Roasted sweet potato and orange salad.

Serves 4

4 sweet potatoes, peeled and cubed.

2 tablespoons melted coconut oil

1 tablespoon clear honey

2 oranges, peeled and segmented

100g any salad leaves

For the dressing:

1 tablespoon clear honey

1 orange, juice and finely grated zest only

2 tablespoons melted coconut oil

1) heat the oven to 200*C/180*C fan/Gas 6. Toss the sweet potato with the coconut oil, honey, and a little seasoning, spread out in a non-stick baking tray and roast for 25 minutes until softened and slightly caramelised. 

2) mix together the dressing ingredients, pour over the salad leaves, and toss well with the sweet potatoes and orange segments.

3) serve with optional additional salad items 

Sounds unpleasant, but was actually really nice!!!

I got the recipe for this from the morrisons magazine that they give away for free, but I changed it to suit my needs more and added some fish.

If I were to make this again I would definitely miss out the radishes... Yuck!! 

18th May 2015

Veg box deliveries

Nothing cheers me up more than my veg box deliveries.

Here is an example of one of my fruit boxes that I get delivered!

The contents changes weekly.

This is an Abel & Cole box.

I get their boxes on a Monday, and on a Thursday I get a Riverford delivery, so I am getting healthy, fresh, organic fruit and vegetable delivered to me twice a week.

17th May 2015

Sunday dinners

I have recently been adding back meat as I have been worried about my protein levels, despite taking a natural organic hemp protein as a precaution.

This is what I had for my Sunday lunch today.

I have been having roasted sweet potatoes rather than normal potatoes, and tonnes of vegetables.

Instead of cooking the cabbage and potatoes in butter, I have been cooking them in organic coconut oil and adding a bit of fresh ground Himalayan salt and freshly ground organic black pepper for taste.

I hope to write an article on the health benefits of coconut oil once I am feeling more up to it.

16th May 2015

End of week 2!

Weight 11 stone 13.5 pounds

This weeks weight loss 2.7 pounds

Total weight loss 8.4 pounds

So another week of being really good and trying to eat as clean and as healthy as possible.

I have become more adventurous and even been making my own stir-fries, rather than buying the pre-packaged ones in the shops.

I have to also say that this stir-fry was way nicer and much more yummier than in the shops too.

I can't really report on any health changes as of yet, but I have been cooking and baking more than I have been recently, so I will take that as a good sign.

11th May 2015

Here's me starting my day with a green juice.

Although I'm not solely drinking juices, I have still been having one for my breakfast every now and again.

This was my tea. A nice, large organic egg salad.

One good thing about ordering veg boxes, is the fact that each box can become a challenge, new things to try, or a new way of blending ingredients to make something tasty. :0)

9th May 2015

Well, it's a week since I started this blog, and the decision to start recording my journey into he unknown.

I am pleased to report that I have already lost 5.6lbs!!!

Wow!!

That's just in my first week!

My intention wasn't tolose weight, my intention is obviously to get better and start having a life again, but I won't lie, the weight loss is a bonus.

I am hoping that as time goes on, I will be able to start blogging about what things I have been eating, and maybe even start writing down some of my recipes.

8th May 2015

So today started off really well, I had a juice for breakfast. A pint of coconut water for my mid morning drink, a juice for dinner, a juice for my mid afternoon snack...

AND THATS WHERE IT ENDED....

I'm not gonna lie, it was HORRIBLE!!!!

I'm a massive foodie, I love food, I love cooking food, I love becoming a food scientist and concocting wonderful creations in my kitchen lab. I find cooking my therapy, it's relaxing and a place where I can just forget about my worries.

Throwing away all the pulp, or waste, from the juicing was making me feel bad, like REALLY bad!!

The diet itself wasn't too bad, but some of the stuff I was juicing, would have fed my whole family.

I decided on the very first day that I could no longer do the juicing diet.

I will continue with my quest, it isn't a failure, I just need a new way to start, a new way to look at it.

So I have decided that from now on I will be eating mainly fruits and vegetables, with pulses too. I am aiming to have as much organic products as possible, and to steer away from putting anything chemical related inside my body.

I'm sure that sounds a lot easier than done, but to me that is a much more sensible approach than feeling like I'm wasting a tonne of food.

All the starving people in the world, and I'm having enough food in one meal to feed my family...

NO! Just NO! Lol