FD Day 27: Canberra Girl Made an Appearance

Andddd... I got another friend to guest-blog for me! Saved by the email again. :)  This friend of mine was trained under a reputable chef in Aussie (of whom I regretfully forgot the name) and was working with her for a while. Though she's not in the food biz right now, I do hope she continues to hone her skills so she can cook me a six-star meal some day. *ahem, hint hint* :P  Who knows, maybe someday she'll own a restaurant (and I'd get free meals whenever I visit her). Hee hee. What a cheap friend I am! XD (No, of course not! I'll be nice and wash the dishes, I promise.)

So here's her food diary. Enjoy! ;) 

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Post #1

Hello World!

My memories of food with this food lover generally consist of my outright terrible diet (you’ll find out in a minute) and her always kindly advising me to eat. Having lived a student life for the past three years, my constant diet consisted of instant noodles (ramen, yes, how stereotypical) and … wait, that’s it. I do, however, get vegetables and fruit every week and try to have a bit of protein every other day.

Anyway, now that I have some income (just a trickle, really) I officially bid my diet of instant noodles goodbye and started to eat better. So here’s one of my food diary entries (Thursday):

Breakfast: Cereal (no I can’t make it sound any sexier. It’s cereal.)

Lunch: Two salmon and avocado sushi rolls – All morning I was actually thinking of having Fillet O’ Fish from McDonalds, but once I walked into my boss’ room and smelled seaweed from her sushi rolls I was hooked. Plus I usually dump the French fries when I get the value sets so thought I might as well be financially efficient.

Dinner: Steamed eggs with bits of lap cheong (Chinese Sausage) and shallots.

Overall I think that was one of my best diet days. Stay tuned for the worst!

Post #2

Just to illustrate how terrible my diet is and why my dear friend wouldn’t quit encouraging me to eat better, yesterday would be a great example.

As it was a busy and intense day at work, my breakfast consisted of:

A flat white (pick me up) and three jelly beans (purple, green and yellow).

Lunch was a small piece of blueberry cheesecake that the office had.

Dinner: A small slice of oven-baked marinated pork and a few mouthfuls of rice.

So my fruit intake is the blueberries in the cake and as for vegetables…one of the jellybeans I ate was green, so that should count, right?? It just reminded me that my eating habit really doesn’t quite change – when I’m stressed or busy, food’s secondary to me. Hmm…maybe it’s time I start my own food diary just to monitor how I eat as well.

In conclusion, I never used to understand my friend's love and passion for food until I pulled a short stint in the kitchen and learned to appreciate and love food. It was then when I thought ‘Now I know where she’s coming from with her food food food…’ Sadly we haven’t had the chance to meet up for awhile now but I’m very much looking forward to doing a food trip with her! Go us!

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Uhm. She'd be disappointed to see what I've been eating these days. Ahem. So much for giving advice to people, hah! But to be fair, that was a long time ago though - about 4 years or so ago?! That's how long I haven't seen all my friends back home and abroad elsewhere.

Anyhow. I'm trying to eat better lately. Had some vege soup for dinner yesterday, so that's a start! And I finished my jar of peanut butter. NOT buying anymore of those... at least for the time being. ;)

Now off I trot! Have a lot to do today!