Maudlin Monday

It has rained and rained and rained today, depressing and inducing needs for comfort eating before crawling back into bed. The trouble is all the meals I know that are good for days like this are best made in gargantuan quantities, sufficient for 7 or more and take effort and inspiration to achieve.

So what I've done is fall back onto the old standby for the lonely single, the microwave meal. Except I have no microwave and must heat it in a pan.



It's actually quite surprising to find something like this on sale in a French supermarket - there are plenty of ready meals, the French aren't so backward as all that but one wouldn't expect 100% vegetale instant food to make the sales needed to keep it on the shelves.

A run down of today's menu follows:-
Breakfast was left over pizza from last night
Lunch; stewed apples. Actually they were more like boiled apples than the wonderful frothy applesauce puree expected by the British. I've yet to find a French apple that can do that but these local apples, variety Belchard are at least the last of the storage apples and travelled almost no distance to arrive on my plate which can't be bad.
Dinner, Lentilles au Tofu et Quinoa made by Super U. This is impeccably nutritious, packing 20g of protein into 360 kcal, relatively low in fat and high in fibre but it doesn't really taste very nice, definitely reserved for emergencies only.

I'm hoping for better things tomorrow, maybe even that chocolate pudding.