 days until my next test.... hahahaha. But instead of thinking about that, i can focus on the fact that in 30 days its my birthday and i get to see my mum again and also my dad and younger brother!! 

I am going to make November a great month, and finish the last two months of this year in a positive way!! I want to atleast get 2 months of positivity out of the year, hahahah?

Of course depression isnt just about thinking positive and putting on a smile - there is a chemical imbalance in the brain which requires some form of treatment, i am aware of this. But i guess mindset plays its role as well!

Anyway, this afternoon i am going to take some time off but then i need to start working on a group report as well as start reading for my chemistry class which begins tomorrow. But i can take a few hours of "freedom" anyway :)

Also want to tips you about my delicious lunch:

1) Boil lentils and if you want add soy meat (i dont like the texture of just lentils so i always add chickpeas or potatoes or vegetables or soy meat to my lentils!) and add some salt. Add paprika or other vegetables near the end of the cook time.

2) Pour in some oat cream/cream/tomatoe sauce.

3) Cut open the "lid" of a paprika, put in the filling.

4) If you have more time, then add cheese ontop of the filling and bake in the oven for 3-7 minutes (or more) so that the cheese melts and the paprika becomes more soft!

= super delicious meal. And of course to get more energy add bread, potatoes, nuts, (vegan) sour cream etc

It feels so good to eat wholesome meals like this and to take some time to just cook food and not just heat up food in the microwave like ive been doing the past while.

My food for the week, and it cost 30 euro which really isnt alot. However i will of course buy more vegetables throughout the week and other small things like sweet potatoe!

I hope you all have a lovely day. Think positive, and comment your positives of the day below :)

Also do you want me to post more food pictures/recipes? I just eat simple, quick and cheap meals but maybe that can be helpful to some of you?

(Also things like combining lentils with potatoes = full protein source) :)

Life and recent eats

Hello :)

Update from me!  havent had so much time or motivation or inspiration to write recently - so then i havent. I dont see the point of writing just for the sake of writing... i rather write posts when inspiration strikes or when i want to share something or just write for my own sake. Whether its sharing valuable quotes which might be helpful, sharing recipes or when i need to rant about something or write for my own sake. And then of course try to answer your questions or comments.

I love blogging, but it definitely isnt easy, and sometimes blogging and social media is a little overwhelming. Especially as i get emails daily on two different email accounts, i get asked questions via facebook, via DM's on instagram and even get recovery questions asked via my snapchat... so at times it gets too much. I would love to answer all your questions and help you all but that would be more than a full time job to answer all the questions i get, so at the moment i am just trying my best with my blog - and even on my blog im not doing that great of a job. hahaha.

But blogging should be fun.. its something i do in my freetime and when i feel like it, so i am trying to not put pressure on myself to always blog or always be updated or answer every single question i get, because that type of thinking and pressure is what makes social media not fun and makes it something stressful and adds stress into my life. Instead of social media being something positive and something i enjoy - which it is now when i dont pressure myself to always update or answer every single question i get on all my social media.

But anyway, moving on... i just felt i had to write that little bit first and let you all know, if you are wondering why  i dont always reply - i dont always have time to reply.

This past week has been a relatively good week, it has mostly consisted of studying and trying to not get sick. But today i feel so much better, both physically (i.e no cold) as well as mentally feeling happier. My test was done yesterday (always get so much anxiety after my test, and i actually woke up at 3am this morning and began stressing over whether i had answered the questions wrong or whether i would pass the test and just feeling anxious.  Its so silly and not a great thing to wake up in the middle of the night anxious because of a test... i mean ive done all i can. No need to worry now.) I still have two more weeks of this course left and another test in 2 weeks time which im already a little stressed about, but all i can do is my best. I still have 2,5+ years of school and tests to do, i need to learn to cope sooner rather than later!!

Otherwise... im looking foward to my birthday in a months time because my dad and step brother are travelling to Gothenburg to spend the weekend of my birthday with me, as well as my  mum travelling here as well! And ive also checked up different cafes that serve vegan cake, so i am going to make sure to get myself a slice... or a whole vegan cake for my birthday, hahaha! Or i might make my own one, depending on the cost of the ingredients XD

Anyway, today i have spent in bed watching series as well as doing my laundry and cleaning the kitchen. Taking a mental rest day from school work, and will be back on the study train tomorrow!!

 I hope you are all doing well and you all have a great weekend :)

Are you doing anything fun this weekend?

Do you have any positives of the week or of the day to share? :)

Or any recovery progresses you are proud of and want to share - i am sure you can inspire others by sharing your own progresses!!!

Below are some of my recent eats... incase you need any vegan food inspo, hahha!

Roast vegetables (oil, garlic and salt), with soymeatballs and kale as well as a bunch of nuts and raisins and ice cream!!

Yesterdays dinner - Battered cauliflower in pita bread with roast vegetables and kale!

Todays left over lunch!!

My snack from today - oatmeal with soyprotein mixed with cacao powder, banana and peanut butter and 1/2 bagel with mashed sweet potatoe and "caramelized" banana!!

Simple and wholesome food. And getting a whole bunch of vitamins and minerals and macros throughout the day. Its so important to fuel yourself and eat enough no matter if you are out and about all day or spending the whole day inside!

Full day of eating- food diary

It's been a while since i last did a food diary and it has been requested that i do more food diaries for inspiration. I dont know how often i will do them as i never remember everything i eat, but also that it can be triggering.

My appetite hasnt been the best today as i am feeling a little sick, but here is what i ate today:

Morning: 4 crisp bread with "butter" and vegan cheese & coffee with soy milk

Snack: 2 huge apples and 2 clementines 

Lunch: Lentil soup with sweet potatoes and carrots and vegetables.

