Friday, 05-06-20

Good morning.

After musing and pondering over yesterday's breakfast bread, I decided to go ahead and use both slices after all, making a mental note to get some of the SW approved wholemeal bread for when I have this again, which I will because it was very nice indeed.  I also added a little bit more cheese but probably didn't need to.

So, to add to the calories for the recipe, I need to add about 80 more calories for the extra bread and about twenty more for the bit of extra cheese.

This was lunch.  I de-skinned the two sausages, mixed the insides with a bit of finely chopped onion, some garlic granules, some chilli flakes and some pepper, formed small balls which I spray fried.  Finally I added half a can of baked beans and 20 mls bbq sauce (for 18 more calories).  Very tasty and so filling I was able to leave the apple until 'danger time' at around five.

Dinner was also delicious.  These Pinch of Nom recipes are really good.  Bags of flavour.

I had some extra soy sauce and a yogurt for dessert as well as the strawberries.

So yesterday's totals are:

planned meals:  1194 cals

breakfast extras:  100 cals

lunch extras: 18 cals

Dinner extras:  100 cals

Total: 1412 calories - top of my limit and a good day's eating.

Today's plans:

B:  bacon medallions, egg and baked beans

As the title says.  I have half a can of beans left over from yesterday to use up and like to add something for added flavour.  Today it is tomato puree

bacon = 73 cals

egg = 78 cals

half a can baked beans = 184 cals

20g tomato puree = 8 cals

Total:  343 cals

SW:  free

L:  ham and potato cakes (Pon 2, p 99) with spray fried tomatoes; apple

These look nice; basically  it's mash with ham, spring onions, flavourings and seasonings

recipe = 259 cals

tomatoes = 18 cals

apple = 50 cals

Total = 327

SW:  free

D:  tandoori salmon with mango salsa (PoN 2, p 110), new potatoes; Mullerlight

I think I've had this before and it's very nice.  The only change I will make is to use parsley, not coriander, in the salsa as I'm one of those poor individuals to whom coriander tastes like cheap soap.  Nasty!

recipe = 355 cals

100g potatoes = 78 cals

Mullerlight = 82

Total = 515

SW:   half a syn for the yogurt

S:  fruit

Body Magic:  allotment work, housework, a walk

Summary:

1185 calories, so I can afford a bit of fruit, should I want some

no healthy extras (ooops)

half a syn

This is day four of checking the Slimming World method with calories.  Double checking everything is a bit of a pain but I'm getting a few surprises regarding size of amounts, particularly of 'free' carbs, that show maybe I was getting a bit careless.  A few lessons are being re-learnt!

I don't mind the extra weighing but my scales seem to and yesterday they decided to go on strike.  I thought it was just battery but it wasn't so I got straight onto Amazon and ordered new ones on Prime which will be arriving today.  I really can't manage without properly functioning scales.