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Breakfast: a slice of cold, set lasagne. I quite enjoy lasagne that way one the 2nd day. It sets fairly firm so is easy to cut a slice off. Coffee.

2nd meal: pork sausages and cabbage.

I have too many projects under way at the moment and can't find time to do everything I want. Where does all the time go?

At least they are all things I can sit down for. Standing is becoming more and more of a problem these days.
 
shelley262 said:
Planning fairly simple meals, so limited cooking, usual kefir and granola breakfast, salad lunch and then a couple of lamb chops for dinner.
All good in garden so far - will see how they cope over next few days. Hopefully they will be strong enough to adapt to the extreme heat.
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I wish I could adapt to the heat :hilarious: I'm a bit worried about my brassicas - I have got two batches as a sort of insurance policy but the heat might affect both small and large seedlings. Just as I decide to do winter crops in earnest this year, the weather challenges keep on coming!
 
Off out to a garden centre today - the forecast has changed from 32c to 29c, but it'll still be very hot. I'm taking my UV umbrella!

Porridge for breakfast, something light at the garden centre for lunch and fish fingers with garden salad for tea.
 
@jpscloud enjoy your outing. Heat here is too much still and I had to really soak my tomatoes yesterday and again this morning. Pic below of my first bunch of wonderful smelling sweet peas
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Planning a cold breakfast and lunch - kefir and keto granola first thing and later garden salad. Dinner will be Sea Bream with asparagus . Some berries will also be eaten .
 
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Quick bit of good news - had results of last week's scan and no areas of concern. Just need to get my blood tests back to normal now - next test mid July but given I'm now off the meds that probably caused the health scare I'd assume all should be fine. Celebrating with a bottle of sparkling water with some lemon added. I'm avoiding any alcohol until I've had normal liver results.
Made a wonderful coriander hummus for lunch - I've got a large coriander plant - I added them instead of the sprinkle of cumin I usually use in hummus. Delicious served with celery and radishes at lunchtime.
 
I had to leave early from the garden centre! We were all melting but I started to feel a bit queasy so headed home. I've been taking electrolytes and hopping in and out of a cool shower all afternoon and feel a lot better now.

@shelley262 those sweet peas are so beautiful!

I will go and check the garden later, I watered really deeply last night so I could skip this morning, I just quickly fed the birds and filled the bird baths up before I went out. I have a feeling it'll be desperately dry.

I don't want to cook anything tonight so I'll have cottage cheese with garden salad.
 
shelley262 said:
Quick bit of good news - had results of last week's scan and no areas of concern. Just need to get my blood tests back to normal now - next test mid July but given I'm now off the meds that probably caused the health scare I'd assume all should be fine. Celebrating with a bottle of sparkling water with some lemon added. I'm avoiding any alcohol until I've had normal liver results.
Made a wonderful coriander hummus for lunch - I've got a large coriander plant - I added them instead of the sprinkle of cumin I usually use in hummus. Delicious served with celery and radishes at lunchtime.
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Great to hear your news. It's a problem with meds - you gain in terms of what they are treating but may well lose on something else. Swings and roundabouts. But so glad you can relax about that now.

Blood test and ECG for me tomorrow to see what effect reducing my BP meds have had as well as getting my legs bandaged again.

I bought some freeze dried honeyberries, just to see what they are like. I have one honeyberry bush which has so far not produced any fruit so I wanted to see what the fruit is like. Very sour. When I cooked some more cabbage this evening to go with the pork sausages, I was going to add some apple to the cabbage but decided to use the honeyberries instead. It was OK but not a great addition.
 
@Annb isn't it the way that food names are sometimes plain misleading! "Honeyberry" would make me think it should be really sweet.

I'm a bit slower getting outside to water the garden today, but once that's done I think I will be indoors all day - it feels such a shame but the heat is just too much for me. What's worse is that the curtains need to be drawn when the sun's on the windows to stop the heat radiating in, which feels gloomy and I can't see the garden!

Porridge for breakfast, cottage cheese with garden salad and a few sungold tomatoes for lunch, not sure about tea yet.

The windowsill sungold is almost finished now, just one truss left to ripen. I have another one in the polytunnel with some other varieties and I might start another one indoors under growlights to see how it does going into autumn. I also have one little fruit on one of my indoor chili plants now!
 
