Wednesday. 03-06-26

Good evening!

I have been watching Weary Wolf on YouTube.  He does various frugal challenges - a week on a pound a day - that sort of thing.  They're very good.

I rather fancy some sort of short term challenge but have so much food in the house, so to speak, that costing things out would be very tricky and it makes no sense to buy more lentils, for example, when I have loads already.  Also I would need to stick with Mediterranean/Slimming World principles - not that this would be a problem as it's so wide ranging and unrestrictive.

I need to have a think about this - if you have any ideas, please do let me know.

(By the way, this original blog started as a frugal challenge - thirty pounds for thirty days)

Not the brightest photo in the world, is it?  Such a gloomy day!
I made a fruit salad with pineapple, melon, blueberries, kiwi, mango and a very few raspberries from the garden and I had some of that with yogurt and half a tbsp maple syrup.
One swip for the maple syrup.

Lunch was a home made wrap with some of the ratatouille and some cheese.  Really nice.

One fibre, one calcium and three and a half swips for all the ratatouille.

Later on, I baked bread and had to try it - six swips.

(the rest is now in the freezer!)

And even later on, I had a pear and an apple.

Dinner was a red pepper stuffed with the rest of the ratatouille with some added couscous and topped with feta.

Another calcium choice and I've already counted the ratatouille.

It wasn't really a particularly hungry day but there was plenty of veg in the ratatouille.

Summary:

Two calcium choices and one fibre choice

Ten and a half swips.

B:  fruit and yogurt if needed

L:  smashed avocado on toast with egg; side salad
(I got avocados in the last Oddbox and they need using.)

D:  dip from the freezer with carrot and cucumber sticks; salad; chicken and new potato in tomatoes
(might be less than this, it depends on how hungry I feel)