Lent week 2

For anyone avidly following our progress:
We enter our second week of Lent on a local diet with some trepidation. In particular, the lack of sugar and salt seems to make food taste particularly bland. We do not add much of our own salt to food, but by necessity we have been making everything, [...]

meals 2 Feb

Breakfast: pancakes!
Lunch: jacket potatoes
Dinner: stuffed mushrooms, using produce from Stratford-upon-Avon farmer’s market including Shropshire Blue cheese, and veg
Verdict: good
Oven: on for mushrooms
Hobs: on to cook vegetables
Microwave:
Slow cooker: on for pheasant for sunday

countdown to lent: meals 1 Feb

Not long now to ween ourselves off non-local food!
Breakfast: non-local cereal
Lunch: cabbage soup (made from leftovers of yesterday’s casserole) with home-made bread, oat biscuits and cheese, apples and fruit drink for B.
Verdict: not great
Dinner: Vegetables (swede, carrots, cabbage) in non-local oxo cube with home-made spaghetti and white sauce. Followed by yoghurt and [...]

meals 31 January

Breakfast – porridge
Lunch – as yesterday
Dinner – cabbage casserole with pigeon. Yoghurt and jam.
Verdict: ok
Oven: On about 1 hour
Hob: off
Microwave: brief to heat soup
Yoghurt maker: on overnight

meals 30 January

Breakfast: porridge using oats (not local – using old oats) and milk from the milkman
Lunch: beetroot soup and wholewheat rolls with fruit drink as yesterday, oat biscuits and cheese
Verdict: not bad, but not as good as others
Supper: Onion and leek quiche with potatoes and carrots and sprouting beans. Apple juice. Followed by yoghurt [...]

meals 29 January

I thought I might as well start to record the meals we’ve eaten here.
Breakfast – toasted home-made not-very-good bread and spreads
Lunch – Brussels Sprout soup with not-very-good white rolls (old flour), B also had blackcurrant/blackberry/redcurrant drink, made with frozen fruit and sweetened with a little honey.
Verdict: Not bad. The kids at B’s school didn’t [...]