ah, when I logged back into Photobucket they weren’t there! that would be the problem!
Will try tomorrow when not tired.
Civilised way to end the evening – I slept late and didn’t have breakfast, so way under on calories and carbs, having a glass of sauvignon blanc and some olives before bed.
Night FROG,enjoy yr late night snack!
Tomorrow is another day! 🌸🌸🌸🌸
Sorry, I had so many things going on last night that all I had time to do was log my food in on my computer. We ran a couple errands, I went to a massage appt, had supper, went on the treadmill for 40 mins and then had to work on some website work until bed. I will try to get a pic of Kylo up tonight.
Kylo is adjusting, but he’s still very needy. He was adopted to another home before he came to us and she decided to keep his sister and give him back to the rescue. So within a year, he was captured from the wild, went to the rescue, was adopted, went back to rescue and then came to us. He’s had a lot of chaos. His personality is starting to come out, he’s starting to play fetch with my DH, but he is also meowing a lot when he doesn’t need to. Not sure what that is about yet.
Oh bless him LACALI he has gone thru a lot x i’m so glad he has a happy home now. They cant tell us the bad things that happen can they,
Ziggy came home with a broken pelvis when he was still a very young cat.he cant tell us and we have no idea what happened.
He’s now cuddled in next to me..i’m having a lie down in DDs spare bedroom..he likes to tuck in with his Grammaw xx
Ps i read the only reason they miaow is to communicate withus..maybe Kylo wants to say thank you.does he have different miaows? Ziggy has quite a repertoire!
bit like people, some cats are more talkative!
Froglet never really meows, but chats away to me with weird chirrupy noises – when we were at the vets last week, there was another cat in a basket meowing his head off – Frog sat there looking from me to the basket with her ears up and eyes like saucers.
The only time I’ve heard a proper meow from her is after she’d spent a few days at a cattery – thankfully she forgot about it after a day or two, and we don’t do catteries now, she has a cat sitter visit her at home when I go away.
Brilliant that Kylo is settling in.
I had my hair cut yesterday, new hairdresser (I’ve had the same hairdresser for over ten years, but the offer of free shampoo & conditioner worth £30 & I thought, a cut can’t do that much damage, it will always grow again!).
the cut is OK, my hair is clean again (difficult to wash with the stitches still in my back) – and the hairdresser was talking about my style complementing my “well defined” cheek bones.
Slightly obsessed with having cheek bones!
& I found an old bra in the drawer with a “racer” style back that fits again & is tons more comfortable.
Bargain, FROG! And deserved after yr weight loss!
Am at DDs house for two weeks as Her OH away at conference…the bliss of waking up and a little pussycat coming in to give you a cuddle!
He now lying flat as a pancake along the windowsill catching as much sun as poss! How fab to be able to lie along a windowsill! x
Ahhhh – you’ll want one of your own when you go home yowzer!
I DO want one FROG! And a little wirehaired fox terrier..but not allowed pets in the apartments i live in..so i have to be content being Grammaw to Ziggy Stardust xx!
oh. that’s sad yowser – at least you get one by proxy – and a very beautiful one at that!
When I go away I use a web based service called “cat in a flat” – it puts you in touch with people that would like to come and look after your cat when you’re away – Froglet likes it a lot more than a cattery, and the cost is about the same. P’raps you should offer your services!
I had salmon sashimi for supper – I assumed it was on a bed of cabbage or kale, but it turned out to be a ‘sea vegetable’ called wakame. The downside was that it leaked thu the box and the ITSU bag, but it tasted very nice, and apparently is very nutritious!
https://www.organicfacts.net/health-benefits/vegetable/wakame.html
I’ll have to see if there’s anywhere you can buy it other than in prepared boxes from ITSU.
reminded me that I haven’t seen any samphire this year – I love that, but I think the season must be nearly over.
FROG Heres my proxy cat..snugged into bed with me this morning. Have done some catsitting in the past and loved it! Will be looking after Zig later this month when DD and SIL go away to a wedding.x
Pic to follow x
Oh my word YOWZER! Ziggy is just the most handsome boy isn’t he! Gorgeous furzy! Ah give him a cuddle from Aunty Bean xx
Oh lovely lovely photo LACAL x!
Wow, handsome Kylo, he is lovely LACal – I love the way he’s peering over his tail at the camera
LOL I think he looks devious. 🙂 I take more videos of him than pics since he’s usually on the move.
I enjoyed my accidental pancake so much yesterday that I think I want another one for breakfast.
Maybe with piles of mushrooms and cottage cheese .
Stitches out this morning I think!
I found that my ‘accidental’ omelette/pancake from yesterday is not dissimilar to the pancakes in the recipe section – so added more gram flour and saved half the batter in a tupperware thing for tomorrow.
Decided that it was still nice (with cottage cheese and very garlicy mushrooms) – but for a savoury brunch, I prefer having the high egg content (20g of gram flour to one med/large egg).
