Food has to be quick and easy to prepare, tasty and more-ish and easy on the hips. Most importantly, lighter meals which don 't completely swamp the system or weigh the body down for hours afterwards.
I'm finding my appetite is shrinking daily and mouth hunger easily satisfied by a rice cake, spread with a little butter or my kale pesto. Then being out in the garden for several hours is definitely making me less hungry than before. I think its the satisfaction and joy from gardening, the satisfaction of doing something which lifts the spirits, despite the soil beneath the finger tips, an activity which keeps one close to the good earth and the summer smells of a garden in bloom.
Of course, I really do love to be out in the garden, messing about with compost, straw and plant prunings and dead-heading the roses and, well, anything else green and glorious, that needs cutting back. It's all such good wholesome fun and great for the senses too; I love every minute spent outside which although tiring, also seems to depress ones appetite. I'm still very hungry when I come indoors, when I can tear myself away from my work, I want to eat, especially when the dear SO has supper on the go, but I am finding I'm needing to eat less and less; my hunger seems satisfied by far less than when I'm doing less satisfying chores. Perhaps its just the summer months and the nice weather.
For supper tonight,we had thin British Farmed steaks from Aldi and Sainsbury's Sweet and Crunchy stir fry and it wasn't bad. The steak was probably a little overcooked but the stir fry was really very good and the amount cooked just enough; our hunger was satisfied, leaving our bodies light and easy - definitely not over-burdened by too much food!
Here's my ingredients and how-to details...
Ingredients:
4 thin Aldi Frying Steaks
2 tbsp. Rape Seed oil
Soy Sauce to taste
2 or 3 garlic cloves, crushed
Sea Salt and ground Black Peppercorns
Half bag measure of Sainsbury's Sweet & Crunchy Stir Fry
How to prepare:
1. Gently fry steaks in a little hot oil until done - 1-2 minutes per side.
2. Stir fry vegetables with soy sauce, cloves and seasonings until just done.
3. Serve onto warmed plates and enjoy.
On Wednesday, He cooked meatballs from Aldi with a rich mushroom sauce, plus fresh broad beans and new potatoes; all very enjoyable but too generous in quantity!
On Tuesday, He prepared ham salad with hot buttered potatoes of which I ate only a small portion, as I had to dash out for a WI meeting......
On Monday, it was my book club's "Eats Evening" for this term's end, and we had a feast of pickled salmon with a dill and mustard sauce, a chickpea dish, hot jacket potatoes with butter and several delicious salads; for pudding a Marks and Spencer Lemon Tart plus fresh raspberries and strawberries and my Eton Mess with chocolate button halves.
And rice cakes by Kallo, which I now eat every time I want to have a slice of delicious bread. Its not the same, of course, but gluten and wheat free, light and crispy and I just love the Spicy Chilli flavouring. The "crunch" is great!
Just love to breakfast on - oats, banana and fresh redcurrants from the garden!
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| Breakfast with Lactofree milk = utter deliciousness!!! Happy days! Daisy |
