Home-made coconut granola and home-made full fat yogurt for breakfast in the week/ home-made waffles with lemon curd/maple syrup at weekends (often I skip lunch at weekends because the waffles are v filling)
Lunch might be home-made soup and bread or a cheese sandwich or something to use up the egg glut such as spanish omelette with lots of veg, or I might make hummus or smoked mackerel dip and have it with raw veggies and finally we often eat up the leftovers from previous day's dinner if there is not enough to make another dinner!
Piece of home-made cake for a snack
Dinner options are very varied as I love cooking: often it's a mince-based dish (spaghetti bolognese or with meatballs, chili con carne, shepherds pie)or chicken in white wine sauce or lamb steaks braised over veggies or beef casserole or chicken curry or spicy bean casserole or baked fish or fish pie or quiche or a bbq with sausages and home-made burgers (all these served with mixed vegetables and a starch: potatoes, rice, pasta, bulgur wheat) or if time is short it is most likely to be pasta in tomato sauce or with broccoli and bacon and cream or with smoked salmon, broccoli and cream, a weekends I might do a roast or make pizza or lasagne with home-made pasta. Usually we have wine at weekends (one/two glasses) and maybe once in the week if there is a bottle to be used up
and at weekends we might also have a few nibbles before dinner (e.g., pistachios, popcorn)
Some nights (usually only weekends) there will be dessert...usually stewed rhubarb, gooseberries or apples (depending what we have got a glut of in the garden) served with yoghurt or if I have had time to make ice-cream, with ice-cream. In the summer, strawberries or a fruit salad might be on offer.
Makes you wonder how I manage to lose weight eh? (And explains how I put on so much weight before finding 5:2
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