Thread: Sarah83's Tasty Food Diary

Originally Posted by sarah83

It was yummy, and crumbling up the oxo in the crumb mix definately gave it that salty savoury taste - but much more subtle than the Bovril.
I prefer using the Paxo golden breadcrumbs rather than using my HexB bread allowance (I've usually eaten it anyway) plus as they're dried I imagine they crisp up better?

I've checked my cupboard for the ingredients and got some chicken out the freezer...going to have this for my dinner...can't wait ...yum yum!!!!

Originally Posted by sarah83

Wow I've got that recipe too - it's out of the Economy Gastronomy book isn't it? That's nuts I knew that recipe was there but hadn't even thought to look at it - doh! Thanks hun.

Anyway... here's how I made mine:

Serves 2 - 2.5 syns per serving on Red/EE

Ingredients:
2 Chicken breasts cut into chunky goujons
1 egg beaten
28g Paxo golden breadcrumbs
Mixed herbs
Black Pepper
Chicken oxo cube

Method:
Dip the chicken goujons into the beaten egg.
Mix the breadcrumbs with the herbs, pepper and oxo cube.
Dip each goujon into the breadcrumbs, giving each an even coating.
Place on a fry-lighted baking tray and cook at Gas 6 for about 15mins or until cooked through.


They were really really tasty so I won't mess around with bovril paste again. Tasted like a really naughty meal in fact!!

Served mine with new potatoes, some veg and sweet chilli sauce to dip

Yum, yum, yum! I am definitely going to try this soon! Sounds lush! I am going to a festival at the weekend and althought I can't wait I am dreading what I am going to eat or be abke to eat!! Hopefully I won't be REALLY bad as I go on holiday next week too!
Anyway, thanks for the recipe hun!

Hi Sarah

Forced fed wine - ha - sorry ladies just catching up on reading while the boss is away. Loving you food diary might have to nick a couple of days always useful to see what everyone else is having gives you ideas - just need someone to cook for me now....

That Chicken recipe sounds lush (both of them) I might try and do goujons with this recipe.

KP - Enjoy your hols hun!

Kats

Hi Sarah,

Had a go at the chicken last night...yum yum... really enjoyed it. Top recipe.

Thanks x

Thanks guys -
Blubex - glad you enjoyed the recipe. It was scrummy!!

KP - Are you going to be able to cook while you're at the festival? If not I was quite surprised at the VW festival I went to a couple of weeks ago how many healthy food stalls there were (JPs, Chicken and noodles etc) so hopefully you might be ok (just don't mention the booze!!)

KK - yes I am frequently forcefed wine... what a cruel world this is

Right... bit of a funny day as I was away with work...

Wednesday 4th August - EE

Breakfast: Beans and 'fried' egg at home. Alpen Light when I got to Birmingham (3.5syns)

Lunch: 2 ham salad WM sandwich triangles (HEXB) and another salmon one (2syns for bread, plus another 2 for any hidden spreads). An apple and banana
Lots of coffee drunk (HEXA)
2 huge glasses of SF orange and pineapple squash when I got home

Dinner: Leftover beef casserole (OMG it was stunning - so much nicer now the flavours had chance to develop) (0.5 syns) served with rice
Followed by cherries and 2 glasses of wine (9syns)

Total Syns: 17

Syns remaining for the week: 22.5

Not very good on the superfree today
Oh... and I got forcefed wine again ha ha!!

You've done well finding SW friendly stuff while away at lunchtime and your chicken dippers / KFC look really nice. I was looking for some breadcrumb in asda today but couldn't find any, are they normally in the stuffing aisle? Anyway, I might try with homemade breadcrumbs at the weekend!

I've got a feeling the paxo ones are near the gravy granules? I ordered mine online though so didn't have to hunt it down...
Thanks - luckily our work buffet lunches are always sandwiches and fruit so generally I know what to expect. Trouble is today most of it was mayo or cheesey grrr....

Thursday 5th August - EE

Breakfast: Beans on toast (HEXB), 1 coffee (part HEXA)

Throughout the morning: 2 x 750ml bottle water, banana, raspberry muller

Lunch: Beef casserole and rice (0.5syns)

Throughout the afternoon: 750ml bottle water, pear, apple

Dinner: Ooops - Pizza Express Quattro Formaggi pizza and lots of wine...

Total Syns: Way way way too many

Syns Remaining for the week: Zero, zilch, nada

Following on from Ellebears post about which plan we all do... I've decided to shamelessly steal Nikkiruth's idea and make a note of how many days of which plan I've done each week.

Hopefully if I start getting stuck it will help me decipher what plan works best for me, whereas at the moment I just go for whatever's easiest (plus I'm convinced I eat less on EE which can't be a bad thing)

Slightly worrying looking back about how many flexi's I've done - have a feeling this week is one of very few 100% weeks

Originally Posted by sarah83

Oh... and I got forcefed wine again ha ha!!

I'm beginning to get the impression you don't put up much of a fight when being 'forced' wine ....either that or a team of wine devils come out, pin you down and pour it down your throat???!!!



Hope your having a good day x

Originally Posted by sarah83

Following on from Ellebears post about which plan we all do... I've decided to shamelessly steal Nikkiruth's idea and make a note of how many days of which plan I've done each week.

Hopefully if I start getting stuck it will help me decipher what plan works best for me, whereas at the moment I just go for whatever's easiest (plus I'm convinced I eat less on EE which can't be a bad thing)

Slightly worrying looking back about how many flexi's I've done - have a feeling this week is one of very few 100% weeks

Steal away, if it helps you suceed, Its good to see how you have done over the weeks and on what plan!!!

Hmmm.... clearly I jinxed myself yesterday saying about the wonderful 100% week I was having...
As I managed to spoil it all by allowing my wonderful hubby to persuade me that we really did need to go to pizza express for dinner and as 'it's a treat' I should go for whatever I fancied. Unfortunately for me what I fancied was quattro formaggi pizza with wine (yes those wine devils again!!!)
Oooopssss
I don't feel too bad though... as we always say on here - it was only 1 meal out of 21... so hopefully won't do too much damage

Originally Posted by blubex

I'm beginning to get the impression you don't put up much of a fight when being 'forced' wine ....either that or a team of wine devils come out, pin you down and pour it down your throat???!!!

Oh it's definately the little wine devils... I really have no say in the matter at all... honest

Friday 6th August
Didn't have a good day yesterday - had some bad news in work in the morning which resulted in me feeling really sick all day. Unfortunately can't even share with you guys just in case as I'm sworn to confidentiality, for a few weeks anyway.
So this is what happened:

Breakfast: HEXB toast with LC extra light and sliced toms

Lunch: Didn't have any as felt sick. Finished work at 2 and met DH. By this time I was starving so gave in to a Greggs pasty. No idea of syns: 19???

Dinner: Finally got round to making my beef stroganoff (let me know if you want the recipe) (1.5syns) served with rice.

Snacks etc: a kinder egg (5.5syns), 4 Oreo cookies (8syns), glass of wine (6.5syns)

Grand total of: 40.5

And did any of it make me feel any better - course it didn't. What a pointless blow-out