Share Your Day
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It's my husband's birthday today so many calories will be enjoyed!
Breakfast will be homemade sourdough, toasted and topped with jersey butter and fig conserve.
Lunch will be a ham salad sandwich on granary bread and a mini cherry bakewell (from the bakery, not Mr Kipling) - which we'll eat on the hoof as we're spending the day spectating at a cyclocross race. At least this guarantees plenty of steps!
Dinner will be bruschetta followed by tagliatelle al ragù (took me 4 hours to make an authentic ragù yesterday, which has now matured overnight to deepen the flavour)...glass or two of vino...gelato for dessert.
Not a rainbow of veg in sight...not to mention a distinct lack of fibre...and not an awful lot of protein either.
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Bruschetta is/can be colourful. Ragus can most certainly be colourful! Young lady, your complete rainbow-denials are suspect!
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It was all delicious! And hardly any steps (not even 10,000) to offset all those calories! Who knew there was such limited opportunity to walk at a cyclocross race?!
I reckon I’ve eaten about 2,500 calories today (so about 250-500 calories above maintenance)...and still a few hours until bedtime, so the total may be higher by the time I turn in. . I’m ok with that...3 -
Next year maybe you need to be the one pulling jumps on a bike!?!?!?! Looks hard on whatever part lands hard though, especially if it is an arm or a leg and the ground is involved!!!!
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Did my final grocery shopping for Thanksgiving. It’s not going to be a big production- just the three of us. I also put up all the Christmas decor, tree, lights yesterday. Wrapped the gifts already bought. I know it’s early but I like to spend the last few weeks of December doing fun stuff like visiting light displays in town, making baked goods for friends, parties, concerts or plays.....
Tomorrow I’ll begin working on the Christmas cards. I know it’s a dying custom but I do enjoy it. Our mail system is so bad lately it takes a week for a card to get across town much less across country. Then on to finishing a knitting project and some sewing.4 -
Evening all! Recovered from walking Edinburgh, back to Yorkshire yesterday & in rainy Lancashire today watching the youngest play footy got soaked through & really cold! Guess it’s winter proper! Good scales week, still slowly moving in the right direction, despite being away …..lots to think about moving forward!
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I did way too much shopping yesterday. Kohl's started their Black Friday prices. I had already planned on going there to pick up a couple Christmas gifts but I ended up also buying myself a few things. I got some new pillows including a memory foam one and a long flannel nightgown for when it gets really cold. Also a soft and fuzzy sweatshirt that will be comfy to wear working from home. Plus a few more things.
Then I went to Barnes and Noble to look at cookbooks. I ended up buying 2 that were in their discounted area (an anti inflammatory book and an Irish Pub one) . Then off to the discount bookstore where I found one of the books I was actually looking for (The Flexitarian Diet). Finally I ordered yet another one on Amazon that was cheaper there then the store (Vegetarian Instant Pot).
Now... to actually USE all those cookbooks!3 -
Sounds like a nice shopping expedition!
I'm looking at some coffee machine contraptions.
My main beef is that I want a pav proof loading the water wide mouth receptacle and a pav proof carafe to reduce the spilling the water and spillng the coffee everywhere!
I admit that the two times I had nesspresso I was impressed; but I'm more of an Android and non proprietary than an iPhone and proprietary solution person 😹
Might be I'm overthinking it! The Hamilton Beach dual carafe + refillable pod machine was really good. But the main reservoir all of a sudden started leaking water everywhere at the one and a half year mark 🙀🤬
Cookbooks would be a dangerous thing for me😇1 -
I'm a Hamilton Beach fan....and geez, today, a year and a half is almost good
I don't (didn't) drink coffee though (not in a couple of decades, but I might be adding a cup a day to replace the nicotine that use to "pump me up")...so my advice isn't very useful. Though - I have found finding a friend on my morning walk route, who really likes their coffee making devices and is pleased to serve you a fancy, delicious, Machiatto, has been a very good coffee discovery for me!1 -
Spent the morning making healthy one pot meals.
This is 2.21 kg red lentil and veggie dahl. Seven x 315g portions, 116 cals and 10.8g fibre per portion.
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Yep looks like a dinner or two. Max 😹
Won't vouch about what would happen the next morning though! 🙀🤔😹0 -
Today, after being talked to with abuse, gaslighting, denial, and an expectation that he should somehow know everything without being told/taught for 45 minutes, Boyfriend told me he was going to have to leave the job he just got. I got him to agree to talking to his manager's boss (who is the person who hired him) and express that he can't work with his manager any more; he has no confidence in her ability to give him accurate feedback. They may be able to have him report to someone else or work on another team or transfer to another section, but if not, he is prepared and willing to resign and to go start job searching again.
