My husband recently got a promotion at work and asked me as a moving in to the new building to make a batch of my triple chocolate brownies.
Being on a diet is hard enough, however when making 18 slices of the greatest smell since fresh bread I knew it was going to be hard.
Even my mother who is not really a fan of sweet things, unless they come in the form of a chocolate bar with nuts in found the time to pinch a slice and add some double cream to it for a delicious dessert.
The problem that I found whilst making these was not the fact that I was making Brownies and the house smelt amazing, even the help from my two children in making them added to the fun, but my problem was that being on a strict 1250 calorie diet in order to squeeze into my tankini later on in the year, I found that it made me want to make even more comfort foods that were not at all figure friendly.
I started making Rocky Road with handfuls of marshmallows, dark chocolate, crushed jammy dodgers and bits of crumbled brownie (those edge pieces that are the best!) and once I had made 3 cake tins full of goodness, I was hooked, Macaroni cheese, toad in the hole, Roast chicken with crispy roast potatoes were all calling out to be made by me. It was all I could do to stop myself from cooking into the night.
Finally after looking longingly at the mornings farmers market strawberries, I decided to indulge myself in a much more healthy way and so had a large bowl of strawberries with some fat free Greek yogurt which were Divine. After all that cooking I had some comfort food that did not throw me off my calories, but was very hard indeed to take control of!
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