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Wednesday Week

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Mince pies – time to start testing

Yes, it’s Wednesday, sometimes called “Hump Day” according to the internet. This may be true in the USA but here we just call it Wednesday. It wouldn’t be accurate for me anyway, as a lot of my working life has encompassed Saturdays and Sundays. The track is Wednesday Week by the Undertones. It’s one of those songs that you remember when you put it on.  Otherwise it just slips you mind.

Not much happened today. I did a few minor bits and pieces and looked for my motivation. Unfortunately I couldn’t find it, but I did find some cheese on toast and two boxes of junk to sort out. I now have just one box of junk, so it hasn’t been a wasted day. However, do not fear – I still have plenty more to sort out.

Foodwise, I am on 22 plant based food sources, with four of them being things I didn’t eat last week. I’ve not made such a thing of it this week as I did last week. Avocado for lunch and a decent helping of veg for tea tomorrow night should see me most of the way there. I haven’t planned as well as I did last week so I may have a few things less than last week but it will still be over 30. It feels a bit like failure, but you can’t keep finding new things to eat without proper planning. This week I thought I’d just coast along and see what happened, so I’m not too disappointed. I have still done 30.

Baking tomorrow – Julia wants cheese scones, I want banana and walnut loaf and I’m thinking of doing an apple bread pudding. Then maybe a rice pudding, fruit scones or a ginger cake. It’s a case of using all the oven space. If I’m going to have the oven on I may as well fill it. The main problem will be finding enough energy to eat it all.

The Final Countdown

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Sorry, I have never really mastered the art of cutting and pasting from a table. There are 36 items here, all of which count towards my 30 a week. Unfortunately I don’t seem to be able to get them to transfer in a compact manner. I will write the post and if you want to look at the things you can look down the heavily spaced list.

I’ve also had black pepper, Henderson’s Relish, soy sauce, vegetarian sausages (which should count as a sort of fungus), cinnamon, mixed spice, nutmeg, fresh ginger, crystalised ginger (bought by mistake, but nice to eat), garlic, garlic paste, lemon juice and zest, curry sauce and seasoning from a kit and mango chutney. Using the suggested quarter point method for spice and stuff like that, I’m claiming two points for the combined condiments and a point for the sausages which are some sort of fungus. That comes to 39, using the points system. I’m going to stick at 36 as I don’t want to start splitting hairs. They already let you have red and white cabbage as separate things, for instance, so it’s not that difficult, and it seems rude to quibble over the seasoning.

Poppy Brooch – beads and safety pins

Next week starts tomorrow and I will be keeping my target a 30, but trying to have ten things that I didn’t have this week.  That will include courgette,  2 colours of pepper, wholemeal pasta, wholemeal bread, cashew nuts, avocado, sweetheart cabbage, red lentils and red kidney beans. That’s ten. I’m buying wholemeal now, where I often had processed white bread and pasta, so the counting is already altering my diet for the better.

Now I’m off to look at the colours of my diet.

Pictures – October 2018

 

 

Apple
Apricots
Bananas
Beans, baked (haricot)
Beans, green
Blueberries
Broccoli
Brussels Sprouts
Cabbage, red
Cabbage, white
Carrots
Cauliflower

Chickpeas
Coffee
Lamb’s Lettuce
Leeks
Lettuce
Mixed dried fruit
Mushrooms
Nuts – Brazil
Oats
Onions, red
Onions, spring
Orange
Parsnips
Pear
Peas, Garden
Pineapple
Potatoes
Strawberries
Swede
Sweet potato
Sweetcorn
Tea
Tomato
Wholewheat TESCO “Weetabix”