It was Father’s Day in the UK on Sunday and I was spending it with Rob and his 3 beautiful children. As we were going to his parents for dinner, I made dessert to take along for us all. All 5 of us (plus Rob’s family) are big fans of Biscoff so when I saw…
Category: Food
Parmesan Polenta… Barefoot Contessa style!
I was laying in bed and instead of watching the usual morning programmes switched over to food network to get me going for the day. It wasn’t my usual favourite The Pioneer Woman on but Barefoot Contessa. I am a fan of both but I usually always feel like Ina’s recipes will be a little…
Bacon Candy… stick with me, I promise it’s good.
Hey everyone and Happy Easter, I hope you are all having a wonderful weekend. We have been at a family BBQ or Braai as its otherwise known and we thought we would add to the feast with some snacks and sides. When I thought about what would go down well, I knew they loved bacon,…
What I ate today 14-01-2016
Another good day! Whoop! I feel like I am more determined than ever to get down to my target before Walt Disney World. So what did I eat? Breakfast I started my day as usual with a cereal bar & can of now Lidl’s version of sugar free red bull (it is not as nice…
So the results are in! 13-01-2016
So you’ve read everything that I have been eating in my attempt to #dietfordisney (let’s make this hashtag happen people!!) and today was weigh in day… drum roll please…. I LOST 3 AND HALF POUNDS! Whoo! Yey! Go me! I wish there were party poppers at the scales to celebrate every time someone has a loss…
What I ate today 12-01-2016
Hello! Today was a good day *jumps around preying for a weight loss tomorrow at weigh in!*… so what did I eat? Breakfast Mmm mmm, this counts as a healthy extra and it is YUMMY! I washed this down with my usual can of Tesco’s Sugar Free Blue Spark. These are currently 99p per packet…
What I ate today 11-01-2016
Hello! Welcome back! Yes I ate too much over the weekend! BUT never mind this is now a new week and I have been good today! Breakfast There is no picture as I didn’t actually eat anything for breakfast, I had stomach pains and just was not feeling it. I just had my usual can…
What I ate (yes)today 08-01-2016
(yes)Today was the day when Sarah, Caroline & I all got together. We live in 3 different cities so it is quite hard to see each other and even harder to plan a complete day/meal out! I’m not happy about the way that I ate yesterday at all to be honest, I started out with…
Hayley’s Oxmas Christmas Dinner
Hi everyone! Its been very quiet on twitter this weekend and that is because Matt & I hosted the “Oxmas” Christmas dinner this year. Matt’s friends from University meet up and enjoy a Christmas dinner every year and this year we put ourselves forward to host. I know I have been a bad blogger with…
Planned Christmas Baking.
It’s the 3rd day of Blogmas and like most people we are still in the planning stage of Christmas so we thought we would let Hayley tell you about her Christmas baking plans. Hi everyone! Now if you check our pinterest you will see that I love to bake, well looking at baking, buying baking…
Christmas Calories…
As you may know I really want to shift a LOT of the extra weight that I have gained in the last 2 years in time for our trip to Walt Disney World in April (169 days!!). But there seems to be lot of things leading me off my diet trail this season. Now I…
