Thursday, 13-08-26

Evening, everyone.  Have you had a good food day?

A simple jar of strawberries, mango and yogurt - very refreshing.  

Swip free.

A very easy salmon salad for lunch.  One swip for salad dressing and one oil swip.

A terrible photo - I'd mashed it all up before remembering to take a photo -  oops.

One swips-worth of salad cream, two oil swips and two calciums of cheddar cheese.

For fruit, I had two oranges, an apple and a rather hard nectarine.

Summary:
healthy extras: two calciums and half an oil

two swips

B:  fruit and yogurt

L:  tomato and mushroom stuffed omelette, side salad

D:  steak, chips, coleslaw, salad

fruit

Wednesday, 12-08-26

   Good evening, everyone!

Before circuits I had some fruit and a bit of cooked chicken.

Breakfast was delicious eggy bites with garden tomatoes and cucumber.
One swip for a level tbsp nutritional yeast and half a calcium for hard Italian cheese on top.

I used my fibre for some toast

The hummus was two oil swips.
I wasn't very hungry at lunch time but later on I had some cooked chicken and beetroot.

(It was very hot and my appetite wasn't good.)

For dinner I had roasted cabbage with a bean and veg tomato sauce.  I've never made it before and I'll have another go, changing a few things.  The sauce went nicely with it.

The rest of my oil swips and half a calcium.

Later I had some cheese which came to a rather stonking nine swips.  Oh, well.

Summary.

one each of the healthy extras

ten swips - not so bad really

B:  fruit and yogurt

L:  salmon and salad

D:  maybe a small jacket potato with tuna and a salad

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Tuesday, 12-08-26

   Good evening, everyone!

Before Groove, I had some cooked chicken.

I haven't had overnight oats for ages and I really enjoyed it for breakfast.  Raspberries from the garden were delicious.

One fibre.

A colourful salad for lunch.
Two swips for salad dressing, one and a half for salad cream in the coleslaw and one and a half for chutney. 
Five swips in total.

A beany beg pasta bake thingy.

One calcium and three swips for cheese and half a fats/oils.

I also had fruit through the day - apple, orange, easy peeler and watermelon.

B:  eggy bites, tomatoes and mushrooms

L:  roasted red pepper hummus, crudites, salad

D:  roasted cabbage with spicy bean and vegetable sauce.

fruit

Exercise:  circuits

Monday, 10-08-26

 Good evening, everyone.  Home after a lovely weekend where I ate and drank not wisely, but well.  Now back to it again.

I'll post some montages of the weekend's indulgencies at the bottom - so you don't have to see them if you'd rather not

Last breakfast at Five Lakes (for now).  Not healthy!!

Nice sausages though.  

I wasn't hungry so had fruit for lunch

Alex, grandson, was round and he asked for

 sausages, cheesy mash and roasted carrots.  I had two falafel patties from the freezer and I made  a tomato, onion and pepper sauce for us both.

Delicious.

No SW values - they start again tomorrow.

B:  overnight oats

L:  chicken salad

D:  beany pasta bake

Exercise:  Groove and the walk there and back.

Thursday, 06-08-26

   Good evening, everyone!

I shall be away over the weekend so won't be posting again until Monday evening

Definitely a 'use it up' day today.
I finished off the pack of bacon and the last three slightly wizened mushrooms and, at the moment, I'm losing the race with the tomatoes (which is why a lot is going into the freezer.)

This was swip free.

Later on, I had an apple.

A very delicious toastie with some salad.

One fibre for the bread, one calcium for cheese and one and a half swips for chutney.

Afters was another apple.  They don't need using up, I just love apples!

Dinner started with half an avocado that - yup, used eating up.  I didn't take a photo; it was just half an avo with balsamic vinegar.

That was my oils/fats choice.

I finished off a jar of chickpeas to make these chickpea/falafel patties - I made five and two are now frozen.  The sauce was just onion, pepper and tomato with seasonings.
And I cooked too many noodles and ate the lot because they wouldn't last until I could eat the rest up.  Oh, well . . .

One swip for some gram flour.

And that was that!

Summary:

Healthy extras:  one of each

Two and a half swips.

B:  It's a taster session at group.

L:  don't know

D:  don't know

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Have a good weekend - see you again Monday!

Wednesday, 05-08-26

  Good evening, everyone!

Sorry about yesterday evening - I have one photo to share from yesterday.

Lunch - three eggy bites with chutney, tomatoes and beetroot.

I had one of the rest of the eggy bites (I make six at a time) before I went to personal training and the other two for breakfast with some hm baked beans.

one and a half swips for chutn eyand half a calcium choice or three swips for cheese.

A mixed salad for lunch with chicken and avocado.

One and a half swips for chutney

Two thirds of a healthy oils for avocado.

Afters was an apple.

I had got dinner planned but didn't fancy it so I had some marmite on toast (my fibre), some cheese (a calcium) and some cooked chicken that needed to be eaten today.  Just bits and bobs but satisfying.

Summary:

healthy extras: one calcium, one fibre and nearly one oils/fats

six swips

B:  bacon, egg and tomatoes

L:  cheese and chutney toastie, salad

D:  chick pea patties, salad, chutney

(I have made some chutney using tomatoes from the garden)

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Monday, 03-08-26

   Good evening, everyone!

Fruit and yogurt for breakfast.
Three oil swips for mixed seeds.

Falafels for lunch.

Three swips for the falafels, one and a half swips for chutney and half a swip for salad dressing.

I had an apple for afters.

I changed the recipe quite considerably to match what I had.

Three oil swips for seeds and two oil swips for evoo and two for the olive oil in the mixed grains

Half a calcium for grated parmesan.

Afters was an orange.

Summary:

healthy extras:  two oils and half a calcium

five swips

B:  eggy bites with either mushrooms and tomatoes or with some sort of salad

L:  some sort of chicken salad

D:  Mexican style chipotle chicken (another from the Mindful Chef booklet)

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