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***Collaborative post*** Organic food is becoming more and more popular each year. More and more people realize the benefits of eating organic and are making the switch to organic foods. But, if you’re not sure how to add organic food to your table, don’t worry – we’ve got you covered! This blog post will discuss […]
(AD) – This post is a paid collaborative post. Wow December already, where has this year gone. Are you someone who is organised, or are you someone who will be shopping last minute? I am normally one for being really organised and prepared for Christmas, but this year I seem to be really behind and […]
How does breakfast in 90 seconds sound? and even better still it’s all done in one pot.
A New Family Meal – Diet Coke Chicken With recently re-joining Slimming World I have been taking a look at some of our family meal times. I can safely say that whilst I have not been attending group our eating habits have slowly gone back to our old ways. When it is Ian’s turn to […]
Unique Soapstone Serving By having a close family we quite often have a large number of people come to dinner and there is nothing worse than struggling to maintain the desired food temperature whilst serving a large number of people. We have recently been using soapstone servers to not only help keep our food the […]
Who Doesn’t Like Cake Bradley recently made us a lovely Lemon Drizzle cake, I must say it was amazing. Here is how he made it. You will need: For the cake 350g butter 350g caster sugar 350g self-raising flour Zest of two large lemons 4 medium eggs 50ml milk For the butter cream: Juice of […]
Chinese Fakeaway Will you be celebrating the Chinese New Year? We really enjoy our Chinese food and love nothing more than a fake-away. One of our favourites is sweet and sour pork noodles. Ingredients used are: Pork loin steaks, fat removed and cut into small pieces. low-calorie cooking spray. 1 large onion – diced. Salt […]
Stuck With Christmas Leftovers? Ian is always in charge of picking our Christmas meats for over the Festive period. I like to know we have enough for Boxing Day too as this is a day off from cooking in our house so we just have cold meat and pickles – we like something light as […]
Christmas Treats One thing we all enjoy in our house over Christmas is all the Christmas goodies, well what can we say Christmas treats are just the best ever! Christmas is a day that the diet goes out the window, we have a day off and enjoy ourselves without checking and weighing everything before we […]
Monster Munches Brad has been busy making up some spooky Halloween treats. He really enjoys being creative in the kitchen with his food. He has some mates staying over at Halloween and Brad has been planning his spooky monster munches menu. Here is what he has come up with so far. Brad would like to […]
How To Make Overnight Oats Slimming World has been a big part of our family meals for a year now, myself and Ian are members, both wanting to lose a few stone. We have found that we are both currently stuck at our current loss. I am currently stuck around the 3 stone loss, I […]
15th Wedding Anniversary We recently celebrated our crystal wedding anniversary, myself and Ian had already said to the boy’s that we didn’t want a big party as we had just came home from a family holiday instead. The kid’s kept on asking why we wasn’t celebrating with a big party and having crystal celebrations, we […]
Homemade Chicken Shish Kebab Me and Brad was sat discussing some summer time recipes, as it is now getting too hot to want to eat let alone even be standing around cooking. The boy’s enjoy eating wraps so we thought we’d make a nice tortilla recipe and make a chicken shish kebab with a salad […]
Shake-up Your Breakfast! Did you know that this week was breakfast week (25th-31st January), in our house we all enjoy our breakfast….Well why wouldn’t we it is a good way to start the day. With the weather being cold we have been enjoying a nice variety of hot breakfast’s such as Porridge, Shredded wheat, Weetabix […]
Homemade Treats We have been busy in the kitchen again, we have made homemade truffles this time. We love homebaking and fancied making something different other than a cake so we thought why not try to make some truffles. We love truffles and thought why not try to make some ourself, we have family visiting […]