{"id":937,"date":"2015-07-27T10:12:04","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T10:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottysblog.com\/food-in-a-box\/"},"modified":"2015-07-27T10:12:04","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T10:12:04","slug":"food-in-a-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottysblog.com\/home\/food-in-a-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Food in a Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I am now at number 358 on the very long list of &#39;ways to diet and ultimately balls it up&#39; options.<\/p>\n<p>And No.358 is called Diet Chef &#8211; or is more fondly known as &#39;Food In a Box&#39;.<\/p>\n<p>With a bit of encouragement from various (slim..) girls I went ahead and coughed \u00a3245 for a month&#39;s worth of ambient &#8211; yes ambient (but if you put it in the fridge you can sort of kid yourself it&#39;s fresh?) breakfasts, lunches, dinners and the all important daily snack.&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>And so far &#8211; it&#39;s actually not that bad. The dinners and soup lunches have all been pretty good with the exception of the cottage pie (a strangely pinkish potato on top and a slight smell of sick) and the truly appalling &#39;bulgar wheat thingy in a pot you pour water on&#39;. That was RANK. And I&#39;m so pleased I ordered about 4 of those and I think some of its couscous friends, which I have yet to try.<\/p>\n<p>One week in and it&#39;s 3 pounds down so far. And that&#39;s despite a cracking roast lamb at the coot this Sat (preceded by a rather nice home-made thai on the Fri) which certainly didn&#39;t come out of a purple-y box&#8230;. Bloody delicious.<\/p>\n<p>Am going to try and keep it going till the Java trip, which kicks off on 11th August &#8211; so my three quarter length holiday trousers might actually do up.<\/p>\n<p>We&#39;ll see! 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