Cheesy Chicken & Macaroni Bake –

This was very tasty and cheesy. Could do with a little more chicken and some of the sauce from the Mac N Cheese dinner..

Apple Crumble –

This is must re-order but I would do it in the 4 pack of just the apple crumble, and a 4 pack of just the apple and raspberry crumble, because I did not like the rice pudding from the assorted pack. I have not tried the apricot crumble yet – am looking forward to it!

Pumpkin Soup –

Ugh. Not a fan. But you should know that I make an incredible vegetable soup so I am quite a soup snob. This was quite watery and not very sweet. It is only 64 calories.

Nut Cluster Crunch –

This seems like they took several of the cereals and combined them into one. I could taste cinnamon in there. I quite liked it.

Mexican Chicken Stack –

This was much better than the Tortilla Stack on the dinner menu – full of veg & beans and some kind of slightly cheesy sauce as well as the tomato sauce with the mince. Absolutely gorgeous. If this were on the dinner menu I would order it every week. It was 236 calories at the small lunch size so I think this could easily be made into a dinner. Rather than the tortilla it has lavash bread.

General update –

Just got the next delivery and for the first time ever have chosen popular for every single lunch meal, and virtually every meal for breakfast – on Day 5 I chose the optional choice. The Eggs Benedict is back next week NOMS I would have that for breakfast every single day.

I picked some new dinners this week – Crumbed Chicken, Roast Chicken, Salt N Pepper Chicken.

I am loving the strawberry jam on the toast. So much more me than Apricot or Marmalade.

The Other Half got fed one of the dinners this week – Rigatoni – which he quite liked. He would not eat a lot of the meals due to being allergic to a lot of items including various vegetables.

I don’t eat much in the way of red meat but if any of the Lite N Easy people reading this order the red meat stuff and want to give me a photo and their review of it, I will be happy to post that – or if you post it on your blog I will link to it. You might even talk me into trying it if the meat cuts are good enough.

Getting back to the gym this week after a week off thanks to bad shift times and Christmas Dinners. I went tonight after work and on top of the 30 mins of cardio spent some time on the abs.

Caesar Salad with Chicken & Smokehouse Ham and Creamy Dressing

OMG THE NOMS THE NOMS this was totally awesome on so many levels! The chicken and ham was heated in the microwave for a short time. I sliced the egg with an egg slicer and took out the tomato – not a fan of cherry tomatoes at all. The chickens love them, though.

Then put it all together, the sliced egg, the chicken and ham, the salad dressing.. gorgeous.

Soy Chicken Tender with Thai Salad and Hoisin Dressing

This was also excellent. The salads are such a great option and so filling.

Chicken with Satay Sauce

This does not look especially appetising but it was very tasty. I had tried the old version – they have a new recipe now. The new one is a lot more pea-nutty. I enjoyed it and will order it again.

Apricot Almond Bar

Great snack. This had everything one could want with the exception of cinnamon – I am too used to the cinnamon oat bars so the lack of cinnamon was notable. It would have gone incredibly well with this, I think.

Strawberries with vanilla bean yoghurt. :)

Strawberries (large) are 12 cals each. Yoghurt was less than 100 calories (I only used a few spoonfuls out of the 170g tub).

The Lite N Easy is some of the most tasty yoghurt I have experienced but obviously, I didn’t have any of that on me. So I had bought some of the Five Am Vanilla Bean yoghurt that day at the supermarket. I’d have to say this is the best yoghurt you can get in the supermarket.

Melted Cheese (55Cal) and Tomato(10cal) on a toasted Multigrain Muffin (154Cal) = 219

Swapped out the tomato for avocado – no cheese, just black pepper. Very tasty! Oops, out of focus pic.. :(

Thai Fried Rice with Chicken (226Cal)

This was pretty good. An awful lot of green beans. Could have done with more egg.

Things without photos – sorry was busy today didn’t get around to taking pics.

Seasonal Fruit (76Cal)
Peach Fruit Cup (80Cal)
Vanilla Yoghurt (125Cal)

The yoghurt is some of the best yoghurt I have ever had. Tangy, zingy, with a great Vanilla flavour.

Breakfast, lunch, snacks = 726

Dinner – Sweet N Sour Chicken (428 cals)

Again, this was excellent. Still up there on the list of top Lite N Easy meals for me.

So, next week I’ll just be posting the new stuff on the menu – no need to subject you to endless repeat photos and pics of fruit. ;)

A short update today, very tired, my apologies!

Cheesy Ham & Tomato Omelette (130Cal)

Very tasty as always.. :)

Wholegrain & Oat Toast (166Cal) with Marmalade (37Cal) = 203

Used the honey from yesterday instead of the marmalade. There was another toasting incident. The bread got stuck in there. I’m so over toasting!

Pasta Carbonara (291Cal)

This was new. It was ok. It did not rock my world. I love a pasta carbonara, so the lack of awesome was disappointing.

