Potato and egg salad

Components:

• potatoes that I diced, parboiled and fried with spices and oil
• two fried eggs
• pickled onions
• premade salad
• balsamic vinegar

Noodles & bok choy

Instant noodles with bok choy. This is a meal I often have at university. All I need (other than the obvious ingredients) is a microwave. I also cooked the bok choy before putting it with the the noodles and cooking them together.

Pizza toast

I was craving pizza and just happened to get all the pizza toppings together except for actual pizza base. This is bread slices spread with tomato paste, topped with bacon etc and sprinkled with cheese.

Smoked salmon salad sandwich

I don't often make sandwiches, but when I do, I make sure those two slices of carb filled material are sandwiching a worthwhile amount of food. This sandwich contains salmon, egg (microwaved on a plate), tomato, cheese and mayonnaise. Perfect for taking to school!

A good old fashioned fry up

There are few things better than fried sausages, bacon and tomatoes. It was probably on this basis that the Atkins Diet became so popular. Lots of protein makes you feel full very quickly and gives you the macronutrients you need to build muscle. In my case I used kanga bangas and shortcut bacon. That's about as low fat as you can get as well as being low carb and high protein. Yes, I am starting to hear voices of people telling me, "no, good fats are good for you, why are you trying to avoid them?" But the fact is that this food is fried in oil. And no particular macronutrient provides the silver bullet to weight loss, whether it's protein, fat or carbohydrates.

This is what happens when you add egg white to creaming soda

This was entirely by mistake. I was making an omelette (something that for me, involves separating eggs). I accidentally cracked an egg over the glass I was pouring creaming soda into (and I was only using a glass because I had a guest – normally I would have drunk from the bottle). This, my friends, is creaming soda! Since then, I tried doing it with other sodas, but this will only occur with some brands.... The result is something like a foam meringue, or hardened foam.

Yogurt, cherries and oats

Since I have always appreciated the untampered texture of yogurt, I have never yet combined yogurt and oats in quite this way (or mixed them quite as much). After having actually tried it, however, I wonder why I never did it before. When the mixture has chilled overnight, the oats absorb into the yogurt and soften, and the overall texture is smoother than if the oats were by themselves. The cherries add sufficient sweetness as to preclude my using artificial sweeteners at all (I call that a win).