Cinque I hope I still have youth! I do online surveys sometimes and I always choose the “young, single, living alone” option on the survey, because age is a state of mind, right? I don’t feel middle aged, and peopel usually just about fall over when I tell them I’m over 40. Thanks for the 💐🌷🌸🌺🌼 here are some more.

I read Buttonboot’s story, that was great, and amazing. She started at 140kg and now she’s down below 90. I hope she’s okay though, in the end she’s got bronchitis and seems really unwell. If she can lose all that weight, with all those medical problems unable to exercise, and a German mother trying to feed her cake at every turn, I think we all can manage it.

It inspired me to get my new spiraliser out of the cupboard tonight, and make courgettini to go under my butter chicken tonight. I can’t wait to eat it, well it is after 9pm. I was so tired earlier I tried to have a little nap, didn’t work but I feel better for the lie down.

Good morning everyone,
My ugg boots are still on! 17C high yesterday Thin, which feels wonderfully warm at the end of winter, but is quite a shock in February.
Porridge cooking for breakfast.

Yes Jody you are so so youthful! And the wonderful attitude to go with it!

Vaderz that is a great study you linked.
I wish, when the research came out to say saturated fats aren’t as bad as previously thought, everyone didn’t presume that meant lots of fats!

Re hunger: when I was a kid hunger was such an easy natural feeling!
I quite blame sugar (and probably my gut biome) for having that artificial desire to eat.
Certainly, especially on fast day afternoons, I get the weakness and lack of concentration, but since it DOES go in waves and I am quite distractable, it is probably only level 1 out of 10 hunger.

Well, I am off to face Monday morning! Best wishes everyone, and cheers to people who are fasting today.

Hi all, hope you had a great weekend.
Back to work for me today.

Had three good things happen yesterday.

Had planned to have a glass of wine and a home made Irish Cream in the spa yesterday (it being Sunday) which is my usual thing. Also had planned (also as it was Sunday – pasta day) to cook Spaghetti Bolognese. Thinking I would over pour my two glasses of Cab Merlot for the day, I set down 3 serves.

When I did my calorie count for the day, because my darling hubby had cooked me breakfast with toast, peanut butter, bacon and mushrooms – it meant that I would be 500 kj over my TDEE (which I’ve set at 7531 (1800 calories) for the FatSecret app).

First, I decided to forgo my Irish Cream
Second, I decided to cook my mum’s fish dish (rice, tuna and skim white sauce) instead of spag bol
Third, I decided to actually measure out my wine and only had two 150ml serves

Ended up 71% of my TDEE. Felt very pleased with myself. DIDN’T celebrate by eating some of my hubby’s chocolate covered almonds either!

Apologies if this is a repetition – I thought I posted but it seems to have disappeared.

I hope everyone had a good weekend. I did, but my husband’s team lost badly at Lawn Bowls Pennants.

Three good things happened yesterday:

As I’m obsessive compulsive, I have routines. Sunday’s routine is to have a glass of home made Irish Cream and a red wine in the spa and to have pasta for dinner. My plan was to cook Spaghetti Bolognese. I usually have two wines total – I figured I’d likely overpour so set it down in the tracker as 3 serves.

With this plan, I entered everything into my tracker – FatSecret. I discovered that, as my darling hubby had made me breakfast: toast, peanut butter, bacon and mushrooms; My plan would put me 500KJ over my TDEE (which for Fat Secret I’ve set at 7531kj (1800 calories)).

I decided then to:
* Forgo my Irish Cream
* Cook my mother’s ‘Fish Dish’ (tuna, rice and skim white sauce) instead of Spag Bol
* Actually measure my red wine so that I only had two 150ml serves

Result:
71% of TDEE

Very pleased with myself. Was tempted to but DIDN’T celebrate with a handful of hubby’s chocolate almonds!

Interestingly, CA, I received all three of your posts as emails. Even though there is only one post on the thread. Weird, hey! Well done. Cheers, Bay. 🌺🌺☀️☀️

Good evening everyone,

CAngel, that is a great poem.

Congratulations on those excellent decisions that led to eating under your TDEE.
New routines maybe?

