A confedssion after several cocktaisl!

Just got in from a gerat Hen Do in Milton Keynes.
I had a sliuce of french baguette with dinner. It did very littel harm.
CONFESSION!
Done.
Lauren, Bride To Be, love you! x

Day Twelve - Lovely Lunch

My lunch box almost didn't make it to work with me today. With no bread allowed, my lunches are looking more and more tasty each day with the variety of food making it to the cut. I caught Ciaran eyeing up my lunch pack this morning as he was leaving. If I hadn't caught him, I'm sure he would have pinched it for himself!
 Today's lunch:

• Prawn scampi and dipping sauce (cooked last night, how organised!)
• Cherry tomatoes
• A kiwi fruit
• A lemon curd filled muffin - the best bit today

And Ciaran? What did he get for lunch? I packed him off at 8am with a spare muffin.

Bloat-o-meter: 2/10 - full, but not bloated

Louise x

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Day Eleven - National Sandwich Day

It's National Sandwich Day!

I suffer! I want a sandwich!!! 

Check out ideas and info on NSD here: http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=6507138

So how did I cope, bread-free, on this national treasure of a national day? Too bad we don't get a Bank holiday for it...

Today's lunch was an item purchased from Tesco across the street on my lunch break. A pasta pot, tomato flavoured. It was cheap, but, probably quite obviously as a result of this, it was also pretty horrible. Way too vinegar-y, and probably had more calories in it than a Christmas turkey.

I’ll say on thing about bread – it’s easier to plan around. If you don’t have anything in the fridge, just make a peanut butter and jam sandwich! Is it me or do they taste better slightly squashed? Oh how I miss PB&J sarnies! I realised yesterday I haven't eaten cheese for almost 2 weeks even, due to my bread/sandwich ban!

No. No. I will carry on, the strong, non-bread eating damsel in National Sandwich distress.   

Bloat-o-meter: 3/10

Louise x

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Day Ten - Haunted by the radio

On the radio this morning, I think the DJ in question knew I really fancied a Subway for lunch. The first song I heard was "Make it with you" by... Bread. Thanks, what a good start to the day - not!

I made lunch from leftover salad from had last night, the delicious tomato, goat’s cheese, olive and capers dish. It looked great on the plate, dead fresh, healthy, and colourful. The envy of my office!

All good until… I realised the “cake” I had for dessert, a delicious iced Chelsea bun treat, is actually bread! I think… Hmmm cake or bread? What do you think? Judging by the moderately bloated feeling I had within the hour I’d be inclined to think it was a bread. This was exactly what I was trying to avoid this month. My first mistake. Oh, bother!   

Bloat-o-meter:  6/10

Louise x

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Day Nine - lunch out!



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I had lunch out with a friend today, so I was spared from the 7.30am lunchbox packing chore. I chose a curry from the limited but tasty Waitrose café menu (all glam, us!), which lasted me well into the late afternoon’s gym session.

Tea. My first tea time with no sandwiches, as "hot dinner" was at lunch today. This is why I prefer to have packed lunch at noon and a hot dinner at home in the evening. Something to look forward to, creative time in the kitchen (!!) and something to warm you up, but sandwiches, or their bread-free alternatives don’t really tick either of these boxes.

However, I had a flash of cuisine inspiration while pounding and sweating on one of the Towcester leisure centre's cross-trainers. A tomato salad would be fresh, full of vitamins, and lacking in the all important wheat and yeast. Olives, a little crumbed goats cheese, lettuce and some capers made for a delicious (albeit summery) dish for my late October evening. It meant ANOTHER trip tp Tesco, but it was well worth it. Delicious!

Bloat-o-meter: 4/10 for the curry. Could do better.

                           1/10 for the salad. Top marks!

Louise x

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Day Eight - Imodium hangover

Monday, Monday...

Today is dedicated to Emily - hello from Milton Keynes!

 There was 2 tubs of cream cheese in the fridge this morning, and in my sleep-dazed state, I took the wrong tub to work with me (Gromit!). So now I have two opened cream cheese pots. The one I took was boring old plain cheese, intended for a jacket potato, not half as enticing as the garlic and herbs one left lonely and already opened in the fridge. Damn. Well, I can foresee many more Ryvita cream cheese lunches on the horizon now!   

Bloat-o-meter: 8/10   - Even reliable Ryvita couldn’t help my Imodium hangover

Louise x

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My first bread-free weekend

I admit it, I cheated a little on my first weekend day of being bread-free. I woke up so late (both days…) that this weekend I had breakfast for lunch. A healthy bowl of muesli and a banana. Boring but satisfying, and I successfully avoided sandwiched, toast and bread accompaniments all weekend.

Sunday evening I got Runny Tummy Syndrome. I don’t know what caused it… too much mashed swede with our roast chicken maybe? Not fun! Normally I’d mop up my insides with a sandwich, but no, I’m not allowed! Crisps were my alternative, as amazingly I had finished the last of the BOGOF Ryvita’s. Unhealthy, dirty food, but so satisfying.

They didn’t have the desired effect, which is where the Immodium came in. This was not a good first weekend. The tablets did what they were intended to and I felt like I had a brick in my stomach for the next 2 days.

Bloat-o-meter: 10/10. And I hadn’t even eaten any bread! Eurgh!

Louise x

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