You wrote at 16:03:15 on Thu, 12 Aug 2004:

If all I have time for at breakfast is a banana then I would do much better
to skip it all together.

I find that whether I eat just a banana, or whether I eat a larger
breakfast, I am every bit as hungry after skating. So I'd rather eat
fewer calories. Lunch only went out of control because I was buying it;
it would have been fine had I had it at home.

You dinner, pardon me for saying so, seems very high in calories. I have no
experience with a prepackaged wine sauce. I prefer to make my own as I
always have some left over wine I am unwilling to drink and it involves
making a roux, etc. I can see having steamed veggies or boiled potatoes but
not both at the same time. Also, I know olives are a special treat but
aren't they very high in calories?

Not all that; and they are low in carbohydrates if that is worrying you.

What do you make the parfait with?

See the recipes on my web-page:
http://www.amsmyth.demon.co.uk/Recipes/Parfait1.html

Will
wine be served?

Of course!

That's another couple of hundred calories.

So?

Is this typical
of dinner or just a special occasion?

Had you read my post, you would have seen that I said that I had guests.

I understand what Elly is saying about the nectarines! I have bought some
that were so sweet they were like candy and others are almost bitter.
Better to add a little sweetener than to throw out the whole lot.

I've never met a nectarine other than deliciously sweet, unless it was
under-ripe.
--
Annabel - "Mrs Redboots"
90/89/70kg