Orange (55Cal)
Dried Apricots (62Cal)
Green Apple (75Cal)

Skipped all of these for some substitutions today. I was meaning to get a post up about that but I just ran out of time, sorry!

Total breakfast & lunch – = 816

Chicken Tikka Masala (424cal)

Still love this. The sauce is so flavorful and the sultanas pack that sweet boom in among the savory awesomeness.

Has been a long couple of days for me and today the dog next door was just barking all morning so I didn’t get a good sleep. :(

So yesterday I was up for a while after posting and I found some space to try one of the desserts seeing as I only had 989 calories yesterday. The desserts arrive in a pack of 4 – Apricot Crumble – Apple Crumble – Raspberry & Apple Crumble – Rice Pudding..

The only one of the desserts which I have never had in my lifetime was rice pudding so I thought I would give it a try.

And now I know I am not a fan of it. This is the first thing I recall actually throwing away half uneaten.

Lunch – Thai Meatballs (103Cal) with Asian Coleslaw (19Cal) and Sesame Soy Dressing (39Cal) = 161

I don’t know if actual Thai meatballs would have spring onion in them but I have to say, it made them awesome – the spring onion was crunchy and gorgeous.

Snacks – Orange (55Cal)
Two Fruits Fruit Cup (76Cal)

Swapped for an apple.

Breakfast – Bacon (54Cal), Free Range Egg (73Cal) and Tomato (10cal) with Multigrain Toast (98Cal) = 235

Swapped the tomato out for half an avocado instead. Boiled the egg to eat separately.

Dinner – Chicken Tikka Masala(424cal)

No corn in this, JM :) It does have sultanas – juicy and sweet ones.

I said yesterday it takes me somewhere between 20 mins to 30 mins to eat dinner – I timed it today, just over 20 mins.

Raspberry & Apple Crumble (201Cal)

Coincidentally this was on the menu today as a surprise. It turned out to be AWESOME. I think there was custard, sultanas and apple in there too. You can order this in a pack of 4 on its own.

The thing is, I am not exactly a sweet tooth. I would prefer cheese and crackers sometimes, for a treat.

Lunch & Breakfast calories = 728
Dinner – 424
Total – 1152

So a little bit of time and effort last night, and I have got the calories done for every breakfast and lunch this week..

I sent my maths over to Sephy for a double check. Somehow I’d missed out adding all the tomatoes into the calculations, lucky I did send it! I failed maths in school, and even with an iPhone calculator I still fail it now, lol. :)

I have to tell you something.

The longer I stick with Lite N Easy, the less hungry I am. The smaller meals are ok. The larger meals make me feel so full. It takes me a good 20-30 minutes to finish the entire dinner. That is a good thing.

Now for the bad news. Whenever I eat the bread it makes me feel enormously bloated and it isn’t short term, it lasts for hours. I am beginning to think I have a bread allergy, or something in the bread anyway.

I am going to look for low calorie gluten free bread alternatives next time I am at the supermarket, something that would work with Lite N Easy. I can swap out the bread and see if maybe that makes me feel any better..

I honestly know zero about gluten etc, so I might have to do some research into this. Wouldn’t it be great if Lite N Easy did it for me? :(

Lunch – Curried Egg Spread (84Cal) and Baby Leaf (13Cal) on a Long Multigrain Roll (197Cal) = 294

I had been looking forward to this, I love curried egg. It was wonderful even despite my bread thing I mentioned above.

Red Apple (75Cal) (Missed – too full)
Seasonal Fruit (76Cal) (Mandarin – Missed – too full)

Potato Crisps (76Cal)

I love my potato chippies. These are not the same but hello, they are still potato, in chip form. I would find it very difficult to describe what these are actually like – the thing that comes to mind is potato air.

Dinner – Fragrant Thai Chicken (382Cal)

Still a great fan of this. I do wish now, having had the other rice with egg etc in it, that this appeared with that rice. I’m not sure how well it would go though.

Breakfast – Pikelets (113Cal) with Fig & Berry Compote (82Cal) and Honey Yoghurt (42Cal) = 237

This was my last meal for the day (If you have been reading for a while you know, I eat breakfast at night time because I don’t have time when I get up nor does my stomach like to be bombarded with food so early – if there is a cereal I will eat that before going to work) so it was like dessert. I have never had fig before and I am surprised to find I like it. I added the yoghurt to this as you are supposed to and it was incredible – last time I ate the yoghurt separately. Definite re-order. And I am sitting here having eaten this over an hour ago, soooo full!

Breakfast and Lunch total plan calories = 758
Dinner calories = 382

Total for today = 1140
Minus missed items = 989

Wow, I did not realise I missed so many calories. I wish I could say that at some point today I could have added them back in but I just didn’t have the space in me to fit in any more food.