Jody I had so much vitamin B to try to cure those sores at the corner of my mouth and it didn’t make a difference. It turned out that I needed pawpaw ointment (or lip balm) on my lips to protect them from saliva that pooled there at night when I slept. Sigh, yes, dribble.
(And personal experience 😉 )

It seems unlikely that light fasting twice a week (or even three times) could result in vitamin deficiency and sore throat. Are you eating lots of fresh veggies? Anyway, I hope you recover from both of those nasty things quickly.

Joffy what fun things you are getting up to. Congratulations to your son too!
Glad to hear about the crumpets.

Hi Bay, hi to Minka, I hope your life isn’t too hard at the moment! Sending best wishes! Hi to everyone else lurking. Hoping today was a good one, and if it wasn’t, look, there is tomorrow, ready to shine.

Good morning fellow fasters,
Completed FD and I have that fantastic morning after FD feeling and thinking of how to have my eggs this morning.
I did have a moment in my brain last night just prior to dinner which is annoying. I had dinner at 7.30pm as I felt like it earlier than usual, as I was preparing dinner I was thinking if I’m hungry after this I will have more to the extent of calculating in my head what another can of soup was going to cost me in kj’s. This is the unreasonable hungry thinking that can happen and can lead to binging on other days. After I had my dinner I was again happy and satisfied with the amount of food eaten. Isn’t it strange you would think you were over these sort of mind games after four months of this WOL with all the control and will power we show twice a week but I guess not and I will have to keep on my toes for a while longer.

Dropped into a lower kg number today that I haven’t seen for a long time things are still on the downward slide nice and slowly. I will report at milestones when achieved.
Meals for the day:
1 x white coffee 150kj, 500g minestrone soup 800kj, 100g kidney beans in the soup 400kj Total 1350kj or 322cals.

Hope everyone is having a great week. Seemed to cruise through my FD yesterday, day went by quickly, which was good.

Welcome Brad, I tend to read more on my FD’s too… make sure you drink plenty of water 🙂

CA – 10,000 calorie deficit in a week seems crazy high – that’s the equivalent of fasting 6 days (average TDEE for women is 2000 calories, so that’s 14,000 total in a week)… I’d be double checking your calculations. A couple of things to keep in mind.

1. Make sure you choose the ‘sedentary’ option when calculating your TDEE if you are adding exercise calories to the total
2. If you reduce your eating a lot, that’s going to reduce your TDEE as well (it’s already factoring in the amount of energy your body uses to digest your food, about 10% of the actual food calories)
3. If you’re doing lots of exercise, then you probably aren’t moving as much throughout the rest of the day, meaning you don’t fully ‘save’ all those exercise calories
4. What the equation tells you your TDEE is, could easily be off by 10-20% because it’s just an estimation.
5. A few other things could happen here, such as your body sustaining higher levels of cortisol from the stress you’re putting it through which will likely lead to higher water retention and therefore not reflecting on the scale.
6. 1-2 weeks is too short a time frame to look at anyway, the amount of water retention could fluctuate more than any weight loss.
7. If you lose some lean muscle, then your overall weight loss will be lower AND you don’t lose as much fat (which is really what you want to lose).
8. Some people prefer to believe that those numbers don’t matter at all anyway, so why bother.

…you really need to see how your body reacts to different things you put it through and take notice of those results rather than relying too directly on equations (in the 12 weeks that I’ve been doing 5:2 my total weight loss is tracking right on that of a 5000 per week calorie deficit… I haven’t been tracking my calories too closely, but with an average TDEE of 2500 over that time, 2 FD’s at 400c = 4200 saved (2x 2100), only leaves a 160c deficit per day for the remainder… it’s quite possible that I’ve averaged 2340 over my NFD’s, but that would be too crazy close to the spreadsheet being right, and we can’t have that 😉

Personally, I’m happy with the degree of weight loss that I’m getting with 2 FD’s per week and an overall deficit of somewhere between 4000-5000 calories for the week, I don’t care where I am in that range, somewhere there is good. After 12 weeks I’m averaging -0.64kg per week, which is great. I’ve thought about what would happen if I wanted to speed things up and do 4 FD’s per week and for the extra hassle, increasing that weight loss to about 1.0-1.2 kg a week, just doesn’t seem worth it – have to remember this isn’t a race (I don’t mind FD’s, but I do like food, lol).

I’m pretty sure your exercise is off… 2700 per day is about what you’d get doing a marathon and I’m pretty confident guessing that you’re not running a marathon every day.

…what exercise are you doing?

EDIT – looks like it is adding your TDEE to any exercise you’re doing (is that correct), what does it calculate your TDEE at?

