Well then, well then. I cheated at the wedding. Hardly surprising really. Despite intending to act like a saint, I felt really weak willed and hit the wine. Also, my rebellious child was shouting in my ear "WHAT THE HELL! ONE NIGHT WON'T HURT!" throughout the day. It was most distracting, and I gave in to it. Weigh in yesterday, and I had still lost one and a half pounds. Truly relieved that I hadn't gained to be honest, and am feeling a renewed energy and really want to go for it. This brings my total weight loss so far to 20 pounds, or, if you like, one stone and six pounds, which is fantastic for just 5 weeks. Onwards and downwards!
It's mine and the boy's birthday, in a fortnight, and we would usually, babysitters permitting, go out and have a slap up meal and lots of posh wine. That is the only time I feel apprehensive about. I will try and forestall that feeling by planning something non-foody for the day or evening. Ideas on a postcard please!
Meanwhile, I am finding the foodpacks REALLY BORING. I have abandoned the savoury ones altogether because they are totally bleurgh. I tried to make "crisps" out of the vegetable pack, and they were so salty and horrible, I had to bin them. So I am sticking to making biscuits. This I do as follows:
Recipe 1: Ingredients: One foodpack, or half of two packs. 2 teaspoons of water.
Mix vigourously to make a paste. Add some water flavouring if you want it sweeter. Add more water if necessary. Spread to as thin as possible on a plate. It should cover a whole dinner plate. Nuke in a microwave for 2 minutes and 30 seconds. Remove from plate with a fish-slice and place on a cooling rack or on another cold plate and leave to cool. Hey presto, a big crunchy biscuit. okay, it ain't Nigella, but I'm gonna be slimmer than her so nya.
Recipe two: Chop up a lemon, toffee or fruit bar into one centimetre widths and spread out on a plate. Nuke for one minute 40 seconds in a microwave. Scrape off with fish slice and put somewhere to cool. Result: Crunchy sweet biscuits, markedly more edible than the original gunk.
Recipe three: Thanks to one of my LL group members for this revelation. I find coffee without milk quite difficult, so making up a hot fairly dilute half a packet of vanilla or caramel, and mixing with two mugs worth of cafetiere coffee makes a sweet, milky coffee like I used to have for breakfast in France. (Without a slab of yesterday's stale baguette, natch.) This I had for the first time this morning, and I suspect it will be my staple breakfast from now on. Or at least until I get sick of that too.
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