Thursday, 30-07-26

   Good evening, everyone!

I made penny pancakes with yogurt and mango, chopping the mango small and mixing with sweetener into the yogurt.  Good for finger food and very filling.

Three fibre swips.

Later on I had two apples.

Lunch - corn ribs with a salad

Three oil swips and half a swip for salad dressing

Later on I had some toast for nine fibre swips

Chicken and roasted veg pasta - delicious!

Three calcium swips

Summary:

Healthy extras:  one fibre, half a calcium and half am oils/fats

six and a half swips

B:  fruit and yogurt

L:  cheese and onion toastie, salad

D:  chilli loaded tortillas

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Wednesday, 29-07-26

   Good evening, everyone!

This is what I had for breakfast from Pret - the big apple bowl - not so big and not that much apple but it was delicious all the same.  Unfortunately, nine and a half swips but I'm not fusing because it was instead of breakfast, not as well as.
I am sure the oats would count as part of a healthy extra but it doesn't say.
306 (ish) calories.

(photo taken from their site - and I can totally recommend it - so good!)

Lunch:  hm roasted red pepper hummus and melba toast with tomatoes from the garden (I have loads at the moment.

And apple for afters

One fibre and three swips for the bread and four oil swips for the hummus and some evoo.

I haven't had spag bol for the longest time and I really enjoyed this.
There's enough left to have another time and I think I will have it on Friday evening - loaded chilli tortillas.

Afters was an apple

two oil swips and four calcium swips.

Summary:
healthy extras -  most of a C, all of an F and most of an O/F

twelve and a half swips

B:  I have a mongo ready to use so I guess it will be mango and yogurt

L:  spicy corn ribs and salad

D:  chicken and tomato pasta (a BBC Good Food recipe)

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Tuesday, 28-07-26

   Good evening, everyone!

The planning went a bit haywire this morning.  I just toasted some bread and enjoyed it plain.  It was lovely bread and didn't need any additions.
One fibre and three swips.

So I had the tomato and mushroom stuffed omelette for lunch with a salad and it was lovely!

Three oil swips.

Afters was an apple

An other change - I had planned a courgette and tomato risotto (a SW recipe) but didn't have enough risotto rice.  So I made an orzotto instead - much quicker and delicious, especially as I added some cheese.  How can you have risotto (or orzotto) without adding cheese?

Three oil swips and one calcium.

Afters was an orange.

Summary:

Healthy extras - one of each

Swips - three

B:  I have to be in town and might pop into Pret for something.  And there again, I might not.

L:  What I had planned today - roasted red pepper hummus with melba toast and salad

D:  I think some sort of pasta bolognaise thing, side salad

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Monday, 27-07-26

Good evening, everyone!
My tomatoes are now producing beautifully and will be appearing all over the place in my planning for several weeks to come.  

I mixed the last of the mixed fruit chia jam with yogurt and had pineapple and strawberries on the side.

Half an oil swip for the chia seeds.

 

I  had one eggy bite before circuits this morning for energy which is why there's two in the photos, not three!

One and a half swips for chutney.

Half a swip for salad cream in the coleslaw
Two calcium swips for the bites.

I did some bread baking so, of course, had to taste before freezing so that was my fibre for today

The chickpea and quinoa burgers were really nice and I wish I could remember exactly how I made them.  I know I added cheese and used a bit of flour when shaping them.  I suppose that's the fun thing about using bits and bobs.
Afters was an apple.

So I'm calling it four calcium swips for cheese (it's probably less but let's round it up.

Half a swip for quinoa

Three swips for salad cream to dip the chips into.

Summary:

Healthy extras:  one C, one F and a bit of O/F

Five and a half swips

B:  omelette with tomatoes and mushrooms

L:  roasted red pepper hummus, melba toast, finger salad

D:  courgette and tomato risotto (Beth gave me a little yellow courgette yesterday)

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Sunday, 26-07-26

 Good evening, everyone!

Back to normal now.  

Eggy bites, tomatoes and some caramelised onion chutney.

Two calcium swips and one and a half swips for chutney.

I stuffed the pepper with onion, pepper, mushroom, chick peas and quinoa.

Half a swip for the quinoa, one swip for salad cream, three calcium swips and one oil swip..

I had some of the quinoa mix left so I added the rest of the chickpeas, blended and shaped them into burgers for tomorrow.

A nice, old fashioned dinner.  Very filling!

Two oil swips for the roasting oil and one and a half swips for redcurrant jelly.

Also, through the day I had an apple, an orange, a banana and some grapes.

Summary:

healthy extras:  one calcium, half an oil/fats

four and a half swips

I'm a healthy extra short so I think I will have some more cheese to make it two calciums.

B:  Maybe Essex Mess.  

L:  eggy bites with salad - the rest of the ones I made earlier today

D:  chickpea and quinoa burgers, chips, salad

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Sunday, 26-07-26 - for yesterday

 Good morning, everyone!
As I thought, I was way too tired to do a post last night so here we are this morning instead.  The Sandringham Flower Show was lovely though.

I'm using the usual headings so please pretend it is yesterday evening.  Ta!

For once, I decided to have a breakfast before I left home, several hours before I usually eat.  I didn't feel comfortable for a while on the coach but there were no other repercussions!