Thanks Cinque, the Darwin in my username isn’t the NT Darwin – I’m actually in Melbourne – it’s an homage to Charles Darwin 🙂

No. It automatically adds in the calories consumed in resting and sleep. 2290. The brain uses more calories than any exercise. That’s the precise reason why we need a TDEE.

Hi all, welcome Brad – hope the fasting is going well.

I’m 3 days into my planned week of eating just dinner. Although lower calories this week was part of the goal (as I have a lot of high calorie social events to deal with next week). I was also hoping to get in touch with my appetite. As I eat for so many reasons – eating just for hunger is not something I’m familiar with. I find it hard to distinguish between the desire to eat and genuine hunger. What I have found so far is that by 4pm I am actually feeling a little peckish, so if a cup of tea doesn’t tide me over until dinner time, I am having either a piece of fruit or a serve of dairy. Then dinner by 7pm. I have actually looked forward to my evening meal each day, felt hungry when starting to eat it, and really enjoyed the flavours in my meals. I’ve also felt quite full and satiated when I’ve finished dinner – this is never guaranteed for me as sometimes eating just cranks up the cravings for more food, but so far this week that hasn’t happened. I had counted on having some fruit for dessert, but so far I haven’t felt like eating it – it seems to fit better at 4pm. My daily calories seem to be falling in the 700-900 cal range, depending on what I’ve chosen for dinner (tonight it was roast lamb with 5 veg). I have considered doing 2 days at 500, but I don’t think I need that this week as my body is essentially getting a 20 hour fast every day. I’m quite hopeful that the rest of the week will go well too.

I think I’ll join a different forum.

Good morning!
Cheers for that loss CAngel!
And LJoyce, what a great week you are having! So nice to hear about the healthy hunger appearing, and being satisfied.

Fast day for me today.
Where are you Thin? (well, asleep still probably). I hope you are ok.

I did cook my stuffed pumpkin yesterday,(but the other things are waiting for this afternoon…. or tomorrow) and it was very nice to have some with my dinner, and 5 more portions in the fridge and freezer.

Best wishes to everyone for a good day today!

I’m here Cinque, fasting with you today. What did you stuff in the pumpkin?

Hi Merry, our posts crossed and I’ve only skim-read yours so far. PerthGirl brought it home when she reminded us that 5:2 hasn’t been around long enough to evaluate any long-term success. It reminded me that I’m not out of the woods just because I’ve maintained my goal weight for 18 months. It requires constant vigilance and fighting off years of bad food habits.

LJ, a long time ago I posted this article about hunger. Perhaps you’ll find it interesting, maybe even helpful. http://www.chuckrowtaichi.com/ch.html

Congratulations to your young son Joffy. And cheers for your continued success with 5:2. Looking forward to hearing about the next milestone – which is almost an anagram of minestrone.

Welcome darwins_monkey. How did your first FD go?

Last night, we enjoyed another hilarious evening at La Soirée in Perth. As before, The English Gents stole the show. Ladies, here’s some mid-week entertainment to feast your eyes on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98J0vpebt5w Start it around the 3:10 minute mark. What does this have to with 5:2? Absolutely nothing!

Hi Thin- Wow! The English Gents- Now that’s strength and without being hugely musclebound. Very clever and genteel presentation.

Welcome Brad! You will find us a very diverse group but we support each other along the way. Some of us are losing and some maintaining. Keep posting and let us know how you’re going.

Vaderz – re research. I understand what you mean about research and it’s interpretations. Many years ago I was a participant in the first avocado- choleserol experiment, along with a group of people on the Pritikin Programme. There were 3 groups – a group who normally ate butter who during the experiment took butter out of their diet and replaced it with 1 avocado a day. Our Pritikin group who ate between 3-10% fat monounsturated fat as part of their diet, who added an avocado a day. The third group I can’t remember, but I think they just added an avocado a day without changing their diet. Obviously, to add a whole avocado, though not large, other things would change balancing out calories, but, nothing comsistently.

