My plans of embracing exercise have once again fallen flat, but I’m still sticking with the diet part of the program. I used up the last of my non-Lite’n’Easy groceries for a late breakfast of two eggs with a little of last night’s left over tomato, a teaspoon of mustard and a handful each of chopped onions, frozen peas and frozen corn on a multigrain muffin.
Lunch was an Asian rice bowl, which had chicken, veggies and a marinade at the bottom, an apple, some yoghurt with passionfruit, and a spicy fruit biscuit (which for some reason is always in the menu guide as plural but there’s definitely just one of them). My afternoon snack was two corn fritters, which were supposed to be accompanied by a tomato salsa sauce but were instead packaged with (possibly yesterday’s) sweet chilli. I think the salsa would have suited them better, but they were fine anyway.
For dinner I selected a non-traditional beef stroganoff, light (unsurprisingly) on the cream and heavy on the vegetables and tomatoes. The noodles were a little more than al dente, but there was a generous amount of both meat and vegetables, and it was something of a relief to have a break from the steamed vegetables that accompany the majority of the other dinners.
I didn’t have today’s milk allocation at breakfast and, feeling a little cold and needy before bed, instead made a much lighter version of hot chocolate than my usual fare, combining unsweetened cocoa powder with hot water into a paste, adding low fat milk (so much easier in the microwave than on a stovetop, and with no milk-coated pan to wash up), a teaspoon of sugar and a drop of pure vanilla extract. It was significantly less indulgent that my previous version (which involved callets of Belgian milk chocolate melted in full fat milk and topped with a little ice cream) but still hit the spot. - Alex
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