Thursday, 19-02-26 and a review

Evening, everyone!

Breakfast:  hm waffles with strawberry and raspberry chia seed 'jam' and yogurt.

Almost one fibre choice, a bit of a fats choice for the chia seeds for chia seeds and one swip for a bit of milk.

After shopping, I had an orange.  

Lunch:  a delicious leek and potato soup.  Easy too.  In Thermione I put some base mix from the freezer, one leek chopped, some water and some chicken stock powder.
In the simmering basket I put two medium peeled and chopped Maris Piper potatoes.  

I always make it like this because otherwise the thermo-blades cause the potatoes to go all gloopy and over-starchy.
When it's all cooked, I removed the basket with the potatoes, added some garlic granules and pepper (no salt because the stock is salty) and blended the vegetables and stock until smooth.  I mashed the potatoes in my ricer and then mixed the two together.

Today it made three portions so two are now in the freezer.  And all swip free.

(And talking of freezers, I now have a clean, defrosted, sorted out freezer with contents listed.  Yay)

Afters was an apple.

It looks a big old dinner but it was mostly vegetables in various forms.   There's half a chicken breast under the tomatoey veg sauce.

So - one calcium choice, one and a half swips for some Crucials bbq sauce mixed with the tomato, two swips for some salad cream and that is about it.  
No room left for afters and I do have some of the sauce left which, I think, I will freeze to have with pasta at some point.

Summary:

Healthy extras:  One calcium, almost one fibre and a bit of a healthy fats

Four and a half swips, I think.  

B:  overnight oats with the reast of the chia jam and yogurt

L:  not sure.  Alex is over.

D:  sticky chicken, salad, maybe some rice or some noodles

And fruit.

After reading Rachel's comment yesterday, I realised I didn't review the SW tomato and mozzarella ravioli so here we go.

It's part of the new range from Slimming World that includes a healthy extra, found at Iceland/Home Warehouse and, I gather, The Range has started selling some SW meals (don't quote me on that though, I'm not 100% sure).
This particular meal has one calcium healthy extra and is swip free.

It's very easy to cook from frozen.  Just tip the lot into boiling salted water, they separate as they cook and it doesn't take long.

However, it doesn't come with a sauce so you need to be ready with something to add after they're drained.  I happened to have some tomato-ish sauce in the freezer so used that, but I reckon just some good quality chopped tomatoes with some seasonings would be fine.  I also spent four swips on some grated cheese and melted it on top in my air fryer.

The pasta was fine - just white pasta.  I would love it to be made with wholemeal something or other - rye, spelt, etc but it isn't.  The filling is slightly under seasoned to my taste but perfectly acceptable.  Perhaps there could be a little more filling in each one but it didn't skimp.

Sadly, the packaging didn't include the recipe.  I must look around because I could then make it with my own pasta sheets.   

As with all SW meals, it wasn't cheap and, unlike some, it really couldn't stretch to two portions unless you made a nice, chunky veg and tomato sauce to go with it - I might do that next time!

In summary - one of the better ones, I think, and one I may very well get again, but I am going to look for a recipe!