A Diet Allergic To Fun

I am a very active person, I exercise 6/7 days a week and do about 17hrs within that week. 

I love the gym and I love to eat foods that will help me in the gym. Being allergic to one of the best protein boosting foods (eggs) is a bit of a bummer so I have learnt to work around it and create some gym-super foods.

I have just purchased Soya Protein Isolate powder which is going to lead to a mighty amount of new smoothie recipes, so watch this space!!

Very simple to prep and cook. I cooked this after a late gym session and it was just the thing, full of protein and fibre. All the veg was fresh to, you wont realise until you start cooking fresh how different the taste is!

It has become a script that I now read off when dinning out, what I am allergic too but then also what that means I cant then have. People seem to think that if your allergic to eggs you can still have mayo in your burger or if you're allergic to milk you can still have butter in your sandwich. It has become a thing for me to review restaurants on how well they are able to accommodate me and my allergies, some have been just shocking, others absolutely brilliant making up a whole meal for me (now thats customer service).

I am going to be documenting and reviewing restaurants as I go first starting with this wonderful restaurant in Wales, Fishguard called Chilli Chilli. 

For starters unbuttered bruschetta topped with mushrooms (cooked with oil not butter) finished with lemon and rocket garnish. Did I taste the difference without butter.. no.

Main, roasted chicken on spinach, grilled tomatos, parsnip (no butter) mash topped with chilli tomato pesto. 

I would love to say I had room for another course of there beautiful desserts but they unfortunately couldn't cater for my allergies (and I was pretty full) so a herbal tea (no milk) for me it was.

Managed to pick up bags of fresh vegetables this weekend!

Runner beans

Carrots

Courgettes

Spinach

Sloes (Sloe Gin... it's got fruit in it!?) 

Cucumber 

Aubergine

I think I will be decently stocked up for a while!

Very night light yet filling dinner. I love turkey as it goes with anything and is one of the better meats to eat. I boiled the cauliflower and sweetcorn together (sweetens the cauliflower up). I roasted the peppers in the oven and threw it all together with the glaze on top. This recipe cold also suit chicken and salmon its a good versatile one.

Treat time! Ridiculously healthy, filling and definitely sorts out a sweet tooth. I made this in the morning before heading to a spinning class and a climbing session not as beneficial as powders but a great wake me up energiser for a morning session.

They do a dairy free option... well they don't just do one they do abut 5 so you wont get bored :)

Anther fishy meal, this time with a bit more spice. I love adding chili to my recipes and if you leave the chili in with the fish while it cooks in the bag it really spices the whole thing up that extra notch. 

I had to use up my cauliflower and broccoli so made my mash again, this time I whizzed it in our smoothie maker just a little to make it more puree but sturdy enough to stand tall. 

Smoothies taste better with allergies:

Almond Milk

Coconut milk

Frozen Raspberries

Flaxseed, cocoa and berries powder mix

Ice cubes

Agava Nectar Honey

Desiccated Coconut sprinkles to finish

I am a guilty Starbucks drinker, I blame it on the fact it is plastered all around my home town and pretty much where ever I go, but nether the less it's a bad habit. 

So one day I decided (God knows why I didn't think if this before) to whiz up almond milk a squeeze of Agava Nectar*, half a cup of ice and a shot of expresso. (For the expresso I have been using Tesco Gold Instant and just making it very strong with hot water.) 

You can add other bits, bit of coca, coconut, coffee essence, vanilla essence, just go mad. But I worn you, once you make it you wont go back, what you will do though is make one every day maybe even twice a day, just cause you can! 

So I may have go you away from expensive coffee but you'll still be drinking it... all the time!

I am a huge fan of fish and I do love this meal, its was a very quick and easy put together. I cooked the haddock seasoned and wrapped in tinfoil in the oven so in sat in its juices. I then used almond milk with the mash and simply boiled the beans. The sauce was made using a base bought from the supermarket and just jazzed up by adding tomato passata, paprika and basil. 

Now, I have always been dead against people who go out to a restaurant and order a salad. I used to hate the idea of making a salad as a main meal, I always thought of it as tasteless and hardly a filling enough meal.

That opinion quickly changed when I did a bit of experimenting with recipes after dining out one lunch time at a very well known restaurant this resulted in me being converted into a green leaf lover.

I started mixing up ingredients; something sweet, something with a crunch, some type of protein and finally a sauce to finish it off.

I heated a frying pan and threw in the beans, peppers and some hot chill paste I then grilled the prawns on my George Forman and tossed it all in with a ready packeted salad bought from the super market (home grown is always better but I am a student here!) The Balsamic glaze was also bought and was a perfect finish making it feel i bit more like a decent meal on a plate not, just green leaves. 

Right, so I said I was steering clear of the alternatives but THIS is a must have for anyone who cant have milk. There are other alternatives but I can honestly swear by this. Especially for my gyming Almonds are great for loosing weight. I use both unsweetened (27cals per 200ml) and chocolate flavour (97cals per 200ml), chocolate is my treat :) 

It's just brilliant because you can use Almond milk for anything; cereal, tea, coffee, cakes, sauces and much, much more! 

Although these yoghurts are amazing and good quick energy for my very active lifestyle

Gyming 2 twice a day 7 days a week plus climbing and swimming with netball in between...

they are also ridiculously expensive!