Friday, Valentine's Day, was a very low calorie day - with a total of only 862 for the day - completely unintentional. I have every Friday off and have been using the time to sort out the mess that is our house and to get working on the garden (we live on 5 acres). Friday's job was to get into our bedroom (almost literally!) and to clear our the walk-in cupboard and finally unpack the boxes that have been sitting in there since we moved in almost six months ago.
But the childcare centre called at around 10am and said that she was running a temperature (around 38.5) and only had half of the panadol that they tried to give her (she hates the taste of the children's panadol, preferring the more bitter baby panadol). So while my husband went to get her I pulled her mattress of her bed and laid it in the lounge room so that she could rest (in front of the tv, I know, bad parenting). I had also wanted to get to the supermarket that day as well as we did not do a full shop the week before. My mother-in-law came over and watched our daughter while we went and did the shopping. How this all relates to what I ate, I will explain shortly! By the time we returned home, it was around 2pm. I took our daughter's temperature and it was 40 degrees. She was sick. By the time I gave her medicine and sat and comforted her, it was 2.30pm. So I had a quick lunch of toast with cottage cheese and fresh tomato.
By the time dinner time came around, I wasn't starving (like I normally am) after such a late lunch. So I didn't haven't any snacks or drinks that day which contributed to such a low calorie count. But never mind, I made up for it on Saturday.
Here is Friday's dinner:
This is how I did it.
I roasted an already prepared split chicken from Woolies (they are great!) in the oven for about an hour and a half. While it was resting, I prepared a really basic salad of spinach and rocket leaves, grated carrot, fresh tomato (from our garden), raw broccoli and four olives. I had to count the olives because they are high in calories and I love them so much that I would just eat an olive salad! Then I pulled apart the chicken and added some of the breast meat to my salad. I didn't weigh it so I just estimated it be 170g of chicken. That's another note to go into my hints and tips - always weigh your food!
I don't have any salad dressing at home (I forgot to buy) and I don't want to add extra calories by making one with oil, mustard and vinegar, so I just added some hot tomato sauce.
And voila! Dinner was served!
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