Endurance, patience, perseverance!

Lasagna with ground beef, green cabbage and carrots!

Every day I continue my journey which I started 16 months ago now. Every day I have lost some weight and all due to just eating healthy food and lots of vegetables. The last two months I have felt it is progressing slower. It is not because I do something different really, but I guess it is expected to be this way when there is less weight to loose. Still it is important to just not get discouraged but to do what I am supposed to do every day and stick with it. Endurance, patience, perseverance, some important key words to keep in mind at all time. 

To remind myself of these words are important if feeling a bit tired and also wondering what to make to eat for the day. To get some variation is crucial if getting tired. Still to not feel too much but just stick with my way of living is more important. I have been experimenting a lot with foodstuffs over these months and trying out new things to vary my food and make it more fun. So last night I tried to make a "lasagna" without pasta, but with green cabbage, carrots and ground beef. And it turned out really nice. I tried making a variation with red cabbage long time ago and it was really good as well. This time I had green cabbage in the fridge and tested it out. So here is the result;  a really health bomb again and very good.

Ingredients: 
1 big Carrot
Leaves of Green Cabbage
500 g Ground beef
1 Spring Onion
1 can of crushed tomatoes
Salt
Pepper
Spices according to your liking
2 cubes of beef broth

Directions:
Shred the carrot with a potato peeler to long strings. Steam the cabbage leaves to soften them. Fry the ground beef in the frying pan with a little olive oil. Cut the spring onion in small pieces and add to the ground beef. Add the tomato sauce to the ground beef and let it simmer. Add spices until it tastes according to your liking.

I added some Mexican spices as well. And it tasted great. When the sauce has simmered some and the cabbage is soft. Place a layer of cabbage leaves in a baking tin and put a layer of the sauce on top, add a layer of carrots, continue with another layer of cabbage leaves and sauce and carrots until the tin is full.

Cover the tin with foil when full and put in the oven on 200 Celsius Degrees for about 1 hour, or until the Cabbage leaves are really soft.
Cut and serve as any lasagna.

To make it faster and less time in the oven I could have steamed the cabbage longer and maybe not even had to put it in the oven. Anyways just be bold and experiment in your kitchen yourself as well.


This dish is really making you feel full and it is very healthy with vitamins and minerals. The green cabbage is full of C vitamins and the carrot full of A vitamin. There is no fat and no carbohydrates. And even the ground beef have a lot of nutrients good for you.  It is really fun to find alternatives to dishes and the satisfaction of knowing it is so healthy. It inspires and keeps me going every day.