Wednesday, 01-04-26

Evening, everyone.  It's April, new month, three weeks to lose as much weight (sensibly) as I can before my holiday in Crete (assuming it still goes ahead - in the current 'situation', it might not, of course).

Weary Wolf has posted another goodie in YouTube.  He made WWII ration recipes and filmed some of it.  I've watched a bit of it (it is quite long) and got some ideas already.
I Ate WW2 Ration Recipes for a Week… (Real 1940s Leaflet Recipes)

And newsflash - I went to Morrisons today and they have their Easter veg - carrots, parsnips and swede all at 4p.  Four pence . . . that's so good.  I got two bags of parsnips (I'm going to blanch and freeze them for roasting), one bag of carrots and one swede.  That plus this weekend's Oddbox will make sure I eat plenty of veg over the coming two or three weeks, won't it?

No fruit in the morning, I wasn't hungry.

I used my usual pancake/waffle recipe with peanut butter powder and mashed banana (I don't swip mashed fruit).  The strawberries were really rather nice, sweet and juicy.

Half a fibre and one and a half swips for the peanut butter powder plus a bit of a healthy oil choice.

The SW Kitchen box arrived mid afternoon and I made my decisions regarding what to have for dinner . . .

. . . and that was Singapore-style mushroom noodles.
Dead easy to cook and really satisfying.  Tasty too although I think it would be nicer with more colourful veg - carrot and red pepper, for example.

The ingredients provided were all free or speed foods but I used one tbsp garlic infused olive oil to stir fry.

However - as expected, portions were huge and I have two more portions, one for tomorrow and one for the freezer.  I can add more colourful veg to tomorrow's meal, can't I?

Summary - which is going to look a bit on the meagre side but, believe me, I have been very satisfied today.

Health extras:  half a fibre and half a fats/oils (a few sprays of avocado oil in the pan for the pancakes and a third of the tbsp oil for stir frying)

One and a half swips.  

I might have some cheese a bit later on but, right now, I am super satisfied.

Lunch:  I have a friend round and I'm going to do another SW kitchen meal, Moroccan chicken with roast veg couscous.  Again, I will use my fats/oils choice.

D:  Singapore style mushroom noodles with added stir fry veg - I will swip the oil used.

And fruit.