Lite n' Easy DAY 5

Breakfast

Happy Saturday. What do we get?

1. Nut Cluster Crunch with skim milk
   Passionfruit Yoghurt
   Red Apple 🍎
2. Smokehouse Ham, Tasty Cheese and Tomato on Wholemeal & Seed Toast🍞
   Orange🍊

Unpack the breakfast bags. Sliced ham and cheeses are individual packaged.

My ham, cheese, tomato on toast, with some OJ

I made my breakfast (ham and cheese toast) a night before to save time in the morning. And I like my orange juice 🍊too. 

Lunch

1. Butter Chicken Wrap with Baby Cucumber and Raita
   Pear Cup 🍐
   Fresh Cut Carrots with Ricotta (Didn't eat it)
2. Roast Beef, Tomato and Corn Relish Sandwich on Wholemeal & Seed
   Dried Apricots
   Cinnamon Oat Bar

My beef sandwich in a lunch box

I brought my beef sandwich to work. The frozen bread are thraw by the time I ate my lunch. Simply put the sliced beed, sliced tomato (I cut it at home), corn relish (in tube). 

My husband didn't eat the lunch I prepared for him 😕

Dinner

We went out for Chinese dinner with family to have a early celebration of Chinese New Year. 

Leftover

• Raspberry & Apple Crumble - frozen (Day 4 Lunch dessert)
• Sweetly Salted Popcorn (Day 4 Lunch dessert)
• Fresh Cut Carrots with Ricotta (Day 5 Lunch dessert)
• +1 lunch (Day 5)
• +2 dinners (Day 4)
• +2 dinners (Day 6)

Lite n' Easy DAY 4

Breakfast

1. Apple, Cranberry & Bran Flakes with skim milk
   Rye Toast with Plum Jam🍞
   Fruit Salad Cup
2. Creamy Almond & Vanilla Oats
   Multigrain Toast with Marmalade 🍞
   Green Apple 🍏

Here are everything:



To prepare the Oat, you add milk and microwave according to the instruction of the Oat package.



💭The Almond & Vanilla Oats tasty good. It is sweet enough so no need to add sugar/ honey. 

Lunch

1. Meatlovers Pasta Bake
   Tropical Fruit, Cranberries & Toasted Coconut with Vanilla Yoghurt🍨
2. Roast Chicken Tender, Baby Spinach and Mayonnaise on a Long Multigrain Roll
   Red Apple 🍎
   Roast Almonds

Unpack the lunch bags

(Clockwise) Red apple, almonds, roast chicken roll, pasta bake, vanilla yoghurt

💭Pasta bake is tasty. The melted cheese on top makes the dish more attractive. The yogurt is also pretty fancy with all the cranberries & toasted coconut as garnish.
💭The roll is a bit too tiny to fit all the ingredient - chicken tender & spinach. It is not bad.

Dinner

This is some special for tonight dinner. Not frozen meals but a gourmet salads.  

According to the website, these gourmet salads choices Only available in QLD. 🏆🏆🏆

On the ordering pages, in the confirmation emails and on each salad boxes, there are notifications to remind us to consume the salad within 5 days from the delivery day. We ate ours on our fourth day. 

We ordered:

(L) Spiced Lamb Salad
(R) Smoked Salmon & Crispy Noodle Salad

(L) Spiced Lamb Salad
(R) Smoked Salmon & Crispy Noodle Salad

Both salads are still fresh, with elements of veggies, meats and crunchy. They are a pretty good options on a hot summer night.
💭For the lamb salad, we served the lamb chilled but you can warm the meat up as per instruction written on the box. It comes with a separated toasted nuts package and a tube of spiced yoghurt dressing. 
💭For the smoked salmon salad, it is a asian style slaw with salmon flakes. It comes withe a separated crispy noodles with nuts and a tube of sweet soy & sesame dressing.

Lite n' Easy DAY 3

Breakfast

One fancy breakfast revealed this morning.

