As I mentioned in yesterday’s blog entry I had spent the day travelling to visit family. It went very well, with us making good time on the road in the morning so being able spend plenty of time with everyone in the afternoon and evening.
However, as usual gluten free eating on the go was not easy and my calorie and nutrient counts are really wild guesses. In order to make such good time we had to leave early, and being a bit rushed that morning, I decided against taking the time to make a packed lunch for myself. Big mistake! Every rest stop had either big chain fast food joints like McDonald’s or KFC, which are never gluten free, or British staples like fish and chips or steak pie. So I decided to just wait until we got to the hotel and have a proper sit down meal in the hotel restaurant. The problem was, at 2pm the restaurant was closed, so we ended up eating in the hotel bar where the best I could do was a jacket potato with cheese and beans. It was OK, but not my favourite food and rather low in protein and vegetables. I meant to have one of the Protein Snack bars I had brought around 5pm, but was in the middle of a visit where it wouldn’t really be polite, so then didn’t eat again until dinner.
We went to a local pub called The Navigation, where we have been before and where the chef is very accommodating of gluten free. The chicken and apricot tagine I had was really very good, but again, not too many vegetables. I was really hungry as it had been so long since my last meal, and could easily have had dessert as well, but there was nothing gluten free on the extensive pudding list aside from ice cream – and it was cold out! I really hate when that happens because I feel so deprived, especially when other people at my table then order dessert and I have to watch them eat it!
I’m sure it kept the calorie count down, but it was not an uplifting end to the day!
The Score:
| Calories: | Protein: | Carbs: | Fat: | Alcohol: | Fibre: |
| 2106.40 | 105.41g | 281.06g | 48.69g | 15.10g | 22.88g |
| 20% | 53% | 21% | 5% | ||
| Calories burned through exercise: | Rest Day | | |||
What I ate:
| Time | Item | Amount |
| 08:00 | Vitamins - Centrum Advance A to Zinc, 400iu of Vitamin E, 1000iu Vitamin D3 and 500mg Glucosamine sulphate | 1 each |
| Cold water | 200mL | |
| Mattesson's Turkey rashers | 3 rashers | |
| Mesa Sunrise cereal | 60g | |
| Alpro Soy milk | 120mL | |
| Sainsbury's pressed apple and cherry juice | 200mL | |
| 08:30 | Black Tea | 500mL |
| 11:15 | Sainsbury's fruit and seed mix | 40g |
| Plums | 110g | |
| Starbucks Skinny Vanilla Spice latte (no whipped cream) | Grande | |
| 12:45 | Cadbury Creme Egg | 1 egg |
| 14:00 | Baked potato | 3/4 of a large one |
| with cheddar cheese | 1/4 cup shredded | |
| and baked beans | about 200g | |
| Black tea with milk and sugar | 300mL | |
| 16:30 | Black tea | 300mL |
| 19:30 | Chicken, cranberry and apricot tagine | about 1 cup |
| White rice | about 3/4 cup | |
| Rose wine | 175mL |
Plus 500 to 1500mL of cold water sipped from a water bottle throughout the day.
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