WHAT DID WE HAVE FOR TEA?

[Marilyn]

Poached Salmon. Very nice it was too.
I remembered to have lunch today for the first time in over a week...just two slices of whole meal toast with Vegemite, but lovely all the same. I get so busy I forget to eat!

[Stanley]

That happens to me as well at times Maz but not yesterday. Driven on by the fact that my mushy peas needed eating I had it with black pudding, a boiled egg and chips for dinner and the remainder of the peas with a few chips and salad for tea. There was a bit too much and I ate the lot. No wonder my weight stays the same! Never mind, the fridge is clear and we can get back onto salads....

[Stanley]

Salad butties X 2 for dinner and tea.

[Stanley]

Cheese salad butty for dinner and chips, peas and two poached eggs for tea.

[Stanley]

Roast ham salad butties for dinner and tea. Very small butties so I topped up with a small pork pie last night....

[Stanley]

Haslet salad butty for dinner and burger and fried tomato butties for tea.

[Stanley]

Egg salad butties.... I'd forgotten how good a crisp cucumber can be....

[Stanley]

Half a salad butty for dinner and another one on very thin bread for tea. I had some onions dying in the tray on the window cill so I cooked them with garlic, butter and concentrated tomato paste. Finished up with a good onion relish for my butties.

[Stanley]

Three Cyprus spuds and a small knob of really good Stilton demanding attention. So I made potato wedges, fried them and had them for dinner and tea with the last of the onion and tomato sauce on them, just half bowls! At teatime I popped a couple of poached eggs on top. My salad butties must be too nourishing! Waistline not responding so I have gone onto half helpings of everything, funny thing is I don't feel hungry or deprived.... Losing weight or maintaining it ain't easy!

[Marilyn]

I agree, Stanley. I've missed lunch for weeks because I just keep working through and don't eat any more than normal for evening meal ( we only have mains as we aren't into pudding)...but I don't notice any weight loss. I've worked through again today, planting the front garden/cleaning the car/re painting the kitchen wall/hoovering the house etc. it's not as if I am sat idle! They say that moving more and eating less leads to weight loss but I am yet to see it.
Fish for dinner tonight. Probably with Cauliflower, Baby Peas, Boiled Spuds and White Sauce.
Last night was just a Toasted Sandwich as neither of us were hungry.

[Stanley]

It can be depressing can't it Maz. However, eating half helpings seems to be having an effect. Problem with missing a meal is that we often compensate for it by eating more at the next meal. I have cut out all treats except for fruit and will stick to the half helpings....

[Stanley]

Boiled two eggs and cooked a black pudding in the same water. Mashed them together with a bit of HP sauce and this was the filling for a half butty at dinner. For tea I toasted a slice of bread, laid a cut tomato on it and the rest of the black pudding and egg on top. Still half rations I reckon but no hunger just the usual irrational need to treat myself which I find is the big danger. When it happens I imagine the back view of very fat people walking down the street! That usually cures it.

[Marilyn]

Can't say I would appreciate Egg and Tomato together...we have very different taste buds, Stanley.
Mashed Spuds, Cauliflower, Carrots, Brussels tonight with Honey Mustard Chicken.
Only had lunch today because happened to be at son's and he was making himself a sandwich...and he insisted that I needed one too. Had to wash it down with black coffee as he had no milk ( bachelors!) but the sandwich was lovely.

[Stanley]

Maz! Do not submit to forced feeding!

[Marilyn]

Oh no...I was flagging a bit and needed the sandwich! We had delivered a bedroom suite to him...and after loading it all, delivering it and setting it all up in his guest room...not to mention making the bed and giving the furniture a final polish...it seemed a lot to ask of a slice of toast for breakfast some seven hours previously. Must admit I wasn't hungry, just slightly jaded. But the sandwich did give me the energy I needed to rip part of the back garden bed out when I got home.

[Stanley]

Wonder Woman....
Dinner yesterday was a slice of toast with a tomato and half a can of baked beans. The crust I had left was a bit thin so I boiled some salad potatoes, toasted the crust and cut it into cubes, dropped the pobs in the bottom of a bowl, the rest of the beans on top, then the boiled potatoes and a coupler of poached eggs for topping. All less than a bowlful and very nice.

[Marilyn]

Ripped more of the back garden out today..
( I am pooped). Can't remember the last time I had a relaxing day. Can't remember the last day I spent in clean clothes! I have been filthy by mid afternoon for weeks now. Life is mad at the moment...

[Stanley]

Pressed beef butty for dinner and the same, but with haslet for tea. Fruit for pudding of course!

[Marilyn]

Ham and Cheese Croissants.
( ate them dressed in my painting clothes...clean hands but the rest of me was filthy)
I feel as though I am living in a war zone. Most days I certainly LOOK as though I am...we spent the afternoon scrounging around a salvage yard, which didn't do much to reduce those thoughts. Hot bath before bed should help...
( I enjoy it really)

[Stanley]

Two very small salad butties for dinner and I decided not to bake a loaf but have boiled salad spuds, mashed swede and a meat pie for tea. Not a good choice as the swedes were woody, but I consoled myself that they would be good fibre!

[Moh]

Piece of brisket in slow cooker with onions, and garlic, will be served with new potatoes, cauliflower, carrot & parsnip mash, yorkshire puddings & gravy. I have made a rhubarb crumble for hubby with rhubarb from the garden.

[Stanley]

Had the left-over spuds and swede for dinner, tasty but very chewy! Haslet salad butty for tea. I have a haggis about my person......

[Marilyn]

Please...no photos...of the Haggis "hanging about your person". ( I am wondering if such a habit is normal)

Roast tonight...Turkey Breast Roast with all the usual extras. ( have not had Turkey Breast anywhere around my person).
Son must have radar, because he texted to ask what was on offer at our place tonight. He will be over so fast, we will have to extinguish the flames in his shoes on arrival.
Meanwhile Febby keeps asking when I am going to put the oven on. He can't get warm today, and is hoping the oven helps heat the house!

[Stanley]

Nowt wrong with Haggis Maz wherever you keep it. It's immersed in boiling water at the moment and will sit there for about 30 minutes with the heat off. Quite enough to cook it.....

[Marilyn]

Oh don't Stanley...
There is that old nursing story where Matron comes in, and says...
"Nurse! I told you to prick his boil!"