Well it is Wednesday already so must catch up on my blog. Luckily I have kept a record of all breakfast, lunch and dinner so no problems remembering this time.
Monday being a bank holiday we treated it as a Sunday and had a roast for dinner.
But to start with breakfast, nothing exciting just shredded wheat. But for lunch as Steve was out for the day I thought I would look for inspiration in the cookery books and treat myself to something new.
As I have mentioned in the past I use cookery books more for inspiration than for slavishly following any recipe, So the best cook books have inspirational pictures, and one of my favourites is Nigella Lawson’s, Nigella Bites. This was where I found the ultimate naughty sandwich. She calls it trashy food, something for occasional indulgence. It was a banana and peanut butter sandwich, fried in butter! How bad is that? Even then I did not manage to be as bad as the recipe, as that asked for white bread and I did not have any, so it was made with nice soft wholemeal bread instead. Promise will try harder and get white bread for the next time. It was good, well done Nigella. It was according to her, Elvis Presley’s favourite sandwich.
Dinner was also inspired by Nigella Bites cook book, Slow roasted leg of Lamb, I did not have any pomegranate so that was left out this time, I have used it before and it is a good and easy recipe, so can highly recommend it. I can honestly say I can recommend the whole book as it is definitely one of my most used. Must tell you about some of the others that I use frequently. But that is for another blog.
Anyhow back to Monday dinner, with the lamb all the usual vegetables. But to start with, Cantaloupe melon with black forest ham.
Tuesday was a simple day for food, for breakfast shredded wheat, lunch cheese on toast, and Dinner cold lamb and salad.

Saturday

Well I don’t think I did any better yesterday, either from a healthy eating point of view, or from a reducing weight sort of diet.
Breakfast time we had mandarin oranges and grapefruit, both tinned, that was the healthy bit, then as it was Good Friday hot cross buns.
Steve was not impressed as he had wanted a traditional English breakfast. Well he could have cooked one and had it waiting for me on my return from horse feeding and dog walking. Hint Hint.
So, for lunch we had traditional English breakfast. Using what I had in the way of ingredients. Scrambled eggs, bacon, tinned tomatoes and toast.
Took the horse and pony out, I rode the horse and lead the pony, and Steve walked the dogs. By the time we had put them all to bed and seen to another two horses, we were running rather late. Steve suggested picking up fish and chips on the way home. I did not need too much persuasion. Just to help make sure we ate our quota of fresh fruit I made a salad of apple, banana, pear, and Satsuma, and had a multi vitamin and mineral pill just to help.
Ate chocolate and peanuts. Bad.

Wednesday

Back to banana and orange juice for breakfast, have to eat the bananas up before they get too ripe, strange how different ripe and unripe bananas can taste. Is there anything really palatable that can be done with a really ripe banana?
Second breakfast was shredded wheat again.
Lunch was salad and fish sticks with salad cream and soya and linseed bread.
Son and heir came to dinner, I needed inspiration so went to the book shelf and did a sort of lucky dip, as the first book off the shelf was an Indian cook book, that was it decided, curry. I don’t necessarily use a recipe for cooking anything. I just use cook books for ideas. I don’t always have the ingredients anyway, so often have to think of a substitute. Amazingly good dinners have been created this way, but are unlikely to be recreated. Eating dinner in this house can be quite an adventure, not for the faint hearted, but as yet, my cooking has not ended in any poisonings.
Any way back to this curry dinner, left over breast of lamb, with celery, onion, pepper and cauliflower, in a curry sauce from Lidl, very cheap and quite as good as any other readymade curry sauce. The rice was a bit more effort than plain old rice, but worth it, basmati rice with lentils, celery, onion, garlic, vegetable juice, garam masala, cumin and turmeric.

Monday

Monday morning and I feel fed up because no one is reading my Blog.
I understand that the only way for the search engines to push my blog to the top of the list is for the key words to appear frequently. I tried that the other day when discussing the merits of the banana. Obviously no one has any interest in the humble banana, but surely someone must be wondering what to eat for dinner? Or are all the people who do techie things like blogging, just go down to the take away, or eat frozen ready meals and drink coffee or coke.
On the plus side of writing this blog, it is making me think before I eat, as I will have to admit to anything bad and unhealthy on line in front of the millions of people who are not reading this.
So for breakfast number 1 a banana, no juice just water. Then later breakfast number 2 porridge, it is made from oats, if you feed horses lots of oats they get loads of energy, so I am hoping they will do the same for me. and they are really cheap.
Lunch was salad and fish sticks; I used not to like fish sticks, but since discovering they are great dipped in salad cream, also something I was not very fond of, but it turns out to be a good combination. Did not forget the carbohydrate this time, had soya and linseed bread.Dinner, yes dinner, dinner, dinner. Please someone look for the word dinner and read me. Any way for Monday evening’s dinner we had more salad cold roasted vegetables and cold stuffed breast of lamb that had been cooked the day before with the Sheppard’s pie. I try to put the oven on no more than twice a week and when I do I always fill it. At least I am doing a bit for global warming.

Thursday

One of the reasons for eating bananas for breakfast is that they come in their own bio-degradable packaging, as I am usually in a hurry, routine is, swallow the fruit juice, and the banana can be eaten as I walk to the car. The down side is, arrive at the car with empty skin, as amusing as it may be to see one of my neighbours do a slip on the banana skin cartoon sort of fall. I stash the banana skin in the car for later disposal. The next downside is my dog does not like bananas but loves to play with the skin. Amazing just how far one banana skin can go around one old Volvo.
So that was breakfast No1. For the second breakfast, on my return from feeding horse breakfast, which is easy, same every day for breakfast and dinner. Hubby made us pancakes and scrambled egg. The pancakes had been on cheap offer at the supermarket and really did not go with the egg, but I am not complaining, I did not cook it.
Lunch was salad and a left over sausage from yesterday’s dinner. It was lots of leaves,raw broccoli and cauliflower, tomatoes, and green olives. It looked a lot, but lacked carbohydrate, so felt a bit empty late in afternoon, so quick cup of tea and biscuits before setting out to feed horses their dinner.
Our dinner was cauliflower, broccoli, and carrots in a cheese sauce. And for pudding simple fruit salad of apple pear and orange.

Wednesday

We were in a rush this morning, more than usual as I had a couple more horses to look after than usual.
First thing we grabbed a banana and a glass of grapefruit juice. After a long morning we had sardines on toast, with a slice of tomato and some fresh basil.
Dinner was pigs liver, bacon, onions and tomato with mashed potatoes, cabbage, carrots, broccoli (calabrese) and peas. Washed down with a very nice Australian Shiraz.
Finally we had pancakes, because we missed having them on Shrove Tuesday.