Wednesday 12-03-25

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.

What I have eaten today.

This morning's crumpet made with my starter discard was lovely.  Not very conventional as it was 100% rye flour and made with an immature starter but, as the only additions were a pinch of salt, a pinch of sugar and water, I feel totally justified in calling it a healthy extra B.  I was going to add some avocado as well as the egg, mushrooms and tomatoes, but decided not to this time - I'm glad I didn't as it was quite a plateful by itself.

So one healthy extra B

I'm getting a bit short on salad veg so am adding other bits and bobs - carrot and cabbage are fairly usual, broccoli maybe not so much but very tasty all the same.

I used feta for an A, synned olives and some mixed pulses, mixed in with some crunchy cucumber and red pepper plus orange segments, mixed seeds and the juice that came out as I was segmenting the orange and finished it off with some evoo that mixed well with the orange juices.  This was all piled onto a bed of grated carrot, leaves and shredded cabbage and made for a tasty and filling lunch.

One healthy extra A for feta (Greek style, not the genuine article), one and a half syns for olives, one syn for some mixed seeds and four syns for evoo.

I had the pulses to use up so I made an arrabbiata for dinner.  I often have it - it's delicious.  I softened onion, grated carrot, roasted red pepper from a jar and some button chestnut mushrooms in spray oil.  I added garlic granules and chilli flakes, a can of Mutti chopped tomatoes (more expensive but so much better than Morrison's own), the mixed beans and some tomato puree with salt and pepper to season and let it just simmer away for about ten minutes.

Mixed with some cooked penne and topped with cheese it was lovely.

The tomato and bean sauce was free as was the penne with one healthy extra A for the cheese - and I have three more portions for other meals, to which I could add other things - olives, chicken, etc..  

Summary:

two healthy extra As

one healthy extra B

six and a half syns

Tomorrow's meal plans:

B:  discard pikelets (like crumpets only flatter and more like pancakes), fried egg, mushrooms and tomatoes.  Very like today in fact and I am so glad that I can start using the sourdough discard instead of chucking it.  There's so many recipes out there.

L:  soup from the freezer, simple salad (maybe with sardines?); fruit

D:  meatballs in the sauce made today, with vegetables on the side; fruit

Exercise:   housework - plenty of housework!!