Have bought a jar of Miso paste from Holland and Barratt so I can make my own Miso soup. Ithad better be nice as I've bought 2 jars [had a £7 voucher and had to use up the whole amount]. Thought I could add lots of vegetables to it. Going to the gym/sauna tonight. Bit worried cause the treadmill said 'high heart rate' the other day. I've never noticed that on the screen before 
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Be careful buying ready meals. Check the salt content because it's often high. 
Day 2 and I think I’ve made up for the excesses of Day 1. I didn’t eat till 1, when I had a couple of Weetabix, since then I’ve just had a handful of nuts with a few raisins, and DH is now making us corned beef hash, with lots of veg. I’m still drinking tea with milk and the occasional coffee, but I shall try to resist the Friday wine later. 
Good evening *Frugeleer extraordinare*
And fellow Frugeleers
Evening meal
Yet another jacket potatoes with small amount of grated cheese and Salad
Pudding was a sort if yummy Eton Mess
Frozen mixed berries with a friends homemade small meringues (crushed)
Vanilla yogurt poured on top.
So sorry to read that your tooth Oldmeg
is still giving you gyp.
There is not a lot worse than toothache especially during the night.
I hope you manage to get some sleep
Good job that's only a short term strategy Meg
You poor thing, how miserable. I imagine the minute you forget to remember about it, it catches and hurts. 
A couple of years ago I used one of those emergency kits you get from the chemist when a crown came off when I was away for a long weekend. It's really easy to use and you only need to use enough to smooth over the rough bit, so it might do the trick until you see the dentist. It's the same stuff the dentist uses for temporary filling, so it's all above board. It cost me about £9 from Boots, but any chemist sells them, even the chemist in Superdrug. If you need to, you can keep using it until you see the dentist. Hope this helps. 
I don't want to be a doom monkey, but last September I found out that I needed a root canal on a crowned tooth. It turned out not to be straight forward and I ended up having the crown removed to complete the job. To my shock my dentist told me that there wasn't really enough tooth now left for a new crown. It did sort of feel like the crowns on either side of the one that was removed were holding it in place (these were made after the one that fell out). I am a paying NHS patient, so my dentist said the only real option was a single denture or leaving a gap (it's not in a really obvious place). We chatted about it (she's lovely) and then she said she was willing to try another crown, but wasn't hopeful it would last. So I chose the crown and was thrilled to bits. Then just after Christmas I was attacked by the dreaded winter lurgy and unfortunately I coughed and sneezed at the same time when I was cleaning my teeth - and the crown shot out of my mouth and went down the plug hole! 
I know I'm looking at single denture now, so I didn't rush to see the dentist (been very poorly anyway). My next appointment is actually on the 13th, but I need to rearrange it because I'm away. This is all a really longwinded way of saying I hope there's enough tooth left so your new crown does stay on and I'll be crossing everything for you.
I went to Boots to buy one of those temporary filling thingys and the shop assistant asked me if it was for a denture 
; as if I didn't feel bad enough. Broken tooth and I just happened to be hundreds of miles from home and it was a bank holiday. Was caused be using dental floss; found out afterwards it's not a good idea to floss if you have fillings; better to use those little brushes. I think it said you were only to use it for a couple of days and then had to see a dentist, so I didn't bother. I'm sure the next time it happens [which it will as I'm full of fillings] I won't have it with me...I do have a ragged tooth where part of the filling or tooth has broken away and, for some reason, I keep having to run my tongue over it as if there's some kind of fatal attraction going on [like; I'd better check that it's still ragged; oh yes, it is ouch]....
Tegan I bought the kit when we were away for a long weekend in our caravan, so I left it there in case I ever needed it again. I stopped using floss when I ended up with two crowns next to each other. I was sure it could 'slide' under the edge of the crown, so I started using the brushes. I was never very good at flossing anyway because I could never get it out of the space between my big teeth. I was fine with the front teeth, but never cracked it () with the back ones. I think the kit companies are just covering themselves by saying only use it for a couple of days before seeing a dentist because I spent hours online researching what my options when my dentist said there wasn't enough tooth for a crown. In the US loads of people can't afford dental treatment or don't go to the dentist for some other reason. There's so many videos on YouTube of people showing you how to use these kits for 'permanent' teeth! I'm really glad we've got the NHS!
I coughed and sneezed at the same time when I was cleaning my teeth - and the crown shot out of my mouth and went down the plug hole!
Blimey, Wilma, I bet the air was blue (or is that just me?)!
Reading this he above makes me think I should give up the floss (I've loads of fillings). But I went off the little brushes when I used a new one for the first time and it emerged practically bald, with only a tuft of the nylon filaments left. . I hadn't used that make before, so sent the pack back for checking and got a lab report from them assuring me that there was nothing wrong with them. 
I don't know to this day where all those filaments went - I just hope they passed through and aren't embedded in my gums!
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