A - Z Journal

Here it is, the long awaited covers of my A - Z journal for the challenge on the 'Its a Creative World' Blog. I have decided to do the journal all about ME...... I am pleased with the way the covers have turned out, just need to get started on the first layout now.

Here is the front cover, it says A2Z of ME in the frame. The owl has a glittery crown on :). It looks a lot better IRL.

and here is the back cover. It says ONLY ME, 2008, a little place for me.

1st weigh in.....

Well today was my 1st weigh in, and I lost 4.5 lbs.... was really pleased..... although hoped for a ickle bit more, but I never seem to get the 'huge' weight losses whatever diet I'm on.....

Anywho - what have I had to eat today.... today was a green day... breakfast was mullerlight, banana and a pear. Lunch was butternut squash soup, must share the receipe with you.

Butternut Squash Soup - made very quickly and just enough for one....
skin and chop up half a butternut into a pan,
add half pint of chicken bovril stock
(I used one chicken oxo 0.5 syns as I had run out of chicken bovril)
add a few shakes of ground ginger,
bring to the boil and then simmer until butternut is cooked.
mash with potato masher to give it a bit of a squash and tip into a bowl....
yummy...... and very quick and easy....
I reckon it took 20 mins from start to finish....

I had 5 crackerbreads (HE B x1) with the soup and 3 xtra light laugh cows (HE A x1) and a vanilla muller.

For tea I made cod (HE B x1) which I sprinkled half with cajun spice and left the other half plain (just in case I didnt like it ;)) and had it with SW chips, and mushy peas and sweetcorn. Yummy.

Then for dessert I made a yummy Macaroni Custard thingie, although Andy didnt like it... MEN

Here is the receipe.

I whisked up the 2 eggs in a bowl, then added the HE 1 X portion of skimmed milk and whisked again, (if you werent going to eat it all at one sitting then it would be a good idea to add maybe a pint of milk) I then splashed in a few drops of Vanilla Essense, (and in hindsight I didnt but next time I am going to put in a little sweetner too) then I tipped it into an oven proof dish, added 3 handfuls of macaroni, and sprinkled the top with nutmeg, then I placed the dish into another larger dish, filled the larger dish with hot water (just from the tap) so the water came half way up and then popped it in the oven on Gas Mark 3/4 and cooked it for 1.5 hours.
It was yummy - you could do the same with rice, but cook the rice before putting it in in boiling water for 10 mins and then drain well.

Here is a photo of the remaining macaroni, it doesnt actually look very appeitising... but it was yummy, it isnt burnt on the top - thats the nutmeg... as its been in the fridge - the Macaroni has gone a bit spongey but when its fresh its moist and yum... I did however sample a little bit more from the fridge and its still yum.