Friday, 03-12-21: Advent Challenge day 3

Good morning!
Well, I'm now three days into the Festive challenge and enjoying every minute of it!
What do you think so far?

Weigh in today.  Fingers crossed but no problems if it isn't the best.  It will all sort out at some point.
Annoyingly (if that's the right word to use), Jen has asked us to wear masks in group again.  I will, of course, I was wondering about this anyway, but it's back to not hearing just about everything instead of about 50% (which is enough for me to make sense of most things).
(As any heard of hearing person will appreciate, I 'hear' by looking at lips as well as via my ears)
Oh, well, it is what it is!

Yesterday's meals:

Delicious - especially the tomatoes!

This was very nice, especially with the addition of a crumble of chestnut.  It's be nice on a jacket potato too, or in a wrap or in a pitta.  Now that's a thought for later on this month!
Here's the link again:  https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/cranberry-chicken-salad

Later on I had a couple of easy peelers and some red grapes.

The difference a plate makes.  I decided to use my very big Spode Christmas Tree plate because the smaller plates don't show the Christmas patterns as they are covered with food.  I know that if that food was on my usual small plate, it would look loads.  As it is - well, you can certainly see the picture!  The food itself seems somewhat camouflaged, doesn't it?
I quite like having the space on the plate though.
The maple sprouts were lovely.  In the end I didn't use butter, I just used spray oil and that titchy bit of mixed veg was leftovers from the previous day.
No pudding - I was full!

Today's meal plans:

B:  mince pie baked oats
I found this on the amazing Slimming Eats site (first cookbook out soon - I have pre-ordered!).   https://www.slimmingeats.com/blog/mince-pie-baked-oats
SW:  five tsp mincemeat is two and a half syns and the oats will be my healthy extra B

L:  mini pizzas, side salad; fruit
I intend cutting circles (or maybe stars or bells or something festive) out of lo-dough and treating them as little pizza bases, topping with a tomato sauce (hm), bits of veg and some grated cheddar.
SW:  the lo dough is two syns and the cheese is one healthy extra A

D:  cod with orange and dill crumb, sliced potato fries, other veg; yogurt
I found the recipe in Easy Cook but it's on the BBC site.  https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/cod-orange-dill-crumb-and-hasselback-potato
There will be lo dough cut offs from lunch and I think I will try zizzing them into crumbs and using that instead of bread but if it doesn't work, I have breadcrumbs I can use and I won't need all that much.
SW:  the crème fraiche on the side will be the lighter version and one and a half syns for a level tbsp and the yogurt is half a syn.

E:

Summary:
one healthy extra A
one healthy extra B
around seven syns

From the freezer:  
the cod (or it might be haddock or something else fishy!)
if I have peas or sweetcorn, they will be from the freezer