Sausage and veg frittata

Ingredients
4 Eggs
4 Low Fat Sausages
1 Potato
Chopped Onions
Peppers
Mushrooms
Garlic
Herbs

1. Chop up sausage,vegetables and sliced potatoes. Fry with crushed garlic and herbs of your choice.
2. Transfer to an oven proof dish, I used a silicone cake mould.
3. Mix egg with a bit of milk, salt and pepper. Pour over the sausage and vegetables.
4. Bake in oven on 180 until egg has set.

I served mine with grated parmasan and sweet chilli philadelphia on the top.

Rice and bolognese burgers

Due to my pay reducing in the next couple of months as well as food prices going up I decided that this year I would make the food I have go further and make sure that I use any leftovers instead of letting them go mouldy in tupperware or forgotten in the freezer. I made these rice and bolognese burgers today and they were delicious

Ingredients

Bolognese sauce
Cooked Rice
Egg

1. Mix the bolognese sauce and rice together and add the egg. I had to add some instant mash as the mixture was a little wet.
2. Heat up a frying pan, place a cookie cutter in the pan and spoon in the mixture.
3. Cook on a low heat and once one side is firm (around 8-10 minutes) flip to cook the other side.
4. Serve with salad and a slice of feta cheese.

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Beetroot rice

Ingredients

Rice
Vegetable stock cube
Peppers
Mushrooms
Garlic
Garlic
Pickled beetroot


Method

1. Cook rice in vegetable stock. I cook mine in a steamer.
2. Chop peppers, mushrooms and onions, stir fry with the garlic.
3. Add cooked rice and mix well. Add beetroot and some of the pickle juice.

You can add whatever vegetable you like.

Another 'I'm back' post

As the title says I'm back on here blogging. I haven't got back on the wagon so to speak like I said last time. However, after a gain of 14lbs, taking my  weightloss back to a 4 stone loss I have to get serious about losing weight again.

I started back with the healthy eating on the 2nd January so am 4 days into it. I have found that although I am not 100% following the Slimming World plan I am eating healthier, consuming less and my vegetable intake has increased massively. At my midweek weigh in yesterday I had lost 6lbs. I expect it to be around this or a bit more for the week as the weight I gained went on quickly so I am pretty sure a lot of it is water retention rather than fat.

I plan to return the blog to what it was in 2011 with weightloss updates and more recipes. If there are any other kinds of posts you would like to see let me know and I will try my best to do them.

Lastly, I would like to thank people for still reading and following my blog even though last year wasn't as good as the previous year.

If any of you are on Twitter and Instagram leave your usernames below so I can follow you as I am in need of lots of inspiration.

Back on the wagon

My baby is now 5 weeks and 1 day old and I have failed miserably at getting back on the dieting wagon. For those of you that don't know I gained 15lbs throughout my pregnancy and then lost 20lbs, however, I have gained 2 of those back. I am still below my pre pregnancy weight but I still have a lot more to lose. My current weightloss is 74lbs (5 stone 4 pounds)

Today is day one of being back on my diet which is loosely based on Slimming World as I don't go to class so have to rely on a lot of the older information that I have but this works for me.

I would like to lose a stone (14lbs) for Christmas which gives me 6 weeks. I am hoping that eating well and getting plenty of walking in with Charlotte will help me get to this target.

Update: 11/08/2012

Thought I would do a little weight update post. I am now 30 weeks and 2 days pregnant so less than 10 weeks to go :) I have now gained 1 stone (14lbs) so hoping it's not going to be much more in the next few weeks.

Some NSV to report on; my manager and my brother also asked if I had lost weight and Jonathan reckons I've lost a bit in my face the last few weeks. My weight has almost exclusively gone to my face, well I assume the 'fat' lbs I have gained are there! I am still in pre-pregnancy clothes, I shall ignore the fact most of my clothes are leggings and tunic tops with plenty of stretch in them. I still don't look pregnant to those who don't know me, I have a tiny little bump but I think it's only noticeable looking downwards.  This morning, I used a normal sized towel (I have a jumbo one I use most of the time) and a while back it was my NSV that it fit all the way around me with no gap, well it still fits and if it was so bloody warm I would have had a little dance.

Hope you are all well xxx

Spanish Omelette

Ingredients

4 eggs
1 large potato
Selection of vegetables (I used mushrooms, peppers and spring onions)
Garlic
Chives

1. Slice potatoes really thinly and add to frying pan on a low heat, crush garlic and place over potatoes.
2. Mix eggs together with a dash of milk and seasoning.
3. Add the rest of the sliced vegetables into the pan.
4. Fry all ingredients until potatoes are soft, then add the egg mixture.
5. Cook on a low heat until egg is cooked through. You may need to turn the omelette ovrer or brown top under a grill.

I added some sliced babybel cheese on the top of mine and served with a salad. This is also goo served with beans.

You can add whatever you like to the omelette, ham and bacon work well. You can also add a lot more potatoes to layer it to make a thicker omelette that would do for more than one meal. It is also nice to serve cold for dinner the next day.

This worked well for my blood sugars as well as being compatible with the Slimming World plan.

Enjoy!

Sorry about the quaity of pictures I used my mobile and flash didn't work as battery had almost died.