Friday, 22-01-21

 Good morning!
The weigh in was fine and I though I'd make use of this little plaque to announce my results from here on.

Phew!
The Zoom meeting was fun   I do like these online arrangements - it makes such a difference to see others and chat to them.  Lockdown would be very tough without them.

I find myself falling into a new pattern of planning nowadays.  No longer do I plan for the whole week; instead, I plan the day before, as I find that often I think 'I really fancy x,y or z' and this way I can put it down straight away for the following day.  It also helps that I have an up to date list of everything in the chest freezer to add to the fridge and cupboard stores so I know what is possible.  No nipping round the corner to Morrisons for one or two things at the moment, is there.
Within that, my 'fancy' is almost always lunch or dinner, I get those two planned and see what I have left for breakfast in the way of the healthy extras.  I always feel slightly 'guilty' when I don't have enough healthy extras because - well, calcium and fibre, necessary things.  Guilty, perhaps, isn't the right word, maybe concerned is a much better term because I'm finding that generally the Slimming World structure makes for less guilt and more freedom of choice within what I, personally, consider a healthy approach.  And 'healthy approach' is one of the things that really matter to me.

How do you do your planning?

Yesterday's photos:

This was nice - strawberries, banana and lychees and I added a bit of butterscotch syrup to the yogurt.

It was very much worth using both As as cheese in the toasties for lunch and 'buying' a bit of extra milk for cuppas with my syns.

I never thought I'd say this but - too many chips.  Not in the SW sense but in the sense of balancing amounts for the palate sense.  Something to remember.

I'd planned to have peas but changed my mind, remembering the garden grown corn on the cobs I have in the freezer.  Two left now!  I wrapped it in foil and baked it alongside the salmon and it was great.  I never have butter - I like it better without.

Today's meal plans:

B:  bacon and tomato omelette; fruit

Not a folded one today, just a fold over one and I will add either some bbq sauce or some brown sauce for either one or two syns.

SW:  up to two syns

L:  chicken, ham and mushroom risotto; fruit

This is a Pinch of Nom recipe and, like all SW friendly risotto recipes, it has been 'optimised' so no wine, no butter and not so much cheese.  That's OK by me.  What attracted me to this particular one was that it has a Thermomix method alongside the pan method which means I can bung everything in and leave it to stir away as it cooks.  Must remember to use reverse or it will chop everything to pieces!

A nice thing about Pinch of Nom recipes is that you can change the portion amounts and the ingredients also change accordingly.  So useful when it's just one, even though some amounts are rather daft - 0,1 of an onion, anyone?

SW:  half a healthy extra B for some not-Parmesan

D:  cheeseburger, parsnip fries, salad; yogurt

You HAVE to have chips with a burger, don't you, so I looked up the respective calories of parsnips and potatoes (I like both) and parsnips won by twenty calories per 100g.  Not a huge number in the wider scheme of things but I'd like to lose two pounds this week so where I can reasonably save, it makes sense to do so.

SW:  one healthy extra A for cheese, one B for a wholemeal roll, I will use spray oil for the parsnips, two syns for a bit of burger sauce (made with half a tbsp each of mustard ketchup, mayo and tomato puree), half a syn for dessert

Body Magic:  step, balance and boing!!

Summary:

two healthy extra As (the other half is 125 mls milk for cuppas)

one healthy extra B

four and a half syns