May...

PICTURES: Leek Soup, Veg Soup, Couscous, Lamb Stew

 

 

I have to apologise for my sporadic, dry and inedible posts lately, there is reason I promise!!

 

After being exhausted for three months, I got to the point where I thought I had full blown ME. I was sleeping solidly through the night and I just could not wake up in the mornings, my poor husband felt like he was a bachelor again: he'd get home to a cooked meal and a sleeping wife and leave in the morning after kissing a sleeping wife… sorry Franc.

 

I was having migraines every day, I was having an asthma attack every day, my eye sight was poor, my ears were blocked, I was weak, listless, depressed and just not a happy camper. Well, after having a mini breakdown my husband bundled me up and took me to a doctor, after taking one look at me he said in a lisping voice

"You are a sick lady….you are living within a constant state of asthma, you have become so used to being ill that you don't know what its like to be well anymore. You need to get this under control because from what I can see, the state that you are in is not one that I would like to live in. You need to double your cortisone nasal spray, you need to take your antihistamine everyday, you need to go on a strong course of steroids and you need to hydrate yourself and rest, your nose inside is a mess, the lining is inflamed, it looks terrible, your chest is tight, your eyes are milky, your ears and affected and this is not a good situation at all, at all"

 

Well.

 

Just hearing that I was not dying was an energy booster for me! After a day of taking the steroids I was like the energiser bunny, I had so much energy! I laughed, cracked jokes and messed around (all before 5am Friday Franc=not impressed)

While chatting to Kim she said to me "what are you on? I want some!" and the truth was that I was feeling 'normal' again. Refreshingly normal.

 

Now, another change that we've made has been a dietary one. Food has become to expensive now'days and our weekly bill was coming to R600+ each week. We had very low energy and I had to make some changes. We now eat a predominantly vegetarian diet with meat protein a couple times a week. When we do have a meat meal, there are veggies crammed in to boost the overall yumminess and health of the meal. Spaghetti Bolognaise doesn't just have to be meat tomato and spaghetti, add some chopped mushrooms, some finely chopped leeks and a nice addition is the shaved carrot – you use your veg peeler to shave the carrot into a big yummy pile of shavings, add that to the frying onions, meat, mushrooms and tomato and voila! a scrumptious good 'eat out' feel spaghetti : ) if you really want to go all out – add some diced celery to your mince bolognaise, it is so sweet and means that you can extend the meal further without spending.

 

If anyone is interested I have a recipe for a veg lasagne that tastes like the real deal, and I'll be posting my recipe for Fridge Cake / Ice cream / Fat Maker…

This is an example of my two week meal plan, it means that my shopping expense goes down, my stress levels go down, I can be creative with each recipe and I know that we are getting healthy food into our system.

I had my first Health Smoothie yesterday and it said on the cup "FOOD IS EITHER A CREDIT OR A DEBIT. CREDIT YOUR SYSTEM"

 

(Recipes are easy and available just leave a comment and I'll post them)

Week One

1. Sandy's Sweet Leek Soup and Pasta (SOUP&PASTA)
2. Sweet Leek Soup & Rich Crumbed Sweet Chilli Chicken. (SOUP&WHITE MEAT)
3. Tender Green Lamb Couscous (RED/WHITE MEAT&COUSCOUS)
4. Thai Butternut and Potato Soup (SOUP)
5. Treat Night
6. Mucho Grande Spaghetti Bolognaise (RED MEAT&PASTA)
7. Big Beef Stew (Slow cooker) (RED MEAT,VEG&RICE)

 

Week Two

1. Creamy Chicken and Mushroom with Rice (WHITEMEAT&RICE)
2. Luscious Lentil Stew with Rice (LENTIL&RICE)
3. Butternut Cinnamon Basil Soup (SOUP)
4. Frikkin Chicken Couscous (WHITE MEAT&COUSCOUS)
5. Treat Night
6. Braai Night (BRAAI MEAT&VEG)
7. Fend for yourself day! (LEFT OVERS)

 

 

Gotta go my baby is crying J

 

 

Sands x