Jac had the Chicken Dinner with Cream Potatoes and Peas. The cream potatoes are a kind of potato bake, really savoury and delicious, with a flavour that reminds of me creamy mushroom gravy.

I always have the Hawaiian Pack, which comes with a quarter chicken (I always ask for the leg), chips and my favourite part: two deepfried crumbed pineapple rings. These pineapple rings look really dark and somewhat overdone, but they were really good. Crispy outside, sweet and tangy inside.

We also shared a chicken caesar salad. We probably only ate about a third of it together; Jac took the rest to work for her lunch the next day. I, of course, was still on sandwiches out of necessity. I can eat a lunch of sandwiches in ten minutes (which was the amount of time I had to eat my lunch in during the past two weeks). I was really craving chicken laksa, but had to go without.

We also had low-fat meat pies and salad for one of our dinners during the week. I can’t remember the brand (I did dig around the kitchen bin to look for the wrapper, but stinky old chicken bones overpowered me and I simply could not go on). Jac saw the pies at the supermarket and thought they looked interesting and worth a try. My verdict: thumbs down! The filling was actually quite tasty, but the pastry was really dry and completely unsatisfyingly non-flakey. I’d rather eat a full-fat meat pie with proper pastry any day.

The pie really needed a squirting of tomato sauce. Here you see my sauce in the shape of the top half of a map of Australia. Well, sort of.