The 'Day' :P

Today was assessment day for Nic, she got on really well and went off very happily and came back happily too.... we will find out next Saturday :P

Good diet day, muller and pear for brekkie, french toast and summer berries for lunch, SW chips, beans and egg for tea.

Made some low syn choc crispie cakes too.... given receipe from a friend, they taste yum tho.

3 handfuls of tiny pasta (tiny tiny bows)
1 tbsp of nutella (4 syns)

Boil the pasta for about 5 minutes then spread out on baking tray sprayed with fry light and then spray fry light on top. Bake at gas mark 7 until golden brown - for about 10mins - but keep checking, they go brown quickly.

When cooked, pour into a large mug and stir in the nutella. Spoon into cake shapes or cases then put in fridge to set. Yum Yum

Today we were red...

Today was a red day.....

Muller and Satsuma for brekkie. The remaining 'sprout' soup for lunch, along with 3 pagen krisprolls, 3 light cows, and 2 sticks of celery, and an apple and muller.

Tea was 2 burgers, with cheese, in a wholemeal bap with tomato and a squeeze of ketchup, just s small one mind you.....

Syns, Maltesers 9.5, Mini Mars 5......... (naughty girl today :()

Am off to bed now, as got the mega munchies and have no As Bs or Syns left :(

My 'A' layout

I have now finished my 'A' layout for the IACW challenge of the A-Z journal. I am doing the journal as a 'Book of Me' so for my 'A' I have done Andrew.... :)

Here is the layout, it is slightly different to my normal layouts, the photo isnt great, sorry, but you'll get the idea, its all 3d, it has ruffled ribbon down the left hand side and then layered flowers and swirls...... There is a journalling block under the photo, which must have slipped under the photo as you cant even see the top of it, anywho at the top it has white scroll swirls and says the word Andrew under.... and the journalling inside says, A is for Andrew, my darling husband, my soul mate, my best friend :) AAAwwwwwwww

Wow.... I made some scrummy 'free on green' crisps !

Well today could have so easily turned into a nightmare diet day but I was determined that I would sort it, and I did, so I have had another good diet day.

Brekkie was a mullerlight, a satsuma and a apple. Lunch wasnt too bad, I made some vegetable soup....it tasted yummy, it consisted of what was left in the vegetable drawer in the fridge, 2 carrots, 3 sticks of celery, 4 sprouts, tin of chop toms and cup full of chicken bovril had some celery, 1 laugh cow X light, 1 laugh cow lite, 1 babybel light (reckon that adds up to the HE A) and 3 pagen krisprolls....

and for tea I had 'grabwhatyoucanfindleftinthecupboards'.... LOL

I had a potato, that I put in the oven to make into jacket potato..... but then I decided I was to hungry so after it had been in there 15 mins I cut it up into slices to make chips, and cooked tho instead, much quicker.... I then had the rest of the macaroni - cold - which was delish, and then I had a blackcurrant muller and am now eating some of the 'free on green' lasagne crisps and they are WOW WOW WOW.........

There has been alot of discussion of those crisps and whether they are actually free, some people say they are as pasta is free on green - some say they are not as you are not eating the pasta the way intended.... I reckon if you eat a sensible amount and only cook as much as you would eat if you were eating it as pasta then its got to be fine.... ;)

Here is the recipe in case you fancy making some.....

Take lasagne sheets and place them in an oven dish and pour boiling water from the kettle over them. Leave them for about 15 minutes until they are soft.

Take them out and cut into triangles (1 sheet makes about 6 triangles)

Place them on a non stick baking tray and sprinkle with salt or any kind of seasoning ( I used cajun spice).

Place in a hot oven for about 5 minutes although I wouldn't recommend leaving them as they brown very very quickly.

They will bubble up and go crispy and are just like doritos -they are fab ;

Poorly babies :(

Well they are all off school today, 2 ill, 1 not impressed that she's missin Mini Movers..... every five seconds one of them is calling me.... the poorly two are up in their beds so have been running up and down the stairs like wee willie winkie..... jsut need to find a hat to put on :P

Chloe is very poorly, she wasnt well yesterday and I got a call from the school nurse to ask if they could give her parcetomol, she was playing for the school in a netball match last night, which they won, and she didnt want to let the team down so she went and played...

Chloe has got an extremley high temperature which I cant get down - she has just her undies on (but dont tell her I told you ) and is lying on her bed feeling very sorry for herself..... have just put a DVD on for her to watch to try and take her mind away from it, she is feeling very dizzy too - have been giving her Ibruprofen and Calpol 2 hourly but its still not coming down, and the cool Mr Man to put on here head.

Lauren is just having a wag I think... she has a temperature but nowhere near as high - she told Andrew she wasnt feeling well so he said she could stay off too :( oh and what a surprise... he is away AGAIN.....not sure how Im going to get on today with the diet, was due to go shopping this morning, and my cupboards are like Old Mother Hubbards.... bare - think I will do a green day and go from there.....;)

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.