The results were:

1. The substitute abo for butter – had a fall in cholesterol
2. The Pritikin group – cholesterol – no statistical significant difference in cholesterol, but there was a non statistically significant slight trend upwards
3. No change in the control group

This was then seized on by various people, journos, and groups as “avocados drop your cholesterol level”. In fact it was “if you replace butter with avocado and eat a whole avocado a day, your cholesterol will drop”. Very big difference. Since then I’ve been very wary of research results as reported, and when I can I go back to the source, and look at multiple reports. Unfortunately, sometimes assumptions are made at the beginning of multiple experiments based on a previous erroneous finding which then means decades later we find out te reverse is sometimes true rather than something we’ve. believed. That leaves us everyday mortals in a quandary of who to believe.

Good to see so many people here all improving their health and normalising their weight!

Have a good FD Cinque and Thin and any other Wednesday fasters,
Merry

Morning all SHs,

DM- glad you got through your first fast day ok. You have already learned an important lesson – be prepared. I also think that learning to appreciate every bite, rather than just shoveling food in at meal times is also a really important step to healthy eating. I believe that food should be a joy and not a punishment, so choosing flavours that we enjoy is an important part of feeling satiated by the end of a meal – I think this is double important on a FD when we only get a small portion.

Thin – thanks for the link. There is a really interesting claim in the article:
“This gnawing discomfort, termed hunger pangs, results from the irritated walls of the empty stomach coming into contact with one another. Of course, hunger pangs are not true hunger, which is the way we experience a physiological requirement of the cells for nutrients. True hunger is not painful but pleasant.”
This surprised me, as each day my hunger has been getting to the point where I’m interested in eating by late afternoon, but not that gnawing hunger. I was wondering if I wasn’t waiting long enough as I had assumed that gnawing hunger was genuine hunger. I might need to rethink this – I think I’ll discuss this with my dietitian when I see her next month.

Hi Thin, Hi Merry!
Minka and Intesha, you had better post too! I am missing you both!

And hello everyone else!

Congratulations on that first day Darwin! Each one helps you plan the next one a bit better! (Until you get them how they suit you and then it is an easy pattern!)

My butternut pumpkin was stuffed with onion, garlic, porcini, tomato, chili, coriander seed, rosemary, pinenuts and basmati rice, Thin. Very tasty although it wasn’t the best pumpkin. Not the season I guess.

The La Soiree sounds wonderful!

Merry how fascinating that avocado research, and yes, I only read the warped version of the results! (I was very glad to know that avocado didn’t increase cholesterol dreadfully though!)

I had a little salad today at lunchtime, but I was still gnawingly hungry in the afternoon (I think I have the tummy sides rubbing together style of hunger Vaderz 😉 ) so I went op shopping and found a pretty cotton dress, an embroidered vest and a beautifully made black jacket with startling red highlights!

Now I am okay and it is miso soup time in the next half hour. Btw I had run out of dried shiitake mushrooms so I went to an Asian grocery yesterday and I found a packet of the most beautiful specimens! Huge! I’m looking forward to trying them today.

I’ll eat it slowly and mindfully!

Hooray Gday!
Hopefully that is the end of the 70’s for you. Lovely!

I had a dreadful night. Fast day insomnia I fear. In the middle of the night I checked my ipad and LJoyce, your post came up as new. Yet when I looked it was up above mine and Thins! Bizarre.

Anyway, interesting that we both zoomed in on the irritated tummy linings rubbing together (and oops I thought Vaderz posted it, and it was you Thin!)
I liked reading wikipedia’s bit on hunger pangs:

“When hunger contractions start to occur in the stomach, they are informally referred to as hunger pangs. Hunger pangs usually do not begin until 12 to 24 hours after the last ingestion of food. A single hunger contraction lasts about 30 seconds, and pangs continue for around 30 to 45 minutes, then hunger subsides for around 30 to 150 minutes.[3] Individual contractions are separated at first, but are almost continuous after a certain amount of time.[3] Emotional states (anger, joy etc.) may inhibit hunger contractions.[3] Levels of hunger are increased by lower blood sugar levels, and are higher in diabetics.[3] They reach their greatest intensity in three to four days and may weaken in the succeeding days[citation needed], although research suggests that hunger never disappears.[4] Hunger contractions are most intense in young, healthy people who have high degrees of gastrointestinal tonus. Periods between contractions increase with old age.[3]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger_(motivational_state)

I had a bad start to the day. Early optometrist appt, and I got myself lost on the way there (inner city through peak hour). I was half an hour late from driving around! (Must get google maps). I hadn’t had breakfast and what with morning after fast day, lack of sleep and no breakfast (or coffee) when they said I could wait for an hour for an appt, I said no and came home.
In tears when I got back in the car, but now I am home, had breakfast and a big cup of tea and going out with a friend for coffee soon.