I'm actually really proud of him for being willing to say, "I will not stay at this job and be bullied and abused."
Is it ideal? No. I was really looking forward to being able to make some plans to replace some furniture and do some work on our house, and those will have to be tabled if he has to go find another job. But I also don't want him to start drinking again or start cutting again, and that's how it would go if he stayed and took the abuse.
And so far tonight I have not binged.6 -
What an partner you are, Alexandra. Such an anchor to those in your life. Good for you. So glad you avoided binging.
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I logged my food today!!!!!!!
And it was a good day.
Which is good, since yesterday saw enough eating for two days.1 -
WTG both of you! And since you would both be frowning at me if you were here, I'm walking away from the quality street tin now..... well, 89g be later; but better than 289!🤔0
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Quality Street tin? I think I need a British/Canadian dictionary.1
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@Bella_Figura do you have a recipe for the dahl? I am looking to make something like that to try to see how my system does with lentils.
@AlexandraFindsHerself1971 I am so sorry that your boyfriend is dealing with that at his job. While it would be rough for him to have to find something new, it's worth his mental health if they can't help him there. You are amazing for standing beside him and supporting him the way you do!1 -
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A BIG tin of chocolates confectionary....1
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Also last night the grey cat got himself trapped in the suspended ceiling of the laundry room/pantry. I ate too many cookies because that was just one thing too many and I couldn't even, but it was not nearly as bad as it could have been, and then I had a sensible balanced protein snack and went to bed.
Here's the miscreant.
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Cats are rascals! Thank good you saved him without damage to himself or the laundry room.
Also thank goodness Nestle does NOT sell the Quality Street tin in the US. What we have commonly is the Whitman Sampler boxes which are sub-par and therefore very resistible.2 -
lauriekallis wrote: »
With respect Laurie, that is a Quality Street TUB. This is a Quality Street TIN, which took centre stage on the coffee table at all my childhood christmases. None of this modern palming-you-off-with-a-half-filled-half-sized-plastic-tub-malarkey!
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@Bella_Figura do you have a recipe for the dahl? I am looking to make something like that to try to see how my system does with lentils.
I use this as recipe to make a basic dahl, to which I chuck in any vegetables I have to hand. This week's batch had leeks, peppers, onions, carrots, tomatoes and celery added in to bulk it out...
https://myheartbeets.com/instant-pot-red-lentil-dal/
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@AlexandraFindsHerself1971, you and your BF both deserve to feel proud for how you're handling an awful situation. I hope BF's boss's boss manages to find a workable solution that enables your BF to keep his job.2
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Good rescue Alexandra but yes, that was a bit much.
Do four 1.5lb metal tubs make a tin @Bella_Figura ????🤷🏻♂️
I am still claiming they're for gift giving! 🤬
And I blame the pesky Black Friday Sales!1 -
Have to share this "observation" by a normally pretty unobservant friend who took the dog into the vet emergency last Friday early am due to a bit too much vomiting and diarrhea:
Seems after 3 hours at the emergency on Friday my opinion of how smart dogs are has definitely taken a hit.
Wasn't busy but every 20-30 min someone would show up with a dog that tried to suicide via stupidity. Running into things, off things, eating everything and anything: pills, toys etc etc.
You know who wasn't arriving because they did something stupid? Cats!2 -
Hey @conniewilkins56, you've been really quiet lately...I hope that's just because you're busy having fun, rather than for a less positive reason. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family for tomorrow!3
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Bella_Figura wrote: »@AlexandraFindsHerself1971, you and your BF both deserve to feel proud for how you're handling an awful situation. I hope BF's boss's boss manages to find a workable solution that enables your BF to keep his job.
I hope so too. In every way EXCEPT the bullying manager, it's ideal.
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Plus I have a beef humus to take up with my friend @conniewilkins56: suggesting dark chocolate humus as an option to people who house hamsters similar to mine should be STRICTLY prohibited! That humus lasted like two days! I was lucky enough a cautionary hamster intervened during the acquisition and I went home with a smallish tub instead of the 500g alternative option!3
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Try the chocolate hummus with walnuts mixed in it!….so gooooood lol
Bella I am here but I do not like this new set up….very user unfriendly….reading everyone’s posts and so proud of you!….I seem to be maintaining so not all bad lol3
