Sunday, 01-11-26

Evening, all; welcome to November.

As that famous poem a lot of us learned as children says:

Dull November brings the blast,
Then the leaves are whirling fast.

After a bit more pondering, I'm going to do what I said on Wednesday and do a week on chicken, starting tomorrow.

The 'rules' are:

• It will be chicken used in different dishes, not just chicken on its own, of course.
• Breakfasts will be the usual ones, not chicken for breakfast!
• Meals will be a mix of using cooked and raw chicken with the occasional ready meal thrown in.  Just using chicken stock in something doesn't count!
• The week will work with Slimming World and I will also give calories as much as I can.

Back to today and . . . 

For breakfast I had two bacon medallions, some tomatoes and a mushroom omelette.

Swip free or 267 calories

A toastie for lunch.

One and a half fibre hexes and one calcium hex plus one and a half swips for chutney.

A bit later, I had an Options choccy drink for two swips.

Together, they were 435 calories.

In the evening I had a reduced ready meal from M&S, beef brisket with butterbeans and I did extra veg because, you know - veg!!  It was absolutely delicious despite it looking a bit sloppy.  The beef was melt in the mouth and a generous portion, the sauce was rich and the butterbeans very tasty

Afters was an apple

The ready meal was five swips and the whole meal plus apple came to 462 calories.

Summary:

One calcium hex

One and a half fibre hexes

Eight and a half swips

or

1164 calories