Good Supper – peppered smoked mackerel with courgetti mixed with cottage cheese and baby beetroot – delicious
I was feeling pleased with myself because I’ve walked just over 13.5k steps today – then realised that 2,000 of them were last night.
My pedometer switches into a new day at midnight – I got home at about 1 o’clock, so added the steps from the walk home on to yesterdays.
every time I scroll down this tread and catch a glimpse of Ziggy Stardust it makes me smile yowzer
Another pancake this evening – getting a git addicted! – in my defence I had the rest of the batter that I made yesterday to use up!
So – supper was egg-ish pancake, ham, tomato and melted cheese, with some green salad on the side.
delicious.
An odd breakfast (well more of a brunch, it was probably 11.30) after exercise class – Waitrose cauliflower and paneer bhajis.
Would probably have been nicer warmed through.
More potato in them than cauliflower (they forgot to include that in the title, and teeny print on the label) but only 10g of carbs.
I’d have them again!
Frog what is going into your accidental pancake? I’d be interested in weekend meal ideas. I don’t have the time to cook anything in the morning before work – I am NOT a morning person. 🙁
Hi LACali
It started as chick pea flatbread, but I put too much water in, so got super liquid (I hadn’t made it for a while, and grabbed the wrong measure), so I added an egg.
For 1 large pancake
20g gram flour, 1 egg, 100ml water
pinch of salt, pepper to taste (& I recently chucked some dried italian herbs in, another with a teaspoon of grated parmesan)
fluffier if you add 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda, but not essential if you don’t have any.
Mix together and leave to stand for a bit (5 mins?)
Heat a large frying pan (10 inches is good), coat with spray oil (or any oil really, I have non stick pans and don’t need to use much at all)
Pour in the batter, fry til it’s nearly cooked through, flip it over and brown the other side
If you’ve made it in a measuring jug, make really certain that the gram flour hasn’t stuck at the bottom ‘corners’.
When I first started making gram flour batters, I read that the batter thickens when you leave it to stand – I haven’t really checked, but I tend to make the batter, prepare whatever I’m going to put inside.
I’ve had it with several fillings –
garlic mushrooms and cottage cheese
ham, cheese and tomato
smoked salmon, cottage cheese and samphire
courgetti and cottage cheese
I’ll put in recipes at some point!
That would probably be good with almond or coconut flour too. 🙂
yes, almond flour would probably make a yummy base to have with fruit
I haven’t really made anything with coconut flour, I need to start experimenting!
I’ve entered it in recipes now – as a Pomlette, but mistakenly loaded it three times instead of using the edit form when I spotted a typo – have asked for the duplicates to be deleted.
89.00 – 13 kg exactly
28.6lb that’s MORE THAN TWO STONE
Happy Sunday everyone
yay well done Frog!
Happy Sunday to you as well! <3
thanks Izzy
Just had full English Breakfast BSD style
Gram flour pancake, bacon, mushrooms, tomato and poached egg – delicious (260 calories, 17g of carbs)
who needs toast?
I was part way though eating it then remembered that the tomato was still cooking!
I have poached tomato with breakfast, and just chuck it in the water with the egg that’s poaching towards the end – easy to forget.
Something that I’ve been concerned about for weeks (not strictly BSD, but the explanation kind of is!) is that when my cat has her favourite food, she tends to eat a lot more than when she has pouches (typically she’ll eat around 300g, where as 2 pouches is 170 to 200g) I don’t want her to get fat, and her Vet says that her .current weight and shape is ideal.
It has only just dawned on me – after weeks of counting calories and carbs for myself! – her favoured food is nearly all lean chicken, with no grains or junk added.
Duur – it will be high protein, low carb, so 300g could well be the same calories as smaller quantities of other cat food.
My intelligent little Froglet doesn’t need calorie counts on the tins to know how much to eat (it would help me though!!!!)
Well done Frog on your latest weigh in results. Isn’t it true that we have all been putting on weight because we have lost touch with recognising what our bodies want and need because we have been duped by the food industry into believing the wrong things (margarine is better than butter – duh) and of course our animals are wiser than us on this score. Although having said that I think my little mini schnauzer would eat until her eyeballs burst if she had half the chance. Such a greedy girl (like her owner!)
Hi FROG..cats seem to be totally in touch with their own needs…DDS cat Ziggy cant wait to eat whenhe’shungry,but wildhorses wdnt make him eat a bite more when he’shadhisfill.like Loopy said,they havent had the same external messages as we’ve had. LOOPY i agree,dogs tend to just be greedy..how fab you have a little schnauzer,theyre so cute! X
I’m just cross with myself that it took me so long to realise – I thought she was being greedy and have been trying to limit how much she has, but it makes perfect sense really.
I think manufacturers should be required to put calorie values on the packaging, like with human food.
