Weekend fail.

Failed epically over the weekend. Started really well on Saturday and made Mari and I breakie beans which were delish and then packed us tuna tabbouleh salad for the beach. Dinner came and I had every sort of deep fried finger food available!

Wedges, samosas, spring rolls, fried fish, hot chips... And a few too many champagnes!

Sunday morning and breakfast included bacon, corn fritters and hashbrowns.

I have started again with a positive attitude as I felt really good on sat morning. Today is a brand new day to start again & why not? :)

Had my cereal for breakie and now eating a tuna, bean and potato salad (yum). Chilli con carne for dinner.

Fell off the band wagon.

Yes 2 days gone and I've already fallen guiltily into taco's and dessert.

That was last night, today is a new day and I am feeling motivated again! I had my delicious cereal with dried cranberries for breakie and for lunch I had a celery, dill & tuna sandwich. I went by all the measurements and there was seriously soooo much of the filling. I am full and sufficed but yes still thinking of dinner.

Ok maybe having a slight sugar craving but it's breast cancer cupcake day today so I am surrounded my sugar but I resisted in the cupcakes and just donated instead!

Day three and fingers crossed I can hold out this afternoon before breaking into my sugar stash in my draw.

Wish me luck!

New found appreciation

Day two on the 21 DWD. Just had breakfast and YUM! I was very hesitant about the cereal mix your meant to make as it has dried cranberries in it. Just to note I dislike dried fruit ALOT but I was pleasantly surprised this morning.

I poured my serving out into a bowl and it looked way to many craisans so I picked a few out and put them back into the jar. After the first mouthful I had my hand in the jar fishing them back out!

So far so good :)

Everything crossed!

I have to apologise to my huge fan base that Mr Oliver will be MIA for the next 21 days... well I hope I can last that long. I have recently put on a few unwanted kilo's and since its summer here in Sunny Sydney (Ok well it’s been rainy and stormy the past few days but I am still motivated to look good in swimmers) I am doing the AWW 21 Day Wonder Diet. 

I was going to give the Dukan Diet ago but the book was $29.95 in Borders and to be honest the novel kind of scared me with all its stages. I love reading don’t get me wrong but reading about foods you can't eat gets me down in the dumps. All I do is think about the foods I want to eat which are big no no's and 2 hours into that sort of diet I lapse & gorge myself on melted cheese, breads thick with salty butter and bowls and bowls of pasta. So when I walked over to the AWW book it caught my eye straight away. I loved the look of the pictures and food, loved the look of how the diet was planned out and LOVED that they based the diet on foods you can eat and don’t go heavy on foods you can't. 


They give you lots of options and snack of foods which ARE allowed. This looks like my kind of diet book. The give you a different breakfast, lunch and dinner for the 21 days...love the recipes. Plus it was only $12.95 so I saved money too and probably my boyfriend’s sanity in the process. 


I tried the French Women don’t get Fat book, read half way through and the croissant and chocolate soufflé caught my eyes but I know my self all too well and it is all portion size and that is my weakness. 2nd's! Oh how I love 2nds of everything. Plus one of the soups in the book I made and it left me so hungry I gave in and ate like a pig for dinner. This undid all the good work I had done. Plus it made me pee constantly and feel weak.


So here I am, Day 1 of my 21 day Wonder Diet. 6 hours in and going strong. I fell motivated, excited and already have the next few meals planned out. I did have my own breakfast today as I have yet to go to the shops. Plus this Diet kind of fits my blog... it is a book on my bookshelf and that’s what I do; Bookshelf Cook.


You can go through the book from day 1 to day 21 but I picked a day in the middle somewhere and am doing that today. Its a little hard when I’ve began mid week and we have some things in the cupboard and not other things. So I will try and go through them in order but they say you don’t have to as long as you stick to their lunch and dinner on the same day and your fine to have their cereal mix everyday if you are lazy like me and can't get out of bed every morning to make a full breakfast of corn fritters etc. I might save those days for the weekend.


Sesame Stir-Fry for dinner. Looking forward to it :)


I also have to make my sandwich filling tonight for tomorrow and mix up my cereal mix. There are dried cranberries in it which I am not sure about but am going to give it a go as I know they are very good for you.


Fingers, arms, toes and legs are crossed that I stick to this for 21 the days.

A day with my ladies.

I'm a bit late in posting this but couldn't help myself and had to. Last Tuesday was Melbourne Cup; The race that stops the nation. I took the day off from work as naturally my options weighed each other out. A glass of warm white wine watching the race for 15min on a tiny TV in a under-airconditioned or a day out with my girls eating and drinking and watching the race. Hmmm I took the later option for very good reasons I think we can all agree on.

My ladies and I went to one of the local pubs who were putting on an event where you got a three course meal, dressed to impress, placed a bet and watched the races. I wore a huge white flower in my hair and bet on the horse that had the highest amount to win per $ in place. Some pay think its silly but to be honest I had about 10 people telling me who to choose so I decided to go with how old I was and I guess I lost. Maybe I should have a next birthday, maybe number 22 will be lucky next year.

Our meals for the day were a seafood plate for entree which consisted of smoked salmon, Balmain bug, prawns with aioli and bloody mary oysters. For main it was a choice between chicken wrapped in bacon with a mushroom and cream sauce with mash potatoes or beef fillet with beef cheek ravioli, truffle oil mash and broccoli. I tried both but had the chicken, yum. For dessert there was chocolate mouse in between slices of chocolate mud cake in a box of tempered chocolate or lemon tart with vanilla ice cream. The chocolate was very very rich, maybe a little too rich after a entrée, main and lots of sparkling wine. I loved the tart though, still am craving the delicious taste of it. Mmmm maybe I'll make one this arvo.

The night ended with plenty of water and panadol. Overall the day was delicious and I had a lovely day with my ladies. Already thinking of where to go next year.