Coffee, Cake and Warm Sloths

 Just perfect, coffee and cake for breakfast ...

... I don't mind if I do.

A homemade Banana Bread Muffin is suitably breakfasty in my opinion ... I may have gone back to the tin for a second one!!

Oh, and I made it one step better with my latest book.  Nigel does write well, and this one is in nice short, sharp bursts of foody bliss that can be picked up as and when I have the urge to read.

Yes ... I have a sloth sat on my little stool.  

Our new neighbours/tenants opened a new shop in town and we called in to have a chat and have a look around.  Alan, always keen to support a small business, saw me looking at the sloths and bought me one before I could say anything.  

Happily he's microwaveable, so any sloth cuddles are usually warm ones.  😄

A bit of a 'heads up' for anyone that has previously bought and downloaded the Jacquie Lawson advent calendar, the big yearly reset has just been done, so clicking onto your already purchased calendars will mean that if you don't want to buy a new one this year, you can use any of your previous purchases as a 'new' advent calendar for this December.

I've bought this years, which this time is Paris based and looks really good, but I still prefer to play the Solitaire game in 2022, so I have all the old calendars saved on my computer.

Sue xx

An Imaginary Challenge

 

I was sat at my little desk area in my kitchen ... this is not my kitchen you have seen my kitchen far too many times, this is another one that I really like.  I have a lot of lovely kitchens saved in the photos on my computer.  Isn't this one serene.  😄 ... pondering on doing another Challenge.

I decided on another £25 for a week all in one shopping trip challenge and I went on the Sainsbury's online shopping site to load up my basket with what I would buy.  Then I realised that I do not have £25 left in my budget, and I do not want to dip into what I do have left this week.

So I decided this morning that this will be an Imaginary Challenge. 

 

With my basket loaded, and then reloaded several times I eventually came up with £24.97 worth of shopping and some basic meal ideas in my head.  Then I thought why not screenshot it and share it for your amusement/inspiration/something to read on a wet August day ... and yes after I put all the washing out on the line this morning in lovely, breezy warm sunshine, it decided it wanted to be a wet August day.

This is the food I chose for a week's worth of meals:

A grand total of £24.97.

The only things that I would have allowed myself from the cupboards at home would have been oil, salt and pepper, everything else had to be bought in the £25 per week budget, which is obviously very generous compared to other Challenges that I have done in the past.

And here is a photo of my workings out.  

How I would have used the foods on meals that I fancied at the time of doing my workings out.  The overall week works out slightly low on carbs, which is really never a bad thing unless you have a medical needs for them.  Pretty perfect on protein, it seemed low on fats but then I realised the mayo and oil would very quickly rectify that.  It is low on calories but again adding in the mayo and oil will bring that up sharply.  

I'm happy with that as a weeks food, with enough fresh items to keep it healthy and interesting.  I have averaged it out at just over three of my five a day, but if I was concerned about that being too low or felt that I needed more, I could simply eat more of the frozen vegetables instead of having so much left over.

As I'm not much of a snacker these days, I had in the back of my mind that I would carry the leftovers forwards to do a second week with a £10 budget.  I could afford to do that so I might just give it a go ... and not just in my imagination.  😀

Sue xx