Sunday, 12-07-26

 At last - a post at the right time.
Evening, everyone.

I used plenty of butterbeans today.  I've taken to buying some pulses in jars rather than cans.  They are more expensive but you get more and the quality is really very good.
And they taste great!

Breakfast:  waffles with fruit and I had a bowl of yogurt as well.  Looks pretty, doesn't it?

Half a healthy extra F and I spend the rest on a bit of fresh baked wholemeal bread, making it one fibre in total.

The marinated beans were delicious.  Definitely doing something similar again.
You make a dressing with evoo, lemon juice, garlic, herbs of choice, Dijon mustard salt and pepper all whisked together.  Chop some red onion and mix white beans, the dressing and the onion together, cover and leave to marinate.

Half a healthy extra O/F plus half a swip for salad dressing - I really like the N&S low fat dressing that is half a swip per level tbsp; I think it is head and shoulders above anything else in that line.

Later on, I had an orange, an apple and some strawberries.

This was delicious.  I cooked some wholewheat fusilli.
I fried onion, pepper and carrot in some evoo, added garlic granules, Mediterranean mixed herbs and a pinch of chilli flakes plus a bit of salt.
Then I added some drained butterbeans and the cooked pasta with some lemon juice, grated cheddar and a slug of evoo (because I have the swips).

So this meal was a healthy extra C, half a healthy extra F/O and six swips for the extra evoo.

Summary
one of each healthy extra.
six and a half swips

B:  scrambled egg before circuits and some fruit and yogurt afterwards

L:  I made some butterbean hummus and it's now in the fridge for the flavours to develop.  I'll post what I did at the bottom.  I plan to have half with some hm melba toast and a finger salad.

D:  there's a few more butter beans to use so I might make a beanburger (no roll) to have with salad and air fried chips.

And fruit!

Circuits

Broad bean hummus.
I only weighed out the stuff I need to count so not everything has amounts.

Ingredients:
butter beans (about 20 big ones, I think)
a good squidge of garlic puree
one level tbsp tahini
lemon juice
one tsp evoo
pinch of salt.

Put everything in a blends and zizz until smooth.  Taste and add more lemon juice and/or garlic, if needed.
Chill until needed.

Made enough for two portions
evoo was two oil swips
tahini was four and a half swips

One portion is three swips (or  just over)or half a healthy extra O/F - and I plan to drizzle over a bit more evoo when serving.