littlemissnaughty
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Happy Birthday hun, hope you're having a fab day!!xx
Happy Birthday hun, hope you're having a fab day!!xx
Sarah83's Food Diary 2014
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littlemissnaughty
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Yay cake for brekkie, it must be your birthday, lol!!
Hope you're having a fab day. Enjoy your night away tomorrow.xx
Hope you're having a fab day. Enjoy your night away tomorrow.xx
sarah83
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Thank you! Well by some miracle I lost 0.5lbs this week - with pancakes and cake!
So I've got a strategy for this coming week to lose more lbs! Today and Saturday won't be great days as we're obviously out for dinner tonight and tomorrow we're visiting a farm so it will be a cafe lunch and I'm treating my daughter to her favourite (not SW friendly) macaroni cheese - although I will be using skimmed milk and low fat cheddar...
Sunday will be a SW friendly day and I'm going to try a new recipe - lamb and vegetable biryani.
Then Mon-Fri I will be doing a 'fishy week' - 5 meat-free days of fishy lunches and dinners. Eek hope I manage to stick to it as when I've done this in the past I've lost around 5lb! Fingers crossed it'll give me the boost I need...
Hope you've all got fab days planned, I'm looking forward to my early finish and night away!
So I've got a strategy for this coming week to lose more lbs! Today and Saturday won't be great days as we're obviously out for dinner tonight and tomorrow we're visiting a farm so it will be a cafe lunch and I'm treating my daughter to her favourite (not SW friendly) macaroni cheese - although I will be using skimmed milk and low fat cheddar...
Sunday will be a SW friendly day and I'm going to try a new recipe - lamb and vegetable biryani.
Then Mon-Fri I will be doing a 'fishy week' - 5 meat-free days of fishy lunches and dinners. Eek hope I manage to stick to it as when I've done this in the past I've lost around 5lb! Fingers crossed it'll give me the boost I need...
Hope you've all got fab days planned, I'm looking forward to my early finish and night away!
littlemissnaughty
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Wow well done on losing .5lbs that's fab with cake and pancakes 
I hope you have a lovely night away tonight and if you're naughty foodwise then so be it, it's only your birthday once a year xx
I hope you have a lovely night away tonight and if you're naughty foodwise then so be it, it's only your birthday once a year
xx
sarah83
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Hi everyone hope you're all ok!
Well we had a wonderful time Friday night, hubby whisked me away to the hotel where we got married - beautiful old manor house in the middle of nowhere on the top of a mountain surrounded by sheep - amazing!
And just to warn you now, I have been very naughty food-wise... Friday afternoon started with a scone with all the trimmings, then we shared a bottle of prosecco in the room before dinner, which consisted of crab cakes with a chilli jam, followed by lamb with potatoes and curly kale and broad beans with a really rich jus, and a few of hubby's chips and peppercorn sauce. But I tell you what we were totally stuffed!
Then Saturday morning we opted for a continental brekkie (definitely the better option): 2 slices of toast and butter, a massive bowl of fruit and yoghurt, and 2 chocolate Danish twist things. Now I'm feeling super guilty about this as I've given up chocolate for lent and totally didn't think or realise. Oops!
Then we had a fab day yesterday and took our little lady to a farm park where she had fun visiting all the animals and playing on all the outdoor slides as well as soft play, but lunch was a bowl of chips in the cafe!
Then today we've had a wonderful day, shoe fitting for daughter at clarks this morning then we had a wonderful walk around a forest, which we hadn't been to before, and it was full of wonderful wooden sculptures of dragons which missy loved!
Pick have to say I felt totally overindulgent last night after our night away but I had a sneaky peek on the scales this morning and I've stayed the same so far!
And I am doing a fishy week this week to try and get a loss, I've done it before and lost on average 5lbs a week. I don't eat a lot of fish so I think that's why it has an affect on me.
Hope you've all had fab weekends in the sunshine - I love this weather!!x
Well we had a wonderful time Friday night, hubby whisked me away to the hotel where we got married - beautiful old manor house in the middle of nowhere on the top of a mountain surrounded by sheep - amazing!
And just to warn you now, I have been very naughty food-wise... Friday afternoon started with a scone with all the trimmings, then we shared a bottle of prosecco in the room before dinner, which consisted of crab cakes with a chilli jam, followed by lamb with potatoes and curly kale and broad beans with a really rich jus, and a few of hubby's chips and peppercorn sauce. But I tell you what we were totally stuffed!
Then Saturday morning we opted for a continental brekkie (definitely the better option): 2 slices of toast and butter, a massive bowl of fruit and yoghurt, and 2 chocolate Danish twist things. Now I'm feeling super guilty about this as I've given up chocolate for lent and totally didn't think or realise. Oops!
Then we had a fab day yesterday and took our little lady to a farm park where she had fun visiting all the animals and playing on all the outdoor slides as well as soft play, but lunch was a bowl of chips in the cafe!
Then today we've had a wonderful day, shoe fitting for daughter at clarks this morning then we had a wonderful walk around a forest, which we hadn't been to before, and it was full of wonderful wooden sculptures of dragons which missy loved!
Pick have to say I felt totally overindulgent last night after our night away but I had a sneaky peek on the scales this morning and I've stayed the same so far!
And I am doing a fishy week this week to try and get a loss, I've done it before and lost on average 5lbs a week. I don't eat a lot of fish so I think that's why it has an affect on me.