I used to work for Cats Protection – we did see some huge ones, you do get obese cats too! I remember visiting a volunteer who’d recently taken in a ‘stray’ who was ginormous – so big he couldn’t jump up to the higher tier of the pen, the woman that had taken him in had said he was a stray that she’d ‘just been feeding in her garden for a few weeks’.
FROG …
Zigs been put on special food since his bladder trouble ..its a bit more expensive but he loves it..but will often only eat part of the sachet,and return to finish it later.
One thing we’ve noticed..he was getting quite chubby before he got his cat flap..but now he is out at night for hours,he’s lost a few pounds. Maybe i should start scaling a few walls to lose some too! 😻😻😻 x
One of my friends cats, Carter, got very large before he was diagnosed with a bladder problem and but on a special food.
No return of problems for Froglet since the other week – she is dreadful at never seeming to drink water, although there’s always some there for her, so particularly in the hot weather I’ve been adding water to her food so that she is less likely to get dehydrated again.
Apparently, she needs 60ml of water per kilo per day – so 240ml of water
canned food is around 75% water content – so 300g of food is 225ml of water
I can add about 50 ml of water per can, so that means that she should have enough fluid – along with the odd dish of cat milk.
She doesn’t get notably skinnier or lighter when we go to the farm – the only time I noticed that was when she spent a week at a cattery – we have a cat sitter now!
Carter! Ilove that name for a cat!
I do a lot of catsitting for various friends,love it.
Yes we too worry Ziggy doesnt drink enough..he’s been drinking more tho on his special food coz i guess its moresolid,less watery than his usual felix..which he still loves to have occasionally..its a rip off tho isnt it if its that much water! But its pretty cheap too
Waitrose do some nice terrines..zig doesnt like the fish ones but likes the poultry.
I always have sticks for him in my bag..he knows it and rummages in my bag when i arrive..makes me feel like a proper granma! 😃😃
Right.. time to get my togs on and go to see a film that comes highly recommended by my froggy friend! X
enjoy the film!
I don’t think the water content is a ‘rip off’ necessarily – just the natural water content of the meat plus some gravy. Dried food (presumably the whiskas and go cat type) is around 10% but I think the hills dry food and similar specialised diet stuff is more moist than that. Muji, my cat before Froglet, had Hills for many years but she had kidney problems from when she was about 13 – so I’m very concerned that Froglet does get adequate hydration.
Brillo film FROG! You could have heard a pin drop..everyoen was absorbed in it.
Do you go to picturehouse in London? We have one in Lpool and its where we usually go.Julieta was on in the Box,just like a lounge with sofas. Much nicer than the bigger screens.
Had a little drive round the Marina afterwards admiring the lights shining on the water.
Home now,ready for bed.just watching a bit of telly and having some berries and yog i saved from earlier.
Happy as a clam!
Night night,sweet dreams x
Hi – glad you enjoyed it
I go to the Curzon at Bloomsbury mostly – Picture Houses are part of the same group, but they’ve kept them with a separate identity – although they have a similar atmosphere.
It’s just over a mile from home, so makes quite a good walk – and with a big Waitrose next door, also very convenient.
I miss LOndon FROG..lived in North London for three years in the seventies and worked near Bloomsbury for a while..lovely area. DD lived in south London for a few years so i got to know South London too..i cant decide which side i prefer! X
I finally got around to sorting through all the clothes that I bought home from my storage unit last week.
Huge pile to go to the charity shop – many still with labels on. Some are now too big – others fit, but aren’t particularly flattering.
Quite a lot I can’t imagined why I ever thought that I’d want to wear them.
Ever.
In a million years!
In the “keeping pile” quite a few old favourites, lots that I’d forgotten about. Most of them fit now – hardly any that are still too small.
And – lots of SMALL PANTS!!! (that fit or are a bit loose!)
Congratulations, Frog, on the continuing progress. Looks like you’re going great guns. On the water front, not much need to worry about how much cats drink and eat. They’re much better at self-regulating than dogs – our cats lose masses of weight in the late spring and them put it all back on in autumn in readiness for the winter. They’re really well sorted in that respect. So long as there’s fresh water available, they’ll drink what they need. If you ever find your cat is drinking lots more than usual, and I do mean lots, that’s the time to worry, as cats are prone to kidney problems and will need to see a vet.
Loved the photos, by the way. Hope you don’t mind – I looked at your profile. Congrats on getting off the Metformin. That really is a big achievement.
thanks Snoop
Froglet had urinary tract problems when it was very hot a few weeks ago – it’s hard to tell what the actual cause was, but I was a bit concerned as she rarely drinks (unless it’s Sainsbury’s cat milk). It was probably less that 24 hours between my noticing the problem and the Vet appointment, but he said making sure she did get more liquid had been the right thing to do. He gave her some metacam and she was fine the next day – but when it got very hot last week I was trying precautionary measures, hence being obsessive about her food.
Mostly because I don’t want her to be unwell, but also I can think of better things to do with £70 than a vet visit!