Bad start to the day, but it is getting better!

Best wishes to everyone!

LJ your post rings so true with me. The happiest times in my life were not when filling a house with a never-ending supply of consumables but when selling absolutely everything I owned to go travelling for extended periods or to emigrate, both of which I’ve done twice. I’ll always cherish that feeling of relinquishing first a set of work keys, then the car keys and, finally, the keys to the home. Days long gone now of course but retail shopping has never made me happy. I agree it’s a reflection of the mind – have you ever watched those docos about the hoarders?

I do believe that new clothes are great to reward yourself for weight loss though. Just not too many as you may pass that size more quickly than you imagined. Op shopping is a great way to transition the sizes without wasting money. When I was working my way back down through the dress sizes, I was so elated to reach size 14 that I did reward myself with too many clothes that summer. It took me some time to let go of those larger sized clothes. Just the other day, I culled the size 12s.

GDSA – great news. What a wonderful feeling to get into the 60s again. Was it your daughter mentioned on a previous page who’d become a class leader? Congrats to her and the proud mum.

Cinque, your stuffed butternut sounds delish. Butternut is one of my staples. Merry, have you re-introduced it now that your weight is so low?

Loving my Thursday, post-fast day. Gearing up for a couple of stinkers 37C and 39C. Hope the Thursday fasters have had a great day!

Today is the last day of my dinner only week. It’s gone really well, today is the first day I really wanted food earlier than late afternoon – I had a punnet of raspberries at 2:30pm. Given that I had just spent 2 hours at the fruit & veg market and then the supermarket shopping for food, it’s not that surprising that my appetite kicked in early. Seeing and handling food on an empty stomach usually has that effect.

Tomorrow the food madness begins.
In the next 3 weeks I’m attending:
– 1 birthday “chocolate & dessert” supper
– 1 book club afternoon tea
– 2 birthday brunches
– 2 birthday lunches
– 1 birthday high tea
– 1 21st birthday dinner

My head is spinning just thinking about how on earth I’m going to handle this. Talk about mad March. How did one family manage to have so many Feb/March birthdays? We’re not even a big family! Most of it is people who’ve married into the family.

All I can say is thank goodness Easter isn’t until mid-April. I may have gotten over my sugar coma by then.

I suspect that 3 FDs per week will be necessary in March. I’m hoping that what I’ve learned about my appetite will also help and I’ll be able to eat less at these social events than I normally would want to. The brunches are the highest risk for me, as they kick start my appetite early in the day and I find it very difficult to control my eating for the rest of the day.
I have also decided to give up sloth for lent (which starts 1st March) with the goal of 1 active household task and 1 exercise session every day – I don’t care how long or short the effort is on any given day as long as I do something. Hopefully the extra movement will help a little with the extra calories that are coming my way in March.

Happy birthday to your daughter for yesterday G’day!
9 is a great age!

I wrote that post two days ago. Went to edit it and then (overtired) lost it on my desk top, then closed windows and realised I closed it. Opened up 5:2 and there was no sign of it. Same yesterday morning (after another dreadful night with Miss Wriggle my 2yo granddaughter) when I was too busy to write. But now it is back in line!

Well I managed to catch up on work yesterday and got a MUCH better sleep so I feel pretty human now. What a nice feeling that is!

LJoyce I am glad you had such wonderful op shop finds! I have found I am more likely to find something I like there than in the main shops.
I’ll be interested to hear how you get through the week of feasts! Good luck!

I remember someone talking about going to evening do’s and she said ‘Arrive late, make sure you talk with everyone you know, hold a glass but only take a couple of sips, don’t eat anything, leave early’. It was so different to how I thought of social events (and it is different to informal events with family and friends of course) and made me realise that they are to be social and not (as I thought as a child 😉 ) to eat as much party food as possible!

Merry, thanks for the further info. My mum was strictly on the Pritikin Diet back then, and I was affected by it. (The reason I went off eggs for a while).
I do understand, and I am wowed by your gym session. What a landmark day! Did you do the session and did you avoid payback! Fingers crossed for you!

Thin, that pumpkin was delish and it would be simple to put in something other than rice, and it makes a pretty stunning dish but it is easy. http://carolynnsrecipebox.blogspot.com.au/2011/12/jamie-olivers-hamilton-squash.html
And I agree, my happiest times involve few possessions and lots of travel!

