Friday, 30-05-25

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 and am aiming to keep this steady while following Mediterranean diet principles and the Slimming World structure.

I was lucky and won the raffle at group today.  It was the ingredients to make one of the meals in the new SW magazine, sweet potato falafel and quick hummus.
I won't make the hummus as I don't like their pared down version and I have some good hm stuff in the freezer but the sweet potato falafels sound delicious - sweet potato, chickpeas, onion, garlic, ras el hanout and parsley.  I might add some lemon zest as well.  It is, basically, cook the sweet potato (might air roast it for extra flavour), throw in the rest, blitz it and shape it.  Nice.

I'm a bit fed up with ready meals but I have very much reduced the pile in the freezer; there's just three more which are mostly cooled weather meals so I've moved them lower down for now.  I'm looking forward to making my own dinners again this coming week.

What I have eaten today:

Bliss.  Breakfast in the garden with the new SW magazine to read.
I'd planned avocado but didn't get it out of the freezer before group so did without.  It was totally filling without - And I didn't  burn the egg this time!

One and a half syns for the flour in the waffles.  Everything else was free or speed.

A simple chicken salad for lunch.

One and a half syns for the salad cream

The ready meal, honey and ginger chicken, was OK.  Too much sauce and plenty of chicken but more veg would have been nice.  The rice was an addition.

I don't think I'll get that again.

The ready meal was six and a half syns and the rice was one syn.

I nibbled on some cheese later.

Summary:

two healthy extra As

no healthy extra Bs

ten and a half syns.

Tomorrow's plans:

B:  egg on sourdough toast, tomatoes and leaves on the side

L:  out for lunch with friends - no idea

D:  creamy pasta with salmon

A recipe from the new mag and it should be hot-smoked salmon but I only have the ordinary kind so that will do.  It says spinach but I don't have any so broccoli or some wilted salad leaves will just have to do!  And dried dill instead of fresh.  It'll be fine.

Exercise:  walking