Christmas Challenge, day 8

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.

It's going to be a chickeny sort of week coming up.  I treated myself to a chicken, roasted it in Nellie yesterday, took all the meat off this morning and boiled up the bones, skin and other bits for stock.  It's provided me with protein for three meals already, three tomorrow (me and a friend for lunch and me for the evening) plus stock for tasty soups, etc

Chicken may not be as cheap as it was but it is still good value as long as you use every bit.  It's lean, healthy and a good source of protein.  

What I ate today:

I enjoyed this very much.  Inside there's tomatoes and mushrooms and I added a drizzle of brown sauce for one syn.

This was delicious.

Roast chicken, stuffing balls, spiced parsnips, roasties, sprouts, carrots and corn on the cob plus cranberry sauce.

One and a half syns for chestnuts crumbled into a rosemary and onion sausage (free) for the stuffing balls.

Half a syn for the cranberry sauce - home made with a mix of demerara sugar and sweetener.

One syn for some maple syrup that I added to an all rounder spice mix for the parsnips

And that, I think, is that.

Later on I had a couple of easy peelers.

This was my evening meal.  I went to the freezer to get bread and found a single rather battered wrap so used that instead to make a cheese, chicken and cranberry sort of quesadilla.  It was scrummy!

Afters was a couple of easy peelers - they are so delicious at the moment, aren't they?

So it was one A for cheese, one B for the wrap, one syn for some seeds and two syns for oil in some dressing.

Summary:

one healthy extra A

one healthy extra B

seven syns

Tomorrow's meal plans:

B:  festive spiced yogurt 🤶and fruit

L:  tomato and lentil soup, chicken and cranberry 🤶 toastie.

I have a SW friend over to share this with.

D:  cheesy chicken and chestnut 🤶 pasta salad; fruit

Exercise:  circuits - totally back to it this week.