The Ration Challenge - Day Two

Day two and a very similar start.  A cup of hot water and my usual vitamin tablets, I always take these and I'm really pleased that I am still allowed to have them.

Then it was time for breakfast, the last of the neon yellow rice that I cooked yesterday.  I should have been having some Dahl with it, but I hadn't gotten round to making any yet.

Later I decided to sort out my chickpeas.  

I had left them soaking overnight and then first thing I drained and rinsed them, and after bringing them to the boil in a pan of water I left them simmering away for an hour while I took Suky out for a walk.

Just over an hour later they were nice and soft so I drained them, and while they cooled off a bit I weighed them.

I double checked what I needed to be able to make out of them and altered all my figures as originally I had thought I would only get a cooked weight of around 170g.  Calculator in hand I worked out the new numbers.

First stop was the hummus, as that was on my menu plan for my lunch.

A large tablespoonful of Peanut Butter was added to the chickpeas along with some oil, water and a heaped teaspoonful of Cumin.  I've just realised as I type this that I should have added some garlic powder ... oops!!  Too late now.

The rest of the chickpeas were weighed out, 23g for the Chickpea Curry for later in the week.

Somewhere along the line either my maths had gone wrong or I'd lost some chickpea weight, and I just had 73g left for my falafels.

 The hummus was spilt between two pots and the other chickpeas were added to the stack.

Then I put a little bit of water into the hummus dregs in the Nutribullet and quickly gave it a whizz, this will be the basis for my Pasta Sauce for my tea. 

The fridge is starting to fill a little bit with prepared foods, something I think I will be really grateful for in another day or two as already I feel myself slowing down a bit.  Possibly due to a lack of sugar and maybe also partly due to not having any caffeine in my system.

Oh ... I'd kill for a coffee, well not quite but almost 🤣🤣

Next job was to make some flatbreads to have with my hummus.  Halfway through making it I decided to use half of the dough for the pasta for tonight.

Dinner - Hummus and two flatbreads washed down with some cold water straight from the fridge.

I rolled out the pasta after my lunch and hung it to dry in the sunshine.

While the pasta dried out I got stated to make the Dahl that will go with my rice for breakfast tomorrow and be used in a lot of this weeks meals.  

I used 130g of my red lentils, just over half of an onion and some salt, garlic powder and cumin.  It made enough for these three jars and will be used for at least six meals, so half a jar for each of the meals.  Gosh usually one of these would be enough for me to have with rice.

It was a busy cooking day and no sooner than my pans were free I had to start to make my tea.  A splash of oil, a couple of onion slices and a spoonful of the kidney bean mixture went into the frying pan and the pasta went into my saucepan.

I tipped the hummus-y contents of the Nutribullet cup into the pan and instantly I had a pasta sauce.  Ladling the cooked pasta into the sauce meant that some of the starchy cooking water went in, and made the saucer richer and smoother.

And within minutes I had a small dish of Pasta with Hummus Sauce for my tea.

Thank you to everyone who has supported me in this Challenge up to now, my fundraising page is up and running still and will be for the next couple of months.  Nip over if you would like to see the new total.

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Sue xx