Planning another indoors day like you @jpscloud it's tough having to close all curtains up on garden side and take away the garden view but it's South facing as is the garden. Will be glad to be back to standard UK temps in a day or two.
@Annb hope your Drs visit goes well and you have a good day - weather with you sounds more comfortable.
Already picked my salad leaves for today it's too hot o pick as usually do at lunchtime as their little spot is in full sun.
Keto granola planned to start the day, salad lunch and then cheeseburger in LC roll with salad for dinner. Planning to make and freeze some more LC chocolate ice lollipops in a bit too.
 
Not feeling very inspired this morning so I just had some RyVita with cheese for breakfast plus a cup of coffee.

Almost ready to go out for my appointment. I did get myself all organised and dressed when I remembered that I am to have an ECG and the dress I had put on would have made that awkward, so had to change into trousers and a top for ease of access. Made a mistake and took my blood pressure tablets. If they want blood, I usually don't take it, just to make it a tiny bit easier to draw some blood. Too bad, I forgot.

2nd meal: there's still some cooked cabbage left but nothing to go in it or with it, so I'll ask Neil to get me some bacon and put those together.
 
Well I got a lot more done than I thought I would this morning, I tied in the squash, fed and watered the whole garden and filled a couple of large containers for brassicas. There was a lovely breeze so as long as I was in the shade it felt very bearable. By midday it was too much though!

I'm having some rice with curry for tea. It's a treat, I'm really craving it. My BG readings have been really good, and I'll go and water the garden after I've eaten so I will be moving about.
 
Avocado on RyVita for breakfast. Tea.

2nd meal: Still some of the cabbage left and some of the ham hock meat. So that's what it will be. I'm assuming I will have something but I am attending a funeral at lunchtime today after which there are to be "refreshments" - probably something I can avoid and probably nothing I should eat anyway. We'll see.
 
Missed an hour's sleep last night as a storm was skirting around us, very noisy, and so sticky but it sadly didn't produce rain for the garden or relief for us!
Today planning keto granola, salad ( already picked first thing), and salmon., beans and broccoli. (Not my own beans yet but the beans are coming on and my tomatoes looking like they are several weeks ahead of usual.)
Looks like another mainly indoors day avoiding the main heat of the day.
 
Annb said:
I am attending a funeral at lunchtime today
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Ah I'm sorry, hope it goes as well as it can.

shelley262 said:
Missed an hour's sleep last night as a storm was skirting around us, very noisy, and so sticky but it sadly didn't produce rain for the garden or relief for us!
Today planning keto granola, salad ( already picked first thing), and salmon., beans and broccoli. (Not my own beans yet but the beans are coming on and my tomatoes looking like they are several weeks ahead of usual.)
Looks like another mainly indoors day avoiding the main heat of the day.
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We got the storm with rain, which means most things didn't need a very deep water this morning, just the squash and beans which drink like sailors on shore leave! The cobra french climbing beans have a lovely pink/purple flower, I didn't know that!

I found out that I have cabbage root fly which have killed some of my young brassicas :eek: I've ordered some collars and in the meantime I'm putting shredded onion leaves around the other plants in the hopes of putting them off. Grr.

Today is our hottest day of the heatwave here, so I'll be indoors too and I'm keeping fans on all around the house today to keep the air moving and so I won't have to switch on and switch off all the time as I move around. Electricity bill be darned!

Breakfast was porridge, lunch will be something with salad, tea will be something from the freezer with vegetables.
 
I really struggled yesterday afternoon with the heat but it cooled down quite a bit overnight and today will be not quite so hot here.

Porridge for breakfast, cottage cheese salad for lunch and chicken with vegetables for tea.
 
Good to have some fresher air overnight and lovely out in the garden watering at 6am but think will still be hot in the sun later.so limited outdoors work again.
Planning low carb granola to start the day, salads for lunch and curry for tea.
Hoping to make some low carb flat breads today to go with the curry as they are dry fried so don't need a hot oven.
My salad leaves are not as bountiful after this fierce hot spell so need to start some more sowing maybe this evening to keep salad production going.
 
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