On the walk from the coach to the Flower Show, there was a tent selling home made cakes and cold drinks, in support of local churches, including, I should imagine, the Sandringham church that we see each Christmas morning.
I didn't have a cake but I did fall for a cheesy scone which was delicious with enough cheese to satisfy even my Mum who was very particular about her cheese scones.  

The drink was chilled sparkling water, very refreshing.

This was my lunch, a Greek chicken wrap.  The chicken was grilled over charcoal, there was plenty of salad stuff and lashings of tzatziki and it was delicious!

(I had an ice cream too, but we won't mention that, OK?)

On the way back to the coach, I stopped off at the visitor's centre restaurant for a really welcome and much needed pot of tea.  Perfect.

I don't drink tea very often but, just occasionally, I crave some.
It was proper posh - leaves not a bag and a tea strainer.  The pot gave me three cups and, if I had asked, they would have topped the pot up for me.

(There were some groups having a proper afternoon tea which looked fantastic - not for me but they were really enjoying it.)

And then, when I got home, I had left over pasta so I made a chicken pasta salad and enjoyed it very much indeed.

No idea of swips, etc, but back on it now!

B:  eggy bites, tomatoes and cucumbers

L:  stuffed tomatoes and salad

D:  roast chicken dinner (I just feel like going a bit old fashioned

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Friday, 24-07-26

  Good evening, everyone!

It's Friday so it's Eat Your Swips Friday!  
The rule is to use swips for flavour or more of the good stuff, NOT for rubbish/ultra processed stuff

The day's food started with savoury waffles with tomatoes and mushrooms.  I forgot it was Eat Your Swips Friday and used spray oil when I could have had the good stuff.  Oh, well . . .

Three swips for the flour and starter and half a calcium (or three swips) for some parmesan in the batter.

As you can see, some of them stuck and were tricky to get out.  Still tasted great though!  :-)

I was chuffed with this plate - everything on it was home made/grown.  And it was delish.

Two oil swips for the roasted red pepper hummus and one fibre and two swips for the melba toast.

A lovely chickpea pasta dish.

Six oil swips

Nine calcium swips (gotta love cheese in and on top!!)

Summary:

Healthy extras - one of each

Nineteen swips - gone a bit over but I'm not that worries!

I'm out all day (Sandringham Flower Show - yay) so have no specific plans.  Also, depending on when I get home, I might post on Sunday morning rather than Saturday evening.

Thursday, 23-07-26

 Good evening, everyone!

Basically, fruit and yogurt in a glass!!

Half an oil swip for chia seed jam.

Lunch started with a salad.

Two swips for mustard sauce with honey that I mixed with yogurt and balsamic vinegar to make a sauce.  I won't be trying that again!

The other half of lunch - leftovers of sweet and sour chicken noodles from the freezer.

One and a half oil swips.

I had some fruit through the afternoon.

I finally got round to making the spicy peanut butter chicken pasta and it was well worth the wait.

Tree swips for some peanut butter powder (not oil swips as it's lower fat) and six oil swips.

Later I had my healthy C in cheese.

Summary:

healthy extras:  one and a half O/Fs and one C

five swips

B:  waffles with tomatoes and mushrooms

L:  hm roasted pepper hummus, melba toast, salad

D:  chick pea burger (no roll), chips, salad

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Wednesday, 22-07-26

  Good evening, everyone!

Very nice eggy bites for breakfast.

I was out for lunch and this is more or less what I brought home.  Portions were big!

I added toasted cashews, tomatoes, cucumber, pepper and cubed feta.  No idea of swips or healthy extras but that's OK.  Back on plan tomorrow.

B:  breakfast sundae

L:  sweet and sour chicken noodles from the freezer

D:  third time lucky - spicy peanut better chicken pasta, salad

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Tuesday, 21-07-26

Good evening, everyone!

No photos, sorry.  

I had fruit through the morning.

I had a Caesar salad at the Tiptree tea rooms at Cressing Temple - the dressing was on the side and I hardly used any.

For dinner, I had what I brought home in a doggy bag with some added salad.

B:  fruit

L:  out with my friend, Chris.  There's no lunch menu online but surely they much have one?  If not, I will just go for a starter.

D:  Chicken and mango rice salad or, maybe, what I had planned for this evening, spicy peanut butter chicken pasta

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Monday, 20-07-26

 Good evening, everyone!

After I'd posted last night, I had some cheese for one C and one swip.
Just sayin'.

Breakfast - pancakes with more of the chia seed jam and yogurt - so tasty.

Half an oil swip for chia seeds and half an F for flour for the pancakes

Falafels from the freezer and I made a simple dressing from yogurt, mint sauce, lemon juice and garlic puree.  Really nice.

One oil swip for oil round the outside of the falafels, half a F for flour in the falafels, one oil swip for mixed seeds and half a swip for the dressing.

Later on I had some toast and marmite - one F.

The SWK dinner of sweet and sound chicken noodles was absolutely delicious, pretty much the best one I have ever had.  And it made four of my portions so I'm putting them all in the freezer as tomorrow's lunch is all sorted.

One and a half oil swips for toasted sesame oil (I used a tbsp altogether for four portions).

Afters was/will be a pear, an orange and an apple (spread through the evening.

Summary:
healthy extras - two Fs and under one O/F

B:  eggy bites, tomatoes and cucumber

L:  out to celebrate a friend's birthday

D:  spicy peanut butter chicken pasta, salad

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