I am having good days (touch wood and whistle) by planning out meals a bit better. I had miso soup on a non fast yesterday! Weird! But I had the dashi I forgot to use, some left over noodles and radishes (which I have discovered are yummy in soup) plus zucchini ofcourse. Must say: Can’t taste the dashi! Too subtle for me. That will save me making it in future!

Well I got a lot done on my presentation preparation yesterday, but more to do today. So nice to have slept well and to spend some time drinking cups of tea and catching up with you lot!

Fast day tomorrow!

Best wishes

Hi everyone,

Trying out different ingredients:

– egg whites in a 500gm carton, 50cals/100gms, 1/4 cup has 31cals. I’ve used this in a frittata with some whole eggs included and this worked well. Just made an egg white omelette with mushrooms and rosemary. That was fine by me but I’ll try it again with a whole egg included to see the difference. Cooked another thin omelette extra and extra mushrooms to go in a cauliflower rice fried rice for later. 500gms goes a long way for a 2 person household, and the carton needs to be used in 7days

– Hakka fish balls, the plain fish balls have 20cals/100gms. Quite processed but I made the choice to use these over the last 6 months. I cut these in half, and use 1tspn oil and fry quickly with a little soy sauce, a tiny bit of crushed chilii, maybe a little ginger and crushed garlic sometimes, but a spare amount I add some baby spinach or mung bean sprouts on the side for about a minute, put the sprouts or spinach in a bowl and the fish balls on top. A very low calorie dish. Can also be added to our FD seafood soups. From Asian supermarkets, 200gm pack gives 14fish balls. Keeps well unopened for a few months. Check the pack for a long use by date.

– Naked Ginger Uncrystallysed – 330cals/100gms. When starting 5:2 I was advised to add strong flavours to dishes as it has the psychological effect of feeling more satieted after eating. I don’t add this to dishes but put it out with nuts or fresh fruit for visitors, and we have often used crystallized ginger as a treat over the years, so thought I’d give this a try. Very deceptive packet! Under ingredients it says : ginger 55%, sugar. So that’s 45% sugar. So really this is just like crystallised sugar only they’ve found a way to get the sugar in their differently. It’s very sweet.

Gday – congratulations to your daughter!

Cinque – slept extra today, making up for the extra walking I think. No, I didn’t go to the gym on Wed, but I was just astounded to feel that feeling after an absence of 20yrs. At my rehab session, (really a keep me functioning session) on Friday I did a teeny bit extra, and did over 5000steps through the day, hence the extra sleep. I made sure my kids had a couple of eggs a week as well as extra egg white in things. Egg white has good protein in it, great for growing bodies. Well done with Miss Wriggles and your presentation work.

Onwards and downwards ,
Merry

Hi GDSA

Lots of us weigh every day. I like to see the Variations. It depends on your preference. So long as you don’t get down when your weight varies up.

Some people find it disheartening to see they have gained weight. It is normal for your weight to go up and down, depending on what you are eating or his much you are exercising or sleeping.

Cheers, Bay 🌺🌺🌸🌸

Evening all.

Well I’m back from an afternoon at book club. Which usually involves me eating at least 5000 kilojoules or more in cheeses, dips, cakes, chocolates …. I managed to stay well under 3000kj (700 cal) today and most of that was various cheeses. I didn’t risk tasting the chocolates and cakes as I knew I would have trouble stopping at one. With no lunch and a simple dinner I’m actually right on my TDEE for the day – I don’t think I’ve ever managed that before on a book club day. At least I’ve finally proved to myself that I can actually do it if I choose to.

Merry – Your supermarket must have had the eggwhite cartons in their fridge for a while. When the manufacturer makes them they have about 6 weeks to their use by date. I also bought some this week and its useby date is 31 March – about 5 weeks from my purchase date. Something which may help you – the liquid eggwhite can be safely frozen before it reaches its useby date. When I have done this in the past I’ve either used an ice cube tray or little 1/2 cup containers. It means no waste, which is always a welcome option for me.

Due to some family ill health, the birthday brunch I was meant to be going to tomorrow morning has been postponed. So I’m taking advantage of that by doing a FD tomorrow. It should set me up for the other celebrations later in the week.

Hope you are all having a good weekend.