Wednesday, 05-11-25

Posting this early as I will be busy later.

Today's meals:

Smoked salmon trimmings and avo on toast with toms and watercress.

One fibre, one fats/oils.

The best photo of a bad bunch.
Made with bits and bobs and really nice.  I have a second portion left for tomorrow.

One swip for the grains.

I made a cheese roll and some popcorn to take with me plus a couple of apples.

One calcium, seven swips (for the roll), one syn for some salad cream and I have no idea about the popcorn but it was fresh popped with no oil.

Tomorrow's plans:

B:  fruit and yogurt

L:  cheese and onion toastie, salad.

D:  rest of today's lunch

Exercise:  personal training

Tuesday, 04-11-25

Hi, everyone.

What I ate today:

Before Groove, I had an apple and when I got home I warmed up some fruit - mango, pineapple, nectarine, peach and blueberries from the freezer, sliced banana and a small chopped kiwi and enjoyed them with a dollop of yogurt.

All SW free

Beth took me to Mowgli, an Indian street food eatery, for lunch.  We had a vegetarian sharing platter and it was absolutely delicious.
The curries were very 'clean' and without oil floating on top.  No calories on the menu and I am sure it will be over swips but it was also really good, healthy stuff.  So no worries.

I wasn't that hungry at dinner time so I had some cheese on toast and I mixed some chopped tomatoes into the mixed grains and heated it for two minutes in the microwave - surprisingly delicious!  Before putting the cheese on the toast, I spread a little bit of Dijon mustard over and that, also, was delish - why have I lived all this time and not done that before?

It used used up my calcium and fibre choices plus two swips and well worth every bit.

I've not been on plan today, obviously, because of lunch but it's not been really bad.  xx

Tomorrow's plans:

B:  avo and smoked salmon on toast with tomatoes and mushrooms on the side

L:  chicken pasta bake - main meal because . . .

D:  I'm off into London, to St Paul's, for Sir John Rutter's Birthday Celebration.  Sir John, in case you didn't know, is a famous composer and conductor and tomorrow it is his 80th birthday.  I am so looking forward to it.  Anyway, I will take some fruit and something snacky with me as I really don't want to pay London prices.

And fruit.

Exercise:  Lindsey, bless her, has moved my personal training to Thursday morning.

Monday, 03-11-25

Hi, all.

What I ate today:

Two eggs, 25 sprays of avo oil, mushrooms, tomatoes and yellow peppers - and scrambled egg seasoning from Just Spices.

Perfect after circuits and one third of a fats/oils choice.

The rest of the soup from yesterday.  I added 50g of the Merchant Gourmet five glorious grains pouch and a tsp of mixed seeds.  The pouch is five swips but I looked on the back and the only ingredient that carries swips is olive oil so, rightly or wrongly, I am calling it (and the seeds) more of my fats/oils choice.  The toast was my fibre choice.

Afters was two small apples

This is NOT what I planned but when it came to it, this is what I fancied so . . .

. . . a can of baked beans, a dollop of brown sauce and some grated cheddar.  Lovely!

one swip for the sauce and the cheese was one calcium choice plus three swips.

I had an orange for afters.

Tomorrow's plans:

B:  fruit and yogurt

L:  lunch out with my daughter

D:  I have grains to eat so I'll cook some chicken and some veg and throw in the grains instead of pasta or rice - a fair bit better for me, I reckon.

And more fruit, of course

Exercise:  Groove class.

Sunday, 02-11-25

What I ate today:

Breakfast - avo on toast and very nice too.

One fibre choice and one healthy fats choice.  The Just Spices avocado topping is swip free in the amount I use.

I had the soup for lunch.  By the time I had added some vermicelli, it made a great big bowlful so I saved half for tomorrow.

The soup contained onion, sweet potato, some soaked soup mix, leek, cubes of bacon, turkey stock, seasonings and vermicelli.

Swip free and very satisfying.  Dead easy too - just one of those chuck-it-all-in-and-see-what-comes-out meals.

Later on, I had an orange.

This was delish!  Steak, roasted potato, carrot and parsnip, steamed broccoli and sprouts and a dollop of Dijon mustard, all completely free on SW.

Afters was a banana.

Tomorrow's plans:

B:  fruit with yogurt

L:  soup and croutons

D:  spicy beans with grains and veg

Exercise:  circuits

Saturday, 01-11-25

The latest word out (according to YouTube anyway) is that we will be able to choose which healthy extra choices we want to use each day instead of being told.

I think that's great!!

What I ate today:

Getting there with the poached eggs.  Done in Nellie and I guess just thirty seconds too long.

One fibre choice.

I had lunch out with some friends and I am not ashamed to say I had cod and chips - and it was lovely!

I knocked up a savoury rice for dinner to use up some leftovers.  Bacon, onion, pepper, mushroom, rice and mixed seeds with salt, pepper, garlic granules and sweet smoked paprika with 30g grated cheddar mixed in at the end.
Delish!

Afters was a banana.

One calcium and a bit of oils/fats.

Not on plan because of lunch but the other meals were fine.

Tomorrow's plans:

B:  avocado on toast, tomatoes on the side

L:  steak with roasties and veg

D:  soup with croutons

And fruit . . .

Thursday, 30-20-25

 Evening everyone.

What I ate today:

I decided on scrambled egg to go with the toast - because there was smoked salmon hiding in my fridge.

One fibre

Warmed up leftovers of leftovers with a bit of salad.  Very delish!

One calcium, a bit of healthy oil and one syn for some salad cream.

The curry and rice leftovers and very tasty too.

The curry is swip free and the rice was one syn,

Tomorrow's plans:

B:  fruit

L:  avocado on toast with salad

D:  I have rice left so will search for a recipe . . .  

Wednesday, 29-10-25

Good evening.  
I've moved all the waffle that was here to the side now . . . 

What I ate today . . .

It's hard to make oat chia porridge look in any way pretty.  It tasted great though!

Nearly one fibre and one and a half syns.

Now this was delicious.  I fried the cabbage a bit to get some charring flavour and then layered onion, potato, cabbage, chicken, pepper and mushroom and, finally tomato and cheese.  Cooked in Nellie, it was so, so good and the tomato had the lovely intense flavour you get when they are roasted.

It made two portions so that's lunch tomorrow sorted.  :-)

A bit of healthy oil and one calcium.

Dinner was chicken tikka balti, a SW meal.  It was nice but I wasn't that hungry and I have just realised I didn't photo it,

Not to worry, there's leftovers for dinner tomorrow evening.

Tomorrow's plans:

B:  something on toast, I think.

L:  leftovers of leftovers.  :-)

D: leftovers of chicken tikka balti

Easy peasy!