Erm's Photo Diary
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ermintrude
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Hi, just come across your diary and I'm now starving! The foods all look so delicious. I am going to make your veggie shepherds pie later. Are puy lentils the green ones? Thanks for sharing all your recipes
They are green but it's important they're NOT the split ones or they'll turn to mush! You need whole green lentils. Puy are best but any that are whole will do. I know Tesco and Waitrose both do an own brand version.
ermintrude
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Tuesday 13th - Green
Breakfast: Coffee & Toast 1 HEXA, 1 HEXB, 2 syns
Lunch: MMassive bowl of salad with mixed veg and 6 Finn Crisp Multigrain, 5 Laughing Cow Blue Cheese. 1 HEXA & 1 HEXB
Tea:Morroccan slow cooked veg stew. Hurt my leg so just chopped a load of veg up and stuck them in the slow cooker. Threw in some apricots 2 syns, lemon juice, lentils...
Snacks: Peach, pear, blackberries, most of a big pot of Total 2% with 2 tsp honey, about 3 syns
Put 2lb on this morning My first gain ever! I think it's the holiday, pig out and TOTM combined so I would say hopefully itll bugger off by next week - HOWEVER I am just about to catch a train up to Norfolk for a coupla nights So it might be quite some time...
HOWEVER - after the Norfolk trip that is IT. We are ON PLAN til Xmas at which point I want to have lost 6 stone if not more!
Breakfast: Coffee & Toast 1 HEXA, 1 HEXB, 2 syns
Lunch: MMassive bowl of salad with mixed veg and 6 Finn Crisp Multigrain, 5 Laughing Cow Blue Cheese. 1 HEXA & 1 HEXB
Tea:Morroccan slow cooked veg stew. Hurt my leg so just chopped a load of veg up and stuck them in the slow cooker. Threw in some apricots 2 syns, lemon juice, lentils...
Snacks: Peach, pear, blackberries, most of a big pot of Total 2% with 2 tsp honey, about 3 syns
Put 2lb on this morning
My first gain ever! I think it's the holiday, pig out and TOTM combined so I would say hopefully itll bugger off by next week - HOWEVER I am just about to catch a train up to Norfolk for a coupla nights So it might be quite some time... HOWEVER - after the Norfolk trip that is IT. We are ON PLAN til Xmas at which point I want to have lost 6 stone if not more!
blackwidow
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dont worry about your gain - you had a good holiday and you went straight back on plan afterwards - you can keep going xxx
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JackieN
One day at a time, one step at a time
roasted beetroot is yummy too. I only tried it once because Gary's Mum gave us loads
Hope your leg is okay sweetie. and the gain don't worry about it, lots of us put on this week must be summit in the air lol
It will soon go and you are doing fabby
xxxxx
Hope your leg is okay sweetie. and the gain don't worry about it, lots of us put on this week must be summit in the air
lolIt will soon go and you are doing fabby
xxxxx
blackwidow
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p.s borsch is really nice way to use beetroot
shrinki
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I have just eaten the veggie shepherds pie - OMG it is sooooo good. Thank you for the recipe. I think it's just 2 syns (wine) plus a hexa for the cheddar on green and extra easy. Do you agree? It's definitely going to be one of my new favourite dinners. I am going to try and get the kids to try it too. X
ermintrude
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ermintrude
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Hellooo, noo Ive been away for a few days gatecrashing someone else's holiday
Im currently on the train home. Stuck to plan except for the vino, but then went and got a cheese & caramelised onion panini from the Pumpkin cafe at the station OMG it was divviiiiiiiiine :drool: I dont know how many syns it was but whatever they were it was worth it! (I probably wont think that at WI on Weds though
) Oh well, had a lovely time no idea what Ive put on yet but that's my last treat week til Xmas now. Strict head back on
Julie Illusion
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Thank you Ermintrude for your lovely recipes and gorgeous photographs. Truly inspirational and I have a shopping list as long as my arm
Julie
Julie
ermintrude
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I've not been keeping up...
Saturday 17th - Red
Breakfast: Coffee & Toast 1 HEXA, 1 HEXB, 2 syns
Lunch: Pumpkin cafe cheese & caramelised onion panini OMMMMMGGGGGGGG :drool: Im guesstimating it was about 40-60 syns but I dont care, it was the best thing I have had in ages. Oh also a Latte which was crap so I left half of it. Diet starts at teatime And so:
Tea: Fish, double chips & mushy peas. (celeriac & swede). 11 syns for fish.
Snacks: See lunchtime
And so, mini-break is over and back on Plan:
Sunday 18th - Green
Breakfast: Coffee & Toast 1 HEXA, 1 HEXB, 2 syns
Lunch: Massive bowl of salad with mixed veg and 3 Cauldron sausages 3 syns
Tea: Root veg curry thing I got off Abel & Cole Free
Snacks: 2 peaches, pear, 2 Finn Crisp with Low Low cheese spread (2/3 HEX), Bovril.
Mm. Nice idea but I'd do it different next time
Saturday 17th - Red
Breakfast: Coffee & Toast 1 HEXA, 1 HEXB, 2 syns
Lunch: Pumpkin cafe cheese & caramelised onion panini OMMMMMGGGGGGGG :drool: Im guesstimating it was about 40-60 syns but I dont care, it was the best thing I have had in ages. Oh also a Latte which was crap so I left half of it. Diet starts at teatime
And so:Tea: Fish, double chips & mushy peas. (celeriac & swede). 11 syns for fish.
