Tuesday, 22-04-25 and a mushroom pate recipe

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

What I have eaten today.

I was in such a rush this morning, I didn't have time to make an omelette, etc, so I just grabbed an apple and that did me fine.  No photo.

The mushroom pate was lovely.  I'll put what I did down below.  I used one of the flatbreads I made at the weekend which doesn't go anywhere near a healthy B so I'm calling it six syns.  Half a healthy extra for Philly light (unofficially) and I also nibbled on some bread for one B.

Also two syns for 5g butter.

This was lovely.  Macaroni cheese on top and loads veg underneath.

Half a healthy extra A and one syn for the sauce and three syns for evoo.

Dessert was some grapes.

Summary:

one healthy extra A

one healthy extra B

twelve syns

Tomorrow's meal plans:

B:   fresh fruit platter

L:    pitta stuffed with salad and mushroom pate, side salad; fruit

D:  chicken Caesar salad; fruit

Exercise:   circuits in the morning and personal training in the afternoon.

The Extra Bit

Mushroom pate - taken from a recipe on the River Cottage site
https://rivercottage.net/recipes/mushroom-pate/

Ingredients to make two portions (what I did)
four chestnut mushrooms, chopped small
5g butter
spray oil
garlic to taste
90g Philly light
pepper, salt (go easy) and nutmeg

You also need some sort of small blender or chopper

Method:
Put the chopped mushrooms in a pan with some butter and spray oil and cook until the mushrooms have softened.  Add garlic and seasonings apart from nutmeg.
Allow the mushroom mixture to cool before spooning it into a mini blender/chopper with 90g Philly light.  Blend until smooth (or the texture you want), spoon it into small bowls (or one bigger one if sharing), grate some nutmeg over and chill until needed.
Serve with something to dip or spread it on.