Hungarian Scrambled Eggs

I love the way I was shown to make scrambled egg by my Hungarian step-father, since I detest overcooked egg. This method uses the heat of the vegetables to cook the egg, not the stove top. The result is tasty but light.

Ingredients

Selection of veggies: courgette, capsicum, onion, mushroom

One egg

Seasoning

Directions

Prepare the vegetables and cook until tender. Remove the pan from the stove. Add the egg. Move the egg through the vegetable mixture until you see that the temperature has dropped enough to stop the egg cooking. Put back on the heat only enough to warm through again and continue moving mixture. Continue removing and heating sequence until egg is just cooked. Season and serve.

Serves 1

Yum.

What did I eat today?

This isn't necessarily an average day, but is typical of what I am trying to achieve. Plenty of protein and low GI veggies, low fat dairy, limited fruit and gluten and minimal fat. This is deliberately restrictive as my goal is recover from Diabetes, which requires weightloss. And to have a food plan that stabilises my blood sugars at the same time.

Breakfast

Instant Apple Cinnamon porridge sachet made up with 1/2 cup trim milk and then mixed with a couple of spoonfuls of low fat unsweetened yoghurt.

Lunch
Half a serve of chilli beef and veggies, no noddles or rice from the Chinese at the food court.  I paid an extra 20c to have it served on a plate and have a takeaways container as well and I split the meal before I ate it. The remainder is still sitting in the fridge at work for the weekend. Whoops!

Afternoon Tea

A good few Peckish crackers - Salt and Vinegar. I love these ones though probably the Chilli are better and I love that they are gluten free.

Dinner
Veggies (sliced mushrooms, capsicum and onion) laid over the base of a square baking tin and topped with an egg then baked in the oven and served with a little oyster sauce and sprouts.

1/4 tin of drained Fruit Salad in Natural Juice.

Fluids

One glass of diet lift in the morning.

One small bottle of coke zero with lunch.

A couple of glasses of water and a couple of cups of instant coffee with trim milk no sugar - I never had sugar in coffee so this is just a personal choice

Snacks/Other

Two Shrewsbury biscuits before dinner - hey they did have magic in the middle!

A fish oil capsule and a glucose stabilising tablet from the health shop.

As I posted another time, this time is working for me because I am seeing food as helpful or not helpful now. So even though someone else may be eating something "delicious", I don't feel deprived.

This is a new feeling as I have always wanted to eat everything and probably been thinking about lunch the moment I finished breakfast. Now I don't even really think about food until I am ready for it.

Choosing to severely restrict my options is helping I think. It means that when I get home, I am thinking which of 100g steak, 100g chicken or an egg I will have tonight, and not the thousands of other choices I could be having.

I do find evenings difficult still though. I prowl for food while reminding myself why I am doing this. When this works, I go to bed happy.

Yummy Egg Fritters

A long time ago, before Sanitarium told us all to have Weetbix for breakfast, an egg was a really normal breakfast food.

I remember in Intermediate the Home Economics teacher spending the first week solely extolling the virtues of the humble egg. I took away from it that eggs are about the most complete food on earth and lack only vitamin C. Feel free to correct this 12 year old's information.

Eventually we were allowed to scramble the egg and finally whipped those eggs into a sponge cake. The baking never took, but I still love cooking eggs. I create a mean omelette or scramble. The trick to delicious eggs is not over-cooking them.

Ingredients
1 Egg
4 Button Mushrooms
1/2 a Courgette
1/4 a Capsicum
Finely sliced cabbage
Cracked Pepper
Lemon Juice

Directions
Prepare the veggies and place in eggs rings in a pan lightly sprayed with oil. Beat one egg with a little water and divide between the egg rings. Squeeze over lemon juice and season with cracked pepper. Cook until bottom is set, then remove rings and turn fritters over to lightly cook other side.

I served this with a side of lettuce, vinegar and lemon juice with a little cracker broken over as croutons.

Serves 1

I reckon this meal was on the table in less than 10 minutes. I could spend longer than that deciding on what to order while waiting in the queue at McDonalds!