Thursday, 17-07-25

Hi, everyone!  Welcome to my blog where I talk about my ongoing Slimming World and associated health journeys.  I'm now around target range and am aiming to keep this steady while following Mediterranean diet principles and the Slimming World structure.

What I have eaten today:

This was lovely.  The cucumber and the tomatoes were from the garden and, because the feta was 'off', I just grated some cheddar instead.  Really tasty.

One healthy A, one syn for salad cream and one syn for olives.

In the afternoon, I had an orange.

This was a recipe from the new SW book, Street Food and it was lovely.    Buffalo chicken with blue cheese dip.
I had to use Stilton because I didn't have Danish blue and I'm calling what I had a healthy A although Stilton isn't really a healthy A.  I'm definitely making that dip again.  It was so easy, just ripe Stilton and yogurt, mashed together.  Very tasty!

So - one syn for honey in the marinade and the rest was either free or so little that it doesn't count, plus one syn for salad cream.

I had baked a loaf so I tried a bit of that before freezing for my healthy extra B.

Summary:

two healthy extra As (sort of)

one healthy extra B

four syns - which makes up a bit for yesterday.  

Tomorrow's plans:

L:   cheesy lentil and aubergine layer bake, salad; fruit

I know I had this Wednesday but I have several portions in the freezer and anyway - it's delicious!

D:  not sure because I'm at a neighbours and not sure if or what food there might be there.  If necessary,  I'll grab something from the freezer.

Exercise:   rest day

Wednesday, 16-07-25

Hi, everyone!  Welcome to my blog where I talk about my ongoing Slimming World and associated health journeys.  I'm now in my target range and am aiming to keep this steady while following Mediterranean diet principles and the Slimming World structure.

I forgot to say last night - the Indian meatball recipe I made yesterday from the SW magazine was a member's recipe.  Each year there's a Slimming World Free Food Festival when groups have taster sessions and the best dish that conforms to certain criteria gets sent off (the recipe, not the actual food) to be entered into a competition.
The overall winners have their recipes made into frozen ready meals that are sold in Iceland.
I won't be buying it as a ready meal (very expensive), but I will be scanning and printing out the recipe because they were absolutely delicious!  It was as nice as any Indian takeaway I have tried.
Ditto for the base curry sauce that was in the last magazine.

I've made a full batch of the meatballs and they are in the freezer.

What I have eaten today:

The lentil bake is really nice - it's going to be a regular, for sure.

One healthy extra A and one syn (for oil)

I had an apple and an orange for afters.

The past was OK, not amazing.  I think the pumpkin concoction needed more flavour - maybe some spice of some kind.

One healthy extra B and one syn plus two syns for some oil.

Then I went a bit bonkers and had chocolate, crisps and crackers.  Oh, dear.  Not a successful day!

Summary:

one healthy extra A

one healthy extra B

goodness knows how many syns

Tomorrow's plans:

 

L:   chickpea, feta and olive salad; fruit

D:   buffalo chicken with blue cheese dip, salad; fruit

From the Street Food recipe book, p15)

Exercise:   Groove online

Tuesday, 15-07-25

Hi, everyone!  Welcome to my blog where I talk about my ongoing Slimming World and associated health journeys.  I'm now in my target range and am aiming to keep this steady while following Mediterranean diet principles and the Slimming World structure.

What I have eaten today:

I had an apple after Groove.

Lunch was nice - a sort of crumpet based mini-pizza with salad and some lightly pickled cucumber and apple which was really very nice indeed.

Afters was an orange.

Half an A and half a B for the mini-pizza, part of a B for seeds and two syns for dressing.

These Indian meatballs were very, very tasty.  The sauce wasn't the one in the recipe because I had sauce in the freezer.

Afters was an apple.

I added cheese to the meatballs because it helps to make them less 'solid' so that was half of an A but the rest was syn free.

Summary:

one healthy extra A

one healthy extra B

two syns

Tomorrow's plans:

L:   lentil and aubergine layer bake, salad; fruit

(from the freezer, made last week)

D:  chick peas and veg on a pasta and pumpkin butter base, ?salad?; fruit

An odd name - the idea is to stir fry some veg and some chickpeas, cook pasta, stir some of the pumpkin butter I made the other day which tastes much nicer than it sounds, and top it with the veg.  I can but try!

Exercise:  personal training

Monday, 14-07-25

Hi, everyone!  Welcome to my blog where I talk about my ongoing Slimming World and associated health journeys.  I'm now in my target range and am aiming to keep this steady while following Mediterranean diet principles and the Slimming World structure.

What I have eaten today:

The left over risotto, left over coleslaw and a big old mixed salad.  Delicious!

One syn for salad cream, one syn and half an A for the risotto and a bit of B for some mixed seeds.

Dinner was a slimming world recipe.  It was OK - nothing special and the sauce was very one dimensional,  Basically, it was hunter's chicken sans cheese.

