Wednesday 8 January 2014

Wednesday food diary

Wednesday 8 January

Breakfast - toast with butter. 3.5 syns and healthy extra b
Lunch - 2 plums stick celery yoghurt
Dinner- shepherd's pie with sweet potato mash broccoli and cauliflower. 


Poorly baby means I didn't get it layered so sweet potato mash on bottom.
For my mince I used extra lean lamb mince. Browned in a frying pan and drained off any fat. Added onion leek veg stock cube half pint water carrots courgette and mushroom. Transferred  to an oven dish and cooked on 140 for about 3 hours stirring occasionally. 
Boiled sweet potatoes mashed and added steamed veg all totally free. 

Being a breastfeeding mum I still have up to 5 healthy extras left to enjoy today and syns to play with :)

Tuesday 7 January food diary

Breakfast - yoghurt and an apple
Lunch - homemade chicken broth (chicken veg barley lentils)
Dinner - bacon poached eggs mushroom onion cherry tomatoes with sausage (my weigh in treat) 
3 squares galaxy. 

Total 12 syns

Tuesday 7 January 2014

Its been a long time since I blogged and so much has happened. So here I am back again. I now have a 3 month old baby boy and I'm back on the slimming world wagon. I have a lot of weight to lose still and my babies christening in just 6 weeks. So can I lose a stone and a half by then?  Im going to try. I'm going to write down everything and back to basics cooking like my nan.
Batch cooking weighing food and exercise. I have motivation and 2 beautiful boys that I want to see grow up.

Wednesday 7 November 2012

Chocolate Cheesecake

I have taken up baking for other people now that I am back to healthy eating. So I've been making cakes and cheesecakes for friends and family. My most recent being this chocolate cheesecake with crushed up maltesers.
I'm so bad at following recipes so I just make up I crushed up digestives and placed at bottom of dish covered it with melted butter and squashed down to make a flat base. I put this in the fridge to set and started on the topping. I took a tub of soft cheese about 300g, half a tub of mascarpone maybe 150g and a pot of double cream and whisked together. Add to this 2 bars of melted milk chocolate and a packet of crushed maltesers. Whip it together then add one bar of melted dark chocolate. Spread on base and leave to set in the fridge.

Scotch Broth

I love home made hearty soups and used to love my nan's version of scotch broth. My nan passed away many years ago so I only had my memories to make the soup on.

I used my left over Sunday roast  leg of lamb. I put the lamb bone in a large soup pan with some water, soup mix (pearl barley, lentils etc) and a lamb stock cube. I brought it to the boil and then added; carrot, turnip, celery, courgette, onion, rosemary and lots of salt and pepper. 

I let all the vegetables cook and then took out the bone and stripped it of meat. 

It was similar to my nan's and just as tasty. Even my 11 year old asked for more.

Monday 22 October 2012

Menus for the week....

So last week I rejoined slimming world. I loved the plan since I started and lost just over 3 and a half stone (50lb). Since the end of last year tragedy has hit our family and friends meaning that I have not just fallen off the wagon but I have eaten it.
The past week has been tough and I'm honestly expecting to gain tomorrow after a week of steroids and strange work patterns. So tomorrow is a new day and a new week. I am  going to plan healthy yet filling meals and go back to taking my own meals to work. Working nights can be a struggle as you're never sure when to eat.

So for this week I will more than likely have fruit, cereal and yoghurt at breakfast time. Lunch varies to me as to what time I am working. Tomorrow is 4pm-10pm so I will have lunch before and a lighter dinner when I get home, the same on Wednesday. I am back to my night shifts on Thursday and Friday so again I will have to adjust my food accordingly.

I am not sticking to a certain day to cook a meal, just some ideas for the actual meals. So this weeks lunches will include tuna pasta with lots of vegetables, home made singapore noodles, jacket potatoes and maybe some salads or sandwiches for speed. Dinners I am planning on stuffed trout, a wintery beef stew with mashed potatoes, something that I can just throw in really.... Middle Eastern Chicken with cous cous, Steak with roasted vegetables, home made fishcakes slimming world style and a yummy cottage pie.  I will probably take either pasta or home made soup to work.

I will keep a log in my blog and  hopefully see where I am going wrong.... I have 16lb to lose for Xmas although come tomorrow it will probably be 20 :(

Lemon self-saucing pudding

I came across this recipe when looking for somethingg quick and simple to bake for a pudding. I used the bbc good food recipe and must admit it was a winner in our house!
It's the kind of thing you have all the ingredients for stuffed at the back of the fridge/cupboard. The only thing I would do differently is bake for perhaps 5 minutes longer. The self-saucing part of the is like a lemon curd and if you're like me and love lemons add a little extra lemon juice for that sharp kick