I found this easy midweek meal recipe at Waitrose.com and have adapted it to help me use up some leftovers which I have in the fridge and freezer. Ingredients: (serves 2) ½ tsp oil 50g salami 6 pork chipolatas 5 mushrooms, chopped 80g easy cook long grain rice 200g passata 1 tsp dried mixed herbs […]
Tags: chilli, recipe, rice, salami, sausage, vegetablesHappy New Year everyone! I hope you had a great Christmas, and are ready to start a New Year. Typically at this time of year people make resolutions about what they hope to achieve during the coming year. Typically most people don’t keep them either! At church on Sunday we had a talk about resolutions, […]
Tags: new year, resolutions, weight maintenanceThis will be my final post for the year as I will be taking a blogging break for the holidays. I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! I am eating out for the first time on Christmas day this year, so there is not too much festive cooking going […]
Tags: ChristmasChristmas is a tricky time of year if you are planning on either losing weight or maintaining it over the festive period. It’s not quite as bad for us in the UK as for our friends over the pond, because at least we don’t have Thanksgiving to contend with, and no-one forces us to eat […]
Tags: Christmas, diet, healthy, leftovers, weight maintenanceWhile I was reading a magazine the other day the page with suggested products to try caught my eye. In particular this item: Aunt Bessie’s homestyle frozen gravy My standard everyday method of making gravy is pretty lazy. I take some Bisto granules and add boiling water. That’s it. It’s not very special but it’s quick […]
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