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I have been very busy since 9am, emptying the loft of 26 years of computers, printers, and all their packaging. Up and down ladders, flattening over a dozen large boxes, smashing polystyrene packaging, sorting cables, old discs, manuals. Loaded the car with all the flattened cardboard and items that can be accepted at the recycling centre, and creating 10 bags of rubbish. I'm 74 and was totally kn*****ed at the end! Couldn't face cooking so I too had a large salad, lettuce, tomato, cabbage, carrot, peppers, sweetcorn, and ham. It was lovely but an effort to eat it. Then I lay down and fell asleep for an hour!!!
Looks delicious. So impressed with your energy levels clearing out the loft. We cleared ours after 28 years, so we could sell the house. I vowed never to accumulate so much stuff again. So exhausted and I was a good 10 years younger than you then.
Small avocado and feta toast with a salad with more feta, olives, cucumber and tomato. Plus a cheeky cookie, want to be transparent with you.
Stir-fry with mangetout, some courgette, red and yellow pepper and tofu, flavoured with soya sauce and Chinese 5 spice.
Snacky dinner sponsored by Lidl: half a low GI bread roll, salami, cheesy coleslaw, crudités, a little handful of roasted nuts, a couple strawberries and most of this vanilla quark dessert. It was in the "High Protein" line, I don't care much for these things but they were on offer 😉 and it had the same carbs as the plain flavour, which isn't often the case, so I tried. I did like it, could buy again.
And breakfast the next day using up the rest of the bread, strawberries and vanilla quark.
The rest of the squash soup from yesterday. Jazzed up with cubed ham and homemade croutons in a herby spice mix. Sorry you can't see the ham. It's buried under the croutons. Makes one small slice of seeded bread look like a big helping.
Too full to move now. Give it half an hour or so and I will go foraging for chickweed and cleavers for our hens. They enjoy their fresh greens.
Don't talk to me about soup, I had some left over cauliflower and broccoli cheese intended for soup with the addition of some celery and courgette which I put to cook in the pan first and forgot about it so it was burnt beyond recognition. So just the broc and cauli with some stilton and it was OK. Luckily OH recovered the pan.
It was the village community market today, so I took in a lot of books for their mini library, and then picked up some items from Fiona's Farm Fayre, a local farm based restaurant that also sells at markets. Hence the rather different meals, but still less than 100gm carbs for the day
1590 cals, 98.4gm carbs of which 34.9gm sugars
B: Vanilla almond shake(9.1gm carbs)
L: HM Scotch egg and crunchy coleslaw (19.9gm carbs)
D: Steak and kidney pie (some but not all case removed), cauliflower cheese, broccoli, peas, runner beans, cabbage (52.8gm carbs).
Lunch today was a salad with half a bag of mixed lettuce , carrot and cabbage (nice and crunchy), tuna, mayo, sweetcorn, tomato and cucumber, and some Brie cheese.
For dinner (which I'm eating right now) I made an easy black bean chilli. It is burning my tongue 😎...not because of the spice level, I used a children friendly recipe and cut the chili flakes in half, I was just impatient and didn't let it cool down before eating
I'm having it with a few crackers today and I have another portion that I want to try mixed with cauliflower rice. I prefer to do that at lunch tho, the combo of beans and cauliflower sounds a bit dangerous for the evening if you know what I mean...
By the way, did you notice how similar my insulin pen and my new kitchen lighter look? 😱
It's been a very expensive New Year. New PC and printer to replace the old ones fried in one of the storms, multiple car issues, operation for my cat, and to cap it all, my new fence was damaged by a JCB working in the field behind me. I don't know if it was the farmer or builders putting in new drains, so no comeback. My insurance excess is more than the cost of the repairs.
I'm quite pleased with this meal. I remembered a simple recipe that I used to make when I started learning to cook, it was rice with veg chopped very small, sauteed with some ripe tomato and paprika (and served with parmesan cheese if you wanted). I had the veg and some cauliflower rice in the freezer, so I decided to try with it. It could do with some other herbs or spices, but is definitely better than plain cauliflower rice! And it easily contains 2 or 3 of your five-a-day 🙂
I had it with Sainsbury's vegan sausages, it was the first time I bought them and I didn't like them that much, I prefer Linda McCartney (or is it McCarthy's?), the ones with onion and rosemary...
Just when I though my cat's woes were coming to an end, she has an eye ulcer which has not responded to treatment. Been admitted for 4 days intensive treatments. Good news is it looked a little better this morning. I hope the risk of losing her eye is receding.
