I Won't Quote

I was really lucky last week! On Friday, a courier called me and told me that they are bringing me a parcel from Globus Estonia, which meant I got a ton of canned goods, like corn, beans etc. Which I can now use during this week! It was such a nice surprise. I got another gift from them when I was at the hospital so this is why they had my address.



I am going to make chilli soon now, I haven't made it in a while.



There is also a challenge - use 5 ingredients and make quarantine food. I challenge you all.

But anyway, I spent no money during the week again.

Monday

For breakfast I had porridge, for lunch I had soup and for dinner I made something that took more time, Japanese curry. :D I opened the curry cubes and now to use them up. Besides, now that I have used a proper amount of seasoning, it tastes a whole lot better. Also it showed me that at first something may be difficult, but it will become easier. Once it is in, it's in.

Tuesday

Breakfast and lunch were the same again, but for dinner I made gourmet dish - dumplings. :D I don't know, they used to be this kind of food that you made when you literally had nothing else, but now it has changed into luxury. :D The only thing I am upset about is that vegan dumplings are so much more expensive than meat ones. Why?! I really love these vegetable gyozas, but yeah. Expensive! I don't understand.

Wednesday

For dinner I made oven baked fries and beetroot burger with salad. I really like making my own fries, they are a lot better than store ones. Also you can add your own seasoning, I love rosemary and salt combo a lot. I never use this general "fries" seasoning. Well, maybe sometimes, but still rarely.  And beetrood patties are my favourite vegan burgers I think. Even though most of them are good. I am talking about store bought ones as I suck at making them myself.  Globus Estonia sent me some canned beetroot though, maybe I should try and make them myself?

Thursday

I used this one meatless Tuesday recipe and made Maroccan style lentil-sweet potato stew, and we got leftovers so we also had it on Saturday. It came out perfect! I served it with basmati rice. I also discovered that basmati rice... smells different than normal one? :D Dunno, can't really explain it.



This was probably my favourite meal of the week! If you want the recipe, let me know and I can translate it.

Friday

I made salmon burgers with salad and pickled cucumbers. I know, a weird combo. :D At first I wanted to make something like fish and chips, but it turned into this. I also thought that I haven't had any fish in a while, so why not make this. Quick and easy as I bought store-made fish patties. It tasted okay, not as good as I hoped, but it was still fine. Food doesn't have to be perfect. It is still difficult for me to deal with these situations though, it brings up a lot of guilt.

I also baked some more bread on Friday, which was just as good as I remembered. :D I still haven't made proper bread, but I hope to find time for this as well (with the starter). Ideally I would love to make something as good as this handmade bread shop makes. :D Yumm, I kind of want it now. Maybe I should go and buy some awesome bread?



Saturday

For lunch I had bread with hummus. I looooove hummus so much. I used to never appreciate it enoug, but now I have become a huge fan.



For dinner we had more of this lentil-sweet potato stew with rice. And alsmo me and my sister decided to take some time off from everyday and have a snack and some wine. This was a huge challenge for me.

Not on the same day but on the next, I had so much guilt and it was difficult to think of something else. I really felt like restricting, but I didn't do this. I had 3 proper meals and also snacks. Now it is already Monday but I still have some guilty feleings in my head... I need to tell myself that I ENJOYED Saturday and this counts. Food is not a punishment and not eating is not something to cheer for. It is important to eat normally and regularly, as if nothing had happened. I can't live my life in this rhytm for forever. I can't have breakfast at 7, snack at 11, lunch at 13 and so on for the rest of my life. Real life doesn't follow the time. There are moments where I may have something out of the ordinary in real life. Food is to be enjoyed. I can express it well - why can't I just understand?!

Sunday

For lunch I again had homemade bread with hummus. And bread was gone. What a sad day.

I don't know why, but my sister really loves vegetable wok with egg noodles and well, I think it is pretty good as well. So I made some wok with teriyaki sauce and I think it was quite good. Really easy and fast.

So I wrote down things for seven days instead of five, as I had everything for it. On Saturday I still went to the store to get stuff for the next week. I know it is necessary, but it was really weird to queue outside of the store.

I have been avoiding reading the news on the weekend so I have been feeling really calm and nice. Instead of corona news I would like to listen to something good. I want to read happy news and nice articles. I just want to hide form this pandemic. Can't wait until it is over... I have a holiday from work in May, but I don't think this situation is over by then. I really wanted to go to Oslo, but I am afraid this is not going to happen. Really sad about it. I am thinking of maybe changing my holiday time... we shall see. I really could use some rest though. I don't know, working from home is so much more tiring than being at the office.

It is difficult to stay indoors all the itme. I still go out for walks, but it is not that. I want to DO something. I thought of starting yoga classes when I got back from Japan, but then this pandemic started. I know I could do yoga at home, following videos (hey, I had a yoga challenge here in my blog), but I just don't like following videos at all. I want to do it with real people and teacher.

I also really would like to start running again, but I am not allowed to, due to my weight. I need to gain at least 5 more kilos to do it. I just want to wake up overnight and be at this weight.

Anyway, what else... I gave my best friend and family some eating disorder related questions I would like them to answer to. I will share it on my next post. I think it is an interesting read to myself as well.

Also, if there are any challenges or ideas what I should do, please let me know. I am open to everything. I think about maybe having this "how many calories I eat per day" post at one point. It is a bit difficult though, like with homemade bread - I don't know how many calories it has. :D Anyway, I will try it at some point.

I think this is enough for today. Stay healthy!

Considering it is self quarantine time I decided to go a week without spending any money again.

