Sept 9 - Vietnamese Tasting BBQ + NUTELLLA!!

Ong choy, taro and shrimp paste

I woke up at 1:00pm today by my dad yelling at me to get up and eat. Papa made a shrimp paste (ha jeung) + ong choy (water spinach) + taro root soup. The ong choy was really chewy and weird. I couldn't finish eating the choy because the texture was so rubbery. The soup was kind of salty but I enjoy salty foods.. I had two pieces of taro which is about 1/3 a cup (35 calories) and about 3 oz of ong choy (25 calories). I ate it with a cup of rice (240 calories).  I can't find any nutrition information on shrimp paste.. my dad probably put in 1-2 tablespoons of it. I'm just going to ignore it..
Total = 300 calories.

My mom attacked it before I could take a picture.

I was signed up to help out at Kenko today but I was saved by a server (yay!) and ended up helping out my mom at Danny's instead. I ate a lot of food there. >_<. My mom decided she wanted a crepe from next door and I ordered a crepe with tomatoes, ricotta cheese, deli chicken breast (I honestly prefer roast chicken) and spinach. I ate about 1/3 of it. I'm not going to bother looking up the amt of calories. It seemed pretty healthy but tasted like barf. Don't know why I kept eating it. (150-200 calories?)

mini salad

While my mom went out *grocery shopping* in the supermarket at The Forks, I decided I was still hungry and made myself a delicious mini salad. I put a pen beside it as comparison for size. (it really was small) In it was head lettuce (not my fav), roasted turkey breast, green peppers, green onions, mandarin oranges from a can, dried cranberries, random nuts (including an almond), and tomatoes. There was also a tablespoon of raspberry vinaigrette. I also do not want to count the amt of calories in this salad.. about 150-200?

Looks so yummy in this pic.

My mom made a huge amount of this Vietnamese style (I think) pork while at Danny's. She seasoned it with salt, sugar and garlic powder. It tasted so goood and heavenly!!!! I kept picking at the pieces...must have ate at least 10 of them.When I got home I ate more of this yummy pork (10 pieces) with half a cup of rice (120 calories) and some pickled veggies (30 calories).  I'm gonna give a rough estimate that those pork pieces (some had fat on it) are around 200-300 calories.  Total is 460 calories.

After the rice, I wasn't hungry but I still wanted to eat something LOL so I ate a yogourt (90 calories). I like when food has nutrition labels on it so I don't have to go look it up and guestimate...<3 yogourt. 

I went to superstore after with my mommy and brother and bought a bunch of necessities such as: nongshim instant noodles (the kind korean people eat), kashi cereal bars, and finally gave into my nutella craving. I've been wanting to buy this for almost 2 months but managed to resist it until tonight.

On a side note, I saw a chunky sweater that was so warm and comfy and really really wanted it. My brother said it made me look fat ..but I still wanted it.  I love Joe clothes. Very simple and easy to wear. It's a grey chunky cable knit sweater and reminds me of  Monica's hooded scarf that she so kindly lent me from spring-summer. I wish I took a pic of it. After budgeting with Christine I realized that I really can't afford it. I might buy it anyway.. hahaha. and pay for it later.. we will see!
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became hungry at about 12:00am and was contemplating whether I should eat instant noodles or nutella + bread. In the end my sweetness craving won and I had a piece of multigrain bread (100) with a tablespoon of nutella (100). I also ate a cup of grapes (120) and half a cup of pineapple (40). Still working on the fruit at the moment.. and it's 2:00am!

Estimate of calories today is
brunch 300
snack1 150-200
gatorade (not pictured) 10
snack2 150-200
dinner 460
snack3 90
snack4 360
TOTAL: 1520-1660.

Here's a pic of my crazy fridge for fun. 

Nothing else can fit in there.

Sept 8 - Morning savoury craving

Crispy Roast Pork Chinese Style

Since I slept at about 6:00am last night (starving), I woke up craving something savoury. My dad screamed at my brother to wake up for school at about 11:30am (which woke me up). I haven't woken up that early in forever XD. My dad bought crispy roast pork - Chinese style @ the supermarket and had 3 pieces (150 calories). Why do my parents buy high fat food? That's ok - I used portion control :). I ate it with the pickled choy (30 cal) with half a cup of rice (120 calories).

