Fresh Salsa

In my quest to discover, taste and create the tastiest and healthiest food and snacks possible - I have discovered Fresh Salsa.

I first thought of this after looking at the back of a jar of Pace Chunky Salsa. I noticed that the salsa had a very low calorie and fat count compared to the portion size yet tasted very good and was full of flavour.

I thought to my self...If I make this myself, I bet it can taste better and be even more healthier (less salt and additives).

After a few bits of experimentation this is what I came up with:


2 Tomatoes
1 Small Capsicum
1 Average Sized Onion
Few Sprigs of Coriander
Small amount of Parsley
2-4 Long skinny red chilies
1 fat red chili
1 fat green chili
2 Limes
Salt

Large Mixing Bowl
Serated Slicing Knife for slicing tomato and capsicum
Chopping Chef's Knife (or cleaver) for dicing
2 Jars for Storage

1. Quarter the Limes and squeeze the juice into the mixing bowl. Fish the seeds out afterwards with a fork.
2. De-seed the Capsicum and dice. Dice the Onion, Tomato and add to the bowl.
3. Finely chop the coriander, parsley, and chilies and add to the bowl. Add more long skinny chilies if you want more heat.
4. Sprinkle salt over the top (not too much)
5. Stir and taste test, add more salt to taste
6. Spoon into jars for storage and keep refrigerated.

I sometimes change the onion, like, add 1/2 brown onion and 1/2 red onion.


Now that you have your salsa - how to use it to make healthy meals. This is what I do with mine:

Breakfast - Poached Egg on Toast, Couple spoonfuls of fresh Salsa on the top.

Lunch - Sandwich, Toasted kraftkorn bread slices with a layer of Salsa, topped with a slice of Turkey Breast, slice of lowfat cheese, and mustard.

Dinner - As an appetizer, Bruchetta style, topped on toasted french bread. As a main, topped on a filet of baked Salmon.

Snack - With corn chips yummmm or flatbread\Pita bread would be great also.


Please post comment if you can think of or have tried anything else =)

-5kg Milestone

I was meant to write this last week but it was a pretty busy week...

I have successfully lost 5kg from my body!! I weigh around 96kg now and it is a noticable amount of loss compared to 2 months ago when I was 101kg.

I was looking at myself in a mirror in an elevator and I could actually see a difference. I was wearing a shirt I havent worn in several weeks and could see that I looked different in it. Mostly in my abdomen and my face the difference in noticeable.

It is a good boost to motivation, more than good, it is hard proof that what I am doing is working and that I am making progress.

Although this a loss of 5kg in 2 months is not as fast as I have done in the past, I think that I did it at a reasonable pace.

You see, I found it was important to keep living life rather than stop all fun and socializing just to focus on my weight loss. Although the results can be good (-1kg per week) That is a bit selfish right? So rather than knuckle down and decline all dinner party invites and other party invites to stick to a strict diet, I chose to occasionally celebrate with friends and break out of the diet rules here and there. A dieting quote I heard being thrown around goes "you can still get 90% of the results if you cheat only 10% of the time"

In the last 2 months in addition to losing the weight, I went out to 3x 5-Star hotel buffet dinners, 1x 5-Star hotel lunch buffet...2 birthday parties (lots of drinking!), 3 long weekend trips out of town with friends (eating and drinking!!), and a few nights out with good friends.

So in the end, I am still able to have a satisfying social life and continue to lose weight on my own =).

I am happy with the result so far considering that my life did not take a huge nosedive into becoming a veggie munching hermit with a gym machine and water bottle as my only friends.