Thursday 14 October 2021

This week's very small Slimming World haul (mostly) from Morrisons

 To my delight, I really didn't need very much this week, mainly because I have very much been eating from my freezer but partly because of being away over the weekend and then having a binge.

So, what did I need?

Fruit and veg:
This is the biggest section and even that isn't much.  I've been eating beans and apples/raspberries from the allotment which has helped.  However, although I am still getting a very few tomatoes from the plants, they are all small and yellow and I fancied some bigger red ones so, as with the cucumber, I'm not buying them again!  All good things . . .

These are all speed and free.
Dairy and bits and bobs.
Milk and cheese are a sort of every other week thing really.  I'm not out of either but will be soon.  I was totally out of the LM sausages so get two boxes which are now in the freezer.
I got a few seasonings/flavourings sort of things and - let's mention the elephant in the photo - a bottle of Cointreau.
NOT for drinkies though.  Next week, Tuesday in fact, I start my Christmas cake by weighing out the dried fruit and steeping it in alcohol.  Not brandy as St Delia instructs, but in Cointreau.  I did that last year and it was gorgeous.  I make the cake over half term and the rest will feed the cake until icing time.
Not in the photo is a medium sliced wholemeal.
The milk and the cheese are healthy As in measured amounts, two slices of bread is a B, the sausages are free and the rest is free apart from the Cointreau.  I'm almost afraid to check the syns of that but let's be brave . . . 

Oh, lordy lord - four suns for 25mls, less than two tbsps - and I will be steeping the fruit in at least 100 mls, probably a bit more.  Oh, well . . .

I also got some kitchen towel and dishwasher stuff.

And that's me stocked up for the week to come.


6 comments:

  1. Yes, lots of syns but you're not going to be eating the cake all by yourself and all in one go, are you?! And......it's Christmas!! We all know syns/calories don't count at Christmas ;-) xx

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    1. lol - how very true! It does help make a most delicious fruit cake too.
      xx

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  2. Christmas food is calorie free. All the calories are carried away on a tide of good will to all men :-

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  3. Oooh, I love Christmas food planning! I don't even like Christmas cake, but I soak my fruit in Guinness (and then feed with something else, depending what I have in usually. I've used ginger wine in the past...)

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