We’ve all seen the pretty pictures, the strategically placed food. The reality is that the food doesn’t get eaten like that, not in my house, oh no.

I’m completely anal about what you see, I place the everything separate from everything else to make sure you can see what I’m eating.

I’m admitting the truth right here …
I’m an avid mixer. I always mix my food, in all it’s gooey glory!

My Eats

Breakfast

I’ve finally finished my homemade Muesli (after numerous bowls). I topped it with yogurt & strawberries plus a small amount of tinned ‘fake’ fruit. (I’m ashamed to admit that I’m a sucker for pre-packed fruit sometimes) Course two, the classic. I’m never going to be able to turn these babies down. It’s just the way I roll!
The Reality:

Dinner

Leftover tomato concoction with pasta, um, amazing!

The Reality:

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Could you be bothered making a meal look impressive & informative for your food blog daily?

I’ve been to H2o Cafe, Pyrmont more times than I’d like to admit.
Don’t believe me?
Here, here, here, here, here, here & here

I found the perfect scrambled egg whites at both H2o Pyrmont & Pyrama:

I got many American Treats:

I caught up with Family friends

I learnt about Iron Absorption & Zinc Absorption.

My Fridge broke down.

I vowed to never eat unhealthy “Fast Food” again.

I met fellow food blogger Rita.

I’ll end my tribute by reviewing my August goals:

1. No more than 5 cups of coffee a week. I never had more than 5 a week so I’m calling that a PASS. I really should make the number lower next month
2. Finally send the packages out that are ready to go out. Pass, DONE
3. Find the perfect egg white scramble or omelette in my local area. Look up, I found two places. (H2o Pyrmont & Pyrama)
4. Eat out only twice a week, spending no more than $25 a visit. Massive fail, my eating out habits have gotten worse.
5. Bake more. Nope, haven’t done any. Bad me.

My Eats

Breakfast

I’m a big breakfast girl. I’ll sometimes wait until 10am & have myself a brunch.

I used some more homemade Muesli & topped it with tinned tropical fruit in natural juices plus fresh strawberries. I also had a plate-o-beans & some brioche

Snackage

I had a bowl of Muesli with yogurt to fill me up till dinnertime. This mix contains:
Low Fat Muesli
Dried Jumbo Golden Raisins
Dried Wild Blueberries (Organic)
Lecithin Granules
Chocolate Buttons (Organic)

Dinner

My dinner was inspired by many factors. I was inspired by Monica who is mexican. Then Carla’s sister Cristina wore a shirt promoting Meat Free Monday.

I’m betting your uber confused as to how this meal came about after that introduction to my dinner. Now let me explain myself.

I felt like mexican after reading Monica’s blog, then I saw Cristina wearing her Meat Free Monday shirt.

It may not be monday, I may not know how to make a burrito & I don’t ever eat meat so my brain may be confusing. I failed at making a burrito, so I put the topping on top of my wrap. My tomato concoction included:
Canned tomatoes, zucchini, onion, kidney bean, parsley & cumin Steamed vegetables are a perfect flavor for this dinner, thyme on my eggplant is beautiful.

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How was your August?

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Aussie Farmers Direct’ range of fresh goods includes milk, bread, eggs, cheese, bacon, butter, coffee, water, tortillas, orange and apple juice. It also delivers the freshest fruit and vegetables, meat, chicken and now salmon, prawns and even seasonal lines such as hot cross buns and fresh pasta.

Deliveries are made overnight and placed into esky cooler bags left out on the doorstep by customers before 7am ensuring freshness, whilst fruit and vegetables are delivered in the afternoons.

Aussie Farmers Direct delivers to homes in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Canberra and also regional centres including Geelong, Ballarat, Wollongong and the Central Coast.

I was sent this product to review & post about.

Before leaving we discovered the car battery was dead so while waiting for the guy, we had coffee.

Apparently we weren’t driving the car often enough to re-charge the battery.

The solution: More day trips!

After eating lunch, we took a stroll by the beach.

Then we drove home with the sun going down.

My Eats

Breakfast

I started my morning with some Muesli & Yogurt:
This Muesli has an interesting flavor. I love the dried fruit they used in their mix.

Lunch

We ate lunch in Terrigal, we decided on Thai.
(even though I wanted to consume my weight in cakes at the pastry shop next door).

What would a visit to a Thai place be without Fish cakes & Curry puffs?
Pointless, I say

I ordered a main dish for lunch, because that’s how I roll.
That’s tofu & mixed vegetables in brown sauce with some white rice. This sauce was incredible, so incredible.

Dinner

Leftover vegetables covered in Spicy Bean Salsa.

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Using the last of our fruit before my delivery from Aussie Farmers Direct

Little piglet moment

I got myself another mini, mini cupcake. A mint chocolate cupcake.

I selected their Low-Fat Premix & made up three of my own mixes.

In my own mixes I chose the following ingredients:
Mix 1:
Low Fat Muesli
Chia Seeds
Quinoa (Organic)
Chocolate Drops (Organic)

Mix 2:
Low Fat Muesli
Dried Sultanas
Dried Dates
Linseed (Flaxseed)
Sunflower Kernels
Amaranth (Organic)
Quinoa (Organic)

Mix 3:
Low Fat Muesli
Dried Jumbo Golden Raisins
Dried Wild Blueberries (Organic)
Lecithin Granules
Chocolate Buttons (Organic)

The team at Mix My Muesli have given me a special code for my lovely readers to receive a discount.

Choose your mix & enter the following code at check out: DIS050

I was sent this product to trail

People receive them:
Carla & Cristina are blogger friends of mine & they’ve been waiting forever to get my Aussie treats.

