- Hi guys, welcome back to my channel.
In today's video I'm going to be sharing
with you what I eat in a day.
I'm gonna show you what I eat,
and also what all of the kids eat as well,
because I might as well show you
because I've got to feed them.
See, I hope you enjoy this video,
so I'm now going to start with breakfast.
So, for my breakfast this morning
this is so cute; Matt just made me my protein pancake
in the shape of a heart with berries,
so how we make this is one banana,
two eggs, some almond butter,
and a little bit of baking powder as well.
This is also a great recipe
for meal prep, because Matt will tend
to make this mixture the evening before,
and then we can have it in the morning
or it can even last for two mornings
if he makes it in bulk, so I'm having a protein pancake
and a coffee, just a plain instant coffee,
and also a big glass of water with a Berocca in it.
Got the mixed berry flavor just
to give me a bit more vitamins, et cetera.
Jackson is having a bit of his brother's cheese toast,
he's having some strawberries,
and I've got a Weetabix with milk here.
I've also got a little pouch just in case.
Sometimes he prefers this with a bit of this,
so I'm gonna try it on it's own first,
so that is Jackson's breakfast, and then the big boys
Sorry if you can hear PAW Patrol.
The big boys are having cheese toast.
They've got their drinks
and they're having satsumas as well.
- No, they're oranges.
- [Emily] Oranges, sorry.
(upbeat music)
It's lunchtime now,
and today I'm actually having some leftovers,
but I have been trying to get in the habit
of doing meal prep, so either making more
of the dinner that we have the night before
and then putting it into boxes like this for meal prep.
I bought six of these from Sainsbury's.
They were quite reasonable,
and it just makes life so much easier.
When you're busy with kids, it's so hard
to one, make a healthy lunch and not just have sandwiches
or like more food like what they're eating,
so I've got this, and then I've also got this scale.
I got this in Sainsbury's.
It was really reasonable.
If I can find one on Amazon or something,
I will link it down below, but basically a big thing for me,
I'm still trying to lose a little bit of weight.
I know you guys always say I don't need to,
which is really kind, but you know
when you want to get back to what you were,
like before you had children,
so anyway, a big thing for me is portion sizes,
so I was like, right, I'm going to get a scale
so I can actually measure out how many carbs I'm having,
so I spoke to my friend.
She is super fit, and she said
that in a meal you can have 100 grams of carbs,
so now I will literally weigh out 100 grams of rice
or 100 grams of potatoes or whatever it is,
just to make sure I'm not going OTT,
because it was getting to the point
where I was making dinner for me and Matt
and you couldn't actually tell
which plate was for Matt and which plate was for me.
They would literally be the exact same,
and he obviously needs a lot more calories
than I do being a man and bigger and stuff.
See, I'll show you how I use it.
It's really easy to use.
Yes, so this is the leftovers.
It's actually a pork filet in a tarragon sauce.
It looks disgusting, but it's so delicious.
It has a sour cream and stock source
with tarragon and leeks as well,
and it's really, really yummy, but it doesn't look yummy.
This is the scale here, and you can
either put a plate on top of it
or a container on top of it.
I'm going to use a container so that you can see better,
and then you can turn it on, and you can choose the unit
that you want to measure in, so I'm gonna choose grams,
because I want to measure 100 grams,
so when I turn it on it's now at zero
even though there's something on it,
so now it will only measure the food.
Right, so I just put the pork on the scale,
and that is pretty perfect.
It's 100 grams; you can go up to 150 with meat,
and then I'm just going to add my potatoes and
see how,
when I get to 100 with them.
A bit more.
Oh, sorry.
So, perfect, so that is literally 100 grams,
so that's as many potatoes as I should have,
and I definitely would have had all of that,
so now I'm just going to add the veg and microwave it,
and I'm also going to have some water as well.
Right, so I've just got Jackson into the high chair,
and what I normally do is give him some raisins
or something small that he has
to use his little fingers to pick up,
and they take him quite a long time to eat,
but this is great, because while he's safe
and in the high chair I can make his sandwich
or whatever it is that he's having for lunch.
I'm also giving him some Dairylea Dunkers,
because he loves cheese so much,
and I had actually ordered the breadsticks,
but I had these ones substituted in my online shop there.
I like these tube things.
These are them here, so they're a little bit different.
I prefer the breadsticks, to be honest,
but this is what we've got.
Can I leave that there for you, baba?
(upbeat music)
And for his sandwich he's having cheese,
and I will normally just do one slice of bread,
so it's like half a full sandwich,
with butter and cheese, but I always grate the cheese,
because it's a lot easier for a little mouth
to chew then and there's no worry about him choking
on a chunk of cheese, so that's what I do.
All right, and sometimes
what I do is just break his little sandwich up like this,
because then he does sometimes hold it,
but he finds it really easy
to just pick up these little bits
and eat them, so sometimes I find that that speeds him up,
so I'm just going to do that.
I forgot Jackson's water, so he's just drinking mine.
(laughs
Look how cute he is.
You're pretty good with a cup.
He loves it.
I forgot to mention the two older boys as well.
They both get hot dinners at school and at preschool.
I'm not sure if it's the same everywhere in the UK,
but where we live all children year two
and under get free hot dinners every day,
so my boys have that.
