14-01-25 - and using up unwanted frozen fruit

 Hi, everyone!  Welcome to my blog where I talk about my ongoing Slimming World and associated health journeys.  At present, I am working to reduce my 'bad' cholesterol through diet.

It's not always sensible to get the very cheapest, is it?  Ages ago, I bought a large bag of frozen wonky fruits of the forest. 
I'm not even sure why I bought it, to be honest, except that it was really cheap because it's loaded with very seedy fruit - particularly black and red currants and I hate too many seeds.  I can cope with blackberries and raspberries fresh but not in jam unless seedless and as for currant seeds - no thank you.

For three-ish years, opened and used once, most of the contents lurked in the freezer until yesterday when, inspired by my current drive to use what I have, I got the lot out, tipped it all into my slow cooker that was still hot from making stock, and let it all juice out before pushing it through a sieve.

I could reduce it down but I'm not going to, I will add chia seeds to whatever I need each time and that will compensate just a little bit for removing the seeds as far as fibre is concerned.  I'm not going to fuss about syns - I'm not sure I can work them out anyway.

What I ate today:

Today's fruit was apple and plum, gently softened and wish sweetener added.
The yogurt was the usual 0% with half a tsp chia seeds and some of the forest fruits stuff.  It was really delicious and very filling - warm food often seems more filling, doesn't it?

Half a syn for the chia seeds.

I had a portion of the ham and yellow split pea soup I made last week with some shreds of turkey and some hm croutons.  It was tasty and warming.

Afters was an orange.

One healthy extra B for the croutons.  I just cubed the bread, gave it a quick spray and air fried in Nellie for five minutes or so, shaking the tray now and again.

I already had some bean mix in the freezer (onion, pepper, mushrooms, tomatoes and mixed beans, basically) so I just added to that the last of the turkey (apart from two frozen portions) and a little bit of cooked pasta (30g dry weight), some tomato puree, Henderson's, soy sauce and balsamic vinegar, plus half a tsp chia seeds because why not?, topped it with cheese and baked in Nellie until piping hot with melty cheese.  I know it looks loads but I promise you most of it is speed vegetables.

Afters was an apple.

One and a half healthy extra As, half a syn for the bean mixture, half a syn for chia seeds and, as my syns were low, four syns to cover evoo in my dressing and one syn for a tsp mixed seeds.

Summary:

one and a half healthy extra As

one healthy extra B

six and a half syn

Tomorrow's plans:

B:  fruit, yogurt and seeds

L:  hummus salad wrap

D:  beans and rice (or something - a one pot, anyway)

Exercise:  personal training