I continue with my 1600kcal per day diet. I’m hardly sticking with what’s written on the menu, but with the help of my friend ChatGPT I research the recipes and try hard to stick with the reduction. It’s working so far, check in last week brought -4cm in the waist and around 1,5 kg down. Not a French revolution, but it’s just a start, hopefully.
About once a week I allow myself to go off the rails a bit, last Saturday we went out with the neighbours and LauDe, I had a tagliata with porcini and again had not loved how heavy my stomach felt after the beef and eating late.
But because I was only given a 14 day menu to be repeated and cooked in batches, I quickly got bored of it, I do my own research. Some things, like poke bowls with prawns and fresh tuna have become a favourite, even Izzie asks for them. Today, after a nice workout I’ve cooked for myself a batch of soup, recipe from Chat, with lentils- a first ever in my pantry. Used the scales for everything, didn’t want to take the piss, will share the chicken with the cats too!
On a small amount of olive oil (booooo) I have fried a medium white onion, 2 carrots and some celery, 2 cloves of garlic. Seasoned with pepper and smoked paprika. Sauteed the thing for 5-7 minutes, added 150g of rinsed lentils, 250g of chopped potatoes, a can of datterini, 2 bay leaves, 900ml of chicken stock. 3 small chicken thighs. Covered the pot and let it simmer for roughly 30 mins. I decided I was happy with the seasoning, so removed the chicken, took it off the bone, added some parsley and destroyed a bowl of it. Good, filling, delicious soup, if I could add one more thing, would be a generous glug of olive oil on top, but no, I only added a tsp. Once Florek comes back from Holland, we will collect our olive oil from frantoio, where we have taken 37kg of our own olives last Saturday. 🙂
