Monday, 04-05-26

Good evening, everyone.  I hope everyone has had a good bank holiday and eaten deliciously healthy food.

After yesterday's difficulties working out my swips, I need to record it a bit differently, I think.
Maybe counting the oils/fats I have as just swips and converting six of them into a healthy extra when I do the summary might help - I am finding it very confusing at the moment.
Worth a try anyway.

And just to say that, although this is essentially a food diary for me, acting as a longer term record, I go into more details because some of you have told me that you find it helpful (which is lovely) so that's why, at the moment, I'm going into more details as eating patterns evolve.

For some reason, I wanted to eat this morning.  Noy hungry, just wanted to eat.  I had an apple and two easy peelers and managed to resist any other food noise.  Phew.
Edit:  actually, thinking about it, the house did smell of good bread.  Two sourdough loaves for Lindsey and some white - see below for why the white)

Lunch 1:

I have perfectly good and SW compliant whole grain bread on the freezer but I really wanted some white so, as simple white bread is easy peasy, I knocked up a small loaf, weighed it, worked out the swips . . . and the rest is now sliced and in the freezer. with the swip values clearly written on the bag  

It was lovely.

Three oil swips and six swips for the bread.

Lunch 2: 

A salad of leaves, tomato, cucumber, pepper, carrot, olives and mixed seeds with a drizzle of balsamic.

Two and a half oil swips (one for seeds and one and a half for olives).

Lunch 3:

Gotta love leftovers.
The stuffed pepper and the roasted veg were seven swips and the sauce on the pepper is free/speed because it was such a small amount and it was negligible anyway.

So seven swips.

Lunch total
five and a half oil swips so far and thirteen other swips

(hopefully doing it like this will make the final reckoning easier)

Dinner 1:  orange an feta salad - very flavoursome.  

Part of a calcium healthy extra.

Dinner 2:  

The gigantes plaki and very tasty it was too.  Butterbeans cooked in a tomatoey sauce.  I don't know how Cretan broccoli is but it's what I gad and I am using what I have.

Three oil swips and the rest of my calcium healthy extra.

I had a banana for afters.

So I have had ten oil swips which is pretty much two healthy extras and, as I didn't have a fibre healthy extra, that works well.

Summary:

Healthy extras:  One calcium and two fats/oils

Thirteen swips

I'll probably have a banana before Groove to give me some energy.

Lunch:

Eating out with a friend.  I've had a look at the menu and this looks both the healthiest choice and the most delicious too.    A bit low on protein, maybe but nice, all the same

Greens & Grains Salad (VE):  roasted red peppers, lentils, buckwheat and quinoa, tossed in a zesty pineapple & ginger dressing, served on a bed of mixed leaves and topped with pomegranate seeds.  250 calories

Dinner:

I'm not sure.  I have some of the gigantes plaki left, also some butterbeans and some chopped tomato.  I will need to have a think.  

Exercise:  Groove and the walk, weather permitting