Do you eat your 5 a day?

[Freefaller]

Venison fillet with mustard, sweet potato chips

1 venison (1.2 kilograms with fat)
1 onion
2 shallots
20 cl of red wine
3 tbsp of mustard
salt and pepper

For chips:
3 sweet potatoes
oil
salt and pepper

Preparation:



The night before, put the venison in a deep dish, and sprinkle the red wine. Add the peeled and minced shallots, pepper and marinate in the fridge overnight.

Peel the sweet potatoes and cut them into very thin slices. Wash and dry them in a clean cloth. They need to be cool for the next stage so can prepare in advance.

Heat a large amount of oil in a deep fryer or in a pan. Dip the slices of potato in small quantities. Letting them brown, then drain the chips on paper towels, salt and put them in a bowl.

Preheat the oven (240 ° C). Carefully drain the fillet and wipe with paper towels to soak up excess marinade. Brush on the mustard.

Strain and put aside the marinade.

Place in a dish and roast for 10 minutes then reduce the oven gas mark 6 (180 ° C) and cook 15 min.

Remove the dish from the oven, remove the venison and let it rest under foil.

Place the roasting dish over low heat and deglaze it with the marinade.

Let it reduce by a third.

Pour the remaining sauce into a bowl.

Cut the venison into thick slices and serve with sweet potato chips and gravy.

 

[Mrs Seabiscuit]

Cheers FF and BBx

 

[D.P.]

I tend to just have a selection (admittedly quite a narrow selection) of vegetables in the fridge that I'm happy to snack on raw throughout the day. Sugar snap peas, tomatoes, etc. I will obviously attempt to have other vegetables with my meals but this way if I end up eating something that doesn't lend itself well to lots of vegetables (for instance, you can't fit that many on a pizza ) it's not quite so bad.

Trick with things like pizza is to have a salad before eating the pizza (or as a side salad but it is better if you fill up a little on the vegies and skip that extra slice than vice versa).

Or make some side vegetables.

 

[D.P.]

It is the time required to prepare meals like this that is the killer.

I get up at 6am and have a coffee and pastry on the way to work, salad/soup for lunch and some rank junk (sushi, subway, itsu, wasabi, ready meal) for dinner at work. I get home from work at 8-12pm ish.

If I tried to cook fresh veg every night after work I would be eating past 9pm every night at the earliest. At lot of people in the city are the same.

I used to be so healthy but my job makes it very difficult now. My palette has changed too to craving horrible junk.

You don't have to cook veg, eat carrots, sugar snap peas, tomatoes, and pretty much any straight from the fridge. Broccoli, cauliflower, peppers, turnips, celery,radishes, courgette,mangetout, fresh spinach etc. are all great raw.
And cooking veg makes a couple of minutes.

Then there are things like frozen peas/mixed veg, tinned sweat corn etc for emergencies.

 

[Yaayuh!]

If yyou are a veggie and dont eat vegetables and fruit what do your meals consist of? they sounds very carby?

I do eat vegetables, just not the "5 a-day". I'll get around 3.
But yes, quite carby, which is why i'm fat. Too many carbs and not really active.

 

[Mrs Seabiscuit]

I do eat vegetables, just not the "5 a-day". I'll get around 3.
But yes, quite carby, which is why i'm fat. Too many carbs and not really active.

Hope you didnt think i was having a dig I was just curious lol

 

[Flying_Hellfish]

If you cook all of your own meals, then it is very simple.

However if don't/can't/won't then it becomes very easy not to

 

[koolpc]

What about a light stir fry with the veg. Had that from a friend and was very tasty and veg cooked less than 5 mins!

 

[Judgeneo]

Venison fillet with mustard, sweet potato chips

1 venison (1.2 kilograms with fat)
1 onion
2 shallots
20 cl of red wine
3 tbsp of mustard
salt and pepper

For chips:
3 sweet potatoes
oil
salt and pepper

How many vegetables would you count that as?

 

[Flying_Hellfish]

One isn't it? Suppose it depends how large the shallots are, might sneak two

 

[Mrs Seabiscuit]

How many vegetables would you count that as?

tee hee hee

 

[Freefaller]

How many vegetables would you count that as?

She asked for a venison recipe - you can have veg on the side.

 

[Mrs Seabiscuit]

She asked for a venison recipe - you can have veg on the side.

Precisely

 

[OpenToSuggestions]

vegetables

TIMMEH!!!!!!

 

[Belloni]

I have a nutribullet, so use that every morning consisting of - banana/apple/pear/orange/blueberries/nuts and honey, nearly there...

 

[Pr3d4t0r]

nope, im fat and i know it? T-T

 

[Rroff]

I doubt it.

Breakfast I do have fairly nutritional cereal, orange juice and/or something fruit wise. (probably close to 2 of those 5 to be fair).

Lunch Baguette w/ cheese, tuna, etc. (oily fish capped at 300g a week).

Dinner Usually something along the lines of a chicken/pasta bake

Most days have a liberal smattering of crisps, chocolate, etc. I have almost literally no vegetable intake at all potatoes aside.

 

[dholdi]

3 a day most days for me.

 

[smit101]

A lot more than 5 a day usually, yesterday for instance : Blackberries, Raspberries, red currants, blackcurrants, blueberries, cherries, banana (not fully ripe & greenish for extra RS). Salad of Sweet gem leaves, Romaine lettuce, tomato, carrot, red onion, garlic, apple, beetroot. Around 1 pound of roast spuds (cooked and cooled for 12hrs in fridge for extra RS) Roast veg platter of: sweet potato, white onion, red onion, shallots, garlic, swede, leaks, carrot. edit/ almost forgot also had celery & Cucumber.

 

[Fuggan]

RS?