Tuesday meals

It was time for a wonderfully fresh salad.  At lunch time we opened some cooked salmon and flaked this over a bag of salad.  We ate this with a warm new potato salad.  It was delicious and at around 400 calories, helped us get back on track.

For dinner we decided on the lamb broth.

I chopped up around 1kg of mixed root vegetables and threw them in a pot with some herbs, garlic, fried onions, tomato puree, chicken stock and some stewing lamb.  I then added some pearl barley.  We didn't use very much lamb, just enough to enhance the flavour of the stock.  I removed the lamb pieces and flaked off the meat.  It was extremely tasty, and very low in calories.  We had a small wholemeal roll and some cheese.  Maybe not the prettiest dish, but it was warming, with subtle background flavours from the herbs etc, and very satisfying.  The pearl barley was delicious.