Thursday, 03-04-25

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.

What I have eaten today.

Meals have been out of sync today - I was out so breakfast was late, I was out again so lunch was late.  Saved me wanting a fruit snack around four o'clock.

Egg on toast.  The bread is my own sourdough wholemeal and it does have a very pronounced sourdough flavour which is rather nice - I'm quickly getting used to it.  People pay a fortune for it, don't they?

I decided to have raw sides rather than cooked.

I overcooked egg but it was still very nice.

One healthy extra B

My version of a Caesar salad.

Cos lettuce underneath, topped with feta, chicken, olives and seeds with Caesar dressing, followed by an easy peeler.

One healthy extra A, one syn for seeds, two and a half syns for the dressing and one and a half for the olives.

Really filling but in a satisfying way rather than a feeling-stuffed way.

Unless you live alone or cook for one, it's hard to imagine how impossible to make a single portion of a chilli.  By the time you've added enough stuff to make it interesting, however small the quantities, you have two portions or more.

Also, I didn't want lots of stuff leftover out of cans and packets - beans, chopped tomatoes, etc.
So I made a batch.

It contained onion, carrot, red pepper, broccoli, broccoli stem, mixed beans, chopped tomato, half a pouch of puy lentils and something - can't remember what, peas, corn, mushrooms and various seasonings and spices.
It was delicious.

It also made five portions which cut the syns considerably.

I served it with bulgur wheat, some grated parmesan and some Greek yogurt.  Very filling and very healthy too.

One portion contained one syn for olive oil and half a syn for the lentil stuff plus around half a healthy extra A for the cheese.  And that was it.

No dessert - it was nicely satisfying.

And four more portions are currently chilling down in the fridge, ready for the freezer tomorrow morning.

Summary:

one and a half healthy extra As

one healthy extra B

six and a half syns

Tomorrow's meal plans:

B:  fruit and yogurt

L:  calzone, salad; fruit

D:  Chinese meal

No, not a take-away, I went to Iceland and bought a couple of SW Chinese meals.  The idea is to cook both of them and re-freeze them in my sized portions, keeping one portion of each for my meal to which I will add a portion of rice.
We will see - it's a bit of an experiment and, if it works and I like the meals, I will have the recipes for another time as they are on the wrapper.  If I don't, no worries

Exercise:   Rest day