Saturday, 22-02-25, a possible trigger description and Recipes with Roy!

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 using the Mediterranean way of eating.

Yesterday was a day totally off plan and very unbalanced but it was so nice to have Dave and Anna round for dinner.

There's some leftovers of the cheesy potato topped chicken and leek pie, just enough for one.   I did make a lot and Dave and Anna both had seconds, which was nice.  All the veg went which I am happy about because I'm really not short of veg now, am I.  I need to have a veg packed week!!

Anyway, the sauce for the base of the pie was a wine and cream sauce (naughty but nice) and there's a bit of sauce left over.  I've popped it in the freezer for now in hopes that it will freeze OK - I'm not sure about this but I guess I will find out.  I can have it on an Eat-Your-Syns day, can't I?

I also had a bit of double cream left, around the pot, maybe; it wasn't a large pot, just a 300ml one, but I didn't want to waste it.  I had a go at making butter in Thermione - I've made it before but I wasn't sure there would be enough cream for it to work.  However, it worked perfectly and made 112g butter for around 75p - so it's probably cheaper to make your own butter than to buy it right now . . .  It's now in 5g pats (two syns each) in the freezer to use when I want a bit of a buttery flavour.

There was some toffee and pecan roulade left but Anna very kindly(!) took it home.

So my day off SW is over, there's been very little waste and I am back on it like a shot now - apart from finishing off the leftover pie this evening!

What I ate today:

I didn't really fancy much breakfast but thought I ought to have some, so I settled for an apple and an orange.
I can have the yogurt and chia seeds as a dessert later.

Syn free.

I really dithered over lunch - I could have waffles, fruit and yogurt or beans on toast or scrambled egg and smoked salmon on toast or chicken, leek and barley soup.  In the end, I went for the last because I felt I needed something warming, hearty and very Mediterranean in vibe to get my insides back to normal after yesterdays high-syn-fest!  I found the recipe on the Pinch of Nom site, here.  Just scroll past all the ads.   https://pinchofnom.com/recipes/chicken-leek-and-barley-soup/

I added some peas and a bit of sweet corn lurking in the bottom of the freezer and I saw it contained garlic so I used two tsps of my garlic infused olive oil for four syns so I am calling it one and a half syns per portion.

I made half amounts, supposed to be for two, got three hearty portions so that's two for the freezer (to which I can add extra veg if I want) and the one I had was absolutely delicious, so, so good, much nicer than I expected.  Thank you, Pinch of Nom.

One healthy extra B for the croutons and one and a half syns.

Dinner was almost the same as yesterday.  The leftover pot pie, cabbage, broccoli and carrots and I had intended to have yogurt and those chia seeds for dessert but I was full up..

It's not possible to work out the syns, etc, for this but I'm saying two healthy extra As and all the syns I had left which should cover it and some.  

Summary (approx)

two healthy extra As

one healthy extra B

up to fifteen syns

Tomorrow's plans:

B:  tomato and mushroom filled omelette wrap, maybe some baked beans on the side.

L:  roast lamb dinner (using freezer leftover lamb and some of those lovely vegetables)

D:   toastie, salad; fruit

Exercise:  an online Lindsey class.

The Extra Bit:

This is an occasional section when there's something else to rabbit on about!

I subscribe to an YouTube channel called 'Recipes with Roy'.   Roy lost a lot of weight, has regained some of it and is now on a mission to get back into a weight range he is happy with (I totally understand that).  He is also an admin on the Slim Win group I often talk about.

He is American so some of his recipes involve ingredients you can't get over  here and I would have to work out those syns but the other day he did one for an Alfredo sauce made with white beans and way more SW friendly.

It appears, from Googling, that this is a known 'thing' and is supposed to be really nice so, one day this week, I'd like to give it a go.

Have you ever made this?  How did it work out?

Here's the link to Roy's channel - do go and take a look and, maybe, subscribe.  
https://www.youtube.com/@RecipeswithRoy