MrsBabyCakes
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Yayyyyyyyy thats excellent!
Donnajt's 2011 Starting All Over Again Diary
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Yayyyyyyyy thats excellent!
donnajt
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thank you all my lovely sw buddies, i am absolutely shattered didn't finish work til 7:45, so i am off to bed but just got to share this:
had a bowl of rice pudding left in fridge which i had mixed with a rhubarb yogurt, just added some drinking chocolate and reheated, it tastes like turkish delight! yum x sleep well x
had a bowl of rice pudding left in fridge which i had mixed with a rhubarb yogurt, just added some drinking chocolate and reheated, it tastes like turkish delight! yum x sleep well x
donnajt
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Week 3
Tuesday, 18 January 2010
...Day 1
B: Yogurt with sliced up banana
L: Tin spaghetti, grapes, clementimes
D: stroppy fellow pesto
HEA: Milk
HEB: Kelloggs Fibre Plus
Syns: Pesto (3), Chocolate (7) 10/10
Exercise: I have been on my feet all day today
Job of the Day: colour my hair!
Wednesday, 19 January 2011
...Day 2
B: Yogurt with sliced up banana
L: Tin spaghetti, grapes, clementimes
D: Honey & Mustard chicken, mash, peas
HEA: Milk
HEB: Kelloggs Fibre Plus
Syns: Honey (1) 1/10
Exercise: I have been on my feet all day today
Job of the Day: colour my hair!
Slow cooked the honey & mustard chicken today as i knew i would be late leaving work (finally got home at 8pm) omg i will always cook thighs and drumsticks in the crockpot from now on, the meat had just all fallen from the bone it was scrumptious!
Thursday, 20 January 2011
...Day 3
B: Yogurt with sliced up banana
L: Jacket Spud (see pic)
D: Jambalaya (see pic)
HEA: Milk
HEB: Kelloggs Fibre Plus
Syns: Chorizo (4) tom puree (1) = 5/10
Exercise: Walked to school and back
Job of the Day: HOORAY! Finally dyed my hair - goodbye grey!
Pics on their way...
Tuesday, 18 January 2010
...Day 1
B: Yogurt with sliced up banana
L: Tin spaghetti, grapes, clementimes
D: stroppy fellow pesto
HEA: Milk
HEB: Kelloggs Fibre Plus
Syns: Pesto (3), Chocolate (7) 10/10
Exercise: I have been on my feet all day today
Job of the Day: colour my hair!
Wednesday, 19 January 2011
...Day 2
B: Yogurt with sliced up banana
L: Tin spaghetti, grapes, clementimes
D: Honey & Mustard chicken, mash, peas
HEA: Milk
HEB: Kelloggs Fibre Plus
Syns: Honey (1) 1/10
Exercise: I have been on my feet all day today
Job of the Day: colour my hair!
Slow cooked the honey & mustard chicken today as i knew i would be late leaving work (finally got home at 8pm) omg i will always cook thighs and drumsticks in the crockpot from now on, the meat had just all fallen from the bone it was scrumptious!
Thursday, 20 January 2011
...Day 3
B: Yogurt with sliced up banana
L: Jacket Spud (see pic)
D: Jambalaya (see pic)
HEA: Milk
HEB: Kelloggs Fibre Plus
Syns: Chorizo (4) tom puree (1) = 5/10
Exercise: Walked to school and back
Job of the Day: HOORAY! Finally dyed my hair - goodbye grey!
Pics on their way...
donnajt
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here's some yummy pics:
Cheese & Mustard Potatoes:
big thank you to lovely Stacey (MrsWilsoncroft's) for this recipe!
served (me with carrots/tomatoes and paul's with baked beans)
For each potato, rub each potato with little bit of frylight then roll in salt. Bake in the oven for 1 hour on gas mark 6.
Mix together 1 egg yolk, 1 teaspoon of mustard powder & grate 42g Kerry's low low cheese.
Remove potato from oven and gently ease it apart. Scoop out the inside, fluff with a fork & mix in the cheese mixture, season, then spoon back into the potato.
Return to the oven for 10-14 minutes or until the cheese is melted and golden.
Delicious!
Cheese & Mustard Potatoes:
big thank you to lovely Stacey (MrsWilsoncroft's) for this recipe!
served (me with carrots/tomatoes and paul's with baked beans)
For each potato, rub each potato with little bit of frylight then roll in salt. Bake in the oven for 1 hour on gas mark 6.
Mix together 1 egg yolk, 1 teaspoon of mustard powder & grate 42g Kerry's low low cheese.
Remove potato from oven and gently ease it apart. Scoop out the inside, fluff with a fork & mix in the cheese mixture, season, then spoon back into the potato.
Return to the oven for 10-14 minutes or until the cheese is melted and golden.
Delicious!
donnajt
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and another...
Stroppyfellow Pasta, serves four 1.5syns EE
AKA: Zizzi's strozapretti pesto rosso.
