Sunday 31 January 2010

Week One (of this blog) 25th-31st Jan 2010

25/01/2010
Day One: The one and only vegetarian option for dinner is some sort of poorly cooked vegetable mush with strangely textured cheese on top of a greasy pitta bread. Side of potato chunks which are dry and taste rather earthy. For dessert is a small slice of watermelon; the highlight of the meal. And to drink, a cup of tea. One sugar. Semi skimmed milk.
 26/01/2010
Day two: Lunchtime, and the veggie option of the day is pasta, and chips. To be completely fair, I do like this as I am pretty sure this is pasta you can buy in a packet at any supermarket. It is some sort of cheese (ricotta?) ravioli in a tomato sauce which I always add some tabasco sauce to in order to achieve some sort of taste. However, my side of the day is chips and this makes the meal rather dominated by carbohydrates. As you will come to learn, the vegetable options are usually avoided due to previous encounters proving them to be tasteless and undercooked.
To compensate for the unbalanced main course, I get a side salad of lettuce, cucumber and black olives, covered in Thousand Island dressing. It is rather disappointing and I am unsure whether the salad is ever rinsed, but I eat it none the less.
Dessert is some sort of chocolate pudding/cake in chocolate custard. It is edible but sickly.
Ryvita with butter appears to be the highlight of the meal.

Day Two (cont.): Dinner consists of onion soup (which was actually acceptable once salt was added), and vegetable samosas on poorly cooked rice with a side of lumpy mashed potato and potato wedges. Again, carbohydrates are all I am given, and the contents of the samosas are so unappetising that I just nibble on the edges before giving up. The rice goes uneaten as does the mashed potato, but the wedges are well cooked for once so get eaten with a small helping of mayonnaise. Dessert appeared to be an attempting bread and butter pudding with custard. However this was burnt in places, and was far too sweet and chewy. Unfortunately yet another attempt at making pudding from scratch fails.
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