To ask what you've eaten today...

[Smotheroffive]

...and how much exercise you got?

Very interested to hear what amount and type of food people's daily diet consists of,and whether it's obviously a lot more or less than I eat, or more nutritious or not.

I had a day without exercise so far, total consumption two slices of home-bake bread, a cup large mug of tea, and 2 x that of coffee.

Planning to eat a jacket pot for dinner now, with beans and a little grated cheese. Oh, and an orange for breakfast.

I am a few stone overweight, from Christmas excesses, but steadily losing it. (Not mentally, I mean weight!)

Yeah, smother we use it on all sorts : yogurt, ice cream, on its own, in smoothies, on roast pork, DH has it on toast, the kids eat it for dessert with Granola ...

24lbs of apples turned into apple sauce. Should last a few days at least....

Just no! Why can't I fathim 24lbs, like one and half stone of apples. Is that many? How many, like a hundred apples or something, or more, to peel, core and chop and cook. Do you have a machine to do this, is it called halfwitpicker?!

...and how many pints of sauce? Where do you get them all...and have you found a good value/quality source...so many questions!

How do you even manage to carry such a huge quantity with all your other shopping, or do you have them delivered by the sack load? But how long does it take to peel etc...do you peel etc?

B - x2 buttermilk pancakes and maple syrup (leftovers from yesterday’s bday treat).

L - tuna salad sandwich wholmeal bread and half pack of plain baked crisps.

D - homemade vegetable curry, rice, half a garlic naan.

Snacks - banana, orange, graze flapjack, liberte yogurt.

Drinks - lots of water, three brews.

Exercise - 9 miles walked (dog walker but it’s a quiet day). Half hour yoga.

2 eggs done in frylight on two small slices of toast with butter

Crudités and dip

Leftover stir fry
Yogurt and honey
WW protein bar

Chilli with tbsp sour cream and 25g cheese. Chilli was leftovers from freezer, didn't have rice as cba to cook it

Percy pig (last one in packet?

@halfwitpicker - apples!

Me today....hour walk

B. Two sm slices fruited loaf buttered, rooibos T,ss.milk
L. Banana, espresso, ss.milk
D. Sm red lentil curry apple strudel/cream for dessert.
Snax eve. One bowl of salt n sugar popcorn
2 tsp sugar

Lol at the questions!

Apples :

24lbs ($4.00 per bag, 6 lbs in a bag, 4 bags ). Live abroad where apples are very cheap and plentiful!

Chop each apple into quarters. No need to peel or core. Put in a massive pan. Add 2 inches of water. Simmer till apples are soft (half an hour). I did 4 large pans full of apples.

Put apples into a (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foodmill) foodmill, once it's all been pushed through its completely smooth, no pips or skin etc. You can use a food mill to puree all sorts of stuff, veg, tomatoes etc. Probably rendered in total about 15 pints of apple sauce, approximately.

I've attached a pic of the finished product, but only because it's you, smotheroffive! As you can see it's pink : because the apples were red, and unpeeled!

www.finecooking.com/article/choosing-the-right-food-mill

Hope this link works....

Oh my, wow! Still wow, 15 pints of apple sauce! How awesome, I do have a similar thing that pushes product through a seive, saving the back of wooden spoon across seive exercise, to strain things!

Thank you @halfwitpicker

Not much variation on yesterday, except it has been a hungry day

2 eggs on 2 small slices of toast with reduced fat butter

Tomato soup (tin)
Half pot of mango

Funsize twix and banana

Fajitas

Friday

Toast, coffee

Chicken and bacon wrap
Yogurt, honey and raspberries
Bag of pufts

Banana

Stir fry (leftovers)

Then it went a bit skewiff 😂 had a tiny WW biscuit while out walking, had a small bowl of the new halo top candy ice cream that tastes like snickers, then had a bag of pop chips , well ww version of, and 37g chocolate pretzels

Not amazingly healthy 😀 but enjoyable. One thing I like about WW is the weekly points, so I can afford to have a bit of a blow out on a weekend

Sat

Fudge and chocolate chip hot cross buns with scraping of butter

Options hot chocolate post walk (got soaked in rain and dog refused to go any further in sulk so had to carry the cantankerous bugger the last half mile home, she hates rain)

Went out with friends for coffee and had an americano with semi skimmed milk. Resisted all nice cakes and instead took a ww bar. Did buy a chocolate chunk cookie for whenever.

