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.