MWWWD (or Moonwatcher's Weight Watchers Diary!)

[moonwatcher]

I tend not to even worry with the 'new' shops ;-) I love a Charity Shop, luckily not many people round here want the 6s or 8s so I've had some fantastic finds over the years! And you'll definitely get there before your pension cos you've got us lot ;-) x

Yep, you'll all keep me on the straight and narrow. Well apart from today that is...

Sunday 1st September

Breakfast - gluten free cereal flakes with sweetener and milk (5PP, with some milk left over for a couple of teas later)

Lunch\Dinner - last day of the holidays so once it brightened up this afternoon we popped out to the coast. Only managed about 45 mins walk as it was pretty cold and we hadn't really dressed for it. Popped into the pub at the seafront for chicken bbq melt with chips and peas, a bacardi and diet ginger ale, and a coffee. (26PP)

Snacks - somehow during the day 3 (yes 3!) Mrs Crimble's jam and coconut rings found their way into my mouth (15PP)

Other drinks - water, teas using leftover milk from breakfast and everything else already counted.

So grand totals for today are 46PP, 29 dailies and 17 dailies. Weeklies remaining - only 14. APs earned today - 3 and 16 APs for the week so far.

So, I will need to do some careful planning to get through the week with those 14 weeklies, as I usually have more than that left for Monday - Friday! Tomorrow will be no problem as OH is back at work and I will be getting ready for work the next day. Part of that getting ready is a major wardrobe sort out - definitely with some throwing out included. That should be enough to focus my mind on points! Tuesday and Wednesday are staff training and preparation days at school, so lunch, biscuits and cakes will be provided, but I will skip the cake and biscuits. May take a couple of gluten free goodies if I can fit in the points, for our 'department time,' which always includes home-made cakes. I have the perfect excuse to skip them this year though as none of them will be gluten free unless I do take my own. I will also take a lunch for Tuesday, just in case I need it, as I won't know until then what the canteen will be doing for lunch and whether there will be anything gluten free and low in points. For Wednesday they will probably do something gluten free for me once I have spoken to them. Thursday and Friday will be back to normal workday routine of breakfast, packed lunch and cooked evening meal, so those last two days should be easier.

I will be working my way through the freezer this week, so rough plans for evening meals include duck breasts in plum sauce, pizza with chorizo, one fish dish, rib eye steak with something (!) and something with turkey - maybe a black bean and turkey stew, with inspiration from Atomic Pink!

Rough lunchtime plans include veg soup tomorrow (oooh, actually, may make that a black bean and veg soup instead), Thursday and Friday - coronation turkey wrap/salad/stir fry, buckwheat pasta salad with some small smoked salmon and cream cheese canape type rolls I have in the freezer, possibly two canteen lunches on Tuesday and Wednesday - if not, then veg and lentil curry which I can reheat in the micronuker at work, jacket potato with tuna, that kind of thing...

Feel more organised having written it all down. I am now officially a woman with a plan!

 

[moonwatcher]

Right. Definitely bed time. Should really have been asleep a while ago as OH's alarm goes off at 5.00am, but got a bit side tracked on Minis! Night all! zzzzzzzzzz

 

[UKSerena]

Yep, you'll all keep me on the straight and narrow. Well apart from today that is...

Sunday 1st September

Breakfast - gluten free cereal flakes with sweetener and milk (5PP, with some milk left over for a couple of teas later)

Lunch\Dinner - last day of the holidays so once it brightened up this afternoon we popped out to the coast. Only managed about 45 mins walk as it was pretty cold and we hadn't really dressed for it. Popped into the pub at the seafront for chicken bbq melt with chips and peas, a bacardi and diet ginger ale, and a coffee. (26PP)

Snacks - somehow during the day 3 (yes 3!) Mrs Crimble's jam and coconut rings found their way into my mouth (15PP)

Other drinks - water, teas using leftover milk from breakfast and everything else already counted.

So grand totals for today are 46PP, 29 dailies and 17 dailies. Weeklies remaining - only 14. APs earned today - 3 and 16 APs for the week so far.

