Today is Friday-
Here's what i can and cant eat on Monday:
Can Eat:
White breads and crackers
Puffed rice
eggs
butter, marg, oils, vegemite, marmite (but who would,right?!!) 
fish, chicken
white pasta, rice, mashed potato with no milk
Plain Gravy, salt, sugar, syrup, honey
Cauliflower tips, pumpkin with no skin
Marshmallows, barley sugars, sweets
Can drink:
water, black coffee or tea (with no milk products)
strained fruit juice without pulp (apple, white grape, orange)
clear broth
plain jelly without fruits or toppings
carbonated and non carbonated soft drinks
fruit flavoured cordials
clear ice blocks (avoiding red or green colourings)
avoid red coloured drinks

Can NOT eat or drink:
milk, milk products, cheese, desserts
wholegrain bread, wholegrain crackers, milk bread, fruit bread
other prepared cereals, wholegrain cereals
brown pasta, rice
tough meat and sausages
fried, smoked and tinned fish
soup that isn't clear
berry fruit jams
all fruits, including coconut and dried fruits
all seeds and nuts
most other vegetables

On Tuesday:
Do not eat ANY solid food, milk or milk products, and only drink clear fluids from the list above.

On Wednesday:
Do not eat.All day. Even though the procedure is not until late afternoon *sigh*
I'm not really looking forward to the bowel prep...or the lack of food. I really really love to eat and get extremely grouchy more than a few hours without food so i may have to be bulking up on the jelly and lemonade popsicles,just as I've done every time there's been an operation and I've had to fast.

On the plus side, i had another one of those freaky coincidences this morning.
Little Miss is not so little anymore, having turned 4 two days ago. On her birthday eve her Kindergarten rang to say that they have brought her morning kindy start date forward from March 9 to that very day.

Meanwhile i had been racking my brain to think how i could get her to kindy and back on the days i'm not eating because the last thing i wanted to do was work up an appetite by walking MissK there and back.
Low and behold, this morning i got to chatting with another one of the Mum's there.. and it turns out she lives two doors down from me and offered lifts whenever we may need them.
Bless her, we'll be popping over for a visit on Monday afternoon (i'll be taking my coffee black,thanks *ugh*) and hopefully during the course of explaining my situation, MissK and I will be also making some new friends.
Excellent.

Manchilds hand, MissK's feet. Less than 24 hours old

From this to this in four short short years.

Birthday morning with the spoils