Wednesday, 28-10-26

 Good evening!
I was really pleased with how it all held together last night at the Harvester.  It's so easy to just think 'blow it' when you're eating out but I didn't feel I went short at all; I loved what I was eating.

I'm pondering another 'Week On . . .' soon.  However, it won't be the same as all those ready meals from Iceland - I thought of having a week on chicken.
Not breakfasts, obviously, but lunches and dinners. 
Not just chicken, chicken and nothing but chicken. 
But chicken and . . .

I think I could do that without buying anything much.  I have a chicken crown, chicken breast fillets and chicken thighs in the freezer.  It would be a good way of using them up.

Changing the subject . . .
If you are interested, this is a very balanced article from Which? about ultra processed foods.

Breakfast was some fruit - mango, watermelon and pear and I had an apple earlier because I was peckish.

SW free or 188 calories

This soup was lovely.
Some vegetable base mix, tomatoes, butterbeans, veg stock, garlic puree, water and sundried tomatoes, boiled up and blended down before being pushed through a sieve.  No salt or pepper as the stick had seasoning.

One fibre hex for the croutons while the sundried tomato was too little to count, or 256 calories

And it made two portions so that's another lunch sorted out!

I got the idea for this from a BBC Good Food recipe that used meatballs rather than the chicken I used.
So - Spanish chicken and butterbean stew.

It was delicious.

I had an apple for afters.

Olives and evoo were my oil/fats hex and I stirred in half a calcium hex of grated Italian cheese.  Swip free or 506 calories.

Summary:
one fibre, half a calcium and one oil/fats hexes

swip free

950 calories - which is far too low so I will probably nibble on some cheese later on.