7th January
I want to sing like the birds sing, not
worrying who listens or what they think. Rumi
My niece is 18 today, it doesn’t seem that
long since I was – scary stuff, I’m now over twice her age and life is whizzing
by, it really is, which is another reason I stopped trying to be someone I wasn’t
because I haven’t got enough years left to be messing about!
It’s also why I stopped beating myself up
about stuff such as my weight! I will
always try to eat healthy and keep my weight down to an acceptable number but I
will never throw a guilt trip over enjoying my food or overeating – it just
doesn’t work. I’m glad the first week of
January is done and dusted, I always find that a strange one, and knew there
was no way I was going to be angelic on the eating front, but that didn’t stop me
trying to do my best.
All the cheese has now gone apart from a
bit of stilton which I can control my consumption of. I made a large bath of cheesy pasta sauce yesterday
and froze most of it. I cooked
courgettes, onions, carrots, red pepper in my actifry with 2pp worth of oil,
then added them to a pan of tinned tomatoes x 2, puree, spinach, 2 x 200g
phildelphia extra light (12pp) and mixed pieces of cheese (30pp). I flavoured
it with pepper, dried mustard and garlic salt and then portioned it up ready
for the freezer, it all worked out at about 2pp per 100g, which is ok as 200g
with be a decent portion served on 40g of pasta (4pp), which will be lunch
today for 6pp total.
I might defrost some minced beef today and
make taco mince, I quite like that, there are the taco shells but I might have
it with mashed potato, will need to work out the ProPoints, think the taco mix
from memory is 3pp, and lean beef mince is 4pp per 100g, the shells are apparently
3pp each according to esource, I always double check though with the packet,
just to be on the safe side ;)
Couldn’t help myself I’ve just been and got
the box, how ridiculous is the nutritional information, it says for each taco
and then in brackets add, (taco shell, spice mix & salsa as sold)! I don’t eat the salsa sauce I don’t like
it. Anyway the nutritional info works
out at 3pp per taco which isn’t bad. The
instructions say to add 500g beef mince, now this is where you can save loads
of ProPoints, because beef mince is 30pp for 500g, but if you buy lean (10%
fat) it goes down to 22pp, or extra lean (5% fat) is only 16pp and extra lean
counts as Filling & Healthy too. The only other ingredient that needs
ProPoints is the 125g cheese which is 14pp so the total would be per shell
using ordinary mince;
Mince = 30pp
Shells = 30pp
Cheese = 14pp
Total recipe 74pp
There
are ten shells in the box working out at 7pp for 1 shells or 15pp for 2 shells however if you use
the extra lean mince that would go down to total 60pp, and 6pp for 1 shell or
12pp for 2 shells.
Sorry I got carried away then working it
all out, I think I’d rather have mashed potato with my taco mince and to be
honest I can live without the cheese too.
That’d bring my dinner down to 250g potato = 5pp and 200g taco beef
mince 5pp (as mine is the 10% fat mince), a really healthy hearty meal for 10pp
and I’ll be adding veggies to bulk it out even more.
Well now I’ve planned my meals, I’ll be
off, sorry if that was a bit boring, but consider it a master class in meal
planning and recipe building! We’re
looking at the importance of planning in meetings this week, hope to see you
all.
Here’s to a very healthy, happy, on track
week for all.
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