Sunday, 24-08-25

Hi, everyone! Welcome to my blog where I talk about my ongoing Slimming World and associated health journeys. I'm now around my target range and am aiming to keep this steady while following Mediterranean diet principles and the Slimming World structure.

Three days down this week now and, with slight, reasoned tweaks, 100% on plan.  :-)

What I ate today:

From the freezer, I used a pot of broccoli and cheese soup (two and a half syns) and some fresh chicken stock.  I added chopped onion, grated potato and carrot and some red lentils and cooked it all together.  Then I added some cooked noodles left over from yesterday and some mixed veg, also from the freezer.  It made a delicious and hearty soup, very filling and with a portion left which I will freeze because it's been thoroughly re-cooked.  

I had it with some crunchy garlic croutons, made in Nellie, and topped it with grated cheddar.

One healthy extra A, one healthy extra B and one and a half syns

Today's fruit was an apple, an orange, a nectarine, a peach and some strawberries

Dinner was a bit traditional;  some sliced roast beef that I cooked yesterday (so it sliced really well) with vegetables on a Yorkshire pudding 'platter', recipe from the very first Pinch of Nom book ever.   And I had some Dijon mustard to go with the beef.

Some of my second healthy extra A for the milk, Three syns for some oil and three syns for flour for the Yorkshire.

For dessert, I had some strawberries and yogurt with three syns worth of red berry coulis drizzled over.  Very nice for a treat.  

Summary:

between one and two healthy extra As

one healthy extra B

ten and a half syns

Tomorrow's plans:

L:  roast beef sandwich/roll/pitta, salad; fruit

I might make it a toastie to use some cheese although I plan to add cheese to the mash for dinner.

D:  fish pie, vegetables; fruit

I have some mash I made from left-over potatoes that needed using in some way - I cooked and frozen three baked ones but the other needed chopping about a bit so mash it was.  And I have odds and ends of ransom fish in the freezer.  I'll add some mixed vegetables and use garlic and herb cheese spread for a sauce, bake it in Nellie and - Bob's your uncle - a perfectly reasonable fish pie.

Exercise:  Groove