Friday, 20-06-25

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.

After a few days, I am really liking the two meals a day thingy.  That probably won't last for ever but it's good while it lasts and I really don't feel it is any hardship.

Another thing I am liking is the new SW recipe book I got this morning - Street Food.  It has some great looking recipes which you will probably see in here soon.

Changing things around from time to time really helps.

What I have eaten today:

To make the shredded chicken, I threw together a sauce of soy sauce, oyster sauce, mirin, maple syrup and a dash of balsamic vinegar, wrapped half a chicken breast fillet in foil with the sauce and slow baked it in Nellie (i.e. on bake for about 25mins at 150).  I let it cool and then shredded the chicken into what remained of the sauce.  Very tasty.

Thanks to Nicky in a Vlog for the idea.  I forgot the chilli though - ooops!

One healthy extra B, three syns for the sauce, one syn for mixed seeds in the coleslaw and one syn for salad cream in ditto.

I had a few strawberries for afters

The sausage, bacon and bean casserole was super delicious and all made up.

Ages ago, I tried the heck sausage 'rashers', didn't like them and froze the remaining two rather than chuck them.  Interestingly, they were really much nicer in the casserole with a whole range of veg, some bacon, some cannellini beans and spiced with sumac, garlic, chicken stock powder, tomato and Szechuan pepper.  I had it with posh rice, as you can see and there's two smaller portions left.  

Totally delish.

One syns for evoo and that's it.

Edit:  no it isn't, there's one syn for the sausage slices

Afterwards I had some yogurt with chia strawberry sauce (made from some strawberries that had gone mushy) and it was lovely.  One syn for the seeds.

Summary:

no healthy extra As

one healthy extra B 

seven eight syns

Tomorrow's plans:

Br:  I'm having another portion of the casserole with some chilli flakes added and cheese on top, salad; fruit

D:  hm burger of some kind, salad, coleslaw, chips; fruit

Edit:  changed to gunpowder chicken nuggets from the new book, p 22.

Exercise:  yoga and, maybe, SET, depending on how quickly I get up.