Back on my course in London this weekend, with the added pressure of seeing my old uni housemates (not see for forever)..
What's that coming over the hill, is it a BLACKMARK, is it a BLACKMAAAARK..?
Breakfast
- Challenge compliant muffin (cooked up a batch last night to take with me to London)
Lunch
Hmmm... lunch. Lunch has consistently been the most troublesome meal of the day for me, throughout this Challenge. This is usually a result of me rushing/not having time/not having prepared. I think that's a the reason (excuse?) for most people...
I had planned to have a fairly leisurely morning, getting up a bit later to catch my train to London. As usual, this did not happen. Various urgent emails from work, with important people not realising I'd taken today off to travel (Out of Office anyone? Anyone??).. I missed the train I was supposed to get, and then not only that, but I did not have time/failed to pick up any food on my way in (was intending to follow the M&S tradition).
I had figured (oh innocent naivety) there would be something (anything) I could eat from the onboard cafe thing. So I went up and had an extended chat to the very nice man working in the cafe car. Really sweet, he tried his very hardest to find something I could eat... Turns out East Coast do not stock anything without grains and/or sugar.
So he ended up (bless him) "sneaking" me a staff only "salad"...
Only for me to get to my seat and find... a luminous mass of pasta with (reconstituted?) ham!!
Trying to capture the highlighter yellow pasta in all its luminous glory...
[at least my nail varnish matches my fruit selection though..]
Trying to record the full role call of E numbers in this thing was somewhat futile. Basically, it was full of crap. No, no, that's too kind. It WAS crap, absolutely.
Is this what's called a salad these days?! I am rather alarmed.
Still, I appreciate the sentiment.
Anyway, this left me with:
- 1 Challenge compliant muffin (not brilliant to be eating for breakfast and lunch I know, but I had to eat something!)
- 3 plums
- handful almonds
- decaff coffee, water
Lunch of kings. Kings stuck on an East Coast train to London whilst participating in a 30 day nutrition challenge, anyway...
Got to London, and topped up with:
- Mixed leaf salad (ohh pure green leaves, how I have missed you!!), with tomato, carrot, spinach, lemon juice, olive oil and seasoning
Phew.
Tea
At the mercy of my ex-housemate, who is by and large pretty bloody rubbish at organising anything, we were taken to a pub in Kensington, that also serves Thai food. Okkkk...
I went to a pub that also serves curry in Garforth once. It wasn't great.
This pub, however, was actually well cool. It was basically like being in a permanent memorial to the jubilee or something. Covered in royal / Winston Churchill / general Englishness type items. I mean covered.
And the food was pretty good.
I knew I'd be drinking (I was), and made a decision to eat some rice, in order to reduce the likelihood of getting smashed. It worked. It was a really lovely evening. Oh, and I ate prawns.
- Thai green curry: prawns, peppers, water chesnuts, snow peas, carrot, thai aubergine, courgette, broccoli, cashew nuts
- 2 small spoonfuls of brown rice
- 3 glasses of red wine
I forgot to mention, the pub is also disguised as a garden. Sneaky.
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