Carla only recently became vegan so the Tim Tams were all for Cristina

True to form, the girls were eager to try Vegemite.
The verdict:

I’m just happy to see some of Australia in South Carolina:

The lovely Cristina is wearing a “Meat Free Monday” T-shirt. If you’d like to know more, click here

My Eats

Breakfast

True to form, classic breakfast for me:

Snackage

Quick coffee on the run:

Dinner

My heart becomes warm & gooey when “The Chefette” suggests this dinner:

Three Natural Pulse, Adzuki Bean & Kumera Patties, eggplant with thyme, steamed vegetables topped with Gravox Gravy.

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what’s needed for a perfect sunday you ask?
1. Sun
2. Great company
3. Chocolate
4. A little too much food
5. The fish markets &
6. Happiness

I definitely had all the above on my Sunday & let me tell you, my life is in a pretty great place.

My Eats

Breakfast

Breakfast must be eaten in the sun whenever possible:

I had a big huge bowl of mess this morning.
In the mix:
Cinnamon Roll Larabar, Guardian, Yogurt, my Muesli & Monster Muesli in Multigrain with banana & strawberries.

Beans & toast, simply because I’m obsessed.

Lunch

We headed down to H2o once again (this time for lunch) because the weather was perfect & nothing beats sunshine plus water.

Whenever I head out for a meal (any earlier than 5pm), I go for eggs. It’s just one of those odd things I always do.

In the mix:
4 scrambled egg whites, poached spinach, ketchup & 1 slice of toasted sourdough.

Dinner

We made a trip to The Sydney Fish Market & hit up De Costi.

We came home with Oysters & Yellow Fin Tuna!

“The Chefette” made up an incredible salad:
In the mix:
Snap Beans, lettuce, tomato, cucumber, avocado, carrot & celery.

The tuna was pan-fried in soya sauce, lemon juice & thyme. The oysters were served with lemon juice & the bread was not needed but who can resist white bread from time to time? not me!

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How was your Sunday?

I was smiling because that one simple word conjured many thought’s in my head.

Imagine if we hadn’t discovered …
* How to make Oatmeal
* Chocolate
* Vegetables & fruit
* Cupcakes
* Food blogging

My Eats

Breakfast

I started my morning with:

Simon has come to expect this breakfast & I can’t let a friend down now, can I?

My heart aches for this breakfast, it really does make me smile.

Snackage

After wandering around Pyrmont, “The Chefette” & I stopped into H2o for a coffee.

Coffee by the water really is beautiful.

We came home, sorted through a few things in the apartment then “TGB” popped over & we headed out again … To H2o again … For coffee & fresh fruit salad.
I removed the yogurt because I have this weird thing about mixing yogurt with watermelon.

Dinner

I mixed it up again tonight.
We pan-fried, we steamed & we ate.The sausage is a Quorn Sausage & it’s seriously hard to imagine why I ever ate meat. These are the real deal, low in fat & the consistency is perfect.
I used Spicy Bean Salsa with red Quinoa to bulk up my meal.

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Answer this:
Imagine if we hadn’t discovered …

My Eats

Breakfast

We headed down to H2o Cafe for breakfast.

I’ve seen some pretty oily items come out of the kitchen when I’ve been at H2o Cafe grabbing a coffee. The food has come out glistening & that’s a real turn off for me.

I decided to give the chef a chance at making me an egg white scramble. It can’t come out that badly, can it?
Um, doesn’t that look perfect?

It was, the eggs were cooked perfectly. I have no idea how the chef made these so I might have to ask next time. (He may have used cream?)

I paired my scrambled egg whites, slice of sourdough toast & ketchup with a Skinny Latte.

Snackage

After an intense gym session with Lily, I had some Muesli with fresh strawberries & yogurt

Dinner

I’m a huge fan of awkward dinners, I like mixing things & using leftovers.

On the plate:
* Half a Quorn Cottage Pie with tomato sauce
* Leftover seafood & pasta
* Freshly steamed vegetables

The Quorn Cottage Pie was delicious. The “Mince” was lovely, the flavor was intense & the vegetables inside didn’t taste like your typical frozen meal.
I loved it.

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I added a new page introducing you to “The Others” who appear frequently on the site.

Every food blogger has a different way of taking their photographs. I, personally take about 3-5 photographs per meal & I use the best of the crew to share with you. (Hello there).

Today you’ll see the good & the bad, mainly because I’d love to give you a better look at what life as a daily food blogger is really like.

My Eats

Breakfast

I started with my morning with Peanut Butter M&M’s on top of my Basic Stovetop Oats.
Look at those babies melting.

When my Peanut Butter M&M’s run out, breakfast will never be the same.

The bad ones:

My next course:
Brioche, crisped up in le oven:

Then smothered in St Dalfour Wild Blueberry Spread:

The bad:

Lunch

We headed out for a meeting & ended up having a lunch while at H2o Cafe.
We shared a Vegetarian Pizza:

The ingredients were very simple & this pizza was seriously lacking in flavor. It could have used some extra ingredients. On the pizza was sun-dried tomato, feta cheese, fresh basil and spanish onion.

I had one slice with my Skinny Latte:

The bad:

Snack

I made up a batch of my Muesli for the next few mornings before my meeting & came home wanting some.

I topped it with yogurt:

The bad:

Dinner

I love being with family friends, the stories from the old days are so incredible & I laughed, oh yes, I laughed.

We headed to Pyrama for dinner & I’m afraid to admit that I haven’t been able to figure how to shoot in a dark restaurant as of yet.

The starter was salt and pepper calamari with wild rocket and harissa

The bad:

My main course was sea scallops, zucchini and herb risotto:

I personally don’t like wine in my risotto but it made for a very interesting addition. The scallops were cooked to perfection & retained their flavour so well.

The bad:

How many pictures do you take for a blog post?