Day 32 - Solids again!

Back on Solids!!

*Does a little dance*

Wow, having liquids only really sapped my energy.

I had cancel all my work yesterday and go to bed.

Today I went to the meeting in the morning, but I felt so tired I can home after an hour. I was wiped out. I got into bed just after 11:00am and didn't get out until 6:00pm! I only got up then because DH was going to Badminton, and I hadn't seen my son for nearly 3 days straight.

Now I am up I feel better. I said I wasn't going to have solids until tomorrow, as one more day can only help my stomach feel better, but I JUST COULDN'T STAND IT ANY MORE!

I made a lasagna for us all. Really good recipe but I had to doctor it a bit.

Instead of pasta it said use sliced courgette (-zucchini for our US/Australian readers).
The recipe said cut them thin. I knew there was going to be a problem with that before I started as I love BBQ'd courgette and peppers, and that never goes well. There are always uneven slices. So.... I used a potato peeler to slice them micro fine! It worked so well. They were wafer thin and 3 courgettes went a long way.

The guts of this lasagna was a bit odd... I didn't have any minced/ground turkey so I used minced Quorn. Very good for me. It made a really nice thick 'meat' sauce with onions and 4 cloves of garlic (yes, 4!). I sliced a whole bunch of mushrooms really thin and chucked them in too. The white sauce they suggested sounded like sick... so I changed it. I am used to making a nice thick and creamy cheese sauce for the lasagna, but its too rich when trying to lose weight, so I used some half fat ricotta and milk blended together with an electric blender and threw in some fresh parsley and basil, salt a and pepper, a bit of nutmeg and half a packet (25g) of grated Parmesan to make it cheesy. It worked really well. I strongly advice blending with with an electric blender or you end up with lump of strange cheesy stuff. Not nice.
So I put it all together and just underneath the fake pasta layers and on top of the fake meat, I put a layer of fresh spinach. Just for kicks!! It worked really well.

I covered the whole affair with a helping of half fat grated mozzarella and baked it for 40 mins and it was YUMMY!

The whole lot made 6 portions, about the size of a postcard. One portion was all I needed, and I was full. DS didn't really like it because of the mushrooms, but he spat them out and ate it anyway. Delightful child.
So I put DH's on the side for when he gets in from Badminton and I am freezing 3 portions for when I need something quick.

The courgette pasta worked very well and it all stayed together in the dish, which is unusual for me. If I make a pasta one, it slops everywhere usually, but this looked like a really nice healthy beautifully layered affair. Exactly like the picture in the book! Except theirs had lumps of sick sticking out because their cheese sauce was terrible. Mine looked much better. HEE HEE

It was bliss to chew.

I know that I will have to go with fluid diet again once I have a second fill, and I am not looking forward to it simply because of that.

Also, I have good restriction. I feel very full. I have not been sick, but I know if I ate any more that I would probably be ill. I ate a significantly smaller portion that I would have post band, so that's good.

Tomorrow is weighbridge day again...

I hope I have lost at least a pound. Not too much to ask I don't think.