Saturday, 15-03-25

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.

I had a whole lot of fun this morning using up my sourdough starter discard and ended up with pancakes (for breakfast), pasta (for dinner), more pasta (tagliatelle and lasagne sheets, dried for future use) and pikelets (for future breakfasts or lunches).

It was all very, very satisfying - and time consuming, but time is something I do have more of nowadays, being happily retired.

What I have eaten today.

Breakfast was pancakes, yummy, delicious, sourdough starter pancakes - they had a bit of that sourdough tang to them but just a hint, not strong at all.  It's a bit hard to work out values but I tried and the best I can do is half a healthy extra B for the rye flour started discard.  It is possibly less but I am calling it a B.  The yogurt was a flavoured one, the skyr baked apple one and it was nice but I think it is nicer to stew your own apple and spices and add it to Greek yogurt.  It was half a syn.

(the mix made five pancakes but I had to taste test one, didn't I?  Just in case it was awful.  😇)

I made a little crustless quiche with onion, mushroom and a bit of sundried tomato and I added some puy lentils and mixed seeds to the salad.

One syn for olives, four syns for evoo in the dressing, the seeds were part of my healthy B, I had half an As worth of grated parmesan in the quiche and one syn for the sundried tomatoes.  

Later on, I had an orange.

Random photo of the pasta drying . . . because why not!  :-)

Dinner was lovely.  The pasta worked well and I could cheerfully have eaten more.  I added onion, pepper, mushroom, chicken and peas to the pasta and the sauce was simply egg and cheese.  Really yummy so that's another thing to make to use up sourdough.

Half a healthy extra A for the cheese in the sauce and the rest was free.
I also had a Beck's Blue alcohol free lager for two syns and some grapes for dessert.

Summary:

one healthy extra A

one healthy extra B

eight and a half syns

Tomorrow's meal plans:

B:  pikelets with egg, tomatoes and mushrooms

L:  roast lamb dinner using a portion of lamb from the last time I had it; fruit

No roasties because I plan to have potato for tea

D:  jacket potato with salad cream and cheese (awful, I know, but I love it so much), salad with mixed seeds; fruit

Exercise:  an online class.