Well, it was quite a Group yesterday.
I have lost another nice chunk of the November/December gain, which is an ongoing relief as clothes are fitting more comfortably again and I am almost back into the healthy BMI banding again..
I won the raffle and came home with a bag of goodies, all SW friendly.
Best of all, my meatballs in spicy sauce won the competition.
As part of the February Free Food Festival, SW is running a competition and that's partly what yesterday's taster session was all about. You have to write out the recipe with certain information on an entry form and, at the taster, everyone tries all the entries and then votes.
To be fair, there were just two entries (but more tasters, it's just that not everyone wanted to develop their own recipe).
My recipe now goes forward into the national competition - so no chance but it's really nice, all the same.
I now have a special sticker and certificate (SW are big on stickers and certificates) and a 'limited edition' tea towel (!!!!!) that says 'my dinner's a winner'.
Even better, there was enough left to make one portion for me so I had that last night instead of the chicken escalope which can wait for another day/week.
I can't escape my teaching past. Another two people came up to claim acquaintance through school/being a parent. It's actually really nice to know so many people, albeit very slightly.
I thought I was going to have to make a slight confession but it does fit into yesterday's plan. One of the raffle things was a box of Alpen Bars. Two of them make a heB. They're really nice so yesterday I didn't have the roll for a heB, I - er - had two heBs-worth plus three syns. In other words I ate the lot - but it has worked OK and at least they are out of temptation's way now.
And I enjoyed them very much!
B: mixed fruit salad with yogurt; mini yogurt drink
Thanks to yesterday's raffle, I have a load of fruit to eat, hence the fruit salad.
SW: if I have some agave syrup on the yogurt that will be one and a half syns and the yogurt drink will be two syns. Or I might just pour the yogurt drink over the fruit salad and save me a few syns.
L: bacon and mushroom cheese omelette with a side salad; apple
I will probably make this in a pan as adding bacon and cheese to the mix will make it too much for one part of the omelette maker but not enough for both sides.
SW: one heA for the cheese (30g) and maybe one syn for some light mayo
D: paprika pork topped sweet potato nachos (SW magazine, p23); yogurt
This is from the new magazine and it looks so good. I'll let you know.
I mnight have a side salad too; I'll see how much it makes.
SW: one heA for another 30g cheese - more than the recipe says but I like cheese!
S: easy peelers
Body Magic: an hour with Lindsey.
Summary:
two heAs
five syns maximum
reasonably frugal, especially with the raffle foods
eating times are a bit problemmatic today as I'm off to a friends in the morning and then on to PT and I don't want to do an hour of training having fasted from the day before. Maybe I will be able to snatch the fruit salad between the two - I'll see how it works out anyway.
Well done on the weight loss, Joy, I'm so pleased for you. And congratulations on the taster award. Not surprised you won though, your food always looks (and most likely tastes) gorgeous. xx
ReplyDeleteAw, thanks, Sooze. I really was chuffed.
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I had to laugh at your comment re: the Alpen bars. I often have the same attitude towards forbidden or naughty food - the sooner I eat it, the sooner the temptation is gone!
ReplyDeleteI bet we're not the only ones! :-)
DeleteThe nice thing was that as I've stopped evening nibbles, I had them during the day and was able to adapt my plan to accomodate them so no harm done!
They were ever so nice!
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Well done on your win, Joy. I didn't win but came away with some nice comments. Favourite for me was the "panacotta" typed ester made with quark, gelatine and lemonade. Served with raspberries, it was delicious but the winner was a spicy sausage casserole,
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