One Young Lady’s Real-Food Diary II

You are welcome to take a peek into what my daughter eats in a week. I really enjoy documenting her meals – sometimes we come up with weird combinations, sometimes we eat whatever is there – accidentally bought pork sausages or chemically coloured sweets at a birthday party. It doesnt worry me that we stray off the path of fully organic and home made meals once in a blue moon – what matters is that she understands and tastes the difference between real food and fake food.

We started this diary on one cold Friday in January 2015. Our breakfasts and dinners are normally accurately documented, but lunches at school – are not – I am reasonably comfortable with our school’s kitchen, although I am planning to go pay them a visit and see which salt and which fat they use for cooking…

Friday

Breakfast: 1 egg omelette with cheese, raw cherry tomatoes on the side, raw milk as the drink.

Cheesy omelette & tomatoes

This is our go to savoury breakfast: it takes 1 minute to prepare and it is made from one of our favourite super foods – eggs, which by the way contain ALL of the amino-acids that we need, vitamin A, D and B as well as many minerals.

Another reason to have a protein rich breakfast is that protein-carb composition of your food affects your hormones, carbohydrates are actually better consumed later in the day as they can help you sleep.

After school my munchkin had a friend for a movie date, to watch Maleficent. So the movie-style snacks were in order!

Snack: Home made organic popcorn, popped in coconut oil and seasoned with himalayan salt,  fresh blueberries.

Fish&chips

Dinner followed the snack almost immediately, it was consumed picknic style on our rug, with little fingers, while engrossed in the movie 🙂

Dinner: Fish and chips: filets of plaice in hazelnut crumbs, fried in coconut oil and oven baked chips in goose fat. And for a dose of crunchy probiotics – lacto fermented cauliflower – I added some beet kvass for the colour at the beginning of the fermentation. I was inspired by this recipe from AlmostBananas to ferment cauliflower and it was a big success!

Fermented cauliflower

 Saturday

Breakfast: Omelette with cheese, cherry tomatoes, milk. Exactly the same as the day before – when my little one likes a breakfast, she requests it several days in row

Lunch : Snack-style lunch while playing: physalis, dried fruit and nut mix, salami, cheese.

Lunch II: liver, sauerkraut and pickles

Liver and sauerkraut

Dinner: avocado and prawn salad (but not hungry, so not eaten, just tasted): avocado roughly chopped, mixed with prawns and a spoon of homemade mayonnaise.

Avocado and prawn salad

Sunday

Breakfast: avocado and prawn salad from last night.

Lunch: korma chicken curry with rice. We had friends over for Indian lunch and while the grown-ups enjoyed two different spicy curries, the kids had this very mild korma I made especially for the little ones – it has no hot spices, just the aromatic ones. It was a big success with all of the kids!

Chicken korma

Snack: shop bought pork sausages – yeah – this is one of those “stray-off-the-path” episodes… Kids got hungry after playing for hours and needed something warm, fast. They refused my offer of cheese sandwiches but got excited about these sausages that my boyfriend bought a couple days ago for some mysterious reason  – he does know we are a real-food household and totally supports the way we eat, thats why I say “mysterious”. They were not too bad in terms of ingredients, as they were smoked sausages. Did you notice how many more additives raw sausages have compared to smoked and pasteurised? I will write about shopping for cured meats very soon!

Dinner: more chicken korma with rice.

Monday

Breakfast: sourdough toast with butter and honey.  We use Alpine butter and local raw honey, so I am quite happy with this breakfast, so is my daughter!

Dinner: boiled chicken (from making chicken stock) with tamari sauce, sauerkraut, cherry tomatoes, a cup of chicken stock. One whole avocado. Natural yogurt with a teaspoon of raw honey. We use tamari sauce as it is wheat-free. Even though we are not gluten-intollerant, I prefer products with a shorter list of ingredients. I buy this one here and if you can shop on amazon.com – here is a good organic one 

Chicken and Sauerkraut

Tuesday

Breakfast: sourdough toast with liver butter (click for the recipe), fresh cucumber.

Liver Toast & Cucumber

Dinner: Boiled chicken with tamari sauce, sauerkraut, a cup of chicken stock. One whole avocado. Natural yogurt with a teaspoon of honey. Exactly the same as yesterday- yes we tend to fall in love with certain meals, for a couple of days!

Wednesday:

Breakfast: Oat and buckwheat porridge with honey, butter and milk. We flake oats and buckwheat the night before and let it sit in water overnight. Buckwheat is very rich in the enzyme phytase that helps to neutralise the phytic acid in both oats and buckwheat, that phytic acid that binds itself to minerals and stops them being absorbed by our gut.  If you don’t eat oats every day, you don’t have to worry about soaking, but do read here about how to make them more nutritious if you consume a lot of oats.

Porridge with butter and honey

Lunch: Beef meatballs, cucumbers, tomatoes. I have recently discovered a secret to amazing meatballs and then …. read it in my great-grandmothers cook-book from 1914 – isn’t it amazing how after years of industrialisation and processed foods being pushed on us we have to re-discover those “secrets” that our grandparents knew hundreds of years ago? Stay tuned for my post on meatballs coming soon!

Meatballs and veggies

Dinner: Chicken  miso soup with alphabet pasta, carrots and chicken meat. I love brown miso – its an instant seasoning for any stock, besides being immune boosting and full of amino acids.  Read about numerous health benefits of this enzyme rich probiotic here and do not add to very hot stock to preserve the enzymes and microflora of miso.

Chicken miso soup

Thursday:

Breakfast: Oat porridge with raw apple pieces and hazelnuts on the side.

Porridge with apples and nuts

Dinner: smoked halibut and blanched broccoli, Munchkin didn’t like the halibut, so she just had broccoli – which is just fine by me – as long as she tries new foods!

Halibut and broccoli

I hope this post gave you some ideas of how to feed your little one and yourself with real food but without spending a lot of money and a lot of time – one organic chicken can go a long way! With a little bit of practice real food preparation can become a normal, automatic part of your daily routine just as brushing teeth did all those years ago! My daughter still asks almost every night before brushing her teeth – Oh Mummy! Do I have to?  And do I have to spend 3 minutes now to put the chicken bones from the roast chicken we had tonight into a pot of water with a couple of carrots and an onion to cook overnight? I don’t HAVE to, but I will, it will only take as much time as brushing my teeth, and we will have fresh stock tomorrow to sip in the morning.

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