Wednesday, 17-03-21

 Good morning!
As the days get lighter and longer and warmer, thoughts turn to summer vegetables in the garden and allotment.  Lovely, home grown speed food!
Yesterday, I started the process off (apart from the broad beans which are already in the ground) by planting courgette and cucumber seeds in seed trays.  A promise of deliciousness to come.
One reason for finishing off last year's frozen produce in soup, etc, is to make the space for new.  :-)

Yesterday's meals:

Oh, how I enjoyed this bacon sandwich!  Spray frying the bread makes such a difference!  To be honest, I could cheerfully have had double the amount, not because I felt hungry but because it was so good!

Here's lunch, the tomato and red pepper soup.
I hadn't rinsed out the pan in which I spray fried the bacon and there was some bacony flavour (if you know what I mean) in the pan; I reheated the soup in the same pan so as not to waste any of the flavour.  Very nice.
The photo doesn't show the grated cheese I sprinkled over the soup.

I'm glad there are three more helpings.

I had an apple, a pear and three easy peelers at around four thirty.

I was looking forward to this all day and I did enjoy it.  Yes, I ate the last two slices!  :-)  No, I have no regrets about the twenty and a half syns.

Today's plans:

B:  boiled eggs and marmite dippers

A favourite (I do seem to have a lot of favourites) and it will be perfect to keep me going through personal training.
SW:  one healthy extra B for the toast and two syns for 10g of spread

375 calories

L:  asparagus and salmon quiche, salad; fruit

This is the third of four portions and when that's gone I will definitely have to make another lo dough quiche - I've really enjoyed this one no end.
SW:  four and a half syns for the quiche
411 calories plus whatever the salad costs.

D: Count on Us sweet and sour chicken, salad leaves; yogurt
I'm hoping this is one of the nicer sweet and sours - ready meal ones can be quite 'nasty', I find.  The meal has what looks like a reasonable amount of chicken and also some rice so I thought some salad leaves on the side would go well.
SW:  two and a half syns for the meal and half a syn for the dessert
449 calories plus the leaves

Body Magic:  day 52 of the 100 day challenge:  an hour of personal training plus the daily core exercises.  
On YouTube yesterday there was a video about how to do these basic core exercises properly and to the four I am doing, she added lunges.  They're not my favourite but I can see the point of them so I have added them.  At the moment, the plank and the press ups are knee based and the press ups are against the sofa.  I will get better!!

Summary:
no healthy extra As but there's some synned cheese in the quiche

one healthy extra B

nine and a half syns
1235 calories plus whatever the salads will be