Hope you've all had fab weekends in the sunshine - I love this weather!!x
littlemissnaughty
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Good morning hun,
I am so pleased to read that you have had a fab weekend...and been naughty!! You deserved every bit of it It sounds like you have had a lovely long birthday weekend. Don't worry about the every food and drink, it'll disappear in no time.
Have a good day.xx
I am so pleased to read that you have had a fab weekend...and been naughty!! You deserved every bit of it
It sounds like you have had a lovely long birthday weekend. Don't worry about the every food and drink, it'll disappear in no time.Have a good day.xx
sarah83
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Thanks both. I had a fabulous weekend, the only trouble with being out all weekend is the house is a state! Desperately need a hoover, de-clutter, scrub, but I don't know when I'll get the chance. Never mind!
Looks like another gorgeous day today, such a shame to be stuck in the office. Roll on Friday! x
Looks like another gorgeous day today, such a shame to be stuck in the office. Roll on Friday! x
sarah83
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Right, food for today - Fishy week day #1!!
Monday 10th March - EE
Breakfast: FF yog & banana
Lunch: Smoked mackerel pate (1.5syns), salad, ryvitas (HEXB)
Dinner: Thai prawn curry and rice (3.5 syns)
Snacks etc: Milk in coffees (HEXA), Apple, satsuma, grapes, crabsticks, 2 pink wafers - 4.5syns
Total syns: 9.5
Monday 10th March - EE
Breakfast: FF yog & banana
Lunch: Smoked mackerel pate (1.5syns), salad, ryvitas (HEXB)
Dinner: Thai prawn curry and rice (3.5 syns)
Snacks etc: Milk in coffees (HEXA), Apple, satsuma, grapes, crabsticks, 2 pink wafers - 4.5syns
Total syns: 9.5
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sarah83
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Well day 1 of fishy week went ok...
Lunch was gorgeous as I really love smoked mackerel, but then my first attempt at a curry went very wrong. I was originally going to make a thai green curry until I realised I had no coriander, so I found another recipe from BBC Goodfood which was an onion, chilli and ginger paste base with spices and added coconut milk. Well it was horrible, tasted really bitter! Luckily I realised before putting the prawns in and hadn't used all the coconut milk. So I hunted through the fridge and found an old jar of curry paste so I used that with the rest of the coconut milk and a bit of a passatta. It was ok but I wasn't overly pleased with it.
I hate kitchen disasters, they don't happen very often usually everything tends to work out!
Anyway on with fishy day #2!
Lunch was gorgeous as I really love smoked mackerel, but then my first attempt at a curry went very wrong. I was originally going to make a thai green curry until I realised I had no coriander, so I found another recipe from BBC Goodfood which was an onion, chilli and ginger paste base with spices and added coconut milk. Well it was horrible, tasted really bitter! Luckily I realised before putting the prawns in and hadn't used all the coconut milk. So I hunted through the fridge and found an old jar of curry paste
so I used that with the rest of the coconut milk and a bit of a passatta. It was ok but I wasn't overly pleased with it. I hate kitchen disasters, they don't happen very often usually everything tends to work out!
Anyway on with fishy day #2!
sarah83
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Tonights tea:
Ultimate fish cakes | BBC Good Food
Replacing mayo with FF fromage frais and maybe some EL Mayo, Flour/breadcrumbs with smash, and frylight to fry. Milk from HEXA. Will just need to work out syns for the horseradish and mustard. Yum!
Ultimate fish cakes | BBC Good Food
Replacing mayo with FF fromage frais and maybe some EL Mayo, Flour/breadcrumbs with smash, and frylight to fry. Milk from HEXA. Will just need to work out syns for the horseradish and mustard. Yum!
littlemissnaughty
Gold Member
Good morning hun,
It's a shame about your dinner disaster but hey it's only one meal!
Well done on your fishy week. Hopefully you will see great results on the scales at the end of it.
Have a good day.x
It's a shame about your dinner disaster but hey it's only one meal!
Well done on your fishy week. Hopefully you will see great results on the scales at the end of it.
Have a good day.x
sarah83
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Thank you! Here's today's diary:
Tuesday 11th March - EE
Breakfast: Banana and FF Yoghurt
Lunch: Smoked mackerel pate (1.5syns), salad, ryvitas (HEXB)
Dinner: Fishcakes (0.5syns), baked beans, roasted tomatoes and homemade tartare sauce (1 syn)
Snacks etc: Milk in coffees (rest of HEXA), apple, grapes, satsuma
Syns: 3
Tuesday 11th March - EE
Breakfast: Banana and FF Yoghurt
Lunch: Smoked mackerel pate (1.5syns), salad, ryvitas (HEXB)
Dinner: Fishcakes (0.5syns), baked beans, roasted tomatoes and homemade tartare sauce (1 syn)
Snacks etc: Milk in coffees (rest of HEXA), apple, grapes, satsuma
Syns: 3
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sarah83
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They were nice. I only used smash as a coating as the recipe called for flour and breadcrumbs and I wanted a syn free replacement!
The tartare sauce which went into the fishcakes was lovely, plus I made some more to go with - EL mayo, FF fromage frais, capers, gherkins, lemon juice & spring onions - loads for just 1 syn, yum!
Only thing I would say is I think I over cooked the fish. The recipe shallow fried them but I did mine in the oven with frylight. Probably needed less time or maybe I could have 'fried' in frylight instead. Never mind - hubby enjoyed too which us the main thing!!
How's your evening?x
