Monday evening, 28-10-24 and ham, lentil, butterbean and broccoli soup recipe

Good evening, everyone!  

What I ate today

It's not been a good day for photos, so sorry.

Breakfast was an apple.

Lunch was a leftovers soup (see below for recipe) but I went into town with a friend and when we got home I invited her to stay and share bread and soup.  No opportunity to take a photo.

The soup was syn free and the bread was my healthy extra B

Dinner was a right mish mash of leftovers.
I use some leftover bean and veg mix from Beth's savoury crumble, two leftover sprouts, leftover gammon, the rest of the butter beans (see below) plus some fusilli and some grated cheddar and it made two portions of cheesy pasta bake - so that's lunch tomorrow sorted out!
The side salad was just leaves, cucumber, pepper, tomatoes and mixed seeds with my sesame oil dressing.

No afters - I was so full!

one healthy extra A, one syn for seeds, half a syn for using evoo in the crumble bottom yesterday, four syns for evoo in the dressing.

Summary:

one healthy extra A

one healthy extra B

five and a half syns.

My meal plans for tomorrow:

B:  fruit, yogurt and seeds

L: leftovers of the cheesy beany pasta bake with a side salad.

D:  ham, egg and chips, fruit

Not very Meddy, I admit, and I might rethink this one . . . any ideas?

Exercise:  more walking and an online something.

The Extra Bit:

The leftovers soup recipe.

Ham, lentil and broccoli soup.

(caution:  ham stock can be very salty - always taste and dilute, if needed)

On Sunday, I cooked a gammon joint in the slow cooker, ending up with a very good (albeit a bit salty) stock.

I also had a broccoli stalk (loadsa flavour) and I always have red lentils in the store cupboard because - who doesn't?

So I chopped half an onion and the broccoli stem and tossed them into Thermione - but you don't need a fancy-pants gadget, a saucepan on the hob does just as well.  Or a soup maker.
To them I added some red lentils, the stock, some water, some garlic granules, a small pinch of chilli flakes and some pepper - but NO SALT!

I let it all simmer until everything was soft and then blended it into a lovely, smooth, creamy textured soup.
It was a bit salty still so, as I didn't want to add potato, I added some butterbeans from a can (about half of them) and blended it all again and that did it.  I love butterbeans in soup. (I love can cooking too!)

At lunch time, I reheated the soup and ladled out a portion for me and one for my friend who was having lunch with me.

I have one more portion of soup for another day. 

Sorry I don't have any photos.