Saturday, 01-03-25

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.

Doesn't this look nice?

It's not a sourdough loaf, It's far to early in the starter's life for that, but I wanted to practise the sourdough style loaf.  I think it's called a boule.  Anyway, it worked, the house smelled wonderful and I wasn't remotely tempted because I'm giving it to Beth tomorrow.

Win win!

What I ate today:

Breakfast - raspberries, blueberries and grapes with the yogurt and chia seeds under the fruit.

One syn for the chia seeds.

This was the cheesy white bean sauce used to make a macaroni cheese with cauliflower under.

This time, the sauce came out of the freezer and the only difference I noticed was that the cheesy flavour was a bit diminished.  I sprinkled another half As worth of hard Italian cheese over the top and that helped but I will remember - more cheese next time.

Half a healthy A and two and a half syns for the sauce plus another half A of grated cheese.  Also, two syns for dressing on the salad.

Later, I measured out some nuts for my healthy extra B

I found a recipe, downloaded it and now can't remember where I found it, so sorry.   It is chickpea and avocado salad with lemon-Dijon dressing.

The dressing had the usual things with lemon juice as the acid and sumac as well as the usual seasonings.  Nothing sweet though - no honey or maple syrup.

The salad consisted of chickpeas, tomatoes, roasted red peppers, cucumber, red onion, avocado and parsley and mint.  I added some shredded lettuce to the mix too.  I had no parsley but the mint is starting to send up mini leaves so I nipped out a few of them - it won't hurt, even I can't kill mint once it is properly established.
The avocado was two and  half syns, four syns for the dressing and I think that was it.

Summary:  

one healthy extra A

one healthy extra B

twelve syns.

Tomorrow's plans:

B:  fruit, yogurt and seeds

L:  roast turkey dinner; fruit

Beth and Alex are round for lunch so it has to be a good old roast.

D:  cheese, turkey and chutney toastie, quesadilla or pitta - I will decode later - plus a side salad.  Then fruit

Exercise:  a dance/groove online thing.  As Lindsey has said:

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