Homemade turkey burger with slice of cheese on top and roast peppers, in a roll, with sweet potato fries (weighed out), salad and ketchup

Then had 1/4 of the chocolate chunk cookie, dad had the other 1/4 and I have half left

Not the most shining example of health this weekend, limited on the fruit and veg.

Am craving real food now, not junk. Breakfast was eggs on toast. Snack I have satsumas, grapes and mango, and am drinking more water. Lunch is a wrap, probably yogurt and honey. May have pufts, may not. Tea is a lamb tagine. Not decided whether to have rest of cookie, kit kat or nothing, for evening snack. Will see how I feel

Mind you, I did resist a Domino's Friday and a Chinese takeaway Saturday, when my parents were getting it. The smell was lush but I resisted , am proud. Will still have dominos 😀 but atm I can't afford it and I want to see it as a special occasion thing, not an I can't be arsed cooking, thing

Are WW bars enjoyable or a form of punishment ?!

Friday b. Slice toast slice melon T ss.milk
L. Bean medley espresso ss.milk
D. Sm.Lamb teriyaki, side of curried prawn, and bowl of greens in soy/garlic
Much red wine with guests.
3 tsp sugar

Saturday
B. T ss.milk
L.Prepared meal katsu chicken curry. Espresso.ss.milk
D. Prep. Meal, fit kitchen lamb rogan josh w rice
Esp.with ss.milk
Dessert, melon and banana w cream

Today.
Slice toasted h.made white bread with thin butter and marmalade
L/dinner bowl of steamed tenderstem broccoli, side of spiced mixed beans. Esp.ss.milk
3 tsp sugar

No breakfast or lunch and then Homemade cottage pie, carrots and peas and homemade blackberry and apple crumble and custard for dinner. Walked the dog three miles earlier and will be doing similar in about five minutes.

Tbh, 1995 I have gone off pizza, and Chinese, so that wouldn't be a hard to resist for me, because they are both so loaded with salt and flavourings, not fresh seeming. Both things I used to love! Funny how tastes change according to what one eats! eventually

B: omlette with ham, cheese and tomato.
L: chicken fillet, skyr yogurt and an apple
D: Salmon with roasted veg and steamed broccoli.
Also a latte and numerous cups of tea. Possibly a glass of red wine tonight

An hours fast walk.
Handful of nuts (mixed), whole orange, and some cheese 'peelings'

smother I do quite like the ww protein raspberry ones, they are quite nice. I hope my taste buds will change eventually! I mean I do like fresh food like stir fries etc but am still v partial to a Domino's

Been v busy / stressed last few days and not bothered updating here. 0.5lb loss, weekends are the issue and I need to sort it.

Today's been

2 small slices of toast with reduced fat butter

Sandwich with chicken tikka filler. Yogurt and honey.

2 satsumas

Beef stir fry (leftovers from last night)

Cup of tea and 2 jammy dodgers

Keep it up 1995! I haven't been either!

1 hr fast walk (in the snow - that's got to be worth some extra lost calories!)

B. T ss.milk 1 x HXBun, toasted buttered
L. Espresso ss.milk
Espresso ss.milk
D. Whole fresh lemon pancakes, with sugar
Salt n white wine vinegar popcorn
Prob.10 taps sugar

Yesterday
Lots of hxbuns! Saus.raw baby plum toms. 2 x eggs.
Whole fresh orange
T and 2 x espresso with ss.milk
Lots of popcorn, (salt and vinegar)

Oh and beef and red wine ravioli portion

I've woken up full of cold do no breakfast just lots of tea, lunch half a tin of chunky beef soup, 1 fibre one go bar at 4 pm, tea was grilled steak and low fat Mac and cheese, bed time snack 2ryvita fruit crunch and a pink lady apple. Sat in my PJs all day because off feeling hot and cold

B: natural yoghurt w raspberries
L: pasta w mushrooms
D: small portion of chicken tikka massala
S: loads of chocolate and crisps
Had a few bits of husbands beef and black bean dish from a Chinese
Lots of tea

Aren't we supposed to have 10 portions fruit n veg a day!! Failing....badly....some days loads, live as a veggie, but other days rubbish!

Sorry to hear of yuk cold truffle interesting called you truffle as opposed to the healthier raspberry!