I like calling these tangerines..

I finished this meal off with a medium sized tangerine (mandarin orange, 50 calories) while watching an episode of family guy.  Brunch = 320 calories.

Today is my last day of my 5 day work marathon at Kenko (6 if you count Friday's lunch) I have a few errands to run this afternoon, hopefully I can get them all done before work! There's also a bonfire tonight and who knows what will go wrong there...

While running my errands downtown and at school, I was feeling super hungry at about 3:00pm. I ate a ripe banana (100 calories) and at 4:15 ish a chocolate granola bar (160 calories). Should I try those Luna bars that tgu has been eating?

At Kenko I was actually starving and ate a bowl of miso soup with 1/3 a cup of rice (140 calories) in it. I forgot to take a picture of it :(. Miso soup definitely tastes better minus the rice, but I needed something to keep me full.

The kitchen cooked some weird vegetable pancake for dinner. I ate 3 mini slices..Pretty sure it is some sort of flour batter and green onions, peppers, red peppers and regular onions. They taste pretty bad without any soya sauce in it..I took some homeand maybe will attack some tomorrow morning. (or probably afternoon)

I didn't end up going to the bonfire because I worked too late at Kenko (til 10:30pm). K picked me up and we went to get ice cream at this new ice cream place called Cold Stone instead.  It's similar to Marble Slab except this place is 24 hours and has Tim Hortons attached to it. I forgot to ask for nutrition information :(. I ate the one on the right, banana almond caramel? Something. Anyway, they didn't have any bananas left (WTF!!!) so I had apple instead (the kind in apple pie) instead. It tasted really yummy - much yummier than the cheesecake one that K had.  There was probably 1 cup of french vanilla ice cream in it. (280 calories,  14g of fat). There was also the added caramel, sugary apple and nuts...an extra 150 perhaps? 430 calories.

Then we went to Eric's house and watched a garbage show, Chopped and Kitchen Night Mares. I used to watched food network channels with my mom in her room but this lately (this summer) I haven't been spending as much time with her. I'd watch Chop and Kitchen Nightmares with her... anyway I overlooked how entertaining the show was and was trying to pay full attention to the show amidst all the talking.. I also managed to eat this mini tart because it looked so good...(150-200 calories?)
 I also ate an orange when I got home.....
Honestly a terribly unhealthy day.
It's 4:30am and I am hungry again! I need to sleep. C
alories: 1260 calories + veggie pancake.

Sept 7 - Standard day - and a picture of MISO SOUP!

I woke up at 1PM, and for breakfast I had vector cereal and an apple (100). Vector cereal is so delicious and crunchy AND it makes me so happy to eat it!! One bowl is approx 200 calories. The apple seemed healthy and eat a boring. It was really big and annoying and it took me about 20 minutes to get through it. I don't think I even finished it to the core :(. Apples seem to taste better when they are sliced and have cinnamon and crunchy peanut butter on them ...heh. Next time.

I got ready for work and was kind of hungry. I was thinking of eating a banana but was running late so I forgot and grabbed one of these chocolatey granola bars instead. It honestly tasted like a chocolate bar and was approx 160 calories. I can't imagine that these are very healthy for you ..but Christine bought them at superstore and I was in a rush.

Work was incredibly slow. I think I had 4 tables in 4 hours o_O. I wanted to stab my eyes out. Anyway in the first hour I had a bowl of miso soup! (50 calories) It was very satisfying and salty and delicious... There are green onions, wakame (seaweed) and 3 tiny squares of tofu in it. Sometimes I'm too lazy to stick green onions in there but they really make the soup taste a lot better! I can't wait to drink another bowl of this tomorrow at work...