Snacks: See lunchtime
And so, mini-break is over and back on Plan:
Sunday 18th - Green
Breakfast: Coffee & Toast 1 HEXA, 1 HEXB, 2 syns
Lunch: Massive bowl of salad with mixed veg and 3 Cauldron sausages 3 syns
Tea: Root veg curry thing I got off Abel & Cole Free
Snacks: 2 peaches, pear, 2 Finn Crisp with Low Low cheese spread (2/3 HEX), Bovril.
Mm. Nice idea but I'd do it different next time
blackwidow
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those chips look lovely and dont worry about your panini - you always get back on plan and like you said, no more holibobs before xmas now xx
and dont worry about your panini - you always get back on plan and like you said, no more holibobs before xmas now xx
ermintrude
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Monday 19th - Green
Breakfast: Coffee & Toast 1 HEXA, 1 HEXB, 2 syns
Lunch: Massive bowl of salad with mixed veg, 3 Cauldron sausages 3 syns and leftover curry from last night.
Tea: Had a go at me new veggies! Quorn curry with mooli salad and rice plus Honey's Tostones! :drool: I need some practise (and a new oven...) About 2 syns for mustard, oil, orange juice etc in the dressing
Snacks: 2 peaches, Bovril, box of blackberries in Coconut Muller light.
Here's the mooli salad and Quorn curry. Was quite nice but might change it a bit next time. The orange made it nice but it needed something else, maybe raisins or nuts or something.
And here's the tostones, this didnt do well, my oven is a cremation pyre but OMG they tasted good!
The first lot I checked at 10 min and they were already burnt to a crisp:
But I squashed them anyway and gave them a taste:
and they were sooooo GOOOOOD I decided to sacrifice my other plantain as well, I was gonna use it for something else but I can always pop out and get some more, so I turned the oven right down and kept watching it... It didn't burn exactly but it just kept drying out Maybe they were slightly TOO green? But its probably just my oven...
But I didnt really care cos they tasted sooooo fab! Theyre like very-slightly sweet biscuits, why bother with HiFi bars and all that jazz when you can have plantain?! I handed one to the b/f who gobbled it up and went "oooh oaty biscuit!", exactly!
As they were quite sweet and biscuity I didnt think they'd work for scooping up my curry, (as Id just concocted it out of my head and I thought it probably wasnt the right kind of curry) but OMG it soooo worked! Yum yum!
I kept thinking how gooood they'd be with Total 2% and a bit of honey.... :drool: was gonna try it after tea but by then they'd all gone...
I'm sure they'd be even better if I improved my Cooking Skillz, any advice in how to Do It Properly appreciated
ALSO I figured they'd be synned as they were cooked and a bit like bananas so a fruit? But they're not, even cooked they're FREEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
PS Pix are all OOF as there was crap all over the lens But hey, its nicely thrown the background out or summat...
Breakfast: Coffee & Toast 1 HEXA, 1 HEXB, 2 syns
Lunch: Massive bowl of salad with mixed veg, 3 Cauldron sausages 3 syns and leftover curry from last night.
Tea: Had a go at me new veggies! Quorn curry with mooli salad and rice plus Honey's Tostones! :drool: I need some practise (and a new oven...) About 2 syns for mustard, oil, orange juice etc in the dressing
Snacks: 2 peaches, Bovril, box of blackberries in Coconut Muller light.
Here's the mooli salad and Quorn curry. Was quite nice but might change it a bit next time. The orange made it nice but it needed something else, maybe raisins or nuts or something.
And here's the tostones, this didnt do well, my oven is a cremation pyre
but OMG they tasted good! The first lot I checked at 10 min and they were already burnt to a crisp:
But I squashed them anyway and gave them a taste:
and they were sooooo GOOOOOD I decided to sacrifice my other plantain as well, I was gonna use it for something else but I can always pop out and get some more, so I turned the oven right down and kept watching it... It didn't burn exactly but it just kept drying out
Maybe they were slightly TOO green? But its probably just my oven...
But I didnt really care cos they tasted sooooo fab! Theyre like very-slightly sweet biscuits, why bother with HiFi bars and all that jazz when you can have plantain?!
I handed one to the b/f who gobbled it up and went "oooh oaty biscuit!", exactly!
As they were quite sweet and biscuity I didnt think they'd work for scooping up my curry, (as Id just concocted it out of my head and I thought it probably wasnt the right kind of curry) but OMG it soooo worked! Yum yum!
I kept thinking how gooood they'd be with Total 2% and a bit of honey.... :drool: was gonna try it after tea but by then they'd all gone...
I'm sure they'd be even better if I improved my Cooking Skillz, any advice in how to Do It Properly appreciated
ALSO I figured they'd be synned as they were cooked and a bit like bananas so a fruit? But they're not, even cooked they're FREEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
PS Pix are all OOF as there was crap all over the lens
But hey, its nicely thrown the background out or summat...
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ermintrude
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I've been meaning to ask, are your plates those old fashioned enamel ones? I love them! Got a few enamel pieces off Amazon and i think they're so cute and retro
Noooo I got these cheapo from Argos about eight years ago when I moved into my new flat! They're falling apart now, you can see big chips in the edges
I keep meaning to get some new ones but I never get round to it. I fact I'm on me last mug out of the set now so when that dies a new set will definitely be in order!
ermintrude
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I think next time Ill try the pre-squashing bit of cooking either wrapped in foil or in the microwave, then crisp up the flat bit in the oven. That might work better?
