I made a Classic loaf, a muesli bar slice and a rum and raisin fruit loaf today. I’ve also a SD loaf in the fridge.

We had Char Kwa Teow. I think that’s how it’s spelled.

Thanks K Atie, I’ll check out her website but I have written out over 100 recipes for this project of mine. Yes Marina, it was a huge and expensive task but with all the hard work done all I have to do now is choose one at the end of the day. Tonight I had one of the frozen dump bags which consisted of broccoli, banana, mango, strawberries, baby spinach. I just had to add pineapple juice and water with my usual addition of 3 scoops of Sustagen - it made 2 large ones, one for tonight and one for tomorrow night - it was delicious. My DD was impressed and took GD to the freezer to show her what I’d done. She thought the dump bags would be especially good for her to put together for her quick smoothie fix.

Judy that’s great and very organised. Green smoothies are good and refreshing too . I’m impressed as I can never make smoothies work for me .

For the past week I’ve been looking up recipes for fruit & veg smoothies and writing them in a note book. I ended up with 38 pages then I set to buying some ingredients and packaging them up for the freezer. I made 3 ‘dump bags’ with what I had on hand but now all the fruit and veg are packed into little bags separately. I spent hours yesterday doing the fruit bags but have left the bulk bags from Costco of strawberries, blueberries and mangoes as they are as they pour freely as is. I now also have pineapple, apples, mandies, grapes, medjool dates packed away and will add the pears as soon as they ripen.  Today was vegetable day after a trip to Farmer Jo’s for spinach, asparagus, carrots, kale, zucchini, beetroot - I only cooked the asparagus and beetroot. I already had 10 bags of freshly cooked chickpeas in the freezer after coming across the bag whilst cleaning out the pantry. I’ve got individual packs of orange and pineapple juice in the pantry and today have frozen 8 bags of Greek yoghurt.  I’ve bought almond and coconut milk but will make my own oat milk.

My reasoning for this change of tack for my evening meal is that I believe we will be having a very hot summer and we all lose our appetite when this happens. I’ve been eating very little in the evening so by changing to a fruit & veg smoothie with added seeds and sustagen I will expect to be eating, or drinking really, quite healthy meals. So far I’ve had a chocolate, strawberry chickpea smoothie and a Berry Cabbage one - both were enjoyable, the cabbage one more so once I added the sustagen.  I don’t enjoy food these days so I’m going to do something about it.