There was shipment of salmon at work that wasn't good enough for sashimi so the kitchen decided to cook a bunch of it for dinner! They grilled some, and also steamed(?) some in a thick vegetable sauce (seemed healthy). I had about 3/4 cup of rice (200) and a palm sized amount of  panfried +steamed salmon. (150 calories?) Working at a sushi restaurant that makes you dinner most of the time definitely has its perks! I didn't get a huge serving because I knew at home I would cave and eat whatever was available.. and I was right.

I know this looks like a pile of POOP but honestly it was really delicous! And yes, my Dad put it together >_>. The dark stuff is with ground pork with left over spaghetti sauce, and some left over pan fried tofu. He also threw in some random chicken breast, but I didn't eat any of that. I'm really not sure how to calorie count this but I think it's safe to say about 200 for the rice, and 200 for all of the weird bunch of stuff.

For dessert I had left over mandarin oranges from a can which is aboute 20-30 calories. As I'm typing this up its nearly 5AM and I am so HUNGRY.. but I will eat tomorrow when I wake up..

Brunch - 300

Snack -160

Snack2 - 50

Dinner 1 - 350

Dinner 2 (lol) - 400

Snack3 - 30

Net caloric intake = 1290 ..not bad!

Sept 6 - Home made pasta

While grocery shopping on Sept 5, I bought a can of pasta sauce! I was kind of craving some pasta, so I decided to make some in the afternoon when I usually wake up (brunch).  The sauce had 3 cheese pasta sauce, beans, tomatoes, garlic, onions and left over red pepper from the salad prep. I had to google how to make pasta sauce ...XD. You brown some onions and garlic and throw in the red peppers. When that's done you put in the can of pasta and some beans..... TBH it tastes pretty dull. It was watery and kind of too salty (stupid can). But still edible. So I ate it..and so did my siblings =).  I boiled some whole wheat pasta noodles - approximately half the box which made a crazy amount of noodles! There is so much left over in the fridge still.. Need to brainstorm another dish with those noodles or they will go bad.. :(.

At work, there was so much left over sushi and I ate about 9 random pieces of sushi. This includes mango fry, (2)  tnt (2),  spicy tuna tempera (1), caterpillar(1) and spicy chick (3). Probably a good estimate is 100 calories a piece since most of it was oozing with mayo and fried.. 900 calories? Sorry no picture :(.

Then I went home - not really that hungry but my Dad told me to eat so I did. So here is 3 pieces of tofu, a fish fillet (not sure what kind), some pickled vegetable and rice! My mom pickles these veggies in a huge jar and it lasts for a long time. And tastes really goood! Random food like this is definitely my favourite kind of meal.. Even if it looks gross. You might notice that I eat my food on a plate..it's kind of weird but it's better for taking pictures for this blog!

For midnight snack, I had a cup of OJ and some creamy delicious yoghurt.... My favourite kind of OJ is definitely tropicana. It just tastes different from other brands :S (esp beatrice and minute made)

Sept 5 - Grocery Shopping!

Never go grocery shopping on an empty stomach. Otherwise you will buy things such as: FLAVOUR BLASTED GOLD FISH XPLOSION PIZZA. I ate this throughout the day for two days and now they are gone (900 calories a pkg).

While I was grocery shopping though I bought lots of healthy stuff such as vector cereal (It was finally on SALE!), apples, orange juice, cucumber, lettuce, blueberries, grapes, yummy multigrain bread and blueberry goat cheese!! (so good! thanks tgu), hummus, and summer chip dips. I also bought one more unhealthy item other than the goldfish - a bag of Tostitos chips which my siblings and I + Jer devoured in the afternoon.

Tostitos + Hummus  + Dip

When I got home from superstore I prepped a delicious salad which consisted of most of the veggies I bought. I wash all of my fruits and veggies before I eat them and honestly it takes FOREVER. Washing and cutting lettuce especially. My favourites are romaine lettuce and spinach for salad. This salad has: romaine lettuce, mandarin orange slices, grapes, blueberries, red peppers, blueberry goat cheese and extra virgin olive oil greek feta dressing. If I was to make the salad again, I wouldn't add the red peppers. It tastes too bitter and sour compared to the rest of the fruits (especially the mandarin oranges.)

