Monday evening, 25-11-24 and ooops!

 Good evening, everyone.

Big apologies for last night's non-appearance.  It was a very busy evening, one way and another, and I just didn't have the time and then the energy to get this finished and posted.  Please would you pretend it is Monday evening as you read this.  

Thanks.  

Today's meals:

I don't have overnight oats that often but I do like them and the Oat Pantry stuff tasted great with yogurt and some of the plum and apple made yesterday.
This would be delicious with some crushed meringue or some marshmallows to jazz it up.  Naughty, but very nice.

One healthy extra B and half a syn for chia seeds plus one syn for mixed seeds

Last night, I set some country soup mix on to soak overnight.  Not the frozen soup base but the dried kind - barley, pulses, etc.  This morning it went in the slow cooker with some chicken stock, softened onion and potato and at lunch time I just added  the vegetables left over from yesterday's lunch - carrot, parsnip and sprouts with some pepper.  No salt needed and I didn't add any other seasonings.

Very nice, warming and satisfying; the soaked and slow cooked soup mix, especially the barley, gave a gorgeously thick texture to the soup with no hard bits at all.

One syn for the oil I softened the onion in.

I dithered between salad and cooked veg to go with the salmon and decided on cooked veg eventually and I used spray oil.

One healthy extra A for some cheese.

And if that had been the day's eating, it would have been fine - but it wasn't.

I had cheese - quite a lot - and I found some humbugs in my coach trip bag which are now pushing up the daisies, as Monty Python so famously said.

This is NOT the way to stay on track and to get the cholesterol down.  
And today isn't going to help.

Tomorrow's meal plans:

Out on a coach trip so . . .

B:  porridge, yogurt and fruit

L:  afternoon tea - yes, I know, one of the pre Christmas things.  I will just have to try my best, won't I?   Really not the best timing but that can't be helped.  Maybe just one of things . . .

D:  something simple like scrambled eggs on toast, if needed - I am hoping it won't be.

Exercise:  a lot of walking