A Happy Easter to y’all and hope that you are enjoying a lovely weekend!  We’ve had an Easter hatching so now we have two goslings.

This one has darker eyes, also has a little bump above its beak like a Chinese goose and is very talkative.  As usual, they are very independent; at first they are unsteady on their feet, wobbling all over the place and falling into the container of water . After about 24 hours, they become steadier and can start eating solids quickly.  In our house, they get mashed up boiled egg and chopped up greens.

Well, what are we eating for Easter?  That’s actually a tough one because my cooker broke down two weeks ago.  Can you believe it…the knobs (which were made of plastic) were slowly breaking off one by one.  At one point, I only had 3 knobs so I could only have 3 out of 6 burners going at the same time.  Alas, all  last 3 knobs broke at the same time.  One of the knobs was for the oven so that means I have no oven…which means no roast lamb.  Having said that, you can’t get lamb for love nor money down here anyway.  If you are lucky, you might find some mutton.

Anyway, we literally rushed out to buy a new stove top. This is what Gnome said,

“Oh no!!  This is an emergency!! We have to get Munchkin a new stove.  Otherwise she will waste away to nothing!”

Ha-ha, that’s a joke.  It would take me a very long time to waste away to nothing.  In fact, I’ve actually been counting calories lately.  I am not over-weight (nor am I skinny) but I think it is healthy not to over eat.  I also found it a useful exercise in devising tasty meals which don’t  pack on the pounds.  We don’t eat breakfast so that’s any easy one (zero calories) and lunch time, I have devised meals that are about 300 to 400 calories…Gnome eats double because he needs the energy to do physical work.  Here are some examples of my low calorie lunches.

I don’t count the calories for dinner but I expect it to be about 1000.  So right now I’m trying to decrease my calorie intake from 2000 (recommended energy intake for adult female) to about 1500.  For junk food, I’m counting my Pringles (10 at a time costs me 100 calories) and a two finger Kit-Kat is 100 calories.  So through-out the day, I weigh and juggle my intake in order to get to 1500 as my total at the end of the day.

Oh, and Gnome and I are making gelato with no sugar…with his Grandmother’s recipe which is just milk actually.   That’s a great alternative to shop bought ice-cream and I don’t feel so fat after eating it!!

Have a Happy Easter.  We’re having Osso Buco tonight so I really shouldn’t have lunch, should I?  Ha-ha!!