Sunday, 28-06-20

Good morning!

Yesterday's meal photos:

Well, I can quite honestly say, hand on heart, that the oat bran mixture makes extremely delicious waffles.  The results are softer than when made with wholemeal flour, no crunch to them, bit they are lovely and a bit cakey in texture.

See the cakiness? 

It gives me another idea but I'll come back on that one another time.

Dear, oh dear.  Between paying large cheques to double glazing people, letting my daughter borrow some chairs and admiring the new doors and windows, I totally forgot to take a photo of lunch until it had almost gone.
Two rolls?  Yes, because when I was in Sainsbury's, I saw they have 'snack' rolls, little sort of slider sized rolls and when I weighed them, two is the same as a healthy extra B so I had them instead of two slices of bread (I'd planned one slice but changed it to two).

I can use up the defrosted bread for breakfast tomorrow and I think the rolls will become a part of my normal choices.  They were tasty.

Dinner was steak, SW style actifry chops, a Philly and mushroom sauce and a side salad with another find in Sainsbury's.  This was Taste the Difference Raspberry Vinaigrette, 13 calories per tsp and a tsp goes a long way when it's just a salad for one.  I can't find it on Lifeline Online so I'm calling it half a syn for a tsp because when it separates, there's not an awful lot of oil to be seen.






Yesterday's calories:
planned meals:  982 cals
extra bread - 65 cals
clawing back from potato calories: 30
total: 1077

Today's plans:
B:   two boiled eggs, 2 slices toast and marmite
I dearly love a boiled egg with toasty soldiers so that's the plan.  I'd already planned this so it's useful that I can use up the slices of bread I thawed yesterday but didn't use.

two eggs = 156 cals
2 slices bread = 140 cals
I'm not counting the marmite as it's so little
total = 296 cals
SW:  one healthy extra B

L: crustless quiche and salad, apple
I think this is the last piece from the quiche I made right at the beginning of the month.  I must make another one - it has been so very useful.

quiche = 192 cals
extra cheese = 42 cals
salad = 30 cals
two tsp raspberry vinaigrette = 26 cals
apple = 50 cals
total = 310 cals
SW:  one and a half a heA and one syn

D: sweet and sour chicken, stir fry veg, couscous; yogurt
I found a recipe for a sweet and sour sauce on Lifeline Online.  It serves four so I will have some to freeze which will be very useful.  I've done the maths and know the calories as well as the SW values.
So I will stir fry some chicken and some (bought) stir fry vegetables, make up some couscous, add the chicken and the sweet and sour sauce to the stir fry veg and serve with some couscous.  I may also add some soy sauce to the couscous - it's very low in calories.
The other thing I want to try is crispy 'seaweed'.  Generally, it is made from kale but one can also use cabbage.  As it happens, I have some cabbage!  You have to shred the cabbage very finely, cutting out the stalks first.  Then you wash and dry it thoroughly - might do that earlier and leave it to drain on kitchen towel.  You spray it with some fry light, bake it, and when it's crispy, add some five spice, salt and sugar (or sweetener).  Worth giving it a go anyway.  I'll calorie it when I make it but it won't be much.

sweet and sour sauce = 35 calories (per portion)
chicken = around 200 cals (I'll work it out exactly when it's thawed)
Chinese stir fry veg, half the pack = 50 cals
one tsp toasted sesame oil = 40 cals
40g (dry weight) couscous = 45 cals
yogurt = 76 cals
total = 396 cals
SW:  the sauce is one and a half syns per portion, the oil is two syns and the yogurt is half a syn

S:  fruit

Body Magic:  Weeding and mowing down the allotment

Summary:
1002 cals
one and a half heAs and one heB
five syns