Week One – Day Seven – Lunch (Smoked Mackerel and Potato Salad)

One thing about this blog, is it is making me more inventive with my food. If it were down to me alone, I would probably eat exactly the same thing every day as it would mean not having to think about it. However, when I am putting out my meal choices to the big wide web like this, I don’t want to seem boring and so make more of an effort 🙂

Today’s lunch was a bit of an experiment. I love creamy potato salad, covered in yummy high fat mayo and quite high in syns (around 8 syns for 100g). So, I challenged myself to make a syn free alternative. I came up with this beauty and I tell you, it’s pretty darn good (blowing my own trumpet!). I fed some to a diet adverse colleague and she told me off for not sticking to my plan!

I took about 300g new potatoes (you could use big potatoes and chop them up but be careful of them falling apart) and boiled them until they were cooked through but not mushy, I also added an egg to the water at the same time as I’m too lazy to wash up two pans. While they were cooking, I mixed 6tbsp fat free fromage frais, 2tbsp white vinegar (I used white wine vinegar but I’m sure cider vinegar so such would also work), 1tbsp sweetener and 1tsp mustard powder pre-mixed with 1tsp water. Once the potatoes (and egg) were cooked I threw them into the fromage frais mixture, still hot (again because I’m to lazy/impatient to wait for them to cool down). I chopped the boiled egg and threw that in too. Last step was to chop some spring onions (about 6?) and mix it all together.

I portioned this up into two thinking it would be enough for lunch today and tomorrow but having eaten my lunch today I would say there are definitely three if not four portions there!

To finish off the meal I had some salad (lettuce, cucumber and the like) with some smoked mackerel (1 syn per 100g and I think I only had around 50g on this) and some fat free dressing. Seriously yummy and way too much food to eat in one sitting!!