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10:15am Half a glass of milk
Just before getting a train into London.
1:30pm Pasta with mozarella, tomatoes and spinach @ Oriel
It was a chicken pasta dish without the chicken but with a side order of spinach added.
3:50pm Cake + tea
7:50 Cottage cheese and turkey salad with tortilla wrap w/spread + coffee
8:50pm Frozen berries and ginger biscuit with yoghurt
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I added notes to the inside cupboard door for my plates with the improved calorie counts from yesterday.
11:20pm Porridge with sultanas, fake butter and sweetener + tea
Weighed, thus pre-calorie counted. It exploded in the microwave again.
1:10pm Beef and bean coconut chilli with yoghurt and olive oil + tea
Too cold for salad.
My first attempt at a pumpkin pie adapted from a Delia recipe, made for the afternoon’s cake club. I whipped the remaining cream with ground roasted pecans and a little vanilla sugar. The cream was much nicer than the pie!
3:50pm Pumpkin pie with cream + tea
4pm Pumpkin pie with cream + tea
I was hungry after the cake club!
5:30pm Cottage cheese salad with sweet chilli yoghurt + tea
5:50pm Frozen berries with yoghurt + coffee
Not weighed. I just took as much as I wanted (anything would have been too much).
6:20pm Pumpkin pie with cream + coffee
*sigh* And it wasn’t even that nice. But I told myself I wouldn’t eat again today.
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Besides posting food diaries again, I’ve set myself two goals: 1) eat at least one salad meal a day and 2) wait for at least 10 mins before having a sweet (fruit, whatever) after my main course.
12:30pm Turkey and Quark salad sandwich + tea
I got distracted by work and so didn’t eat until late, when I was very hungry.
1:15pm Strawberry cereal bar + coffee
Tesco Value 125g bar with supposedly just 80 calories each.
Made with Glucose Syrup, Oat Flakes, Wheat Flour, Vegetable Oil, Stabiliser, Sugar, Strawberry, Milk Sugar, Apple, Cherry Juice, Pectin, Dextrose, Plain Caramel, Salt, Flavouring, Emulsifier.
3:50pm Tinned spaghetti with sweetcorn and egg and Crackerbreads with spread + tea
I debated whether to have the salad now or later. I was cold and wanted something warming.
The sweetcorn is a recent addition but doesn’t add much to the dish. The basic Tesco Value tinned spaghetti with a ‘poached’ egg and Crackerbreads with fake butter spread is all that is needed.
5:30pm Apple
9pm Turkey and sauerkraut salad with sweet chilli yoghurt + wine
I accidentally used a dinner plate I’d left out for Frank rather than my usual side plate. (The wine was mistakenly included in my grocery delivery yesterday! Tesco said I could keep it.)
9:50pm Frozen berries with yoghurt and sweetener
This is one of the many desserts I’ve come up with the last couple of months. Tesco do bags of frozen berries (strawberries, blackberries, cherries and redcurrants). I fill a small bowl with two-thirds frozen berries, sprinkle with sweetner and then cover to the top with low-fat yoghurt. Sprinkle again with sweetener. Depending on mood, sprinkle with ground cinnamon or cardomon. I used All Spice this time.
The yoghurt coating the berries slightly freezes in a soft yielding crunch. The cold makes me eat it slowly. It’s divine. I need to get a calorie count next time.
In (recent) normal circumstances, I’d have eaten more today (more sweet things). And I wanted to eat more after the berries with yoghurt. But I am on a diet again. Finally!
The Food Confessional 