Serves 4
4 chicken breasts
300g strozapretti pasta (any will do though)
handful of chopped parsley
1 red onion, finely chopped
4 tbsp ff cremé fraíche (2syns)
2tbsp red pesto (4 syns)
Juice of a lemon
Mixed herbs (any will do)
Boil the pasta for 8 mins
Whilst that is boiling fry the chicken, onion, lemon juice and mixed herbs until cooked
Drain the pasta (i leave a little water so that the sauce goes further)
Add cremé fraíche and pesto and heat through until warm!
The whole meal it is 6 syns so is only 1.5 per portion!
big thank you to melissa87 for posting original recipe x
Stroppyfellow Pasta, serves four 1.5syns EE
AKA: Zizzi's strozapretti pesto rosso.
Serves 4
4 chicken breasts
300g strozapretti pasta (any will do though)
handful of chopped parsley
1 red onion, finely chopped
4 tbsp ff cremé fraíche (2syns)
2tbsp red pesto (4 syns)
Juice of a lemon
Mixed herbs (any will do)
Boil the pasta for 8 mins
Whilst that is boiling fry the chicken, onion, lemon juice and mixed herbs until cooked
Drain the pasta (i leave a little water so that the sauce goes further)
Add cremé fraíche and pesto and heat through until warm!
The whole meal it is 6 syns so is only 1.5 per portion!
big thank you to melissa87 for posting original recipe x
donnajt
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finally...
Jambayla (forgotten how delish this is!)
chorizo = 28g = 2.5 syns Red/EE, 4 Green
I've tweaked this a little tonight:
2-3 chicken breasts, cut into small bite size pieces (I used the Iceland 400g cooked chicken chunks £4 per bag, used 1/3 of the bag)
110g chorizo, thickly sliced, cut into small pieces (10 syns)
1 large red onion
1 red pepper, thinly diced
1 green pepper, thinly diced
1 crushed garlic clove
2 green chillies, finely chopped
1tbsp chilli sauce (2tbsp) optional
2tbsp tomato puree (2 tbsp) optional
Frylight
2 chicken stock cubes/1.5-1 pint boiling water
Pinch tumeric
350g long grain rice
Tin tomatoes
Frylight pan and fry chorizo and chicken until chicken turns pink, remove from pan
Add bit more frylight if necessary, fry onion and garlic for 3 mins, add peppers and green chilli to pan and fry for further 2 mins
Add chicken and chorizo to pan, add rice and then stock and tin of tomatoes, stir well, add pinch tumeric and season, chilli sauce and tomato puree if you are using
Place lid on pan and leave to simmer for 30-40 mins, add drop of water if neccesary
D E L I C I O U S
Total dish = 10 syns (14 if you use chilli sauce/tom puree), serves 4 filling portions = 2.5 or 3.5
Jambayla (forgotten how delish this is!)
chorizo = 28g = 2.5 syns Red/EE, 4 Green
I've tweaked this a little tonight:
2-3 chicken breasts, cut into small bite size pieces (I used the Iceland 400g cooked chicken chunks £4 per bag, used 1/3 of the bag)
110g chorizo, thickly sliced, cut into small pieces (10 syns)
1 large red onion
1 red pepper, thinly diced
1 green pepper, thinly diced
1 crushed garlic clove
2 green chillies, finely chopped
1tbsp chilli sauce (2tbsp) optional
2tbsp tomato puree (2 tbsp) optional
Frylight
2 chicken stock cubes/1.5-1 pint boiling water
Pinch tumeric
350g long grain rice
Tin tomatoes
Frylight pan and fry chorizo and chicken until chicken turns pink, remove from pan
Add bit more frylight if necessary, fry onion and garlic for 3 mins, add peppers and green chilli to pan and fry for further 2 mins
Add chicken and chorizo to pan, add rice and then stock and tin of tomatoes, stir well, add pinch tumeric and season, chilli sauce and tomato puree if you are using
Place lid on pan and leave to simmer for 30-40 mins, add drop of water if neccesary
D E L I C I O U S
Total dish = 10 syns (14 if you use chilli sauce/tom puree), serves 4 filling portions = 2.5 or 3.5
donnajt
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Had a nice day today, caught up on some tv, i watched the Hugh Fernly-Whatever his name is Fish Fight, I was in tears, i am really going to try and incorporate a bit more "uncommon" fish to our menus, have already done meal plan til 27th, its disgusting the discarded fish that get thrown back into the sea...did anybody see it
Also sky+ a few of the Jamie Oliver fish recipes, gonna pop on c4 website and copy them down as they were nearly all sw friendly!
does anybody have any fish recipes, bearing in mind i dont really do fish
Also sky+ a few of the Jamie Oliver fish recipes, gonna pop on c4 website and copy them down as they were nearly all sw friendly!
does anybody have any fish recipes, bearing in mind i dont really do fish
prawnchopSuey
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Hi Donna, I usually read your diary at work so can't see the pictures, so it's a real treat to come on on an evening and drool over your recipes!!
