Health Kick

I am trying (and not massively succeeding, yet) to lose some weight. The trouble is, you may guess, that I like food. It is a bit of a dilemma but I am trying to persevere as I have a couple of weddings and that in the summer.

Doing it under my own steam wasn't working so I had to bite the bullet - I joined Weight Watchers. I'm not going to advertise it, different things work for different people, but it has brought home that perhaps the spoonfuls of peanut butter do add up and that I needed to really look at what I was eating.

So this brings me to what I am calling my Epic Potato Salad. I am trying to think up new healthy dinners, mostly veggie (as this keeps my points down) but that don't make me feel sad that I'm not eating bacon sandwiches with a chocolate chaser. And, I suppose, this is my first recipe! So here goes:

Serves 2
330g new potatoes (roughly, judge it on how hungry you are!)
3 carrots
2 sundried tomatoes
2 spring onions
1 clove garlic, raw (or more depending how you like it)
1 tablespoon light cream cheese
1 tablespoon parmesan
Juice of half a lemon
Big handful of fresh herbs (I used basil, parsley and mint)
Salt and pepper to taste

Put the taters on to boil. In the mean time, chop up the spring onions, garlic and sundried tomatoes and put in a big bowl. Top and tail and peel the carrots, then grate into the bowl with the other ingredients. Roughly chop your herbs altogether and chuck them in too, along with a tablespoon of grated parmesan. Squeeze over the lemon juice, season a little and mix it all up.

Drain the potatoes, leave to air dry for a minute. Put them back in the saucepan, season, and mix in the cream cheese. Add the potatoes to the rest of the salad, mix it all up and Bob's your uncle! Or your Grandad, in my case. Healthy, tasty, herby, lemony yumminess. I am struggling not to eat the half left for my lunch tomorrow!

So we'll see how this goes, but I have to admit, just a couple of weeks of making the extra effort and I do feel better so I'll try and keep it up, at least until the summer's over :-)