1. Egg Benedict 🍳(Egg, Bacon, Baby Spinach and Hollandaise Sauce on Cibabatta Toast.)
   Red Apple 🍎
2. Honey Muesli Flakes with skim milk
   Blueberry Yoghurt
   🍐Pear Cup

Unpack the breakfast bags. Yon can find the instruction to cook the egg benedict.

In order to maintain the easy life experience, I will use the micirowave pot to cook the egg instead of cooking a perfect poach egg in the pot.

Egg Benedict - before placing the egg and sauce

(L) Egg Benedict and red apple
(R) Muesli Flakes, blueberry yoghurt, pear cup

💭If you are a foodie, this egg benedict may somehow disappoint you. If you think about you are having a strict diet, this hot breakfast with egg and bacon will be enjoyable.

Lunch

1. Sliced Roast Chicken Breast with Beetroot & Baby Leaf Salad and French Vinaigrette
   Peaches & Apricots
   Raspberry & Apple Crumble (Didn't eat)
2. Tomato Soup with a Long Multigrain Roll
   Orange Juice
   Sweetly Salted Popcorn (Didn't eat)

Before assemble the salad

Sliced Roast Chicken Breast with Beetroot & Baby Leaf Salad and French Vinaigrette 

Unpack the lunch bags
Before heat up the frozen tomoto soup 

Tomato  soup with Long Multigrain Roll
(Sorry I didn't present the tomato soup nicely)

💭Salad is fresh even the greens sit in the fridge for 3 days. Good dressing too
💭I love soup so this is great for me. It is not very sour. However, I have to butter my breadroll because of my habit. I would recommend them to provide the small tube of butter. Hope the nutritionist is agreed.

Dinner

🍴 We ordered pizza 🍕with our parent instead of the frozen meal. The only difficult part to stick for this 7 days meal plan could coping with your social life. We think we shall order the 5 days meal plan to allow flexibility to eat out.

Leftover

• Raspberry & Apple Crumble - frozen (Day 4 Lunch dessert)
• Sweetly Salted Popcorn (Day 4 Lunch dessert)
• +2 dinners

Lite n' Easy DAY 2

Breakfast

Get the first hand experience from DAY 1. We can smooth up the whole meal preparation. Today breakfast are:

Granola Clusters & Crimson Raisins with skim milk
Soy & Linseed Toast with Apricot Jam
Green Apple

Toasted Fruit Muffin with Butter and Strawberry Jam
Apple

Lunch

1. Beef Nachos with Fresh Tomato Salsa and melted Cheese
   Fruit
   Mango Yoghurt
2. Tuna, Baby Cucumber and Mayonnaise in a Wrap
   Fruit Salad Cup
   Roasted Maple Walnuts & Cashews

Quite a lot of components when I lay out everything. The beef nachos comes with a small instruction telling you how to prepare it.

Very cute that when I find a card teaching you how to cut that little cucumber. I didn't follow the instruction cutting it into 4 wedges 😝

Here are the finished products:

(Left) Tuna, Baby Cucumber and Mayonnaise in a Wrap
(Right) Beef Nachos with Fresh Tomato Salsa and melted Cheese

💭 Beef nachos is quite tasty. It smells so good when mircowaving. The tomato salsa ia fresh too. 
💭 No surprise for tuna wrap. 

Dinner

Today dinners are: 

(Left) Roast Chicken with Mushroom sauce
(Right) Beef Korms

💭 Chicken breast is used in the roast chicken, with tasty mushroom sauce (with real mushroom in it). Roast potatoes is good too. 

💭 The beef korms is mild spicy. I love the yellow rice which mixed the peas and cauliflower cubes. 

Summary

Compare the frozen meals we usually busy from supermarkets, these frozen dinners are pretty good. Veggies are fresh. You don't feel like eating fake meat. Simple seasoning that allows you to add extra bit of salt and pepper. Right amount of sauce on the food and over-supplied to make everything soaky. It is definitely 5 out of 5 stars dinner. 

