Celebrating my Birthday

As I mentioned in a previous post, it was my birthday last Friday. My husband and I didn’t really have plans, which was a good thing as we ended up spending it helping the family sort out the possessions of the relation who died. Very strange day!

Anyways, we decided to celebrate my birthday yesterday instead. After doing some work in the morning, I went for a massage at 3pm, followed by a bit of shopping. But the real reason for celebration was that we managed to get reservations at The French Table restaurant at short notice. This is an incredibly good restaurant, one of the best in London, but it happens to be just down the road from us in the middle of suburbia. Being a fine restaurant, they are very accommodating to gluten free as most of the dishes are made from scratch when you order. And the food is to die for! We started with a raspberry champagne cocktail while perusing the menu and wine list. I decided on the duo of foie gras, with a glass of the recommended dessert wine to go with it – divine. This was followed by venison wrapped in ham with an excellent Cotes de Rhone red wine. We then decided to follow the French tradition of having the cheese before dessert, with yet more wine.

I have to point out that the nutritional information is even more of a guess than usual, as I really have no idea what half the ingredients would be in many of these dishes. I’m guessing plenty of wine in the sauce and cream in the foie gras mousse, but there really is no way of knowing. However, I am pretty confident in my calories estimates - needless to say it was not a low calorie outing, but so very worth it!

The Score:

Calories:	Protein:	Carbs:	Fat:	Alcohol:	Fibre:
3000	125g	260g	118g	54g	25g
	17%	35%	36%	13%
Calories burned through exercise:		Rest Day

What I ate:

Time	Item	Amount
07:45	Vitamins - Centrum Advance A to Zinc, 400iu of Vitamin E, 1000iu Vitamin D3 and 500mg Glucosamine sulphate	1 each
	Cold water	200mL
	Mattesson's Turkey rashers	3 rashers
	Gluten Free fruit muesli	70g
	Alpro Soy milk	120mL
	Sainsbury's Orange, Mango and Passionfruit juice	100mL
09:30	Black Tea	500mL
10:30	Raspberry and Echinacea tea	250mL
11:15	Glennans Vegetable Crisps	54g
12:15	Twinings Camomile, honey and vanilla tea	250mL
13:30	Homemade chilli	265g
	Doritos Hint of Lime corn chips	30g
14:45	Alpro Soya Original	200mL
16:00	Herbal fruit tea	200mL
	Green grapes	5 grapes
17:15	Muller light cherry yoghurt	175g
	Red seedless grapes	107g
19:00	Champagne cocktail	125mL
19:15	Duo of foie gras mousse and pan seared foie gras	1 serving
	Gluten free white bread	1.5 slices
	Sweet Muscat wine	125mL
19:45	Venison wrapped in ham with pureed parsnips, mushrooms, red cabbage cooked in wine and a cep sauce	1 serving
	Red wine	150mL
20:15	Cheese plate	1/2 serving
	Red wine	150mL
20:30	White and dark chocolate gateau (gluten free) with chocolate ice cream	1 serving

Plus 500 to 1500mL of cold water sipped from a water bottle throughout the day.