Friday, 24-01-25

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, particularly the Mediterranean way of eating.

Today was my last week of not weighing so I will brave those scales next week and hope for the best.  I won't be in target range but, hopefully, I won't be too far away.

I won the raffle, which was nice.  It was a nice sundae dish which I will  definitely use plus some things to make a sort of sundae thingy.
a pot of flavoured Kvarg - I tend not to use this since I lowered my intake of UPFs but I had it for breakfast - waste not, as we say

a four pack of ready made jelly - I think I will regift that into the basket next Friday as I really don't want to eat it.  No judgement, it's just not for me.

two hi fi bars which will do nicely for a packed tea on Monday

a punnet of half blueberries and raspberries - perfect for breakfast fruit!

What I ate today:

Breakfast:  the pot of kvarg with fruit.  The lighter coloured plum was nice and squishy but tasted of nothing at all to the extent that eating it was unpleasant - so I didn't, I chucked it out which is most unlike me.  I think I will stew the others from the punnet with some spices.

Half a syn for the kvarg.

Pasta bake and salad for lunch.
One healthy extra A for the cheese, two syns for evoo in the dressing and the seeds I added can be part of a healthy extra B - I had enough bread yesterday to sink a battleship so I haven't planned any in today!

Dinner was the Cook's liver, bacon and onion ready meal to which I added some sprouts and broccoli.
If you don't like liver, ignore this next bit.  I do but I don't cook it because I have never cooked it well in the past.  

I thought this was quite delicious.  It was lamb's liver so not too strong tasting and it was so tender.  The chunks of bacon were very lean and the sauce/gravy was rich and deeply savoury and would go well with some cheesy mash.  For me, it was a generous portion and, if I were having it for lunch, I might divide it into two portions but, as it was dinner, I scoffed the lot.

I'm definitely getting this again.  Liver is very good for one and it's a useful thing to have available.

The only thing I would dispute is that it advises half an hour in the oven from frozen and I don't see why you can't let it defrost over the day and warm it gently in a saucepan; there was certainly enough sauce to do that and one doesn't like to turn on a whole oven for one small tray of food.
There's quite a long list of ingredients but they are all recognisable ad food apart from a couple of small things that make it U.P.  I can live with that!

It was 297 calories, it can't be all that many syns.

Dessert, by the way, was an orange.

Summary:  Rather vague because of the dinner but . . .

one healthy extra A

a bit of a healthy extra B

two and a half syns plus whatever the liver meal was.  

That's OK!

Tomorrow's plans:

B:  fruit, seeds and yogurt

L:  roasted red pepper, tomato and lentil soup, croutons; fruit

D:  steak, mixed fries (potato, carrot and parsnip with some sweet potato chunks), side salad; fruit

Exercise:  maybe a walk, weather permitting.