Made it through another day! Am I craving junk food and wanting to eat between meals? YES, of course! That’s is only natural as an obese person who not only loves the taste of food but is addicted to the emotional HUG that food gives me. I’d love a long lingering, comforting hug of the LOVE type and really do miss that but I know I also 100% prefer my life as a single woman so that is the trade off.
I’m still eating large portions but that doesn’t bother me right now. Getting off the junk that lights up my hunger receptors is the most important thing. I need to flood my body with lots of wholefoods or homemade dishes and try and keep the UPF’s (fake meats or convenience foods) to under 20% of my daily diet and the wartime diet ensures this!
Here’s what I ate today.
Breakfast:
My menu called for “Poor Knights Fritters” which essentially is a jam sandwich fried! Well I had jam on toast so close enough.
Lunch:
Leftover leek tart followed by a large bowl of salad while I worked from home. I spent all day working from home as I needed to be in for a landlords inspection. I also had a nice, juicy apple afterwards!
Dinner:
Dinner was SPECTACULAR! A pretty perfect cottage pie made with what was left of my ration of mince meat for the week (vegan soy mince). EVERYONE in my house loves this dish so it was enough to feed all three of us and have for leftovers tomorrow. I served it with broccoli which I love. It does give me the wind so I don’t eat as much of it as I used too!
Supper:
I’m sorry, I had a bunch of bananas on the turn so chopped some up and froze them and the other two I gobbled down and enjoyed them WITHOUT GUILT! As I said at the beginning of the week, there will be times when I eat non-ration book fruits and vegetables! While Saturdays will be my off ration days and I will try and enjoy these things then, i’m not going to feel guilty about the odd banana and avocado here and there. If it keeps me off the junk food and helps me sustain this long term. I’m happy with it!
Cost of my food portions today = £2.20 ish
Calories today = 1600 ish
C xxxx
Oh well done Carolyn, I really don’t fancy a fried jam sandwich whatsoever, so I’d have much preferred the toast! Lunch and dinner look and sound really lovely. Take care and thankyou for sharing. Frances
Thank you Frances! That is how I felt, especially first thing in the morning, frying was one step too far! Xxxx C
Oh that did make me laugh! I’m glad that I’m not the only one not fancying fried bread first thing in the morning! Have a lovely Sunday afternoon. Fx
The cottage pie looks delicious xx
Thank you Jess, it was very tasty indeed xxx
Cottage Pie along with Shepherd’s Pie, must rank in the top three of comfort foods for the UK, for all but the youngest generation.
Hilariously to this day, people still mix up the names of the two. As kids, our Mum only ever made Shepherd’s Pie, even though is was always with minced beef! LOL!
It also appeared from time to time in school dinners during the 1970s, and that wasn’t too bad either, even though it was four inches of potato with just the merest dribble of mince at the bottom and no crispy top.
I have to admit, it’s been a few years since I made one myself. 🥧 🥧 🥧
Oh, and thank you sooo much for sharing what gives you the wind!
I guess the duvet will be flapping around like the sails of a galleon tonight then… 😉
6 days out of 7 there are off shore breezes for sure!
This would be dangerous for me on a diet!
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I tried to leave a reply, but it ate it and kept jumping around! Anyhow, your cottage pie looked picture perfect and delicious!!