I didn't see Hugh's fish prog but I did watch Jamie's fish recipes and there were lots of good looking recipes, most seemed quite easy too... I especially liked the look of the fish curry but it had curry paste from a jar and coconut milk so probably quite synful. I didn't realise that so much fish was thrown back into the sea, it would be OK if they were still alive and able to swim away but absolutely crazy that they're thrown away dead. I have to say that I reckon restaurants and chippies must be much bigger purchasers of cod and haddock than households so I think they need to aim the campaign at those businesses as much as individual consumers.
Certainly makes you think. I remember the chicken one they did a few years back, put me right off supermarkets' "value" meat let me tell you!
Sleep well
I didn't see Hugh's fish prog but I did watch Jamie's fish recipes and there were lots of good looking recipes, most seemed quite easy too... I especially liked the look of the fish curry but it had curry paste from a jar and coconut milk so probably quite synful. I didn't realise that so much fish was thrown back into the sea, it would be OK if they were still alive and able to swim away but absolutely crazy that they're thrown away dead. I have to say that I reckon restaurants and chippies must be much bigger purchasers of cod and haddock than households so I think they need to aim the campaign at those businesses as much as individual consumers.
Certainly makes you think. I remember the chicken one they did a few years back, put me right off supermarkets' "value" meat let me tell you!
Sleep well
MrsBabyCakes
Naughty Fridge Picker
Mmm that pesto pasta looks cool!
My little tip, if you like cooking is, I grab the recipe books they do at the tills at asda and sainsburys, they are free ones, and always have little recipes in it that can be SW tweaked. I am doing a chicken recipe tonight from the sainsburys one. Will put it in my food diary tonight. I love sainsburys recipe card meals for £5 as well for the same reason.
My little tip, if you like cooking is, I grab the recipe books they do at the tills at asda and sainsburys, they are free ones, and always have little recipes in it that can be SW tweaked. I am doing a chicken recipe tonight from the sainsburys one. Will put it in my food diary tonight. I love sainsburys recipe card meals for £5 as well for the same reason.
prawnchopSuey
Gold Member
Thanks for the tip Donna... I better go find some coconut essence
sarah83
Try and try again
Mmm those potatoes look scrumptious, I'm going to be trying those!
Check out this thread which snuggles started for fishy ideas, I posted what I ate on a fishy week on the last page and some links to recipes... might give you some inspiration
http://www.minimins.com/slimming-world/159088-my-fishy-week.html
Check out this thread which snuggles started for fishy ideas, I posted what I ate on a fishy week on the last page and some links to recipes... might give you some inspiration
http://www.minimins.com/slimming-world/159088-my-fishy-week.html
donnajt
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Mmm that pesto pasta looks cool!
My little tip, if you like cooking is, I grab the recipe books they do at the tills at asda and sainsburys, they are free ones, and always have little recipes in it that can be SW tweaked. I am doing a chicken recipe tonight from the sainsburys one. Will put it in my food diary tonight. I love sainsburys recipe card meals for £5 as well for the same reason.
SNAP! never go to sainsburys but i love the ASDA mag, recipes 100% better than the tesco mag, are they still doing the £5 cards, must check the website, that pasta does it for me every time!
donnajt
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Hello huni!!
Your diary looks very yummy!! I can see me pinching a few dinner ideas
Well done on your loss so far!! xx
got for it babe, i love pinching recipes!
donnajt
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Wow hunny your food is looking most delicious
Big hugs ((()))
xxx
I so hope so Claire, as long i carry on making yummy food i will be fine - failure not really an option i have told everyone i will be wearing my wedding dress on 11th april, school, work, friends, neighbours...
donnajt
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had a lovely day today, one of my dearest friends came over, we met when we were both pregnant and poorly in hospital in 2009, our boys were born 2 weeks apart...she is moving 2 hours away boo hoo!!! told her she has to buy a house with an extra bedroom so we can come for holidays lol! shall miss her dearly!
donnajt
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Friday, 21 January 2011
...Day 4
B: Yogurt with sliced up banana
L: Jacket Spud (see yesterday's pic)
D: BIG FAT CHEAT - PIZZA TAKEAWAY!!
HEA: Cheese (jacket spud)
HEB: -
Syns: Milk (3) = 3/10
Exercise: Walked to school and back
Job of the Day: boring housework!
We are having family games night tonight so will probably have a cheeky funsize choc bar (thank you MrsW for the chocolate/syn list I have pinched for you, its so helpful!
...Day 4
B: Yogurt with sliced up banana
L: Jacket Spud (see yesterday's pic)
D: BIG FAT CHEAT - PIZZA TAKEAWAY!!
HEA: Cheese (jacket spud)
HEB: -
Syns: Milk (3) = 3/10
Exercise: Walked to school and back
Job of the Day: boring housework!
We are having family games night tonight so will probably have a cheeky funsize choc bar (thank you MrsW for the chocolate/syn list I have pinched for you, its so helpful!
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MrsBabyCakes
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Yes they do, and I always go and check the tills for new recipe booklets lol I am a recipe nut lol I tweak them for SW and sometimes change them a little. I love to use my syns for my cooking, nothing nicer than yummy tasting food. I find that if I cook lots of different things I dont get bored.