So, I will need to do some careful planning to get through the week with those 14 weeklies, as I usually have more than that left for Monday - Friday! Tomorrow will be no problem as OH is back at work and I will be getting ready for work the next day. Part of that getting ready is a major wardrobe sort out - definitely with some throwing out included. That should be enough to focus my mind on points! Tuesday and Wednesday are staff training and preparation days at school, so lunch, biscuits and cakes will be provided, but I will skip the cake and biscuits. May take a couple of gluten free goodies if I can fit in the points, for our 'department time,' which always includes home-made cakes. I have the perfect excuse to skip them this year though as none of them will be gluten free unless I do take my own. I will also take a lunch for Tuesday, just in case I need it, as I won't know until then what the canteen will be doing for lunch and whether there will be anything gluten free and low in points. For Wednesday they will probably do something gluten free for me once I have spoken to them. Thursday and Friday will be back to normal workday routine of breakfast, packed lunch and cooked evening meal, so those last two days should be easier.

I will be working my way through the freezer this week, so rough plans for evening meals include duck breasts in plum sauce, pizza with chorizo, one fish dish, rib eye steak with something (!) and something with turkey - maybe a black bean and turkey stew, with inspiration from Atomic Pink!

Rough lunchtime plans include veg soup tomorrow (oooh, actually, may make that a black bean and veg soup instead), Thursday and Friday - coronation turkey wrap/salad/stir fry, buckwheat pasta salad with some small smoked salmon and cream cheese canape type rolls I have in the freezer, possibly two canteen lunches on Tuesday and Wednesday - if not, then veg and lentil curry which I can reheat in the micronuker at work, jacket potato with tuna, that kind of thing...

Feel more organised having written it all down. I am now officially a woman with a plan!

I love a good plan ;-) In fact I think I might just do a meal plan for us for this week, hoping to make some super yummy things this week so need to make sure I fit them all in! Do you make your own GF Pizza Base?

Right. Definitely bed time. Should really have been asleep a while ago as OH's alarm goes off at 5.00am, but got a bit side tracked on Minis! Night all! zzzzzzzzzz

Minimins is highly addictive ;-) x Did u sleep well? X

 

[Candygirl69uk]

Look at you all Miss Organised lol! I have no idea what we are having for tea, just got in from work and my feet are killing me so just having lunch and a cuppa before I even think about this afternoons chores.

 

[moonwatcher]

I love a good plan ;-) In fact I think I might just do a meal plan for us for this week, hoping to make some super yummy things this week so need to make sure I fit them all in! Do you make your own GF Pizza Base?



Minimins is highly addictive ;-) x Did u sleep well? X

The bases tonight are ones that I was sent as a freebie when I joined the coeliac society. I will probably make them in the future though. I am thinking I will do two - one each for me and the OH, then save some to take in for tomorrow's lunch.

I did sleep well thanks. Went back to sleep after OH left for work, but was up by 7.30, so not too late a start for last day of my hols!

Look at you all Miss Organised lol! I have no idea what we are having for tea, just got in from work and my feet are killing me so just having lunch and a cuppa before I even think about this afternoons chores.

Lol! I will probably change my mind several times during the week, but it is good to have a kind of plan in mind. I have lived in flip flops or trainers all the holidays, so am not looking forward to wearing 'work shoes' again. I will no doubt be joining you with the aching feet later this week, although fortunately I don't have to stand all day.

Well I have had a very productive day today. Five loads of washing done, dried outside and mostly put away. I just have a few bits to iron. I have bleached my washing up bowls (I live an exciting life, don't I?), made a batch of yogurt, turned a dress into a skirt, and a pair of jeans into capri style - just have a little bit of sewing to do to finish them off. I've also sorted out our wardrobe completely, thrown away/donated four bin bags of clothes and old boots, done the same to my undies drawers, made soup for lunch, hoovered the house, defrosted and cleaned out the fridge (second fridge defrosting now - yep we have two fridges as well as two freezers!). My new phone has arrived and is charging now while I get one last load of washing in from the line and do the odd bits of ironing, then I'm gonna make pizza and butternut squash chips, maybe with a little garlic bread two, as I think I have enough points. Phew! Need to go back to work for a rest I think!

 

[UKSerena]

The bases tonight are ones that I was sent as a freebie when I joined the coeliac society. I will probably make them in the future though. I am thinking I will do two - one each for me and the OH, then save some to take in for tomorrow's lunch.

I did sleep well thanks. Went back to sleep after OH left for work, but was up by 7.30, so not too late a start for last day of my hols!

Lol! I will probably change my mind several times during the week, but it is good to have a kind of plan in mind. I have lived in flip flops or trainers all the holidays, so am not looking forward to wearing 'work shoes' again. I will no doubt be joining you with the aching feet later this week, although fortunately I don't have to stand all day.

