Monday, 29-06-26

 Good evening, all.

The day started off with a banana before circuits and an apple afterwards.

for lunch, I made a mushroom omelette pretty much a quiche really and with it I had some yellow tomatoes and some Jamie Oliver Mega Med Grains which were really nice.  What I had for lunch and then for dinner came to three and a half swips plus three oil swips

Later on I had an orange.

I had planned fajita chicken but remembered I had sizzle steak to use up so I made fajita steak instead.
The fajita flavouring took one oil healthy extra, some cheese was one calcium healthy extra and I had one and a half swips of light creme fraiche mixed with a tbsp yogurt .
It was absolutely delicious and very filling.

A bit later I had an apple for afters.

Summary:
one calcium and one and a half oil healthy extras
five swips

B:  fruit and yogurt

L:  the other half of the omelette with the rest of the grains and salad

D:  I'm out so I don't know.

Groove and the walk there and back.

Sunday, 28-06-26

Hey, everyone.  I was thinking of restarting on  Monday but I think I've got my head sorted now.

Here's a few photos of food over the last few days.

Breakfast:  nectarine, strawberries and blueberries (from the garden) with yogurt and mixed seeds.

One oil swip

This is the recipe I used for chicken and mango salad
https://diethood.com/mango-chicken-salad/

and I followed it pretty much apart from not using coriander and not having spinach.

It was lovely.

Six oil swips and half a swip for a bit of honey in the dressing

Steak with mushroom sauce and spicy wedges.

Four swips for some lighter creme fraiche with the mushrooms and four oil swips.

Summary:

two oil healthy extras

four and a half swips

B:  fruit and yogurt

L:  turkey and nectarine salad

D:  chicken fajita salad

Fruit

Circuits class

Saturday morning, 27-06-26

Hey, all.  Just to let you know things are not going great at the moment and I need to take a little time off to get my head in the right place again.  I'll be back.  

Thank you for understanding.  xx

Tuesday, 23-06-26

Evening, everyone.  It's so hot this evening - is it hot where you are?

Fruit for breakfast.

Corned beef salad for lunch

Pizza and salad for dinner.

It's going to be super warm again so more salad, I expect plus fruit and yogurt.  I'll see how it all goes.

I have personal training early in the morning - so glad I changed from afternoons.

Monday, 22-06-26

Good evening, everyone.

Breakfast was fruit.  

Lunch was a cold meat salad.

Three swips for chutney, one and a half for salad cream in the coleslaw.

I realised I hadn't had any healthy fats so I had this avocado as a starter.

Dinner mains was orzotto (or pilafi) with chickpeas as the protein.

One calcium for grated Italian cheese mixed in.

B:  fruit and yogurt

L and D:  it is going to be really hot tomorrow, they say, so I am sticking to salads.

Fruit

Exercise is Groove and the walk there and back.

Sunday, 21-06-26

Evening, everyone.

Fruit for breakfast.

Ham salad for lunch.

It was a very hot day and I just had a salt beef filled roll for dinner.

B:  fruit and yogurt

L:  cold meat and salad

D:  vegetable pasta

Fruit

Exercise:  circuits class.

Sunday morning, 206-26

Morning, everyone!  It's been upsy downsy over the past few days with precious few photos and nothing to say really - so I didn't.  Things are settling down now so off we go again . . .

I was in Southwold yesterday so this is what I had for a late lunch,  Brace yourselves . . .

Sorry!

Extremely un-SW and I brought the rest home and had it, re-heated, for dinner.

It was delicious.

If you're ever in Southwold, do try the Little Fish and Chip Shop, next door to the Swan.

Anyhow, on to today:

B:  fruit and yogurt

L: cold meat and salad.

D:  roast beef dinner - using sliced deli beef.  If it is too hot, I will have another salad instead.

And that's it.  I'm resting after yesterday so no exercise.

Wednesday, 17-06-26

Evening, all.

