I can't believe I did this!

Hi guys,

I am really, really, really sorry!
I said I was going to come back and look after you but I didn't and that was very inconsiderate of me, but now I'm back with determination!

A quick catch up on where I am up to:

Nearly finished my second year at university, scary!
Still volunteering at school but am now a lot more hands on, I even have to create lesson plans. Yay!
Still horse-riding at my local riding school. Nailed my canter! 
Living with my OH but we've now moved into my moms, so much less stress.
And biggest news, I hit my slimming world target just before Christmas but haven't been able to get back there but this morning I woke up and felt different, I feel determined, I feel motivated and I feel driven. I will get back to target!

So I plan to continue my weekly Foodie Tuesday segment and am hoping to get something else running weekly soon - it is all secret for now though!

See you Tuesday!

Becky x

Neglecting you all, sorry!

It's been ages since I've posted. I am really sorry.


Back to university has been pretty hectic for me. But I have a big break on Thursdays, so from now I'm going to make sure all my posts are ready to go for you.


So quick update on what I'm up to:
As I've mentioned I'm back at University. Loving it! Forgot how much I missed this place and my uni friends.
Volunteering on Fridays at a local Primary school.
Horse Riding at least once a week. Close to getting my canter (Beach ride in a couple of weeks).
Still on Slimming World, not too far from target.
Still living with my OH and his family (rather stressful at the moment).
We've hit our first major savings target early!
We've also bought a Wii U, MARIO KART 8 is the best! (Sorry I got quite excited about that)
Errrrmmmmm.... Not sure about much else.


See you at my next post,


Becky x

My OH's 21st birthday

So I went away without telling you all, how very shameful of me. And considering I knew about to for months I felt like it just crept up on me. We went away to a caravan park in Heysham called Ocean's Edge Caravan Park. It's not far from Morecambe and short car journey to Lancaster. It is beautiful. One of the perks of my OH's job is that his boss owns a number of caravans on site so we can to go to them for free with a lift included (neither of us are driving yet!). 
We decided to have a big party with his boss and family, we ate so much food and drank so much alcohol. It was an amazing night. None of us wanted to come home. He loved his presents. I got him a beautiful Thomas Earnshaw watch through wowcher; it was £74.99 instead of £300+. What a bargain :) He also had a cake with a picture of him as a kid on, a bottle of Cactcus Jack's BlackJack, a new tshirt, his favourite showergel, football themed socks, a box of chocolates and plenty more. It is safe to say he was very spoilt for his birthday!

Becky

Ps. It does explain my 3lb gain at slimming world this week Whoops!

Foodie Tuesday: Three Course Meal

I can't believe that I forgot to tell you all I was going on holiday! (More about that on Saturday) Well anyways I'm back! Sorry for missing last week but I'm here and with an extra special Foodie Tuesday. 

Just before I went away I had a Slimming World dinner party. A three course meal which did use both healthy extra 'a' and 'b' plus approx 4 syns. It was American themed and we decided to wear our pjs cause it was just our friends coming round.

Starter was BBQ chicken and salad. The BBQ marinade was a sachet of Bramwell's BBQ marinade from Aldi. For one sachet it is 5 syns but I used half a sachet between 4 of us so I'd rather over-estimate with syns and called the chicken 1 syn per person. Salad consisted of lettuce, cucumber, onion, tomato, mushrooms, beetroot, gherkin and carrot.

Main was my favourite. Yep you guessed it Double Bacon Cheeseburgers. Served with a corn on the cob and slimming world chips. Syn free :) The recipe for these burgers can be found on this earlier post. 

And then for dessert. This took a very long time to decide on because although slimming world has recipes for plenty of deserts I find the simplest are the best, those that you have to mix gelatine into yoghurt and all sorts of other things have never turned out well for me. So I went with a plain and simple banoffee pie. I made this with a crushed digestive biscuit (always check your syns for different brands) layered with banana then toffee muller light and then a vanilla muller light. And topped it off with a drizzle of choc shot and a small amount of grated chocolate all for just 4 syns. 

I just wish there had been more!

That is all from me for now. Hope your all having a good week. See you next tuesday!

Becky

Foodie Tuesdays: Pizza thins

Hey all!

It's Tuesday again! Did you know its only 16 weeks till Christmas! :O I said the forbidden word...no but seriously I LOVE Christmas. And if you lose just 1/2lb a week every week up until Christmas you'll have lost half a stone, and at 1lb a week you'll have lost a massive 16lb which is just over a stone! So keep going guys :)

This week I'm going to talk about a simple and easy to do meal you can also do in less than half an hour. It is super easy and super quick. Pizza thins. Now these are exactly as they sound, Warbutons sandwich thins (you've heard of these right?) Made into mini pizzas. Scrumptious.

So to do this you need:
- A pizza thin (5 syns for both halves)
- Tomato puree 
- Various toppings (make sure you get one superfree in there) 
- And then some cheese to top (to keep it low syn you can use your healthy extra a) 

I always whip you some chips to serve with these and add a little but more super free. On the meal above I used the leftover toppings.

So spread your puree on your thin. Add your toppings, sprinkle some cheese, stick under the grill and when the cheese in good and bubbly it will be done :) 

Enjoy,
Becky x

PS next weeks foodie Tuesday will feature a three course slimming world menu! Oooooo! Look forward to seeing you. 

Foodie Tuesdays: Leek and Potato Soup

Bit late today, Sorry guys!

So at Saturday weigh-in I finally got my Club 10. And I've just logged in to Slimming World Online to check some Syns and it says I've only 1lb to go to my stone and a half award :) 

Today I made some beautiful leek and potato soup. All slimming world friendly and free of course! Fresh leeks from my friendly farmer, still full of dirt, potatoes, carrots, thyme, vegetable stock and seasoning. Easy to do. But tasty. Plus you can still use your heb to dip into your soup. 

Dinosaur Day!

Hi there!

I love the summer and I also love my nephew, so the two combined make for fantastic time. During the summer we have done themed days and activities to reward good behaviour. On Wednesday it was Dinosaur Day! Rawr!

We had lots of activities to choose from. We had:

• A paint your own t-rex money box (theworks.co.uk for £4.99)
• A paint your own pterodactyl suncatcher (theworks.co.uk £1.50)
• Colour and create your own dinosaur (theworks.co.uk £1.99)
• Homemade Dinosaur eggs (Growing A Jeweled Rose)

The paint your own activities and the colour and create activity were pretty straight forward but he loved them, sorry I don't have a picture of the finished product!

Our eggs didn't quite work as well as i hoped, the mixture was too wet but he thoroughly enjoyed getting his way into the eggs. I added yellow food colouring and a bit of strawberry flavouring to take away the smell of vinegar in the solution, this worked quite well. 

We had a lovely dinosaur themed dinner consisting of noodles, dinosaur turkey shapes and broccoli. The nephew doesn't eat broccoli but he managed one piece for me. We also snacked on some juicy watermelon cut into "teeth shapes" (triangles).

And lastly thanks to the wonderful netflix we chilled out and watched Land Before Time. 

Hope you are all having a good summer, even though this weather cannot seem to make it's mind up!

Becky