Friday morning, 29-11-24

 Good evening, everyone.  Apologies for last night.  I fell asleep while watching telly and when I woke I went straight to bed.

It's Slimming World group today and I've already said to Heidi that I will miss weighing this week although I will go to help with weighing as usual.  She was good with that.  As a target member, I only have to weigh once every eight weeks to keep membership.  I weigh much more often than that, of course, but it's not been a totally on plan week and, while my own scales say things are OK, once I made the decision and OKayed it with Heidi, I felt so much more relaxed again.  I'll definitely weigh next week for sure.

Yesterday's meals:

I am quite cross with myself.  I know I took photos of breakfast but must have deleted them unintentionally.  Anyway, it was porridge with blueberries and raspberries.

Half a healthy extra B and one syn for seeds

This was both lunch and dinner - not the same portion, obviously!

I soaked some country soup mix overnight and in the morning I put them in the slow cooker with chicken stock, carrot and onion and started it off.

Later on, I added half a chicken breast fillet, chopped and two bacon medallions ditto, plus a little pot of duck stock I found in the freezer - it's all poultry, isn't it, duck and chicken?

An hour before lunch, I added some peas, sweetcorn and broad beans.I added pepper but no salt as the stock contained salt.

It made four filling portions so I decided to have the same for dinner and there are two portions in the freezer to do me next week.  Actually, I have a friend round for lunch one day - maybe I can serve that with some nice crusty bread and some grated cheese.  I could make it 'festive' by crumbling in a chestnut or two.

And it was syn free.

And delicious!

Summary:

no healthy extra As

half a healthy extra B

one syn

. . .  all of which sounds very sparse but it really wasn't, it was a great day's eating!

Tomorrow's meal plans:  I have Dave and Anna round for dinner so am not having much earlier.  I won't starve, I just want to really enjoy dinner.

B:  porridge, yogurt and fruit

L:  assorted fruit

D:  Dinner won't be SW friendly in the slightest.  it will, however, be delicious, home cooked and enjoyed by all.  Steak pie, assorted veg; lemon cheesecake (the non bake kind)

Exercise:  plenty of walking. :