Breakfast was delicious.  A filled omelette with bbq sauce

Lunch was salad . . . 

. . .and a toastie

I forgot that I had an online meeting in the evening until it was almost time so I threw together a cheese and chutney sandwich which took me right outside SW - again.  A gain this week, I am sure.   

I ought to be worries about this but I'm not really.

B:  fruit and yogurt

L:  ratatouille with potato topping

D:  pork and apple burger, chips, salad

And fruit

Tuesday, 16-06-26

Good evening, everyone.  Welcome to Tuesday evening!

Both my avocados had gone manky so I had a chick pea salad instead and toasted the thawed bread as croutons.

Two and a half swips for lighter Caesar dressing and one fibre for the bread.

Afters was an orange.

I planned TikTok pasta but ended up using some cooked Jersey royals instead.  I diced them and spray roasted them.  The rest was the usual - tomato, onion, a bit of red pepper, some evoo, some seasonings and some feta all baked together. and roughly mixed.  Finally I added some chickpeas for a bit more protein before mixing in the potato.
After was some strawberries.
One oil and one calcium.

Summary:

one each of the healthy extras

two and a half swips

B:  fruit and yogurt if needed

L:  Maybe a cheese and chutney toastie with salad

D:  chick pea curry, some sort of couscous

And fruit

Exercise is personal training

Monday, 15-06-26

Evening, everyone.  How are things going for you.

A nice start to the day.  Both the melon and the strawberries needed eating soon so I combined some of both of them and it was lovely.

SW free

I was planning to have a salad for lunch but this morning was dull, damp and not that warm so I changed my mind and made a tomato - roasted red pepper and red lentil soup.

I just threw some base mix, tomatoes, roasted red pepper from a jar, lentils, garlic, stock and tomato puree into Thermione, cooked it up for 20 mins, blended it and pushed it through a sieve.  It was delicious.
Afters was an apple and an orange.
I had half of it for lunch and the rest later in the afternoon when I got a bit peckish.

All SW free and pretty low calorie which was good because . . .

. . . I had pizza for dinner.  Now, Pizza and SW don't live comfortably side by side, not because there's anything inherently 'bad' about pizza, just that it is full of swippable stuff.  I didn't look up the swips for this, I just checked the calories which was under 550 for the whole pizza, not just that bit (I ate the lot).

It was delicious - and so was the cucumber, the first picking from this year's plants.

I reckon  with the pretty light other meals, I won't have gone anywhere near the red as far as daily calories are concerned.

And that was all for the day

B:  fruit

L:  avocado on toast with egg and tomatoes

D:  feta and tomato pasta (I think it used to be called tik tok pasta), salad

And fruit

Exercise is Groove and the walk there and back again.

Sunday, 14-06-26

Good evening, all.

Brunch was a sort of Eton mess - but not really.  It was strawberries, yogurt, seeds, sweetener and some vanilla essence and it was delicious.  The yogurt and seeds made it filling.

Three oil swips for the seeds.

A roast for dinner - those dark things were roasted beetroot.
Two oil swips to roast the beetroot; the rest was speed or free.

B:  fruit

L:  mixed salad

D:  pizza, salad

And fruit

Exercise is circuits.

Saturday, 13-06-26

Morning, everyone.  I was really wiped out last night (Saturday) so left this to post today.  Pretend it's Saturday evening, please.

A lovely fruit salad with yogurt for a sort of brunchy timed meal after coming home from helping down the community garden.

Two swips for maple syrup

I used some of the stew from Friday to make a potato topped pie - this made two portions - the other is in the freezer.
One oil swip.

I had a nibble of cheese for one calcium.

The rest of the stew is now in the freezer - two more portions.

B:  fruit salad and yogurt

L:  roast lamb dinner.  I have lamb from the freezer, Jersey royals, broad beans that I was given from the community garden and broccoli and cauliflower that will come in tomorrow's Oddbox

D:  stuffed tomatoes, topped with cheese, and a salad

And fruit