The First Meal

It was an interesting experience having to go shopping for the food you can eat. Actually the food you can eat is all there but it's just that we tend to go for convenience and eat the food in another form whereby you have no idea what they have put in it. Armed with my shopping list, I scoured the aisles of Supasave Gadong searching for the food that will fuel my body. It was no surprise that the place I hung out the most was the vegetables, fruits and fresh meat section. I made a brief stint to the oils section looking for olive oil, the biscuits section looking for rice cakes and lastly to the soft drinks section. According to my eating plan, I can drink a can of diet coke! Seeing that I love sugar, I took the opportunity to make sure I had some. You never know what will happen! The other ingredients were already found in my kitchen and a quick survey before shopping allowed me to gauge what I needed and what I didn't need.

At night, I had the most fun task of actually weighing my food and I don't mean that sarcastically either. But before that, a quick stop to Hua Ho Yayasan to buy that digital weighing scale. Luckily with the festive season there was 15% off my purchase and I paid $25.41 for the scale.

So there I was weighing out my chicken breasts and beef slices to make sure I meet the requirements. Packaged them separately according to weight and stored them in the freezer so the next time I know I will have the right amount ready to be cooked. 

After all that was done, I got down to preparing my first meal. A quick look at a recipe book and lemon chicken seemed pretty easy and straight forward plus the recipe allowed me to use the ingredients I was allowed to eat. I chose to use lime instead since there was an abundance of it in the fridge. I stir fried some vegetables to go with it (after weighing it out of course) and I made my first meal.

Now at first I was concerned with the portions because I never in my life have had to weigh my food so I thought that the portions would be small but once I had it all on my plate, it was definitely enough.

Lime Chicken and Stir Fried Vegetables with Balsamic Vinegar

How did it taste? At 4am, not too bad if you like food that is slightly sour to your palette. It certainly filled me up with two rice cakes and some mango to top it all off.

Here's the recipe if you would like to try this at home:

Lime or Lemon Chicken (depending which you prefer)

1. Mix the chicken breast with cracked black pepper and sprinkle some salt

2. Coat the chicken with some olive oil

3. Squeeze a few limes (or limau kasturi) until you think you have enough juice.

4. Heat the non-stick pan with a little bit of olive oil. Cook the chicken.

5. Once cooked, pour in the lime juice.

And you're done!