I had work and they made Yaki Udon with beef slices for dinner. It was the most delicious Udon I have ever eaten like..EVER. Or I was just starving... nonetheless it was so good! And I managed to steal a picture of it without anyone watching ;). I had about one cup of it which is approx 380 calories. Also, adding beef and random sauces probably another 150. As I'm reading nutrition information on udon noodles, they are pretty heavy on the calories side but are high in protein and fibre and low in fat. And tastes better than instant noodles noodles. However, after eating this I was still hungry :(. 

So when I got home from work I ate a piece of delicious yummy bread that I'd bought (120 calories) and a table spoon of smooth peanut butter (100 calories). Besides the snacks I bought (because I was a starving grocery shopper), it wasn't a bad day...

Chips and dip ~ 400

Salad ~ 250

Yaki Udon ~ 530

Bread + Pb = 220

Goldfish = 450

Net caloric intake 1850 calories.

Sept 4 - New Hong Kong

Blueberry Miniwheats

For breakfast (at 1PM) on this wonderful Saturday, I had blueberry mini wheats! One small bowl is approx 200 calories with milk. The best kind of mini wheats are definitely the blueberry ones. My brother has an undying love for mini wheats so in our house we have a jumbo box of frosted mini wheats, strawberry mini whets and blueberry mini wheats. o_O.

New Hong Kong is famous for these.

Onion Pancake

After I finished my cereal, Christine and Jer proposed that we go to NEW HONG KONG for some dimsum-ish food. Knowing me, how could I refuse? I had one and a half squares of the onion pancake. There also was some sui mai which looked  kind of weird. Ugliest looking sui mai I've ever seen and didn't taste that good either... I ate two of them. (120 calories).

Egg and Pork with sauce on Rice

      I ate two pork dumplings as well (160 calories). This place is actually "famous" for their dumplings and they taste pretty good! Most dumplings do tho >_<. Anyway, definitely a must try. Jer also ordered each of us a bowl of rice with an egg and some pork..sauce.. thing. It tasted OK.. it kind of got really dry at the end and I only ate it to finish my food (~400 cal)

Weird Sui Mai

We went to the park and threw around a frisbee. Christine was terrible at it. Steven wasn't too good at it either. But in the end it was lots of fun. I hardly get to spend quality time with my sibings (minus one) anymore. 

For the rest of the day, I'm not sure what I ate. I must have had a bowl of miso soup at some point in the night. 

After work, K and I went to POPOCHA and got some bubble tea. I caved and got avocado bubble tea with bubbles! (300-400 calories). We watched samurai champloo and then it was home time....

Breakfast 200

Lunch 680

Dinner 50 

BBT 300-400 calories

Net caloric intake 1230 - 1330

September 3 - Nikki's BBQ..

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I started off the day very well. It looks like I had the cranberry cereal. Can't remember what it's called exactly. This is one of my favourite cereals.. I've tried cereal with yoghurt before but nothing beats good old milk :). This bowl is probably around 350 calories. I was still hungry so afterward I ate a delicious ripe banana. (100 calories). 

At Nikki's BBQ I didn't bother taking any pictures. I remember eating a sausage (250 calories). A burger with ketchup. (100+250+30 = 380 calories). And I'm pretty sure I ate 8 spring rolls made by Cindy. I estimate that the spring rolls are about 100-150 calories each. So that's about 1000-1200 calories.. I also drank quite a bit of alcohol. Probably about 5-6 shots throughout the night. We also managed to go to republic and I had two more drinks. So another 800-900 calories.  Alcohol really is calorie heavy. At about 100 calories a shot, it really adds up.. wasted calories! :'(

At the end of the night we went to Papa Georges (my idea too, gah) and Andrea and I shared chicken finger and fries. We finished the whole plate! But I'm glad to say that Andrea ate most of the fries...I ate two and a half chicken fingers which is about 300 calories. The fries must have been at least another 200.

Brunch = 450
BBQ = 1830

Alcohol = 900

Late Night  = 500

3680 calories.... >_<