Sausage on a mission - veggie green days diary

[silly sausage]

Not a bad day today, thanks for asking Lucyloo x Got the first spuds of the year today from my garden. Also picked 5 red onions and a load of lettuce, so had them for my dinner. Food tastes so much better when you have to wait weeks for it

Thursday 21th July

Breakfast:
porridge and milk (hexB + hexA)
topped with banana, blueberries, strawberries, grapes

Lunch:
2 x ryvitas (hexB)
topped with cottage cheese and tomatoes

Dinner:
stuffed mushrooms (2 syns-ish for the Quorn bacon),
baby roast potatoes,
caramalised red onions,
lettuce

Snacks:
milk for coffees (hexA)
strawberries,
scan bran carrot cake (1.5 syns),
doritos (7.5 syns)

Total syns: 11
Fluids: good
Exercise: hula hooping

 

[ILoveCake]

Not a bad day today, thanks for asking Lucyloo x Got the first spuds of the year today from my garden. Also picked 5 red onions and a load of lettuce, so had them for my dinner. Food tastes so much better when you have to wait weeks for it

Thursday 21th July

Breakfast:
porridge and milk (hexB + hexA)
topped with banana, blueberries, strawberries, grapes

Lunch:
2 x ryvitas (hexB)
topped with cottage cheese and tomatoes

Dinner:
stuffed mushrooms (2 syns-ish for the Quorn bacon),
baby roast potatoes,
caramalised red onions,
lettuce

Snacks:
milk for coffees (hexA)
strawberries,
scan bran carrot cake (1.5 syns),
doritos (7.5 syns)

Total syns: 11
Fluids: good
Exercise: hula hooping

I love homegrown veggies! Last year we had lush runnerbeans but this year they died a death?? Courgettes and mangetout were a run away success though. If we could have some sunshine then maybe my tomatoes would ripen.
I bet your homegrown dinner was lovely! X

 

[silly sausage]

Friday 22th July

Breakfast:
beans on toast (hexB)

Lunch:
ss soup
Aldi cereal bar (3 syns)

Dinner:
spinach and ricotta cannelloni ready meal (3.5 syns)
lettuce
3 krisprolls (hexB) topped with basil paste (1.5 syns), feta (hexA), SW sunblushed tomatoes

Snacks:
milk for coffees (hexA)
half bottle of wine (13 syns)
2 bags lentil curls (9 syns)
mini muffin (6 syns)

Total syns: 36
Fluids: good
Exercise: none

Not a great day

 

[silly sausage]

Just counted and I am still within my syns for the week, but I don't have much success at saving up syns over the week. I am better using them daily.

 

[silly sausage]

Saturday 23rd July

Breakfast:
toast (hexB)
scrambled egg and beans

Lunch:
ss soup

Dinner:
pitta pizza (hexA + hex B)
coronation coleslaw (1 syn)

Snacks:
whole melon
apple

Total syns: 1
Fluids: good
Exercise: gardening

I STS this week. Not great for a soup week, but good for a week off work so I am happy enough.

 

[gwennypenny]

I'm def going to make that coleslaw. Looks yummy!

I was bad yesterday and had veggie fajitas in TGIFs so am bound to be good this week!

Do you always use the Asda pittas as an HEB, or another brand?

 

[silly sausage]

Hi Gwenny I use the Co-op pittas. They are a heb too. The coleslaw contains curry and cabbage, so don't stand near a naked flame after you eat it

Smartie - I have just made your chickpea dahl loaf and it is wonderful! :drool:

I didn't have any batchelor's rice so used:

1 tin Sundar dahl (from Morrisons)
brown rice
1 tsp garam masala
1 tsp fennel seeds
3 eggs

It is lovely hot. Going to try it cold for my dinner. Thanks for the recipe xxx

 

[ermintrude]

Ooh I'm going to have to try your coronation coleslaw, looks yum!!!

 

[ILoveCake]

Sausage, your pizzas and coleslaw look amazing!!!! I need to get my act together and make some!

 

[Beegee]

Ooh your loaf looks really good! I've read the recipe before but never made it, I do like the idea of just using brown rice and a touch of seasoning though - good idea.

I'm also having a good nose at your breakfast ideas after your comments on mine and what a timely reminder - beans on toast!! So simple, so yummy - fantastic idea. Will be having that for a change this week sometime. Thank you!

