Sausage casserole

So I made three casseroles, sausages are 2 syns each, next time ill use the 1/2 syn weight watchers ones though 

Basically just casserole veg, passata, veg stock, soft cheese to thicken, chopped tomatoes and then mash potato to top off after. Yum :)

Subway Salad + Slimming World

Now I didn't make this....but it's a Subway salad!!! Amazing...so yummy! £3 for this lil beauty and my takeaway craving is satisfied! Sometimes I even order two! Lol

Remember that the meats have syns, they do have a plain roast chicken tho that will make your entire salad complete free/superfree! However I do sometimes have the flavoured chicken as it'll only be 2 syns at most

I leave off the light mayo, and take it home and grab my extra light mayo from fridge ;) also if u add cheese like myself then count it as your HEA :) :) yum yum...now I want some!

Chicken korma

Chicken korma from SW magazine (will post recipe when I have a day off) it tasted amazing. I love a saucy curry! =D

Salads

I don't know about anyone else but I struggle at lunchtime to make something to satisfy!

So I'm trying to get in habit of making up a salad the day before the day off when I'm at home at lunchtime, so that I can grab and munch!

The ones below are basically the same except one has ham and the other salmon which I cooked after defrosting.

Any meat will obviously do. I had grated carrot, boiled and cooled some broccoli, boiled and cooled some new potatoes, grated cheese, and voila! When I make them for the weekend tomorrow I'm going to put in some red onion and red peppers too just to bulk out the superfree even more. Italian dressing goes well, but thousand island is my favourite! Nothing like a potato salad :)

Fajita Time!!

Fajita craving hit! So I had three wraps (16 1/2 syns worth saving all day for me!!) and red pepper and red onion chicken with red chilli, Cajun spice, quark, fromage frais, purée, chopped tomatoes

Roasted pepper and Cajun Chicken

So I roasted a green pepper, filled with a bit of Cous Cous and topped with cheese. Added lettuce and spring onion, and grilled a piece of chicken in Cajun spice. Was a very hungry day so added low fat super noodles (FREE)

Chocolate All Bran

I use All Bran Chocolate Crunch as my Healthy Extra B, so 30g. Then I add 55ml of milk, one chopped banana and 4 halved strawberries. My favourite breakfast and never gets boring! Taste Sensation! 😁😁

Tandoori chicken skewers

200g fat free yoghurt

2 finely chopped cloves of garlic

2cm ginger, peeled and grated

1/2 tsp of garam masala

1 tbsp of medium curry powder

Juice of half a lemon

Small handful of chopped coriander leaves

Stir it all together, cube chicken and leave to marinate for half an hour or overnight. Cook and enjoy!

Carbonara

So decided to put my quark to good use! 

Tub of quark (94p in ASDA)

Spring onions

Red onions

Bacon

Ham

2 eggs

Soft light cheese

Tagliatelle 

Beat two eggs and mix with the cheese and quark until its a smooth mixture. Add a couple of pinches of ground black pepper.

Boil the pasta, fry all the other ingredients in a pan and then add it all together when ready. Keep half a cup of the pasta water to add to the whole mixture to make a sauce consistency.

Yummy! I added a pinch of salt too

Malaysian Red Pepper Chicken Curry

My Jacket Obsession!

Love jacket potatoes! I decided to do something different, and added salmon to these ones! I bought salmon trimmings from ASDA for 98p, bargain! Fried them in FryLight for 5 minutes and were ready o sprinkle onto baked potatoes :) I suggest adding fat free quark also to soften up the potato and get that creamy taste without the high calories and fat with adding cheese if you're not using it as a healthy extra 

Whole meal banana and choc chip cake

So I had a bag of wholemeal flour, and decided today I needed to make something with it!

4 mashed bananas. 2 is not sweet enough!

Mix these together:

100g light butter ( this equals 313 calories)
15tbsp sweetener ( FREE )

Mix these together:

25ml fat free natural yoghurt
50ml milk


Mixed these together:

Half a tbsp of salt
1/2 tbsp of baking powder
375g wholemeal flour

Put them all together, mix and add the mashed banana. Sprinkle a handful of choc chips in if desired (100g equals ...)

Gas mark 4 in a cake tin for 45-50 minutes and voila! You have something like below!

Took me a while to work out, but each slice equals 45g of wholemeal, so this can be counted as your Healthy B! Have a little wedge extra to fulfil all the fibre you need ;)

This then means the slice is a mere 2 syns!! If you eat as extra and not counting towards healthy B, then it is 8 syns a slice. The slices are huge chunks, so maybe half it to 4 syns if you want to be more reserved ;)

ENJOY!

Nike+ Running

I love this app, I combine it with playing the podcasts to train me into a good way of beginners running without exhaustion. It's handy to see the route you're running, how many calories are burned and also the NikeFuel is kinda addictive to try beat your friend's scores! I can't wait until I gentoo the training week when I'm actually running for more than 60 seconds, I'm assuming when I start week two on Tuesday that it'll be 90 seconds of running. Bring it on!

