I only decided during Thursday
morning this week, that if I wanted to get a fast in this week, I’d better get on with
it. I rarely have breakfast these days, so that was a good start.
My initial thoughts
were that I’d have a low calorie dinner – something like a 150 calorie (or less) veg curry -
and not eat until lunchtime on the Friday. However, during the morning I made a
batch of Chelsea buns (much prefer them to hot cross buns). I wanted to drop
some off at the local garage where the guys had done me a huge favour (long story,
won’t bore you with it here, but it involved a dead battery for the second time
in a month), and wouldn’t accept payment.
In the afternoon on
the way back, walking past the pub, a little voice in my head said, “Why not a
swift half?”
Me: “But I’m supposed
to be fasting!”
Little voice: “You can
always build it into a FD – just count the calories.”
So that’s what I did.
And a half of Buncombe golden bitter went down a treat. Checking later on I
found it was 111 cals.
It was only then that
I thought I’d turn my FD into a DL (De Luxe Fast Day), one with all the trimmings, and
just see how much bang I could get for my buck.
I made the veg curry – spiced with Frank’s chilli sauce and a teaspoon of my home made curry powder:
134g chopped onion
white cabbage
green cabbage
carrot
cauliflower
1/2 teaspoon mixed herbs
8g Franks Chilli sauce
5g curry powder
400g tinned tomatoes - 76
I still can’t get over just how flavoursome a simple veg stew
with a tin of tomatoes can be – however, I added 10g of soya sauce and a tsp of
bouillon powder.
A small saucepan full to
the brim (before cooking) amounted to 250 calories and made about 7 large serving
spoons – 3 and a half of which just filled up a side plate. I needed some
carbs, and, rather than using rice, I decided to have some curried potato
wedges. 150g of microwaved potato, quartered and fried with a few squirts of
One-Cal and a sprinkle of curry powder came in at 115 cals.
So the meal itself
came to 240 cals (125+115).
I enjoy a drink before
dinner, so I had a small glass (200g) of home made stout (74 cals) and I poured
myself 50g of wine (45) to have with it. However, I’ve taught myself to be so
abstemious with wine that I only drank just over half of it, pouring the rest
back in the bottle and saving myself 20 cals.
This brought my tally
for booze – including the Buncombe, earlier - to 210.
So, 240+210=450,
leaving me with 150 cals to play with. I still hadn’t tasted my Chelsea buns,
yet, and worked out that each one would be 277 cals. Half of one – 139 cals –
would leave me 11 calories short of my allowed 600.
So, my FD included an
afternoon beer, a pre-dinner glass of stout, a (miniscule) glass of wine, a veg
curry with curried wedges, and half a Chelsea bun.
There’s never any need
to feel deprived on this WOL!
