Saturday, 04-10-25 (posted Sunday morning)

 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 which is now going to include the three different healthy extras - calcium, fibre and fats/oils.  I'm winging it a bit until the info about amounts is released - making sensible guesses based on prior knowledge!

Please imagine this written Saturday evening, OK?

Today's food:

I didn't have any breakfast as I was at a cooking demo over lunch.  It's not been a Slimming World day at all so please ignore the next bit if you want.

Lunch was at the Thermomix studio in town after a demo based on layered cooking.  I use Thermione a lot but not particularly for layered cooking so I was really interested.

It was a hands on workshop type of thing with three stations and we could wander between them.

One was creamy chicken curry with rice steamed in the varoma.  I usually do rice either in a pan using the absorption method or in the simmering basket but I will try it this way too.

One was not layered cooking, it was sticky toffee puddings, making the sauce in the bowl and then mixing the batter in the bowl and varoma steaming them.  I've steamed Christmas pudding in the simmering basket and, as sticky toffee pudding doesn't work with SW, I guess I might just keep this for a special occasion!

The third station was very helpful.  There was pea and ginger soup in the bowl, potatoes in the simmering basket, mixed vegetables steaming in the bottom layer of the varoma and salmon in a lemon honey sauce in the top layer of the varoma, all at the same time after preparation.  Very clever and very delicious!

They also had pre-made stuff.  Pumpkin pie (lovely although I was too full to have more than a tiny bit, brownies (ditto), some whipped feta and mascarpone (very naughty but oh, my goodness!) and Portuguese bread which I must have a go at sometime although I prefer wholemeal bread really.

I've found all the recipes in Cookidoo and saved them into my Recipes To Try folder.

I had the soup (so gorgeous and I will be making that, for sure) with a bit of bread, then some of the salmon with potato and vegetables (ditto) followed by a bit of the curry and rice (lovely but for a special, I think) and finished off with a tiny bit of sticky toffee pudding and pumpkin pie.

Well done, Thermo ladies.  Such a delicious lunch.

You can see that there's no way I can use a SW summary after all that.  I wasn't hungry come the evening and just had a snack of some fresh popped corn while watching Strictly.  

Edit:  I've just remembered I also had a slice of toast with cheese spread!

Tomorrow's plans:

B:  fruit and yogurt, maybe a few toasted oats sprinkled over too.

L:  black beans and avocado on toast, side salad

D:  turkey roast dinner - turkey breast, various steamed vegetables (in the Varoma, of course!) and I have some home prepped roasties in the freezer which I might have, I'll see how I feel

Exercise:  a walking video or I might just walk on the spot while watching a YouTube channel - I have some to catch up on.