 

[Beegee]

ps - well done on your syn count for saturday. Great result if you're usually likely to waiver over the weekend.

 

[gwennypenny]

Hi Gwenny I use the Co-op pittas. They are a heb too. The coleslaw contains curry and cabbage, so don't stand near a naked flame after you eat it

Ace! There's a Co-op near me. As for the naked flame, as a veggie I make it a rule never to stand near one at all times

 

[silly sausage]

LOL Gwenny - I was in my local Co-op today and got loads of cheapo reduced veg. Nowt wrong with them. Cauli, broccoli, cucumber, another cute cabbage. All 20-30p each

My new week is off to a tasty start. Made more SW sunblush tomatoes to go in couscous. Still working my way through the feta...

Sunday 24th July

Brunch:
3 krisprolls (hexB)
topped with cottage cheese and plum jam (2 syns),
apple

Dinner:
chickpea dahl loaf,
couscous with feta (hexA),
pickled beetroot,
Freddo fondue strawberries dipped in a melted Freddo (5 syns)

Snacks:
chickpea dahl loaf test sample
milk for teas/coffees (hexA)
Aldi choc/orange bars x 2 (hexB)

Total syns: 7
Fluids: good
Exercise: none

 

[silly sausage]

Monday 25th July

Breakfast:
porridge made with milk (hexB + hexA),
banana, strawberries, blueberries, grapes

Lunch:
3 x krisprolls topped with cottage cheese and tomatoes (hexB)
apple

Dinner:
same as yesterday...
chickpea dahl loaf,
couscous with feta (hexA),
pickled beetroot,

Snacks:
apple
M&S lentil curls (4.5 syns)
a bit of real pizza 2" x 2" (no idea...5 syns?)
fennel tea

Total syns: 9.5
Fluids: good
Exercise: swimming :happy036:

 

[silly sausage]

I had a planned off-plan day today. We don't get much sunshine here (back me up here Gwenny! ) so when the sun does come out we have to make the most of it. It could be snowing tomorrow!

Today was scorchio. At work I was Spring cleaning - lugging heavy boxes up and down ladders all day and was really sweaty...so that is some good body magic.

We had a BBQ for late lunch/early dinner and I wasn't counting anything. No booze and no pudding so could have been worse. Lots of halloumi though Back to counting everything tomorrow.

Tuesday 26th July

Breakfast:
porridge made with milk (hexB + hexA),
banana, strawberries, blueberries, grapes

Lunch and dinner:
BBQ with all the trimmings

Total syns: no idea
Fluids: good
Exercise: lots

 

[bellski123]

Hi your food looks lovely, how do you make the sw sunblush toms??? Thanks sarah

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[gwennypenny]

Sausage, we definitely do NOT get enough sunshine up here! I was bad today too - went to Loch Lomond, drank wine, ate ice-cream, and then had macaroni cheese, wedges and garlic bread!

ARGH!

But onwards and upwards from tomorrow

Did you enjoy the BBQ tho, as that's the important thing

 

[silly sausage]

Hi your food looks lovely, how do you make the sw sunblush toms??? Thanks sarah

Hiya It's a recipe in the new SW magazine. Tomatoes, garlic, oregano, salt and frylight in a very low oven for 3-4 hours. If you don't have the mag, I can look for mine and type it out. Here is a link to a thread warning about the amount of salt used in the recipe....

http://www.minimins.com/slimming-world-recipes/224977-wouldnt-recommend.html

Gwenny - sounds like a cracking day. Food always tastes better outside or lochside. Not regretting my off-plan BBQ at all, especially as it is winter today

 

[silly sausage]

Wednesday 27th July

Breakfast:
porridge made with milk (hexB + hexA),
banana, strawberries, grapes

Lunch:
apple
2 x ryvitas (hexB) with banana and 2 x walnut halves (2 syns)

Dinner:
egg noodles with Nando's peri-peri sauce (3 syns),
broccoli and sweetcorn

Snacks:
apple
2 x M&S lentil curls (9 syns)
2 x Freddos (10 syns)
zero-alcohol beer (3.5 syns)

Total syns: 27.5
Fluids: good
Exercise: extreme gardening and swimming

Bit of a fail. Had no time to get a decent lunch. Swimming in the evening and was Hank Marvin when I got in so not a very exciting dinner and too many snacks.

 

[gwennypenny]

What you been up to, Sausage?