Tag: Cooking

Breakfast Bread Pudding

Breakfast Bread Pudding

One thing that I am really aware off and trying to change is that we waste a lot of food. We seem to chuck out food as it sits in the fridge, or cupboard and goes bad before we even manage to have time to 

Baking Day

Baking Day

Yesterday we had a baking day. Little man wasn’t feeling the school work that was set by his teacher, he was missing his friends and he was not in the right frame of mind to do anything. So we had a read, then we decided 

A Cooking Rut

A Cooking Rut

Cooking is not my strongest point it is something I really don’t like doing, and something I don’t really enjoy thinking about. In fact I hate deciding what we are having for dinner every day. Not just dinner, breakfast and lunch as well. I have 

Pinch of Nom Stuffed Meatballs

Pinch of Nom Stuffed Meatballs

Yesterday I made some stuffed meatballs from the Pinch of Nom cookbook. If you haven’t yet got this cookbook it is a great cookbook that is full of meals for the whole family that are all slimming friendly. The picture doesn’t do the food justice 

Spicy Beef and Rice

Spicy Beef and Rice

Mr L loves a curry I am not someone that really loves spicy food but over the years of being with Mr L I have learnt that I can handle a little spice in my food. This is something I kind of threw together a 

Tuna Pasta Slimming World Friendly

Tuna Pasta Slimming World Friendly

One of our favourite dinners is a tuna pasta bake with a jar of sauce and that isn’t the most Slimming World pasta to be honest. So I decided to attempt to make a Slimming World version. And came up with this. It was actually 

Chicken Risotto

Chicken Risotto

This is one of our favourite meals in our house. And is one of the easiest meals to make as it is all done in the slow cooker. It doesn’t look lovely, and you really can’t take a nice picture of it but it tastes 

A Curry-ish Lunch

A Curry-ish Lunch

It’s 10.30pm on a Sunday evening, and I suddenly realise Mr L has no Slimming World friendly lunch tomorrow and there is no food in the house. After a quick raid and remembering that we already had some cooked pasta in the fridge I attempted 

Slimming World Update, and a Plan

Slimming World Update, and a Plan

Last Thursday we went to get weighed and I had been desperate to get a 1lb loss as that would take me to two stone loss in total. I went in and got weighed and had lost half a pound. So I am still half 

Mini Lasagnes

Mini Lasagnes

If you read my blog you will know that I am trying for us all to be healthier, so I am trying my hardest to make proper home cooked meals. The other day I found a recipe for Mini Tacos, and decided to change it