Well I have had a very productive day today. Five loads of washing done, dried outside and mostly put away. I just have a few bits to iron. I have bleached my washing up bowls (I live an exciting life, don't I?), made a batch of yogurt, turned a dress into a skirt, and a pair of jeans into capri style - just have a little bit of sewing to do to finish them off. I've also sorted out our wardrobe completely, thrown away/donated four bin bags of clothes and old boots, done the same to my undies drawers, made soup for lunch, hoovered the house, defrosted and cleaned out the fridge (second fridge defrosting now - yep we have two fridges as well as two freezers!). My new phone has arrived and is charging now while I get one last load of washing in from the line and do the odd bits of ironing, then I'm gonna make pizza and butternut squash chips, maybe with a little garlic bread two, as I think I have enough points. Phew! Need to go back to work for a rest I think!

Wow! Your day tired me out!!! I hope u enjoy your Pizza Etc, think you deserve a yummy dinner after your hard work!!! How on earth do you make yogurt?!? What flavour is your soup? X

 

[Candygirl69uk]

The bases tonight are ones that I was sent as a freebie when I joined the coeliac society. I will probably make them in the future though. I am thinking I will do two - one each for me and the OH, then save some to take in for tomorrow's lunch.

I did sleep well thanks. Went back to sleep after OH left for work, but was up by 7.30, so not too late a start for last day of my hols!



Lol! I will probably change my mind several times during the week, but it is good to have a kind of plan in mind. I have lived in flip flops or trainers all the holidays, so am not looking forward to wearing 'work shoes' again. I will no doubt be joining you with the aching feet later this week, although fortunately I don't have to stand all day.

Well I have had a very productive day today. Five loads of washing done, dried outside and mostly put away. I just have a few bits to iron. I have bleached my washing up bowls (I live an exciting life, don't I?), made a batch of yogurt, turned a dress into a skirt, and a pair of jeans into capri style - just have a little bit of sewing to do to finish them off. I've also sorted out our wardrobe completely, thrown away/donated four bin bags of clothes and old boots, done the same to my undies drawers, made soup for lunch, hoovered the house, defrosted and cleaned out the fridge (second fridge defrosting now - yep we have two fridges as well as two freezers!). My new phone has arrived and is charging now while I get one last load of washing in from the line and do the odd bits of ironing, then I'm gonna make pizza and butternut squash chips, maybe with a little garlic bread two, as I think I have enough points. Phew! Need to go back to work for a rest I think!

Wow! Busy day! I managed naff all as I nodded off on the sofa I really need to sort my wardrobe so I can start putting stuff to one side for our hols, but every time I look at it I pull a face and think I'll do it tomorrow lol!

 

[everton04]

oh my god that's one busy day fair play to you

 

[Atomic pink]

I am exhausted just reading about all those tasks you managed in one day. Phew. You really know how to enjoy your last day of holiday don't you?? But I do think being so organised will definitely have benefits later in the week when you will feel much more in control of everything.

Hope the first day back today wasn't too bad. It will soon be half term!

 

[moonwatcher]

Yogurt is quite easy to make really Serena. You warm up milk to just finger hot and mix it with live yogurt or a yogurt starter which you can buy. Then you leave it either in a proper heated yogurt maker or a thermos flask for about 8 hours or overnight.

About to update with food for yesterday and today.

 

[UKSerena]

Yogurt is quite easy to make really Serena. You warm up milk to just finger hot and mix it with live yogurt or a yogurt starter which you can buy. Then you leave it either in a proper heated yogurt maker or a thermos flask for about 8 hours or overnight.

About to update with food for yesterday and today.

Wow that sounds so cool! Bet it tastes better than shop bought too? Do u flavour it? How long does it keep once made? X

 

[moonwatcher]

Food for Monday 2nd August

Breakfast - Greek yogurt and a drizzle of maple syrup (4PP)

Lunch - home made chunky courgette, lentil and tomato soup with chilli (4PP)

Dinner - two thirds of the gluten free pizza, with one ounce cheddar, tomatoes, olives, jalapenos, roast courgette and butternut squash chunks, half a gluten free roll with two teaspoons garlic butter (20PP and worth every point!)

Drinks - water, two teas with milk and one coffee with cream (3PP)

Total - 31PP, 29 dailies and 2 weeklies. Weeklies remaining 12. No official APs, but was busy enough!

 

[moonwatcher]

Today, Tuesday 3rd August

Was up at 6.00 this morning so I could dye my hair ready for work, then had breakfast of Greek yogurt and maple syrup (4PP)

Lunch - checked out the canteen first thing and all their sauces they buy in are gluten free as are their chips, so I could enjoy lunch with everyone else - hunter's chicken, mixed salad and half a portion of oven chips, followed by fresh fruit salad (12PP) I had taken the rest of the pizza with me just in case, but OH was quite happy to eat that for me when he got home!

