I would classify this as a below average eating day for me. It was a long and difficult day for me. Dinner was planned to be a vegetable and almond stir-fry, but I couldn’t be bothered to chop when I got home. My main criticisms are:

• too much grain-based carbohydrate food
• too little protein
• too few vegetables
• too much wine

I don’t think I ate terribly, it’s not a blow-out day, but not my normal way of eating.

What do you think?

That I eat way too many carbs…

But I’m glad that even a nutrition expert has imperfect days.

Pasta at 9! I realise this wasn’t planned but do you generally agree with the ‘no carbs for late dinner’ theory?

The ’couldn’t be bothered to chop’ strikes a chord!!

BTW It’s a great blogging topic – how about a ‘what I eat’ from different countries?

Oh yes, Lucy I do have imperfect days. I try to minimise them, plan good food – but sometimes stuff just gets in the way.

Hi Paul – I generally try to avoid eating anything substantial that late. Plus I don’t like my dinner to be such a carb-centric meal – particularly as it’s at the expense of a better vegetable intake.

I would normally try to have some frozen vegetables in the house – to combat the can’t be bothered to chop. But I’ve run out – it’s all about the planning.

I noticed that you regularly have cottage cheese or ricotta – is it because they are low fat, or you don’t like more full-flavour cheeses? There’s an Asian bent to your choice of meals – do you often include ordinary vegies, like sweet corn, green beans, etc?

I really like cottage cheese, feta and ricotta. And yes, they’re definitely a bigger part of my diet than other cheeses. The latter tend to be more occasional foods. So it’s a taste preference, backed up by avoiding the full fat content.

Yes we cook / eat Asian a lot. There are several reasons for that:

• I live with the biggest tofu fiend in the world. If Richard doesn’t have tofu at least every other day, I suspect he’d go into withdrawal.
• We both really like Thai, Vietnamese, Malaysian food – and often choose it when we eat out.
• Asian greens are grown here in Sydney, so they’re always super-fresh and cheap. Our local veg store sells three bunches for $2.00 and we just can’t resist that bargain.
• We do eat beans, carrots, sweetcorn. At the moment beans are expensive here, so I’m avoiding.
• Sweetcorn we tend to buy when having a barbecue, but it’s not a regular vegetable in our diets.
• Given I like to structure my evening meal around lots of vegetables + protein, stir fries are a good choice for this.

I agree with the ’it’s all about the planning’. Loving these posts, Kathryn :)