Lite n' Easy DAY 1

Our very first meal for the entire subscription. 👀

Breakfast

Get Day 1 Breakfast bags from the fridge.
Don't forget to get few items, e.g Bacon and breads from the freezer, Frozen items are indicated as BOLD RED in the meal.

Breakfast bags

Our breakfast are:

1. Bacon and Egg Mayo on a toasted Multigrain Muffin
   Fresh Fruit cup
2. Nut Cluster Crunch with skim milk
   Wholemeal & Seed Toast 🍞with Butter and Vegemite
   Orange 🍊

Unpack the breakfast bags

Every ingredients are packed individually. Even butter and vegemite are in small package size. The only thing supplied by us is the skim milk for the cluster crunch. No worries.

Follow the instruction to cook the bacon - microwave for 1:20 minutes. Easy.

According the the 'Get Start' booklet, it is suggested to separate the food and the meal throughout the day. So we spare the fruits later.

Lunch

1. Sliced Chicken Breast with Thai Salad and Hoisin Dressing
   Peach & Pear Cup
   Cashews & Cranberries
2. Smokehouse Ham, Tomato, Baby Spinach and Mayonnaise on a Grain Roll
   Green Apple 🍏
   Light Fruit Cake 

Unpack the lunch bag

Chicken breast is cooked. We can consumed as chill or microwave for 30 seconds ⏳. 

Both are simple.
💭For the bread roll, slice the tomato, put the ham and spinach, add mayo. DONE.
💭For the salad, open the package salad, put the chicken on top, add the dressing. DONE.

Finished our main. We did not feel the need to eat the fruit or snack now. We end up eating them after dinner. 

Dinner

Out of our 14 boxes of dinner, we picked these for today:

Both are frozen meals. Peel the lid for 3 cm and put the whole box in microwave for 8 to 9 minutes⏳. (Their suggested microwave is 1100W, but ours is 900W so that takes extra 1:30 minutes⏳). 

Both meals have the meats, potatoes and large portion of veggies. Beef is in chunky pieces while the chicken breast is in one piece. Seasoning with a little bit of pepper and salt.

(Left) Roast Chicken Breast in Mushroom sauce
(Right) Beef with Red Wine & Mushroom sauce

Desserts which comes from the lunch

(Clockwise) Green apple, cashews & cranberries, light fruit cake and peach & pear cup

Summary

Our first day with L&E, it is definitely like what the brand describe - light meal and easy to prepare. 

We sort of have 2 hours apart between each meal. Each meals portion look small, but it actually fill your stomach. 

However, we didn't do go to the gym or exercises. I guess you will feel more hungry and need a next size up meal plan if you exercises. 

Day 0 - Lite n' Easy Delivery Day

We picked Monday PM delivery. 2 big eskies were delivered after 7pm. They are sealed with dry ice packs to keep foods cold.

We chose the 7 Days Full Meal Plan for 2 people. All breakfast, lunch and dinner will be stored in the fridge. We tried to finish most food in our fridge to free up as much space as possible before the delivery. However, I still under-estimate how many food there are. 😟😟It is particularly a challenge for fridge with small freeze space.

2 white big eskies with their logo

Unseal (sorry for my finger)

There are many foods. 😱😱😱 In the eskies, one side is all the food stored refrigerated and the other side is all for frozen.

Both sides have parcels of breakfast, lunch or dinner. Again, I have to emphasise the amount of food for two people.

Keep refrigerated

Keep frozen

For breakfast and lunch, each meal is picked and portioned in a plastic bag with clear wordings on the cover e.g. DAY 1 - Breakfast. In total, there are 28 bags (2 meals per days x 7 days x 2 people).

Breakfast packages for 1 person (some frozen items in the front)

Lunch packages for 1 person

For dinner, it is all frozen (except 2 salads that can go to the fridge). For 2 people, there are 14 boxes.

   

It is a brain game 💫💫to put all in the fridge. And I made it. 


Lastly, the welcome pack in the bottom of the eskie. 

3 booklets (the summer meal plans,
all dinner options, a get start info)