The little salad was lush - garden cucumber and some of the tomatoes were fresh picked to.

two syns for salad cream to dunk the mini roasties in - I just love salad cream and potato (sorry).

I have some of the sauce left.  I've added it to the rest of the canned tomato I didn't use and I will jazz it up into a sauce with mush more depth of flavour

 I nibbled some bread and cheese later.

Summary:

two healthy extra As
one healthy extra B

twelve syns - I had to count the bread I nibbled later on as it was more than a B

Tomorrow's plans:

L:   mini discard sourdough pizza, salad; fruit
OK, so the base is more like a crumpet because I tried to make it in a pan rather than bake it but not to worry!  I will try again using the air fryer.

D:  Indian meatballs (new SW mag, p 61)with curry sauce (from the freezer) and rice (also in freezer), side salad; fruit

Exercise:   Groove class.

Sunday, 13-07-25

Hi, everyone!  Welcome to my blog where I talk about my ongoing Slimming World and associated health journeys.  I'm now in my target range and am aiming to keep this steady while following Mediterranean diet principles and the Slimming World structure.

Yay - managing to get this up on time for once.

What I have eaten today:

I had an apple around half past eleven.

This was lunch.  Am English muffin with some ham (all visible fat removed), the rest of the broad bean hummus and then a bit of the garden cucumber I pickled earlier this morning.  So, so delicious.

One B for the muffin, four syns for the hummus and one syn for  salad cream.  I sprinkled a few mixed seeds over but not enough to count.

Later on, I had some watermelon - very refreshing!

Not a great photo but dinner was absolutely delicious.  I adapted a risotto recipe to include chicken, ham and a bit of tomato sauce in the fridge that really needed using up.

It was supposed to make two portions but made three so that's one eaten, one for tomorrow lunch and one for the freezer as soon as it is cold.

The brown circle things around the coleslaw is the last of the quick pickled cucumber - and I'm keeping the liquid for more as there's three cucumbers that are going to all be ready at the same time.

So one syn for oil, half a healthy extra A, one syn for salad cream and that is all.

Afters was some watermelon - and I am thinking of making watermelon rind pickle.  Have you ever made it?

Summary:

half a healthy extra A

one healthy extra B

seven syns

Tomorrow's plans:

L:   leftovers of chicken and veg risotto, salad; fruit

D:  seared chicken breast in bravas sauce (from the new SW magazine, p44)

Exercise:  circuits

Saturday, 12-07-25

Hi, everyone!  Welcome to my blog where I talk about my ongoing Slimming World and associated health journeys.  I'm now in my target range and am aiming to keep this steady while following Mediterranean diet principles and the Slimming World structure.

What I have eaten today:

For lunch, I made some broad bean hummus (really nice) and as tomato, cucumber and preserved lemon salsa.  

four syns for the hummus, one B for the toasted bread and one syn for the hm coleslaw.

I threw together some mashed butterbeans, grated cheese, onion and garlic granules, chopped preserved lemon and seasoning.  It came together quite well and baked in Nellie but the resulting patties were quite dry.  Maybe add a bit of egg next time.

One A for the cheese, one syn for the sauce and one syn for the coleslaw.

I had a sweetheart cabbage that needed to be used so I took off the outer leaves, shredded the rest and mixed in grated carrot, chopped apple and salad cream and now I have a big bowl of coleslaw to use up in the next few days.

Tomorrow's plans:

L:   I have the other half of the hummus to use up so I will probably toast an English muffin, bagel or crumpet (all hm), spread the hummus and add some chopped ham on top.  It should be OK with a side salad.  Then fruit.

D:  chicken and ham risotto (using chicken bits and chicken stock from the freezer and a thermomix recipe which makes risotto a whole load easier as it does all the stirring!), maybe a side salad; fruit

Exercise:   rest day

Thursday, 10-07-25

Hi, everyone!  Welcome to my blog where I talk about my ongoing Slimming World and associated health journeys.  I'm now in my target range and am aiming to keep this steady while following Mediterranean diet principles and the Slimming World structure.

It's weigh day tomorrow.  It's been a really poor week, one way and another and I don.t want to face those scales - but I will.  No point not.

And then . . . no idea but I will have to sort it out. 

What I have eaten today:

This was lovely - lentil and veg pasta bolognaise.  One healthy extra A and two syns plus one syn for salad cream.

I had an apple and an orange in the afternoon.

I got four portions of lentil, veg and aubergine layer bake so that's three for the freezer.  

One healthy extra A and three syns for oil.

Summary:

two healthy extra As

no healthy extra Bs

six syns plus goodness knows what for bits and pieces.

Tomorrow's plans:

L:   sausage hot dog, salad; fruit

D:  egg and chips, salad; fruit

Exercise:  rest day.