Mmmmm. Pumpkin...
It is 8.55pm on a Saturday night. Both boys are fast asleep in bed. The dishes are done. DH sleeping in front of the TV (nothing new there). And the first dinner party successfully completed. I just had to come in here and post. We don't entertain much in the evening, and when we do it is normally with friends who have children so the evenings pretty much finish around the 7.00 - 7.30 mark so that the travelling family can have the children in bed at a reasonable time. When I found out that DH had organised a get together I was very concerned as to what to cook. I wanted to stick within my points, I wanted to have fun. I wanted to cook healthily, I wanted dinner to be delicious. Well I did all that and more. Once I got my head around the fact that we would be having visitors I hit the ww recipe book I have. I have to add at this point a HUGE thank you to a ww forum member named Ivanka and another named Sam. Ivanka put the recipe book together and Sam emailed it to me when I posted a request that someone did. This book is 167 pages of the most diverse recipes - all with points attached. So I cooked today. I made two dips - an asparagus guacamole (0 pts) and an eggplant/olive spread (0 pts) that I served along side some salsa (0 pts) with a heap of cut up veges (0 pts). I also provided some rice crackers and corn chips of which I had 1 point. Dinner was the most scrumpious Pumpkin & Bacon soup (1 pt) with Sweet Potato scones (1.5pts ea) - I had two with dinner and ate two before they got there. Then I finished off with crumbed veal (5 pts) and salad (0 pts). Two glasses of wine (2 pts) and including breakfast I finished up with 18 points !!!! And the guests enjoyed the food and were full at the end. We didn't even need the dessert I made. Unbelievable.. Now I am going to go to bed, pretend to watch a movie whilst I fall asleep and hope that my gastromic successes don't come back to haunt me - if you know what I mean... ;)
quite the successful meal! it all sounds very delicious and healthy, enjoy your evening :)
Posted by
Cat |
April 23, 2005 10:39 pm
Wow, what a success! My husband made me promise not to cook "diet stuff" when we had friends over =( If only he knew that half the meals I dish up are from the WW cookbooks
Posted by
Anonymous |
April 24, 2005 2:16 pm
Fantastic entry! Yes, you can cook low calorie meals and no one would ever know the difference. You did this the right way, just eating as normal (as far as everyone was concerned) but knowing you were in control. Much better to do this than announce that you are on a diet and can't eat!! Well done.
Posted by
Anonymous |
April 24, 2005 2:46 pm
Wahoo!! Good on you, great choices. Planning really is the key isn't it?! Would love to see some of those recipies too. I'm just starting to get into cooking again. You are going so well, I'm sure you are going to have another good loss this week!
Posted by
Kate |
April 24, 2005 3:40 pm
That is fantastic to hear! Alex (my beloved) LOVES WW food. He always goes through the cookbooks for me to pick out recipes.
I'd love a copy of that book if possible. Could you send me a copy?
joodydoody@hotmail.com
ta!
judes
www.livejournal.com/~fat_tulip
Posted by
Anonymous |
April 24, 2005 4:28 pm
That dinner sounds nice - I don't really like to entertain because I am at a loss on what to serve. I would love to get a copy of those recipies if you don't mind - I saw them on the ww site, but so many people asked...I didn't want to pressue the poor girl
Posted by
Leighanne |
April 25, 2005 4:14 pm
The meal sounds great! I love dishing up food to people and they don't realise that it's from a WW recipe book.
Posted by
Anonymous |
April 26, 2005 12:18 pm
Hi Margaret, Like everyone else, that cookbook sounds fab! Any chance of having a copy emailled my way? janened@xtra.co.nz
Cheers
Janene
Posted by
Anonymous |
April 27, 2005 8:47 pm