Teetering on the brink

Cherryfudge

They turn into brittle crumbs, but that doesn't matter in a curry!

EatingBeans

Weight today is 204.2lbs, a fraction down on yesterday. ✅

Sunday is the end of the week for my weigh-ins so average for this short week is 204.8 (14stone 8.4lb), down from my starting weight of 206.4 (14stone 10.4lbs), a loss of 1.6lbs! 🎉

Breakfast this morning is another smoothie courtesy of Olio. 😋

I feel back in the zone now. Bring on September! 💪

joedenise

That's a good loss.  Losing 1-2lb a week is the best aim as it's more likely to stay off that way - much better than any crash diet.

EatingBeans

Pottered off to Tesco to pick up shavings for the guinea pigs, black bags and lemon juice. I managed to buy it all with the extra change I found so still no new spend on my card. 🎉 The black bags and shavings were essential. The lemon juice was definitely not but it means I can have a go at making pesto with all the salad leaves. I opted for a bottle of juice over fresh as it tends to keep longer and I will be able to use it for other things. 🤞

Lunch has been a lovely roast chicken baguette with half a bag of bistro salad leaves on it. 🤣 With the exception of the dairy free spread, everything came from Olio. 

I’ve discovered another benefit of Olio is it helps decide what I am going to have as a meal. Instead of asking myself “what do I fancy?”, I simply have to ask what needs using up first. Everything that can be frozen from my Olio collections I freeze, narrowing down the options from the must be used asap pile. And I let the dds pick out anything they will eat from the pile first so the decision ends up pretty much made for me. 😁 The only problem then is avoiding just eating everything and ruining my diet! 

EatingBeans

Glad to report that 6 bags of salad leaves have now been turned into pesto. Making it was rather more messy than I imagined (those darn leaves have a mind of their own!), but it tastes remarkably good once made. I froze it into small ice cubes and I very much look forward to testing it once thawed. If it is as nice coming out the freezer as it is going in then I will most definitely be using that idea again in future! I love the added flavour dimension that salad leaves can bring, but with my Trigeminal Neuralgia I sometimes find the chewing necessary to eat the leaves sets the pain off. It will be awesome if this works to add the flavour but without the chewing! 🤞

joedenise

Glad to hear it worked @EatingBeans and it's tasty.  Imagine it would be very good with pasta almost like a sauce.

Cherryfudge

Yay for the pesto - one (or more?) of your five a day as well! Pesto and pasta is wonderful comfort food.

biggerpickle

Hope the pesto works - I had pasta and a use up veg pasta sauce yesterday, not that tasty and I have the remains to "look forward to" this evening 

EatingBeans

End of month round up for August complete. 

End of	Dec-24	Mar-25	Jun-25	Jul-25	Aug-25
Brother	5,400.00	5,300.00	5,150.00	8,100.00	7,950.00
Overdraft owed	1,349.90	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
MBNA CC	10,534.20	11,292.77	11,990.56	12,073.22	11,531.06
Barclaycard CC	9,667.21	7,725.50	8,849.65	9,725.88	9,771.80
Fluid CC	0.00	752.50	722.50	712.50	809.75
NatWest CC	12,018.14	11,752.41	11,774.26	12,171.46	11,814.72
Aqua	0.00	0.00	0.00	342.08	1,147.94
Total debt	38,969.45	36,823.18	38,486.97	43,125.14	43,025.27
Paid off in the month		360.42	-585.91	-4,638.17	99.87
Total paid off 2025		2,146.27	482.48	-4,155.69	-4,055.82

EatingBeans

biggerpickle said:

Hope the pesto works - I had pasta and a use up veg pasta sauce yesterday, not that tasty and I have the remains to "look forward to" this evening 

Oh no, that’s not good! 🙁 Hopefully it is one of those things that get better with age? 🙏

I am really hoping the pesto is still good as I have made quite a lot!