Thursday 17 September 2020

The Ration Challenge - Day Four



It's a good job I have my planner in full view to keep me on the straight and narrow because I feel like I'm starting to lose my marbles.  My typing skills have definitely suffered ... I'm hitting all the right keys just in all the wrong order ... a sure sign that my hand to eye coordination is not at full capacity.


Luckily this mornings breakfast was my Reward 330ml drink, and I chose to have a home made smoothie.  An apple from the fridge and three banana chunks and some spinach from the freezer with a dash of ice cold water.


  I added a little bit more water until I hit the exact 330g/ml allowance.

It was delicious  💚


I had the three leftover flatbreads from yesterday to add to my lunch and I quickly whizzed up some of my Kidney bean onion mix to make a pate.  I did photograph it all laid out neatly at Mum's on one of her pretty plates but I can't get it off my phone and onto the computer.  I will try and add it later.


Yay!!


Anyway it was a nice tasty and quite satisfying little lunch.


As soon as I got home I fed Suky her tea and then started on mine.  

I weighed out my onions, and thought I had the right little pot of chickpeas out of the fridge but when I whizzed up the Falafel mix I realised it looked completely wrong so I looked in the fridge and yep, I had mixed up the tub containing just 23g and the one with the larger portion meant for the falafels.  


So I weighed out 23g from the pot and added the rest into the little processer and whizzed them up before adding them to the rest of the falafel mix.  I was getting so annoyed with myself with all this messing around.


But the finished dish was delicious and I would make these again in an instant ... but in larger proportions once the Challenge is over.

The recipe.

With a surprise donation from my Mum's lovely neighbour Hilary, my total has once more gone up.  Go and see for yourself over on my Fundraising Page.

I am so thankful to all the lovely people who have helped me get to this total, we are now just £58 away from being able to feed 10 refugees for an entire year ... WOW!!

THANK YOU SO MUCH


Sue xx





6 comments:

  1. That fund raising is incredible. So worth all the 'stuff' (says me from a comfortable distance).
    Fantastic.
    xx

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    1. It's amazing isn't it. If I don't get any more sponsorship, which I don't think I will as you lot and my family and friends have already been SO fantastic ... I will make it up myself so we get to that lovely round figure of 10 refugees eating for a year.

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  2. Eric Morecombe said almost the same thing to Ardre Previn I believe! I keep meaning to have a go at making falafels. I bought ready made and love them.

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    1. He did didn't he about playing the piano, and then he twiddled his glasses and carried on playing. I might go and see old Eric on the prom in Morecambe on Sunday to celebrate the Challenge being over, and have a big fat chip barmcake :-)

      Oh these falafels were lovely, much lighter and lest stodgy than shop bought ones ... they just needed some dried herbs in the mix and they would have been perfect.

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  3. You are doing well. I can just imagine the fog you are in. To think refugees have the same problem all the time is heart breaking.

    God bless.

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    1. It really is isn't it ☹️

      It's taking me twice as long as usual to do all of these blog posts, if you saw them before the corrections you'd be in stitches 🤣🤣

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