For this, I went to a store during the weekend and bought everything I needed for the week. I also planned out every single meal. Maybe today I will still go to the store and get some dairy things, because I simply forgot about those and I cannot have my coffee without milk. So yeah. I will try not to spend any money besides that. (So, Signe, no online shopping either!). We shall see how it goes. Last time I could do it. I think this is a good challenge for this time. Also quite a lot of people have to stay at home and don't have a job currently, meaning that they want to spend less. Being prepared like this is a good way to do it.

Monday

For breakfast I had, as always, porridge with strawberries and banana. I still have porridge every single morning. I sometimes think that I should make something else, like toast or muesli or cereal, but then I feel this "but I love porridge so much" so why wouldn't I have this. Besides I can have toast or cereal later if I want to.



For lunch I had some jar soup (cabbage borcht). I got a jar of soup base and now on workdays I can have it as lunch. With some bread and lunch is served. And the curry cubes and ready it was.



For a snack I had rice cakes with honey and for another snack I had muesli with milk. And night snack was mango-vanilla ice cream that I have had in the freezer for a while, but I was too scared to have it.

Tuesday

For breakfast I had porridge again, because well, it is my fav.

For a snack I again had these rice cakes, as I wanted to finish them before having anything else.

For lunch I had soup again (very lazy).

And then for a snack I had kohuke (Estonian curd dessert). They have new flavours and they are now named after Tallinna, Riga and Vilnius. I picked Vilnius, which was with creme caramel. It wasn't the best that I have had, but it was still good. I love kohuke. :D Now that I have tried them all, I recommend Riga one the most.



For dinner we had buckwheat with sundried tomatoes, fresh tomatoes and some onion. I am not a huge fan of buckwheat, but for some reason I was craving it. Also it was a huge portion.

We also had some pomelo that I had bought in advance. These are still very good and fresh and I love them. It is a bit difficult to peel them, but it's fine,.

Also I went for a little walk - I didn't go to any of the stores and kept distance from other people. I feel so depressed just sitting at home - don't kill me.

Wednesday

For breakfast you can guess 3 times. Of course porridge. :D Luckily I am not running out of it yet - I have a whole other box ready to go. Lately I have had it with strawberries and banana, but I have a box of frozen mango ready to go as well. Also there is enough jam to last me for years. :D

For a snack we had some candies I got from Japan and it was still really good. :D

I have thought of ordering something from iherb, but this is just an idea. There are a lot of interesting things there that I would love to try. A lot of people order supplements and vitamins from there, but I have had food stuff only. For example seasonings and so on. I can't order anything right now though as I am doing this no spend challenge. :D Or like, 5 days, because I need to stock up on the weekend.

Today everyone got a message from Estonia's governement too, saying that people should remain indoors and it is not allowed for more than 2 people to be together. And you need to keep the distance of 2 meters from others. Getting this message was kind of creepy and it fel like the end of the world is indeed near.

This whole Corona situation is crazy and makes no sense. It feels like reading a book. But everything happens in real life!

I don't think it will be over soon. Probably need to remain in home office... at the moment at least things seem to remain the same. We shall see. I really hoped that Estonia wouldn't have any Corona deaths, but we have had 11 now. :( I wish regular life could just continue...

What else is new is that my cuts in my mouth from the braces are lot better and doesn't hurt as much anymore!

For lunch I had some soup again. We are growing spring onion and I could cut fresh spring onion on top of my soup - it was so nice. Felt like proper spring.



After lunch I had a snack of Tallinn kohuke, which was with blueberries. Not the best, but good enough to have again. :D

For dinner I made simple kimchi fried rice and added a fried egg on top of it. Really simple and fast dish to make. I have so much time at home though that I could easily make something that takes more time. But at the same time I want to stick with foods I have made before to make sure I don't waste ingredients and so on. It is important to just deal with this situation and not go to stores too often.



Do you have a meal that you love to have that thakes a long time to make? Or is there anything you really enjoy that is easy and fast?

Thursday

For breakfast I had porridge.

For a snack I had rice cakes with cinnamon and apple - these are the best. I could have the whole bag in a day.

For lunch I had soup again, but it was the last portion. Tomorrow I need to come up with something else. Probably it will be an omelette, because we don't really have any more fresh stuff. But we have enough eggs.

For lunch snack I had Riga kohuke, which was the best one. Nice and caramelly.

For dinner I made grouts and potato mash with onion and served it with cottache cheese. At one point I made foods from different countries and this was a good one, my sister said she wouldn't mind having it again so we did. It is also very easy and fast - you just boil everything, fry up the onion and mix it all together. I think there was too much food in the end, but it was good. :D

And for a night snack we had some more pomelo. I don't know if I ever will get bored of it. :D

Friday

This is only today, but as I want to post it now, I will write down the plans.

For breakfast I had porridge with strawberries and banana.

For a snack I had some more rice cakes. Yes, I am obsessed.

For lunch I will make an omelette with sundried tomatoes and cheese. I really love sundried tomatoes - they are so nice and always elevate the food. Also there is a hack - use the oil they are in to fry up stuff. It adds so much to the food. It is like flavoured oil. :D

For dinner I am going to make sweet potato with beans in chilli sauce and tomato-cottage cheese salad as a side. I also had an idea about making banana-rye muffins, but we are going to have some more ice cream instead. :D If I will make the muffins at some point, I will make sure to blog about it.

So how is your eating in isolation? Have you prepared all the foods or do you still go to store quite often? Or do you order deliveries? I would like having a food delivery, but at the same time I like doing food shopping.

Anyway I will continue posting on Mondays and Fridays from now on again. If there is anything you would like to read about, just let me know!