What I've been eating May 2010 | Pikelet and Pie

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Two years ago I decided to document everything that I ate for one week. I did it to see how varied and colourful my diet was. this time I have done it to see how different my diet is from when I lived in Australia. before I was cooking for two, now I am shopping and cooking for one. it is much cheaper to eat out here, so I’m sure this survey will find represent that.

Perhaps this wasn’t the best week to document all food consumed as I’ve been getting ready to go to India for a holiday. Therefore I haven’t been to the market or bought anything interesting, as I usually would have.

Monday may 31st, 2010
Today I went to work and lunched with 3 colleagues at Truc Bach Lake.

Breakfast: Fresh pineapple and mango, orange juice, coffee

Lunch: Pho Cuon: lettuce, beef, rice noodles, carrot and green papaya, Fried noodles: onion, beef, garlic, green vegetables, egg, rice noodles, Fried Sticky Rice: mung beans, sticky rice. Truc Bach Lake.

Afternoon snack: Banana, pineapple, watermelon, rambutan, chocolate and dried apricot biscuit.

Dinner: Dahl (onion, spices, ginger, chilli, masoor dahl, tomatoes), 2 toasted wheat tortillas, cucumber and red capsicum salad.

Dessert: Frozen yoghurt (nothing fancy, just a pot of sweetened vinamilk yoghurt bunged in the freezer), the last chocolate and dried apricot biscuit

Tuesday 1st of June
Last half day of work before my 2 month holiday. Aww yeah!

Breakfast: coffee, natural cereal with milk (pepitas, rolled oats, sunflower seeds, sultanas)

Morning tea: Yoghurt and avocado (bo dum sua chua)

Lunch: pho xao (beef, onion, tomato bean sprouts, greens, garlic, ginger, pho noodles, schallots, pickled cucumbers). Eaten on Xuan Dieu st.

Afternoon Snack: Dahl (onion, spices, ginger, chilli, masoor dahl, tomatoes), 1 toasted wheat tortilla, 3 rambutans, watermelon, pineapple.

Dinner: Viet BBQ on Ma may st. Beef, onion, carrot, eggplant, tomato, beans, spring onions all grilled up and dipped in a chilli, salt, calamansi sauce and eaten with banh mi.

Dessert: Chocolate celano, acornetto type ice cream, pretty similar, but missing the chocolate cone at the bottom. What? it is freaking HOT here!


Pho Chien Trung and Pho Cuon.

Wednesday the 2nd of June
HOLIDAYS!

Breakfast: small bowl of natural muesli with milk, black coffee.

Lunch: Bun Bo Nam Bo (beef, rice noodles, bean sprouts, lettuce, herbs, peanuts, fried shallot, lemongrass, garlic, chilli sauce)

Lunch Dessert: Everything che. and I mean everything! Jelly, grass jelly, red beans, lotus seeds, funny sticky balls with sesame seeds suspended throughout, coconut, ice.

Afternoon tea: Raisin snail, fruit (pineapple, mango, watermelon, rambutan), milky tea.

Dinner: Salad with sauteed bean shoots, bacon, garlic, cucumber, tomato, capsicum, coriander, bread.

After dinner I was summoned to the pub by my Mum to meet Luke Nguyen. I sat, chatted and drank a beer.

Thursday the 3rd of June

Breakfast: Coffee, orange juice, small bowl of cereal.

Lunch: At the local com Binh Danh shack: Rice with salty peanuts, stir fried garlic beans, tomato and potato thing, bun cha pork patties, stir fried chinese cabbage.

Lunch Dessert: Sua Chua Nep Cam (yoghurt with fermented red sticky rice)

Afternoon tea: mango, watermelon, rambutan

Dinner: brie, smoked beef, salad (tomato, red capsicum, sauteed garlic bean sprouts, cucumber) with tortillas.

Dessert: Frozen pot of yoghurt, slab of very average and exceedingly rubbery chocolate and zucchini cake

Friday the 4th of June
I cannot believe it is Friday already. I still have so much to do!

Breakfast: Mango and natural muesli with milk, black coffee, orange juice

Lunch: Toasted tortilla sandwich with brie and smoked beef, tomato, avocado. Lychees.

Afternoon tea: Milky tea, Sua Chua Nep Cam (yoghurt with fermented red sticky rice).

Dinner: Salad: bean shoots, garlic, tomato, red capsicum, avocado, carrot. toasted wheat tortillas.

Dessert: Frozen pot of yoghurt.


Pho Xao on Xuan Dieu

Saturday the 5th of June

Breakfast: Natural muesli with milk, black coffee, orange juice. Mountain of Lychees.

Morning tea: Mum and I stopped by a second hand shop down the street. it is basically a mountain of clothes inside an ice cream shop. Totally awesome, am I right? Along with some great pre-loved clothes we had a sugar cane juice. Pleasing taste, some monsterism.

Lunch: Pho cuon, again. Lettuce, herbs, beef, garlic, rice noodles. Pho Chien Trung, egg fried noodles with beef: beef, egg, onion, choi sum, tomato, rice noodles.

Afternoon tea: Sua Chua Nep Cam (yoghurt with fermented red sticky rice), sweet cereal with yoghurt

Dinner: Eggplant Parmiagana (eggplant, tomato sauce, basil, mozzarella and parmeasan) – surprisingly tasty. side salad, though I only ate the cucumber and tomato, the rest was covered in a scarily pink mayonnaise.

Sunday the 6th of June

Breakfast: Natural muesli with milk, black coffee, orange juice.

Lunch: White cloud vegetarian. Brown rice with beans, steamed cabbage and tomato, fried corn cakes (so good), tomato and cucumber with tomato and this tasty but strange seaweed that looks a little bit like green peppercorns, omelette filled with mushrooms. Tea

Afternoon snack: Prunes, tortilla toasted with brie, smoked beef and tomato, chocolate celano ice cream

Dinner:green tea, iced lime juice Farewell dinner with Mum at a local (and packed) Japanese restaurant. Edamame (super salty), tempura fish and vegetables (onion, eggplant, green capsicum, floury sweet potato, carrot), teriyaki chicken and rice, miso soup.

Conclusion:

The actual food that I ate in the past week cannot be compared to the week I documented in 2008. this is because I am now living in a different hemisphere, instead of rugging up and eating mandarins and baked pasta, I am shedding clothes and eating tropical fruit and salads.

- I am a creature of habit when it comes to breakfast. I wake up ridiculously hungry and boil the kettle sleepily, stomach growling.

Out of 21 meals:

- 11 were vegetarian meals

- 9 were eaten out: 9 (compared to 5 last time)

- 7 were Vietnamese food: 7

- 5 were cooked at home (Last time I cooked 7)

- and I ate leftovers once (compared to 3 times in my documented week in may 2010).

What I've been eating May 2010 | Pikelet and Pie

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