OK, let’s get the confession over with – all my life I have been greedy. I love food, not just quality, but quantity. It’s a question of second-helpings and snacks (even if healthy ones) and also, dare I say it, portion-size. As a result, I have always tended to be bit a bit overweight. Well, here’s the side-effect: doing this challenge, living on £21 per week, has caused me to lose four lbs – and I wasn’t even trying! I just found that I had to reduce the portion-sizes of certain things, particularly meat and butter, in order to keep within the cost-limit. And the other thing that has made a bit difference, I’m sure, it that I haven’t been able to have snacks – just one apple a day and the odd carrot. And I haven’t really been hungry, although I have definitely been ready for the meal when it came round!
The picture? That’s spicy rabbit stew with carrot, onion and winter squash and my absolute favourite veg-of-the-moment: quick-fried sliced cabbage with lots of chilli and garlic (which I got from Tina Roche at the Cambridge Cookery School). You can use any winter greens: kale, cavolo nero, red russian.
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