Snack: Vegetable soup (made in school) as several pieces of breaded swede (i.e just swede that has been coated in flour and then fried in oil) (the others in my class ate swede that had been coated in egg and flour and fried in butter )

Dinner: Lentil soup with carrots, soy meat and vegetables and 2 handfuls of peanuts and 2 crisp bread with "butter" and vegan cheese.

Dessert: 2 more crisp bread with vegan cheese and butter & a some chocolate-peanut ice cream!

Night snack: 2dl oats with chia seeds, cacaopowder, sweetner and 1 scoop vanilla soy protein powder and a huge handful of salted peanuts. 

Everyday is different, somedays i eat more, some days i eat less... but this was what my body wanted today... even if that means eating 8 crisp bread with vegan cheese and butter in a day and several handfuls of nuts. Thats the energy and fuel my body wants :)

What i eat in a day vlog

Hello :)

So finally i made my first "What i eat in a day" videos. I had begun to do one on Wednesday during my free day, but then i ended up eating a vegetable soup and i dont think i had washed the vegetbales properly or something so i was super sick for the rest of the day and the only thing i managed to eat was some vegan brownies... so that video/vlog day sort of failed, hahaa.

Today however i needed to write a 24 hour food registration for my university course. So that means i write down everthing i eat and also weigh or measure it. Which is always an inconvenience and i wonder "how many of these food registrations will i have to do in my life?". I didnt weigh everything i ate today, i did some guestimation but i do find it interesting to see how much i eat and how much protein/carbs/fat and vitamins and minerals i get when i just eat according to my body. So i will analyse that on Monday during my class :)

I didnt do any talking in the video today, apart from in the start, because my house tennant was at home and the walls are so thin, so i didnt feel comfortable talking infront of the camera...  I vlog when she isnt home as i feel more comfortable then.

Anyway, let me know what you think and if you want me to make more videos or more full day of eating vlogs :)

Recent eats - and the unshown recent eats

Below are some of my recent eats over the past while - as i have been asked to share how my typical day of eating looks/what i eat in a day. But it varies so incredibly much at the moment. For example how i eat during my work days varies alot to how i eat when i am at home and also based on hunger, cravings, what i have at home etc

How often and how much i eat varies alot as well. But of course i have some type of plan to increase my intake of nuts, avocado, oils, potatoe, oats etc to help with an energy increase which my body needs! I love my vegetables so wont stop eating those, but adding vegan butter or oil to my veggies as well as decreasing the amount i eat of them and instead replacing with potatoes or bread is a much better thing to do for me at the moment, and i am already noticing a difference! But i am not going to write about that unless it is requested, but in general i just want to avoid the whole topic as it is most likely triggering and unnecessary here.

So instead, here are some of my recent eats and ALSO... the "unshown" recent eats. I find that many think they know how and what i eat from just a few pictures, but trust me... you dont, hahah. So over the past few weeks, when i have remembered i have taken photos of the food i eat which i havent planned to post - apart from in a post like this. .To show that you dont really know how i eat from just a few pictures, not that it really matters as what a person eats is so individual, but just so that you see that one picture doesnt show it all!

Lunch: Bread with fake meat, dairy free sauce, sweet corn and store bought vegetable fries and of course peanuts

Sweet potatoe and potatoe cubes made in the oven with salt and oil. Guacamole made from 1 avocado and store bought hummus as well as tomatoe sauce. (This x 2 was eaten at the time)

Dessert i had with my family a few days ago.

Breakfast i made yesterday - fruit salad consisting of 2 types of apples, 2 nectarines, 2 pears and 1 banana mixed together with the soy yoghurt, and then i also ate the 2 extra bananas and the avocado.

Yesterdays snack when i got home from work at 10pm. 3 pita bread, 1 with hummus, 1 with chocolate peanut butter and 1/2 with "cream cheese" (made with oats) and 1/2 with avocado.

Todays lunch: Tacos i.e soy meat with peanuts, sweet corn, nacho chips and some vegetables and some soy yoghurt on top.

Dinner i ate a few days ago with my family. Burger with tofu, oumph mixed with ketchup and potatoe fries. (This x 2 was eaten at the time)

Lunch: Lentils, sweet potatoe, vegetables, soy meat, sunflower seeds, sweet corn and crisp bread with spread.

Post work snack: Bread with chocolate peanut butter, banana, crushed oreos, more chocolate and of course peanuts!!

And now the unshown food!

My pre bed snack a few days ago: 2 apples, 1 nectarine and 3 bananas.

A night snack i had a few days ago i.e potatoes with soya yoghurt (This x 2 was eaten)

I was craving fruit - as you can see i have already began eating the nectarine and apple XD

Random snack i had a few days ago

After meal prep i just threw food together into a lunch box and ate it like that.

I.e rice, lentils, guacamole, hummus, peants and some soy meat

Dinner i ate a while ago: Beetroot burgers, fake meat balls, lentils in tomatoe sauce and brocolli

I tried making aubergine with vegan cheese - i didnt like them, hahaha. 

"Salad" consisting of falafels, pasta, sweet corn, avocado and fried onion

Cris bread with home made potatoe salad and fake meat balls with some beet root mix

Pancakes i.e flour, sugar, corn flour, oat milk

Lunch in a box - bean pasta, tomatoe sauce and peanuts

Fruit - orange, 2 apples and a banana

2 portions oatmeal with banana, oatmilk and peanuts

Lunch - mix of everything and lentil soup

Oats when home from work - oatmeal with banana and peanuts