Saturday, 02-05-26

Good evening, everyone.  What a gorgeous day it has been round here.  This morning I went into town and was a bit spendy, all in the good cause of making my meals look good of course.  I found a lovely wooden platter, a long thin oval, made of olive wood, a really nice oil and vinegar set and a flat and straight sided bowl.  Well worth it!
So that's some of this month's Premium Bonds win sorted!

Through the morning, I had a couple of apples and then fell for one of the Cretan rusks I made.  I wish I hadn't, but it was nice and the others are out of temptation in the freezer now.  So that was three swips.  I always weigh my bread products because of being home made and therefore not standard size.

Lunch starter.  This spicy cheese dip was from the Mistral Hotel cookbook (which is available in Amazon if anyone's interested.  I will post the link at the bottom).
I needed to reduce it down and it still needed too much feta for my calcium healthy extra so I used the ingredients and did my own thing.  Would it have been nicer with more feta?  For sure.  Was it nice anyway?  Yes, it definitely was.
The feta was one calcium healthy extra, the toast was half a fibre healthy extra and the evoo was two thirds of a fats/oils healthy extra.
The other ingredients were a bit of roasted red pepper from a jar, a bit of white wine vinegar (not time I will try lemon juice), some Geek yogurt and a pinch of chilli flakes.  The dippers are carrot and yellow pepper.

Then I moved on to the mains which was spanakopita with a big old salad.  I meant to sprinkle over some mixed seeds but totally forgot!

The spanakopita (from M&S) was four and a half swips and a bit of low fat dressing was half a swip.

I really enjoyed this lunch and was far too satisfied to have any fruit for dessert.

This was the bowl I bought - I loved eating from it.

Gyros for dinner and very nice it was too.

The wrap - home made with some failing sourdough - was the rest of my fibre and 

I used oil that finished my healthy fats plus three swips.

Swip free.

Summary:
One each of the healthy extras

eight swips

B: I think I might treat myself to a little breakfast of fruit and yogurt.

L:  Tzatziki (left from tonight) with avocado and and melba toast; stuffed peppers and salad

D:roast lamb with spaghetti (a recipe I found by Googling) with veg or a salad.  Figs with goat's cheese, honey and yogurt

No idea about exercise yet