I just got back from the store and brought these things with me : paksoi, mushrooms, cashew nuts, eggs, paprika (red), onions. I'll be turning some of these ingredients into a nice meal later tonight, and use the rest for tomorrow. The paksoi was not on my list but as I noticed the store carried it, and I know it's often used in asian dishes, I bought it anyway. I'm certain it'll serve a purpose.
Now, with all this healthy eating going on, I've lost about 2 kilo already, in about three weeks or so. I guess the cutting back on candy helps too. At first I thought that would be hard, but it really wasn't... cutting back on meat products though, that proved (and still proves) to be a challenge. It must be due to the fact that I've been eating meat all of my life, and even created meals around meat, making it the most important ingredient. So, now when I look at things to cook and eat, I feel restricted in my options, while I am actually really not - it's just that I'm not used to it and need to look at food and eating differently. So far I'm doing good, not to say great, but it's still an "active" process going on, so I must focus on excluding it from my impulses when buying/creating and cooking meals.
Will this change over time? I guess and hope it will. Does this mean I'll become a vegetarian? I really doubt it, though I don't find this new diet too hard to keep up. Ah well... I'll see how it evolves.
Tonights dish is called Idiyappam, tomorrow will be a veggie-rice dish.
Update : making that Yidiyappam totally sucked. It needs way too much pots and pans for my liking. The fact that I roasted the cashew nuts and then proceeded to drop the container that held them to the floor, scattering oily cashew nuts all over the kitchen, doesn't help much. I know it was my fault, but still... why cook and bake and fry everything in seperate stages? I like creating food in a wok for various reasons, one of it being simple and efficient. This Yiddiyappam dish was far from it - and it didn't even taste as good as it looked on the photograph. Tomorrow should be better.