You can't even supply a packed lunch
where Caleb goes to preschool.
They have to have hot dinners, so that's good in a way,
because he is really fussy,
so I'm really hoping that will help with his eating.
Caleb's just got home from school
and he's going to have a smoothie.
- [Child] Is that not for me?
- [Emily] It's strawberries, apple, and beet root.
- [Man] Whoa, yummy!
- [Emily] Here you go, baba.
- Mommy, I have.
- [Emily] What's in it?
- I have a banana, apple, pumpkin,
strawberry, strawberry, and a mouse.
- [Emily] Oh, that's weird.
- [Man] A mouse?
What are you drinking? - Do you want a snack?
Do you want a rice cake?
Are you okay down there?
For Caleb's after-school snack he's gonna have
some Belgian chocolate rice cake.
- [Man] Say it, what's the name of it?
- [Emily] He loves these.
Kallo?
(laughs
I'm not sure, but he loves these.
These are a bit of a treat for him.
Here you go bubby.
Here you go, all right.
(baby fussing)
He's making so much noise.
Right, hi guys.
It's the boys' dinner time now.
It's about 4:30; that's when I normally do it,
and because they have hot dinners at lunch,
I tend to do something quite easy,
like jacket potato, beans and cheese on toast,
an omelet, like something quite simple,
but tonight the meal that I'm making is a really good one
and it takes just three minutes to make, so I'll show you.
I really try to make family meals as much as possible,
but tonight I am actually making a chicken pie
for Matt and I because it has quite a bit of mustard in it,
and I know they're not going to love the mustard bit,
so this is a really quick, easy meal,
so I thought it was worth showing you anyway.
Yes, so I'm basically making them Tortelloni.
This is a cheese and ham one that I got from Sainsbury's.
It takes just three minutes to cook in a saucepan,
and I buy this because Caleb's really funny
about pasta sauce, but I like that there is cheese
and ham inside it, and it takes three minutes
and he will eat it because it looks like plain pasta,
and what I normally do is just put some butter on it
and then some Parmesan cheese on it as well,
and peas also only take three minutes,
so you can do the peas and the Tortelloni
in the saucepan at the same time
and you've got like a whole meal,
and even Jackson can try and eat this as well,
so that's what I'm making for their tea,
and I've got the boys some milk
and I'm putting them in their 360 cups.
They're still a little bit too young to have open cups.
Whenever I give that to them they just spill it everywhere,
so I'm still using these.
I've started giving milk with dinner just
as a way to try and get them to have it
before we go up for the bath.
Basically we used to take beakers
of milk up, and then brush their teeth,
and then they would really be tempted
to have more of the milk up there,
so I try and just keep the milk downstairs.
If not we just brush their teeth
right before they go to bed, because the milk
on their teeth can obviously damage their teeth,
so I just tend to give it with dinner,
and it's worked really well.
They've still eaten their dinner,
so I'm giving them milk.
Caleb's really happy about his dinner tonight.
(Caleb crying)
- He hates it.
- [Emily] Yeah, at least someone's eating it.
- [Caleb] Mom, mamma, mom.
- [Emily] Isn't it funny that my baby is my best eater?
What's that all about?
Yeah, and Jackson also has some humus
and breadsticks because I wanted
to give him something while I served the food up,
so yeah, he's munching his way through that.
Right for Jackson's pudding.
He is having one of these Petits Filou yogurts.
He absolutely loves them.
They're the really early weaning ones.
Look at him; he's not even using a spoon.
They're just completely vanilla flavored,
just very plain, but he really enjoys it.
This is a real treat for him.
(children talking indistinctly)
Yummy!
While the boys were eating I also had a cup of tea
to try to stop myself from eating their dinner,
but I still had about four pieces
of Caleb's Tortellini, but it's desert time now
and they are going to have a little Rolo.
I bought these because they were on special
for a pound and they love these ones,
so yeah, they're just going to have a pot each.
Right, so it's the evening now,
all the boys are in bed and Matt is home from work.
You can tell it's the evening
because I've got my top on,
but I've got the pajama bottoms on as well.
(laughs)
But I'm going to get on to make our dinner now,
and we are having a chicken pie.
It's one of my favorite recipes.
Definitely try it; I will link to it in the description.
It's a Jamie Oliver recipe.
Basically I got the book for Christmas one year,
30 Minute Meals I think, and this is one recipe
that I always come back to, like it's so quick and easy,
so it is a chicken and mushroom mustard pie,
and it's really yummy.
All you need for this recipe is four chicken breasts,
mushrooms, spring onions, thyme.
I think it's actually supposed
to be fresh thyme, but this is all I have.
Creme fresh, some English mustard,
and a roll of puff pastry,
and you basically just throw all
of this into that pan and then put it into a dish
and cover it with the puff pastry
and then put it in the oven for 20 minutes
and that is it, that is done.
It's delicious, it looks really impressive,
but it's so easy to make.
Yeah, and we're also having it with brocolli.
Can I show you,
I'm going to show your pajama bottoms.
Hooray.
Right, so I'm now gonna have an Oreo ice cream for desert
and that is it, so thank you so much
for watching this video.
Let me know if you like it by giving a big thumbs up,
and I'll know to make more what I eat in a day videos,
and I'll see you soon.
Bye, guys.