Tuesday, 25-02-25

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 using the Mediterranean way of eating.

I'm well pleased that every meal today has used something from the freezer.  

It's the 'batch and leftovers' bag in the freezer that bothers me the most - all sorts of random bits and pieces from portions of soup through stocks, butter, pastry, etc, to some savoury crumble topping.

Today's usings are some apple puree (not synned), some soup and some bean chilli that provided the base for the lasagne.

I'm now low on home made ready meals but I have a selection from Cook's so that's OK.  I don't want to do any more batch cooking for a while as I have so much meat, veg and fish to use.
It's fortunate I love cooking.

What I ate today:

I folded the stewed apple into yogurt flavoured with cranberry skinny syrup and chia seeds and had fresh fruit on the side.  
One syn for the chia seeds.

The soup was a portion of the chicken, leek and barley I made from the Pinch of Nom recipe and it was lovely.

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

I was a bit uncertain as to how the white bean sauce would behave in a lasagne.  I didn't want it baking too long and, anyway, I needed to cut the lasagne to fit the dish so I did what I usually do now and soaked the lasagne sheet in water for a while.  It then cuts easily and also it shortens the cooking time.

The 'red sauce' was actually a portion of mixed bean chilli, not really lasagne vibe but nice, all the same.

I made a big old salad - three syns for evoo and one for mixed seeds.

This was the cooked lasagne . . .  one healthy extra A and two and a half syns for the cheese sauce with mozarella on top and two syns for the chilli (the evoo in it).

And this was what it looked like inside.

It was really, really good and, with a proper ragu sauce, it would be even better.
Definitely one to make again although I think the next effort using the cheesy white bean sauce will be cauli-macaroni cheese.

Summary:

one healthy extra A

one healthy extra B

eleven syns - all for seeds and evoo

Tomorrow's plans:

B:  fruit, yogurt and seeds

L:  soup again plus croutons; fruit

D:  Cook's ready meal - I am finding these extremely handy when I have come home from a personal training session and want something tasty, nourishing and easy -and SW-friendly.  The Cook's meals are processed, of course, but not ultra processed.

Exercise:  personal training