Dinner - black bean, sweet potato, lime and turkey chermoula stew with green pepper and onions (10PP)

Snack - one Mrs Crimble's jam and coconut ring (5PP)

Drinks - milk in tea (1PP), water, black coffees

Total - 32 PP, 29 dailies and 3 weeklies. Weeklies remaining 9. One AP for walking to and from work.

Going to try and read a few diaries before bed (soon). Forgive me ladies, as I probably won't post, but will catch up with what you have been up to!

 

[StillTryingJoJo]

Dinner sounds oddly nice.. Is it a ww recipe hun xx

 

[Atomic pink]

Glad first day back wasn't too bad. Sounds very restrained points wise and its great news that so much of what the canteen does is gluten free anyway. Gives you a few more options at least.

 

[everton04]

That's amazing about the yogurt im defo gona try that

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[moonwatcher]

Wow that sounds so cool! Bet it tastes better than shop bought too? Do u flavour it? How long does it keep once made? X

I have used the packet yogurt culture, some of which have flavourings and they are pretty tasty, but usually I make it plain and add fruit or maple syrup to it when I eat it. It keeps pretty well in the fridge - as long as shop bought yogurt. Sometimes it comes out a bit thin, but then I just strain it through some muslin or cheesecloth for a while to strain some of the liquid out. Apparently you can then use the strained whey in place of buttermilk in recipes, but I've not tried that (yet).

Dinner sounds oddly nice.. Is it a ww recipe hun xx

No, I just made it up... fry onion in a spray of frylight and a spray of olive oil, add sweet potato chunks and the chermoula spices and fry gently with a bit more frylight. Then add water, a knorr stock cube (I used a chicken one), a chopped gteen pepper and some drained tinned black beans. Once the sweet potato was cooked I added the cooked turkey and heated gently until the meat was really hot. Lastly, I stirred in a couple of good slugs of sugar free lime cordial. It was very good and you can adjust the quantities to suit what you have. I would have used butternut squash to reduce the points, but I had run out

Glad first day back wasn't too bad. Sounds very restrained points wise and its great news that so much of what the canteen does is gluten free anyway. Gives you a few more options at least.

Yes, the canteen girls were really helpful. Today I had their veg curry and rice. Pupils start tomorrow, so that is when the work starts!

That's amazing about the yogurt im defo gona try that

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It is worth a go, and very satisfying! If you google it you'll find plenty of info about it.

 

[moonwatcher]

Should also have given credit for the chermoula black bean, sweet potato, turkey and lime stew to Atomic Pink, as it was inspired by her black bean stew from the other day.

 

[moonwatcher]

Frustrating day today at work as the IT department have upgraded our systems, which always means everything crashes! Couldn't get onto the system until after the time I should have finished, so stayed behind to do some preparation for tomorrow as there won't be any time then.

Then when I got home, the hospital had called but I had missed them because I was late. They didn't leave a message and there was no-one there when I rang back. If I had finished on time I would have been here for the call. They had said they would write with my results, so now I'm wondering why they rang instead and if there is something untoward which they wanted to speak about instead of writing. Usually they write if everything is OK. I will have to ring them from work tomorrow, which isn't ideal, but if I don't I will probably be too late again to speak to them by the time I get in.

Anyway, food for today...

Breakfast - yogurt with maple syrup (4PP)

Lunch from canteen - veg curry with rice, meringue and fresh fruit (10PP)

Dinner - gluten free spaghetti with a knob of garlic roule, olives, jalapenos, some sliced chorizo, grated cheddar cheese and cherry tomatoes (13PP)

Snacks - Mrs Crimble's coconut jam ring (5PP)

Drinks - water, black coffee, milk in teas (1PP)

Total 33PP, 29 dailies and 4 weeklies. Weeklies remaining 5. One AP from walking to and from work.

Lunch tomorrow will probably be turkey mayo wrap or roll with tomatoes and cucumber and dinner will be fish with sweet potato and veg.

 

[Atomic pink]

I am sure the phone call from the hospital isn't anything to worry about. But fingers crossed you manage to get hold of them today to put your mind at rest.

IT upgrades are the bane of my life at present too. Grrrrrrr. They always manage to mess things up.

Really like the sound of that spaghetti dish. Bought a big jar of jalapenos the other week inspired by all the jalapeno action that was going on on other people's diaries so now have another thing to add to their uses