Monday, 31-03-25

Hi, everyone!  Welcome to my blog where I talk about my ongoing Slimming World and associated health journeys.  I have managed to reduce my 'bad' cholesterol by eating according to Mediterranean principles and now I want to maintain this.

It's the end of the month so I had a good go through one of the bags in the freezer, the one with all the odds and ends, leftovers, batch things, etc.  I listed everything and then worked out meals I could cook to use them up.  

The list is:

chicken, veg and lentil curry (made today!)

two cannelloni meals

jacket potato with jazzed up beans

savoury mince (this will be a batch cook, not a meal, using things like garden passata and beef stock)

roast turkey dinner

macaroni cheese

calzone

pizza x 2

lasagne

leek and butterbean soup

They might be dinner or then might be lunch, it really doesn't matter, and I will need to add things like salad or veg, of course, or carbs, maybe.  Some are now planned in for this week and some will be for next week.

What I have eaten today.

Breakfast was so nice.  I chopped some strawberry, kiwi and plum, mixed some mixed seeds, vanilla and sweetener into yogurt and whisked two eggs with some sweetener.

I cooked the egg in my pancake pan, spread the yogurt over it and rolled it up and served it with the rest of the yogurt and the fruit on the side with a sprinkle of sweetener.
It was so filling and absolutely delicious.

One syn for the mixed seeds.

I made the soup yesterday (three portions out of one leek, a can of butterbeans, carrot, onion, chicken stock, garlic and seasonings and a grated some nutmeg over today's serving.  The bread is buckwheat soda bread and it toasted beautifully.

Dessert was an apple.

One healthy extra B for the bread.

I had some odds and ends to use up so I made a curry with onion, pepper, sweet potato, chicken, puy lentils, broad beans, peas, sweet corn, mushrooms and some Sharwood's korma paste, 30% lighter (in other words much less oil).  It made enough for two portions so one is back in the freezer and on the list of Meals to Make/Use.

With it I had some mango chutney and some Greek yogurt plus some wholegrain rice.

It was absolutely delicious!

Afters was an orange

One and a half syns for some evoo, one syn for the korma paste, one and a half syns for the chutney and half a syn for the rice (from a pouch)

Summary:

no healthy extra As today

one healthy extra B

five and a half syns, I think

Tomorrow's meal plans:

B:  sourdough crumpet, egg, leaves

L:  leek and butterbean soup, grated cheese; fruit

D:  pricy bean and veg cannelloni, side salad; fruit

Exercise:   Groove plus the walk there and back.