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I had a half of an Aldi pepperoni pizza with extra cheese and lashings of onion added. I am deliberately halving the amount I eat each day until I get back to my weight before we went on holiday.  550 grams yet to go.

Today I had only one piece of toast with a scrape of Kerrygold butter, coffee and just half a glass of fresh orange juice.

Lunch - nothing

Evening as above.

Supper will be nothing - just my tablets.

 

Management had an omelette with salad. I won't eat salad in the winter.

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Pork meatloaf (described earlier) with new potatoes, green beans, broccoli and onion gravy.

 

Note that I've made the meatloaf simpler in its method of preparation.

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On 01/04/2018 at 9:07 AM, Belatucadrus said:

Saturday was Bacon chops, spicy potato wedges, oven crunchies and green beans.

??? - They sounded delicious !

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Iceland Potato & Bacon Crunchies with a Golden Crunch 550g

Nugget shapes formed from shredded potato with formed smoke flavour streaky bacon pre-fried in sunflower oil.

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Belgium

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I so wish there was an Iceland near us !

I am enthralled by these :-

http://groceries.iceland.co.uk/iceland-roast-from-frozen-boneless-chicken-cushion-with-sage-and-onion-stuffing-1-5kg/p/68839?

I've never tried cushions before !

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Iceland Roast From Frozen Boneless Chicken Cushion with Sage & Onion Stuffing 1.5Kg

Formed chicken cushion made with basted skinless chicken breast fillet with added water and basted skinless chicken thigh fillet with added water, with a sage and onion stuffing, covered with chicken skin and cured streaky bacon slices with added water, topped with a slice of orange and cinnamon for decoration and sprinkled with parsley.

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I rarely bother with prestuffed poultry as I never agree with the makers on what constitutes an adequate amount of stuffing, they invariably believe that at least 33% stuffing is required, occasionally more. Some products would be better described as Stuffing ball in a savoury chicken wrap.

As to the oven crunchies, the original and best were made by Ross and were just potato, they unfortunately vanished and some suppliers have attempted to "improve " on them by creating their own variation usually with bacon bits in. This does nothing for the flavour and adds a bit of fat that is detrimental to the texture. Still they're OK.

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I could never eat a pre-stuffed meat of any kind having, as a child, smelled a pre-stuffed chicken which was suffering from being in a warm room for far too long. The green parts were not the colour of the sage in the stuffing. It took me a long time to pluck up the courage to eat any chicken after that.

 

Anyway, today is chickpea and mushroom curry with Pilau rice.

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Tonight we shared a Slimming World black bean chicken with boiled rice.

It was supposed to be a meal for one but was more than plenty for both of us. It proved to be too spicy for our tastes. I will be pleased when Libby gives up going to her weekly fat club (Slimming World) and we can get back to eating proper meals. I must admit however, that she has lost her target 20 pounds in 6 months and now only goes for social reasons.  I swear she only did it as an excuse to have to buy all new clothes up to 2 sizes lower..

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Spaghettoni(?) with a tomato, cheese and bacon sauce.

 

The spaghettoni looks to be a narrower gauge version of spaghetti - which I thought was called spaghettini but, hey-ho, it is Italian and they should know.

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Tonight was a traditional slow roast topside beef with roast spuds, cabbage, carrots, sprouts, cauliflower, home cooked Yorkshire puddings and gravy plus lashings of English mustard.

 

Accompanied by a bottle of Quinta do Espirito Santo full bodied red wine (Imported by Laithwaites ) Exquisite Portuguese Red from Lisbon area standing at 14,5%. The nice thing is that you do not feel the alcohol and the wine is really balanced. Deep nose with black riped fruit and a hint of smoke, palate is very balanced with a hint of chocolate and a very thick full body. Long ending with an accent on minerals and dark cherries in the aftertaste. My favourite red wine hic.

 

The meal was scrumptious. (though I say it myself)

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