New System Roundup

I’ve tried my system, and now it’s time to think of the results.

I spent a little more, on activity lunches, drinks and extra food.

Breakfast: rice cakes with cream cheese on the weekdays; sweetcorn pancakes on the weekend.

Weekday breakfast cost approximately 44p a portion, including glass of milk.  I was surprised to find myself not hungry after such a small (compared to the usual) breakfast.  Probably the effect of the wholegrain rice cakes.
Unfortunately, I really really still can’t make pancakes.  Sweetcorn pancakes were a complete failure.  Recipe coming soon, even still.

Lunchbox (Wednesday to Friday) : bread roll, Brussels pate, piece of Pie D’Angloys cheese, crisps (from halls leftovers), raspberries, cookies, sparkling water.

I found a Pie D’Angloys cheese reduced to half price and the crisps are from a stash leftover from halls.  I chose Thai chilli crunchies, Wheat Crunchies, and SunBites.  Got tired of the raspberries and froze them to use in a cake next week.

Snacks (until Friday) : cookies, nectarine, fromage frais;
Snacks (Saturday onwards) : nectarine, ice cream;
Didn’t feel like I needed the mid-morning cookies, but ate them anyway.  The nectarines were lovely.  Never wanted the fromage frais at all.  Saturday onwards, I was well fed with snacks, and didn’t want a nectarine at home, but loved the bedtime ice-cream.

Wednesday: rice with lardons (from a packet of veg+rice); raspberry basket.

The rice and lardons was a good meal, but I failed to remove all the peas before cooking (I’m very food-phobic about peas), still I enjoyed it, even having to be vigilant.  Unfortunately, the pretty looking raspberry basket tasted wrong.  The toffee of the brandy basket was not marrying with the raspberry flavours.  Pity.

Thursday: brekkie pasta; melon and raspberry salad.

My brekkie pasta works a treat, as I reported earlier.  However, I wasn’t in the mood to make up the fruit salad, so just ate the melon.

Friday: my herb-crusted salmon; cookies and ice-cream dessert.
After BP came over, I had to change my plans and had no time to make the salmon, so had bread with the last portion of Pie D’Angloys.  I made up my dessert later, and it was lovely.

Saturday: couscous salad; fruit sundae.
After not feeling very good this day, I let my portioning slide.
I always love my couscous salad – I add ham, cheese and some veg to leftover couscous, and it’s delicious.  Probably highly salty, but lovely all the same.  However, having missed last night’s salmon, I made up the couscous specially.  Didn’t want my fruit sundae, just had ice-cream snack instead.

Sunday: tomato pasta; nectarine gratin.
Made up a packet of tomato pasta (a leftover of halls), not so gourmet but very nice.  I didn’t leave any for the pasta salad tomorrow (oops).  Getting tired of dessert recipes (not working for me), so just had a nectarine.

Monday: pasta salad; cookies and ice-cream dessert.
There wasn’t any leftover pasta to make pasta salad with, so I ate the leftover couscous salad from Saturday.  Then had ice-cream at bedtime.

Tuesday: salmon and lentils; fruit sundae.
Ooops – forgot to take any salmon out of the freezer!  So I did think I’d just have the lentils as a salad, but then mother offered me half of her trial dinner, frozen fajitas.  It wasn’t very tasty, but it was well edible.

So how’s the system worked?

I’m swapping around some of the themes because I wasn’t liking them so much.
Set desserts are going – to be replaced with a premade dessert selection, so I can choose what I feel like.
Breakfasts will never again contain pancakes, but I’m liking the cooked/uncooked idea so far.
Lunches felt a little too much food, and I spent a long time eating them.  Maybe a couple less elements would be better.  I’ll see how it goes in the next week
My snacks are still great, and I know I need them even if I’m not hungry.  They’re staying as they are.
I decided that if I’m not busy and there are eggs leftover from the previous week, I’ll be baking a cake or the like for my dessert selection.

There’s another meal plan for this week, until I go to London on Monday.  BP and I might also have our picnic on the day we arrive, finding a nice park down there.