Thursday, 30-045-26

Breakfast:  Yogurt with honey, orange, strawberries, raspberries and blueberries

One and a half swips for the honey.

Lunch:  I weighed out the bread for today's fibre and this is part of it, toasted and then sprayed with a bit of evoo.  The pate is the rest of what I made yesterday.

So part of a fibre, I swipped the bit of oil (see next photo) and a bit of a calcium (see next photo).

More lunch:  beetroot, feta and walnut salad.  

I used mixed leaves, tomato, cucumber, red onion, yellow pepper, pineapple, beetroot, 10g olives, 8g chopped walnuts (you don't get much for 8g!) and 22g feta, crumbled.  I finished it off with a spray of evoo - this and the starter made one and a half swips.

So:  one and a half swips for oil, three quarters of a calcium choice, the walnuts were three swips and the olives were one swip (25g is two swips)

I had an apple later on.

Dinner starter was the traditional bread with evoo and balsamic vinegar.  While I won't be having this all the time, it makes a tasty starter.

Half a healthy oils choice and the rest of my fibre choice.  

In the end, after a lot of dithering, I made pilafi which is very similar to risotto.

You need a good stock for this and I had some nice lamb stock in the freezer so I boiled some cubes of lamb leg in the stock until they were nice and melt in the mouth.
In another pan, I softened onion and mushroom in a bit of evoo, added the rice and the stock and let it simmer until the rice was soft and the stock almost all absorbed (the ratio is about one of rice to three of stock).
You are then supposed to add butter but I didn't.  I added the cooked lamb and checked for seasonings.

OK, it was a very poor version of the real thing but it was very tasty and I enjoyed it very much indeed.

Half a healthy oils choice and I think that's all.

Summary (I think)

One of each healthy extra

At least seven swips, maybe more.  I'll get this sorted out but I think I need to keep a little notebook in the kitchen for a while, to record what I use.

B:  probably nothing as I don't eat before Slimming World and my friend, Diane, is coming back for lunch

L:  Diane came to Crete too so I'm doing a Cretan meal.

bread with evoo and balsamic vinegar
dakos (Cretan barley rusk topped with chopped tomatoes and crumbled feta

stuffed tomatoes

salad

beans and chicken with orzo

fruit

It looks loads but portions are very, very small

D:  I am assuming there will be leftovers but, if not, griddled chicken with salad.

Goodness knows how I will score it all out.  Fingers crossed.  :-)