Sunday, 03-05-26

Good evening, everyone.
I was sitting this morning with relevant recipe books and printouts gazing at my rough meal plan for the week and realising that, with the arrival of this fortnight's Oddbox, I need to change quite a lot.
I know it was coming, I just hadn't factored it in.
And then I though 'this is the better way to do it - look at what you've got and work out your meals accordingly'.  I do that anyway but had to redo it to include good stuff like avocado, aubergine and courgette.  All the good stuff!
Thank goodness for the index in a recipe book.  Those without do annoy me a bit.

In the morning I had an easy peeler that was going a bit squishy!

Lunch 1:  I had a bit of the tzatziki left over from yesterday so I mashed 40g avocado and mixed the two together with a tiny bit of mint sauce.

The avocado was half a healthy fats and the toast was one fibre.

It was lovely.

Lunch 2:  the salad bit - leaves, cucumber, tomato, red onion, green olives, feta and some seeds.  I sprayed over some evoo and after the photo was taken, drizzled over some balsamic vinegar.

The evoo was one swip or part of an oils (I'll work that out at the end of the day)

The olives were one swip.

The feta was half a calcium.

And the seeds were half a swip.

(I'm writing it all down as I add it at the moment)

Lunch 3 - bear with me!
I halved and deseeded a red pepper, sprayed each half with some evoo (12 sprays or one swip in total).
I used half of the left over rice mix from a pouch, added chopped onion, mushroom and tomato, added half a tsp evoo and some seasonings.
I baked the pepper halves in the air fryer for fifteen minutes before filling them with the rice mixture and topping with one and a half swips of soft goats cheese (which doesn't count as a calcium choice) and another 12 sprays of evoo and baked again for ten minutes.

So three swips or half a healthy extra for evoo, plus the cheese for one and a half swips and two and a half swips for the pouch rice .However . . . I only ate half so half of seven - three and a half which includes the evoo.
I'll have the other half tomorrow at some point.

Phew.
(if that's wrong, please do say - I'd rather know than not)

Through the afternoon, I had a pear.

Dinner 1:  two little figs (free) with 25g feta (half a calcium) and one and a half tsps honey (one and a half swips)

I washed and cut the figs and put them in an oven proof dish with the feta crumbled on top.
After eight minutes on 180, I lifted the dish out and drizzled over the honey.
I can't remember that last time I had a fig but this was so good, I will definitely be doing it again.

Dinner 2:  This was a pack of roasting Med veg with a lime and basil dressing (Morrisons, one and a half swips) but, of course, you also need oil.

I added one tbsp - six swips - of oil.

What you see is half what I cooked so if you call the veg one swip, the other half can be half a swip.

So four swips for this.

Dinner 3:  I got out of the freezer some roast lamb in a swip free gravy and a pot of home made, fairly watery passata from last year's crop.
I softened some onion and sliced mushroom in one swips-worth of evoo, added garlic puree and tomato puree and then added the gravy and the tomatoes and let it all simmer down to a thick sauce to which I added the lamb.
I had preboiled some mini new potatoes so I just halved them and added them to the tray with the rested veg for the last ten minutes.

So good!  And just half a swip.

There's some sauce left over so I can have that tomorrow plus the roasted veg and the half stuffed pepper.

Now to do the maths.

Summary:

One each of the three healthy extras

Fourteen and a half swips - just under.

(I think)!

L:

bread with evoo and balsamic vinegar
simple salad
stuffed pepper and roasted veg

D: 

fruit and feta

simple salad

gigantes plaki (baked butter beans)

And fruit