Sunday, 8 December 2024

Christmas Challenge, day 7

Good evening, everyone, and welcome to my Christmas Challenge, 2024 where I try to give as much festive vibe to my everyday food as I can with the aim of staying on my healthy Mediterranean focused meals so that weight gain is minimal and I remain healthy.

Apologies for being late (again).  Just imagine this was posted Saturday evening, please.  
Thanks!

What I ate today:

Blueberry pancakes with lemon and sweetener and some yogurt.  Delish!

Half a healthy extra B
Home made lentil and tomato soup.  Very easy, very simple - just a carton of chopped tomatoes with garlic and onion, three level tbsp red lentils, one level tbsp chicken stock powder and some water.
Sometimes that's all you need, isn't it?
Dessert was some grapes and an apple
Syn free

As I had roasted a chicken in Nellie in the afternoon, I changed my plans and made myself a lovely chicken sandwich with cranberry sauce.
I took what I though would be really good close ups but they all came out blurry and ununable.  Such a shame.
One healthy extra B and three syns for the cranberry sauce.

Summary:
no healthy extra As
one and a half healthy extra Bs
three syns
Tomorrow's meal plans:

B:  breakfast omelette wrap
Nothing particularly festive about this.

L:  roast chicken, cranberry sauce πŸŽ…, 'stuffing' πŸŽ… spiced parsnips πŸŽ…, sprouts with chestnuts and baconπŸŽ…, carrots; fruit
Almost a proper Christmas roast dinner but not quite.  
The stuffing is just a reshaped onion and rosemary sausage, probably with a chestnut crumbled into it and maybe a bit of sage added.

D:  chicken, cranberry πŸŽ… and cheese toastie, salad; fruit

Exercise:  rest day


5 comments:

  1. It's so easy to make soups isn't it, and they always taste so much better than anything out of a tin! I love cranberry sauce, should have it all year, not just at Christmas! xx

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    1. Indeed they do - I can't remember the last time I had soup from a tin; they're just not worth it.
      I always have cranberry sauce with chicken, regardless of the time of the year. Delicious, I agree. xx

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  2. Same here re tins of soup. I don’t find the thought appetising at all.

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    1. No. I don't even have a few tins for emergencies - I have pots in the freezer instead. :-) xx

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  3. I always have some kind of soup in freezer too

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