Monday, 09-11-26: a week on chicken, day seven

 Evening, everyone.  Welcome to Monday evening.

The last day of a week on chicken has been and gone.  Despite the not-feeling-great crash that interrupted proceedings, I've really rather enjoyed it and I've not been bored.  I am looking forward to different proteins over the next few days, mind you!  

Today was not a full calorie counting day - far too many bits and pieces and this that and the other to count. Anyway I had serving dishes on the table for lunch and no way am I weighing each serving of vegetables, etc, onto my plate.

As I calorie count some days, I realise how close Slimming World principles, applied with common sense, get me to a reasonable calorie deficit without all the weighing.
Perhaps calorie counting works better when one has a lot of packet/ready meals with the calories on the packet.  It was much easier when I did the week on Iceland One Pound meals.  But when you cook like I do, it can be a right pain.
I'll calorie count where it is possible, more to keep me informed than anything else.

Breakfast was just some fruit (a couple of tiny apples and an orange) to keep me going as I knew lunch would be earlier than usual and bigger than usual too.  Loads of vegetables!

And here's what I had.  A good old roast chicken dinner and it was delicious.
Four swips for stuffing

One and a half swips for cranberry sauce

And I am saying almost three oil hexes for oil.  It was almost certainly less than that but I've not used any other hexes today so that covers it.

It kept me full all afternoon.

My last chicken meal of this week on chicken was a curry.  I used a basic recipe and added to it butterbeans, a pinch of chilli flakes and  some mango and I used half a pouch of golden vegetable rice (I'm getting quite fond of the golden vegetable rice).

And it was absolutely delicious, probably the nicest meal I have had in the whole week on.
And even better, there's another portion of both the curry and the rice for lunch tomorrow.  Yay!!

The rest of my third oil hex.

One and a half swips for coconut milk for the portion I had.

One swip for the rice.

Summary:
Three oil hexes (!)
Eight swips

No idea of calories.