The Cottage Smallholder

Good idea Sue, so here is mine. 

Yesterday: Day 1 of Phase 1

Breakfast: 3 Egg Omelet with ham & basil leaves inside, side salad of a few young lettuce leaves, Treviso endive leaves, cucumber & olive oil.

Lunch: A cold, previously roasted chicken thigh, more salad with beetroot, lettuce, endive & tomato,red pepper, olive oil.

Evening: I wasn't feeling very hungry so I had a slice of ham, a little piece of chicken breast & a small amount of salad similar to-boiled some eggs just in case I needed a snack lunch but much less.

***Not very adventurous I know but it was too hot to cook & I also wanted to use up what I had in the fridge. I had hard-boiled a couple of eggs just in case I needed topping up but I didn't.

Friday's meals

Omelet with tomato & fresh basil

Cold chicken with mixed salad

Two small hard-boiled eggs, chopped up with some butter & herbs plus another mixed salad

Lots of water & weak decaf tea throughout the day.

Sunday's meals 

No breakfast, I couldn't face it.

Brunch instead at 11.45am:  2 pieces of thick feather steak (beef) with cooked whole cherry tomatoes. Cooked in my cast-iron skillet. You have to cook feather steaks at a lower temperature than usual steaks & for longer, then you get a delicious succulent pink steak with a crispy outside. Mine, from Waitrose via Ocado, was surprisingly tender. Green salad with lots of fresh basil.

***** It was the tastiest steak I have had in a couple of years. Waitrose has only had these recently & you can ask for them to be cut either thick or thin & at the moment it costs £9.99 per kg. Very good value I thought.  I bought 4 thick ones for £4.75......extremely good value I thought. I have the other 2 in the fridge at the moment, awaiting inspiration....

Evening meal:  A piece of Salmon fillet, cooked in a foil parcel with lots of fresh dill & a squeeze of lemon juice plus a pinch of Marigold Bouillon powder, white pepper..... Steamed chard with butter.

Day 1 of Phase 2:

Breakfast:  Slice of ham & 2 of those little flat peaches......Oh the bliss of fresh fruit again !! 

Lunch:  Leg & part of a breast Of a previously roasted chicken. Mixed salad of a small piece ofroasted butternut squash, a couple od tiny beetroot, mixed salad leaves (from my pots in garden), cherry tomatoes, basil leaves, spring onions, Treviso endive, julienned raw carrot, dressed with olive oil & lime juice. I sprinkled Za;atar mix, salt & pepper over it to add seasoning.

Dinner:  Because I was so upset over the near-drowned chicken I wasn't at all hungry I just had two hard-boiled eggs & tomatoes.

*** I also broke my diet by having a large glass of strawberry vodka (which I made a few weeks ago)......it had been a very distressing day as that morning I had  alsofound 2 dead chicks in with their siblings & mother. I had spent a lot of the day in tears & upset). I have described finding the drowning hen etc.on the Good Morning thread.