Making chicken feed of my mortgage

muddywhitechicken

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How did your day pan out?

Not bad...

* 1 hour gym
* 22,000+ steps
* 1 crumpet with 1 tsp peanut butter + 1/2 banana for breakfast, overnight oats with 1/2 banana, berries + fat-free natural yogurt for lunch, carrot soup with quinoa + feta for dinner, nectarine + small box of raisins for snacks, 1/4 pint of 1% milk
* gardening
* minimal housework (1 load of laundry + the washing up)
* just about to wash my face and go to bed

muddywhitechicken

I've spent another £70.43 of the grocery budget this weekend :eek: (although that does include £10 on a pug duvet cover & pillowcase for our pug-crazy niece!) and fruit & veg continues to account for approx. 50% of my spends. Perhaps my challenge for next week should be to reduce my fruit consumption :think:

We switched gas suppliers on Friday and I had my final bill from sse yesterday - £30.63 in credit :T

Plans for today = same as yesterday + pick & cook gooseberries + send photo of hen-pecked compost bin to manufacturer (I spoke to them last week at the flower show and they might be able to send me a fix) + ironing

muddywhitechicken

I suppose there are worse things than F&V to be addicted to buying but this is ridiculous:

Fruit - mango, cherries, strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, nectarines x 6, bananas x 5, apples - 2 x eating, 3 x cooking, pears x 4, lemon, lime, watermelon, pineapple + gooseberries & rhubarb in the garden

Vegetables - sweet potato, new potatoes, onions, red onions, butternut squash, leek, celery, aubergine, white cabbage, avocado, lettuce, spring onions, carrots, cherry tomatoes, green beans, cauliflower, cucumber, fennel, mushrooms, chilies, herbs, spinach* + courgettes, chard & padron peppers in the garden

* bought for the The Girls but I'm sure they won't mind if I take a handful

:o:o

So the plan is:

Monday
Breakfast - banana + crumpet + peanut butter
Snacks - mango/strawberries/carrots/cauliflower
Dinner - baked sweet potato with guacamole (1/2 avocado/cherry tomatoes/red onion/chili/coriander/lime) + something with mushrooms

Tuesday
Breakfast - berries/banana in overnight oats
Lunch - coleslaw (white cabbage/carrots/fennel/celery/onion) + roast chicken
Snacks - mango/cherries/watermelon/cauliflower
Dinner - broccoli/leek/lemon/basil in barley & broccoli risotto

Wednesday
Breakfast - stewed apple with weetabix
Lunch - leek/spinach/parsley/celery/carrot/red onion/lettuce in feta frittatas with carrot & celery salad
Snacks - cherries/nectarine/watermelon/cauliflower
Dinner - green beans/cucumber/spring onions/mint/lemon/red onion/apple/beetroot in green rice with apple, walnut & beetroot salsa

Thursday
Breakfast - stewed apple or banana/LO berries with weetabix
Lunch - LOs from Tuesday & Wednesday
Snacks - nectarine/watermelon/pineapple
Dinner - aubergine/coriander/red onion/lemon in Moroccan aubergine & chickpea salad + if I have enough WW points, a lamb chop

Friday
Breakfast - stewed apple with weetabix
Lunch - LOs from Tuesday & Wednesday
Snacks - nectarine/pineapple/apple
Dinner - red pepper/onions/chili in huevos rancheros

So not quite the meal plan I'd planned but hopefully one that will use my stash before it spoils!

muddywhitechicken

And whilst I'm on the subject of food (again!), Mr MWC cooked lamb chops with honey & walnut salsa verde earlier in the week - definitely a keeper :drool:

muddywhitechicken

Aargh as if I didn't already have too much fruit, I've been to the bottom of the garden to pick gooseberries (to be stewed and frozen) and there were raspberries & blackberries ready to pick too - they've gone straight into the freezer.

Off for a walk now as I've only done 10,000 steps so far today

earthgirl

All that fruit sounds amazing!

muddywhitechicken

* 1 hour gym
* 15,500 steps
* ate healthily (porridge with banana & cinnamon for breakfast, tuna nicoise salad for lunch, LO carrot soup with quinoa & feta for dinner, small bunch of black grapes and nectarine for snacks)
* heading to bed now

Eggs IN 7 (4 yesterday, 3 today)
Eggs OUT 1 (hard-boiled in my salad)

muddywhitechicken

Our freezer malfunctioned overnight so a 26-mile detour on my way to work to put the meat in FIL''s freezer :eek:

Plans for tonight:

* talk nicely to the freezer and clean it's coils
* talk especially nicely to the fridge
* figure out if there's anything I can do with the remaining freezer contents and if there is do it
* walk at least 650 steps

Karmacat

Cleaning the coils at the back of the f/f - yep, thats definitely a job I need to do ... soon

I'm glad you could save the meat, MWC!

muddywhitechicken

It wasn't as bad as I thought it might be (considering that I can't remember ever doing it before ) I have a fan blowing cool air on it now - fingers crossed!