I enjoy watching cooking programmes, not so much for the recipes but the ideas I pick up. In a recent Jamie Oliver programme, he was praising frozen vegetables for their price value. He mentioned soffritto, and I thought I'd give it a try. Waitrose do soffritto (ideal for casseroles) and Morrisons do what they call base vegetables (ideal for soups) which are more finely chopped. I've just made the following quick, easy and economical recipes:
Pack of Sainsbury's 5 skinless boneless chicken thighs
Half a pack Waitrose soffrito
Half a pack of Sainsbury's mixed peppers
130gm chopped chestnut button mushrooms
The saved juice from 2 tins of tomatoes (or any tomato juice of about 200ml)
1 tbsp tomato puree
Put everything in a slow cooker.
Cook on high for 2 hours, then low for 4 hours.
Season to taste
Tomato, pepper and coconut soup: 6 servings, 127cals, 15.2gm carbs.
Half a pack of Morrisons frozen base vegetables (I'll use the other half in more soup)
The other half a pack of Sainsbury's frozen mixed peppers
The saved juice from 4 tins of tomatoes (or any tomato juice of about 400ml)
1 tbsp tomato puree
1 dsp sugar
Vegetable stock cube
Mug of water
Any left over liquor from the chicken cacciatore (I made them the same day)
1 tin light coconut milk
Put everything in a pan except the coconut milk, bring to the boil and simmer for 25 minutes
Add the coconut milk and simmer for another 5 minutes
Season to taste (ie salt and pepper, a little curry powder etc)
I enjoy watching cooking programmes, not so much for the recipes but the ideas I pick up. In a recent Jamie Oliver programme, he was praising frozen vegetables for their price value. He mentioned soffritto, and I thought I'd give it a try. Waitrose do soffritto (ideal for casseroles) and Morrisons do what they call base vegetables (ideal for soups) which are more finely chopped. I've just made the following quick, easy and economical recipes:
Pack of Sainsbury's 5 skinless boneless chicken thighs
Half a pack Waitrose soffrito
Half a pack of Sainsbury's mixed peppers
130gm chopped chestnut button mushrooms
The saved juice from 2 tins of tomatoes (or any tomato juice of about 200ml)
1 tbsp tomato puree
Put everything in a slow cooker.
Cook on high for 2 hours, then low for 4 hours.
Season to taste
Tomato, pepper and coconut soup: 6 servings, 127cals, 15.2gm carbs.
Half a pack of Morrisons frozen base vegetables (I'll use the other half in more soup)
The other half a pack of Sainsbury's frozen mixed peppers
The saved juice from 4 tins of tomatoes (or any tomato juice of about 400ml)
1 tbsp tomato puree
1 dsp sugar
Vegetable stock cube
Mug of water
Any left over liquor from the chicken cacciatore (I made them the same day)
1 tin light coconut milk
Put everything in a pan except the coconut milk, bring to the boil and simmer for 25 minutes
Add the coconut milk and simmer for another 5 minutes
Season to taste (ie salt and pepper, a little curry powder etc)
Sounds delicious. I use a lot of fresh veg but always have a couple of bags of chopped peppers and mixed veg in the freezer. I will have to substitute thick yoghurt for the coconut milk as hubby is allergic to coconut. Think I will have the chicken cacciatore at the weekend. Lots of gardening work coming up planting trees and hedging so coming in to a nice hot meal will be lovely.
Having had a wakeup call with my last HbA1c I'm being more careful now. I'm still getting over a bad cold, so no aquafit today. Anyone who was following my sick cat, she had surgery on her eye last week and is now at home recovering. Only time will tell if her eye has been saved. She seems a bit livelier, and I'm thankful I had insurance, as the bill approached £4000.
Small avocado and feta toast with a salad with more feta, olives, cucumber and tomato. Plus a cheeky cookie, want to be transparent with you.
Stir-fry with mangetout, some courgette, red and yellow pepper and tofu, flavoured with soya sauce and Chinese 5 spice.
Snacky dinner sponsored by Lidl: half a low GI bread roll, salami, cheesy coleslaw, crudités, a little handful of roasted nuts, a couple strawberries and most of this vanilla quark dessert. It was in the "High Protein" line, I don't care much for these things but they were on offer 😉 and it had the same carbs as the plain flavour, which isn't often the case, so I tried. I did like it, could buy again.
And breakfast the next day using up the rest of the bread, strawberries and vanilla quark.
Lunch today was a salad with half a bag of mixed lettuce , carrot and cabbage (nice and crunchy), tuna, mayo, sweetcorn, tomato and cucumber, and some Brie cheese.
For dinner (which I'm eating right now) I made an easy black bean chilli. It is burning my tongue 😎...not because of the spice level, I used a children friendly recipe and cut the chili flakes in half, I was just impatient and didn't let it cool down before eating 
