Week 3

We’ve indulged a little over the weekend.

This, that, the other, and bagels

It is a day of sun, showers and rainbows Shopping has been done, including Highland Park Smoked Salmon for the Bagels we are making tomorrow and… Cream cheese ditto (low fat at that!) and more haggis-stuffed beef olives, for Sunday Our Wedding Anniversary dinner has been ordered – a local free range duck, so that’s …

500

So, what does 500 kilocalories look like? Persian Chicken Curry from the 5:2 Skinny Curry recipe book, served with a spiced cauliflower and green pepper dish that we often make, from a cheapo Simple Indian Recipes booklet. The veg recipe calls for considerably more oil than I used for the fast day – I throttled …

It’s too hard!

I begin to see why folks spend money on bars, shakes and ready meals. I am. Honestly!

Search over

So, when I said that I had looked in all our likely cookery books, I thought we had 2 Sarah Brown’s. It turns out that we in fact have 3 of her books and one was in a different place and it had the recipe that we were seeking.

More boring stuff

I’m going to be a tortoise, not a hare.