So on the weeks that I'm off at the weekend, I'm going to run on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. The other week will be Monday, Wednesday and Friday. I've been naughty this week on my first week because you're meant to have a rest day between runs, and I'm doing all three at once so that I can still count it towards my body magic award lol. Tomorrow is definitely going to be hard but it's motivation enough knowing if I don't do it I have to forfeit the whole week. I'm exhausted and SO busy it's unreal, but those 30 minutes of me time aren't all bad. The Podcasts don't really give you much time to mull over the cr*p going on, so that's definitely a really good thing!

I get very annoyed with people who dwell and fester when bad things are happening in their life. I let myself do it for one day, now I'm back up, pushing it to the back of my mind and thinking more calmly and approaching these things with more patience and time.

I'd love to more than anything dwell and worry about the cr*p we are in right now, but I've done as much as I can do without squeezing blood from a rock. Now I am focusing on positive, healthy energy because otherwise that black hole in me just keeps getting fed, and I'm not letting a damn thing completely destroy me.

Tip for tastier vegetables

Pretty boring when you try to eat as many vegetables as you can with dinner. I happened to read the back if my vegetable stock box to see if it gave any ideas for soup, when instead I came across a very handy tip I didn't know. (Maybe I've been living in a box and everyone does this already but I was impressed anyway!) add a vegetable stock cube to boiling vegetables!

No more dull tasting veggies. And no need to add salt as there's plenty of flavour in the stock cube. Yum ^.^

Chicken curry

I now make this from improvisation sometimes.

Chicken breast cut into chunks

Curry powder, diced onion, fat free yoghurt, boiling water, chilli flakes

Paprika for the rice

Boiled rice

Really easy right?!! Add as many extra free ingredients as you can, this was a lazy day, but a great idea is to add vegetables too and you could make it into a chicken casserole curry ;)

Scotch eggs

Homemade scotch eggs! Messy work but worth it!

*pork mince
*diced onion
* Italian herb mix
* salt and pepper

Blend above ingredients, boil some eggs to hard, then peel and roll into the mixture. I made three types of crumb coating:

Grinded scan bran - two pieces per egg - 1 syn a slice or half of your healthy B


Cous Cous soaked in boiling water - completely FREE

Golden breadcrumbs - 4.5 syns for 25g

(Messy work so leave the tap running!) then place on a baking tray and cook at gas mark 7. I turned mine occasionally to try minimise flat bottoms. Not the most professional looking ones, but these cut out the crap they put in ready made ones.

With mine I chose to experiment with three types to see which I prefer as I'd like to make more as my snack food. Experiment! Nothing worse than making them all scan bran to discover you hate it.

Avoid 13 syns on a store bought scotch egg!

Enjoy!

A simple, luxury FREE meal!

So easy to make, and feels posh too! Very very tasty and my favourite meal.

New potatoes, boiled
Salmon, grilled
Broccoli shoots, boiled
Green beans, sliced and boiled

YUM YUM YUM ^.^

Homemade FREE soup

So I made this really easily, and had it as lunches for two days of the week, can also keep as snack food when having a rough day. Believe me even if you thicken it up with some Syn'd cornflour or maybe just more potato and blend it, filling yourself up with soup is a great cure for a moment when you feel like giving in!

Leek and potato (bought mine for 50p ready bagged and chopped)
Ham, chopped
Vegetable stock
Water

Boil for 20-30minutes, and voila!

Cooked Breakfast

Oh myyy, gotta be my favourite healthy thing to eat without a doubt! It's unbelievable that I can eat this completely guilt free! Love it love it love it. Just remember those S and SS foods though to compensate for the guilty loss of vegetables ;)

Spaghetti loops, canned FREE!
Two slices of Hovis Nimble bread (400g loaf) HEALTHY EXTRA B
bacon, fat cut off
Egg
Weight Watchers pork Sausages - 1/2 Syn each
Plum tomatoes, canned
Potatoes cut into slices and fried in Fry light
Cook everything with fry light, NO oil

Enjoy, completely innocently ^.^

Muesli

Oh no, I know it sounds gross! But I quickly went from hating that bird food to loving it!

Dorset Simply Nutty muesli 35g (Healthy B)
125ml semi skimmed milk (half of Healthy A)
One chopped banana (forgot to add it in the picture I took but I normally prefer to put as much fruit in as possible when using healthy B as breakfast)
2 quartered strawberries

A little sweetener if you need that kick in the morning ;)

Remember, healthy B is only supposed to be a small portion as an extra in the day to get your high fibre boost. I however prefer to use it for my breakfast without adding any more as Syns, and just loading up with fruit, I think it's perfectly fine to have as a meal :)