Meal 24: Roast Potatoes, Cannellini Beans and Tuna Fish with Gravy

1. Put all 2.5kg of potatoes into a plastic container with a grip lid and microwave at 800W for 25 mins.
2. Switch on the oven containing a large roasting tray at 200C to start at the same time.
3. When the microwave finishes, remove the tray from the preheated oven with oven gloves and transfer the half-cooked potatoes into it. Be careful not to burn yourself with steam as you remove the lid.
4. Pour some oil onto each potatoes ensuring that each one is totally covered. Use the fat from previously cooked meat if you have any.
5. Heat in the oven at 200C for 30 mins.
6. Remove the tray from the oven with oven gloves and put the potatoes back in the plastic container carefully draining any excess oil as you do so.
7. Pour 250ml of water into a glass measuring jug and microwave at 800W for 4 mins.
8. Pour gravy granules into a 60ml measuring container.
9. Start stirring the boiling water vigorously as you drop the 60ml of gravy granules into it and keep stirring until the gravy thickens.
10. Open the can of cannellini beans, rinse the beans in water and transfer them into a large serving bowl.
11. Open the can of tuna, drain and chop/mix the tuna into the bowl containing the beans.
12. Add half the gravy and mix well.
13. Place 400g or so of the potatoes into the container.
14. Drip the rest of the gravy onto them.
15. Microwave at 800W for 7 mins.

Serve and add salt to taste if required. This makes one meals for a man like me (large frame and vigorously active) or two meals for a lady. I don’t mention the calories for each meal because when you indulge in eating natural low density food  which has a density of less than 25% you just eat as much as your appetite dictates and then stop eating. This meal tastes equally delicious with any of the pulses although I have to say that chickpeas are my favourite! The pulses I regularly use are: chickpeas, butter beans, cannellini beans, borlotti beans, haricot beans, pinto beans, black-eyed beans, black beans and kidney beans. You could add some green vegetables if you like but I just take multi-vitamins because they’re more effective and a lot cheaper.