One Young Lady’s Food Diary

Here is a one week diary of my daughters meals. It was interesting for me to document this. I hope you find it inspiring. Although this was not an ideal week, food wise (not enough raw and fermented vegetables), we did manage to try and fall in love with some new things, like slow roasted lamb shoulder.

Monday

Breakfast: chicken – mayonaise-lettuce sandwich with “mummy’s” sourdough bread. mayo – homemade, chicken meat from making chicken stock

Lunch: at school

Dinner: Chinese stir fry (chicken meat from stock, peppers, broccoli, bone broth, soy sauce etc) with “yellow” rice (coloured with turmeric)

Tuesday

Breakfast: 200 ml chicken stock, 1 piece of “mummy’s” sourdough bread (einkorn and rye) with alpine butter

Lunch: at school

Dinner: Chinese (again!) stir fry: pork, broccoli, yellow pepper etc.

Wednesday

Breakfast: apple and mango puree with coconut oil

Lunch: fish fingers and cherry tomatoes

Dinner: beef liver with onions on mashed potato

Thursday

Breakfast: peanut butter and grape jam on mummy’s sourdough

Lunch: at school

Dinner: Sardines, egg, spring onion and homemade mayonnaise salad on baby cos lettuce leaves

Friday

Breakfast: 4 hour lamb shoulder with cucumber and cherry tomatoes

Lunch: at school

Dinner: at neighbourhood party: rice salad, Russian salad, filo pastry party snacks

Saturday

Breakfast: 1 egg omelette with cheese melted on top

Lunch: hoernli cooked in bone broth with Parmesan

Dinner: 100 ml chicken stock, fried rice with chicken, prawns and lamb shoulder, and fresh ginger

Sunday

Breakfast: potato, red pepper and gruyere omelette

Lunch: at friends birthday party – ham sandwiches and chocolate cake

Dinner: lamb shoulder salad (cucumber, radish, spring onions, lamb, tamari, sesame oil, chives)
chicken stock 200 ml in a sippy cup
apple pear and plum purée
bio citrus yogurt from coop

(I hope the lamb and stock counterbalanced all that sugar , ouch!)

Lamb shoulder salad

Making a diary of what you’re feeding your family is a really useful way of monitoring what they are putting inside them, making sure that their intake over the week is balanced and they are getting the right nourishment. It also helps you to prevent repetition and keeping their diet interesting and varied. This prevents them getting bored and also helps you to discover what they like or dislike as well as to create new combinations.

Using a chalk-board helps with ideas and planning. I just write down ideas as I get them and put them on the chalk board. This serves two purposes for me; I don’t have to think about what I’m making for breakfast tomorrow, it is also a useful shopping guide. Although I’m a fanatical gadget user, you can’t beat looking at the chalk-board on the wall for an overview.

Planned Breakfasts

I like to write it together with my daughter, so she can see has some influence over her diet;  that her requests have importance – they get written down.