Tuesday – More tasty than Slim Fast

It has been a while since I put pen to paper (fingers to keyboard actually, but it doesn't sound as good). Tuesday came and went without too much drama though. I'm fully settled into a routine of work, days off, and work again. I had a lot of things planned for these days off; as I thought that I'd managed to do enough work for a while, and thought that I'd have a break.

After doing some washing and hanging it out (I thought it might actually dry outside – the weather is taking a break from the heavy rain and cold winds that have been howling around my ears recently). I was eagerly awaiting the delivery from my new food company.

I've still haven't got the hang of making enough food for one person. To combat that problem, I've got this company to deliver my breakfast, lunch and dinner already sorted out. It is really for those people who are trying to keep their weight down, and the meals are all calorie controlled. It is about $100 a week for meals for 5 days (just less than £50 a week). I've worked out that I am spending more than that buying and eating rubbish.

The delivery truck arrived, and I was very excited. There was a large cooler box dropped off, and almost all the excitement of Christmas morning, I opened the box. I was confronted with all my food for the next week (well almost). After inspecting the contents, I didn't think there was enough food here to keep a small child fed for more than a couple days. That was never going to keep me going for more than about 2 hours.

I was a little deflated, when the delivery truck arrived again. There was a very red faced delivery man knocking at my door, with 2 even larger cooler boxes in his arms. He explained that he had dropped off someone else's order, and he had mine in the other boxes. That was more like it. At least I'm not going to starve.

A sample day's meal for me now is as follows:

Breakfast: Grilled Cheese on Toast, and Fruit and Nut Cereal

Morning Snack: Melon Fruit, and a Muesli Bar

Lunch: Dijon Chicken & Pasta Salad, Fruit Salad

Afternoon Snack: Greek Yoghurt, Biscuits with Cheese, Biscuits with Pate, Banana & Date Muffin

Dinner: Thai Green Chicken Curry

And all that adds up to about 2000 calories, if I can avoid other snacks you won't even recognise me when I'm back. And it is tastier than one delicious shake for breakfast and one delicious shake for lunch.