As The Workhouse Approaches....How To Do Everything To Avoid It, the Old Style Way

Kitchenbunny

Another update today - I've planted a few shallots (literally just stuck them in a tub as a friend recommended to do) to see if they grow. I'll be watching them avidly! I had a nice little daydream in my lunch hour planning my vegetable patch when I can have a proper one. I thought a raised bed 4ft by 3ft, divided into 1 sq ft sections. Not sure if I can manage it as I need to do some more research, but I quite fancy the idea of at least having something in every month of the year so planting with a view to cropping something every month. I wonder if I can manage it... *ponders*

Tonight is my night off exercising to give my muscles a chance to recover a bit. Then, it'll be daily yoga/flexibility exercising until I tone up some more. I suppose I could do some Pilates or something but I feel like having a night off. Unfortunately, the blackbird's eggs in the nest in our garden have gone; eaten, I think, by a crow. They were there yesterday. A shame, but it is nature I guess. Just an omelette for tea as I don't fancy anything heavy.

KB xx

EstherH

bluebag wrote: »

I use frozen peppers, onions and mushrooms, no waste, no preparation, no short use by date, easy to add to many dishes. I use red lentils in any dish that uses mince.

Frozen fruits are good too, use in low fat cobblers with yogurt, or in muffins, defrost friut slightly and whizz into yogurt or low fat custard.

Hi Bluebag, how do you make low fat cobblers please?

EstherH

bluebag wrote: »

To all the girlies dieting, try using more pulses and beans, filling, high fibre and cheap.

Tinned and frozen veg are just as good too, the value brands are quite cheap, remember to drain all the syrup off first though.

Another question. On my packet of dried soup mix, it gives a calorie count of around 75 I think for an eighty gram portion. Is that eighty grams dried weight or cooked weight? Sorry if this is a daft question.

mardatha

We should sort out some recipes for good filling soups - made from garden veg - to keep warm this winter. Also you can make soup with anything really - old lettuce makes nice stock. Because you get tired of salads all the time.

juliethemuse

i am being really good re dieting, went shopping at @sdas , and i bought extra friut n veg, no wine, sherry, choccies, white bread, naughty sugary cereals,
or my beloved cheese and onion crisps, got quorn too,
love quorn, but havent had any for ages, as its a bit expensive, quite looking forward to seeing what the scales say next week,
but we havent got a car and walk absolutely everywhere, so i cant understand it, well yes i can those bl00dy cheese and onion crisps,
beautiful day here in Cambs. tommorow i must get some gardening done the grass is growing like crazy,
and the weeds are everywhere,

Seakay

for 5 fruit and veg a day purposes 1 portion of cooked pulses is 3 heaped tablespoonfuls.
Hope that this helps!

ceridwen

While peeps are talking about diets - my two pennorth is that I'm pretty safe with not having excess food now. I'm a slow eater anyway (which helps give my stomach time to start feeling full before I shovel any more food in my mouth) - but I still often felt in need of a second course of something or other at dinnertime. I've been able to virtually stop that nagging feeling of still feeling a bit hungry by having a small drink of milk (made less calorific anyway by the fact that I buy full-fat milk and have it diluted 2 parts milk:1 part water for everything except my coffee). That is usually enough to "fill out the gaps" between morsels of food in my stomach and I dont want any more to eat. The odd time when it doesnt work and I still feel hungry - I'll wait a wee while (10-20 minutes) to check I still do and then I do allow myself some more food at that point. I just found out by accident more than design that this usually works for me.

My downfall is if/when:cool: anything stressful happens I have a tendency to have a glass or two of wine to try and relax and forget the stress incident. That usually works for the purpose - but I'm then annoyed with myself about the calories and cost I've just consumed. So - if anyone has any tips for quick/easy stress relief after a "stress incident" that dont involve said calories/cost I'd be pleased to hear them:)

scottishminnie

frosty wrote: »

Why do you have to kill moles,they dont know they are digging up your lawn,they are just doing what moles do.We lived on a small holding and had heaps of moles...I believe every animal has the right to live.:(

Don't mean to upset any animal lovers but if we don't killl them they just come back and cause more damage. The hundreds of acres of farmland round my garden should be ample for them so they shouldn't need my garden too.
I've been around farms all my life so I guess I just have a different view on pest control and killing animals. It's just part of life to me.


Anyway on that cheery note I'm off to make marshmallow apple bake. I have some wizened cooking apples that need using up and a big bag of marshmallows that have passed the use by date. I'm sure they will be fine though (if I don't ever post again you'll know they weren't - either that or the moles got revenge:D)

oldtractor

I am going to turn into a fish. it was kippers for breakfast,lunch was cabbage cauliflower and cold left over sliced beef with gravy. snack has been an orange. dinner was peppered smoked mackrel with sliced tomato and cold spicy red red cabbage left over from t'other day. also a slice of hm wholemeal bread . sliced tinned peaches for pudding. tomorrow its eggs for breakfat.

frosty

scottishminnie wrote: »

Don't mean to upset any animal lovers but if we don't killl them they just come back and cause more damage. The hundreds of acres of farmland round my garden should be ample for them so they shouldn't need my garden too.



I don't think moles pop out of their holes and say "wow look at that nice garden,I think I will go dig it up"they are just doing what nature intended.May be I am too soft,I look after hedgehogs through the winter and take in homeless creatures and see a lot of animals suffering.I think people who ill treat animals should come back as that animal and feel the pain they caused.I dont mean to cause offence its just my view.