30th November
2015
Don't get
your tinsel in a tangle.
It's only the
start of Advent tomorrow! I've decided to start December with giving my liver a
rest, I'll be having an alcohol free week and drinking plenty of water, then
Sunday I have my day spa treat with my mate who I haven't spent a day with for
a long time so I'm very much looking forward to it.
Yeah this
week can be all about eating healthy, getting lots of water into my body and
doing a 'healthy' time of cleanse, no silly gimmicks, just eating good
wholesome, home cooked food, steering clear of the processed stuff and
hopefully staying within my points!
That's the tough part isn't it, eating healthy is easy peasy when you
love delicious good food, but eating the correct portion sizes, that's not so
easy, not for me anyways!
Whilst
reading my magazines yesterday, I found a recipe for blue cheese bites, they'd
using tortilla wraps they'd cut out circles to put in a jam tart tin, pressed
them into the tin and put blue cheese and walnut as a filling then baked in the
oven, I like this idea, thinking the fillings could be changed to suit, but it
could work out lighter than pastry cases for sure. It'd be nice with ham and eggs in I bet,
options are endless, nice nibbles for over Christmas.
I had a
lovely day yesterday, spent the morning sorting the kitchen, then cooking a
beef stew in my slow cooker, whilst I made a roast chicken dinner, which I have
to say was amazing! I didn't make my
soup but that's on the list for today, tomato soup, thinking I might roast the
tomatoes first, but maybe not as the member that bought some in for me to try
hadn't roasted hers and that was delicious.
The one thing
I am going to focus on more this week, is eating mindfully, actually sitting
down and giving it some attention, that's where I've been slipping lately, so
now the kitchen table is clear, I'm committing to eating all my meals for a
week up that table! I know that's going
to be difficult for sure! But that's me
putting it in writing, so here's to a tough week, but hopefully worthwhile and
enjoyable too, a week where I'm going to take time out to sit and enjoy my
meals, a week where I'm not going to drink anything stronger than coffee and a
week where I'm going to focus on cooking delicious, nutritious food in the
correct portion sizes. So what's on the
menu, mmm well, I've got my stew, I'm thinking some fish, spaghetti, ooo yeah,
I'll made a spaghetti dish. I'm thinking
a meat-free day too, I've bought some quorn chicken style pieces, I also bought
some oatcake things, and I want to try and recreate the savoury chicken pancake
thing I like that Waitrose sells. I've
just looked online and it says "Skinless chicken
fillet enrobed in a cheesy bacon sauce wrapped in a pancake and finished with
grated cheddar cheese and chopped fresh parsley."
Looking at the ingredients its chicken in a cream
sauces with a bit of bacon, cheese and egg)
I will just do chicken in a cheesy sauce, that might be tea, but I might
use the leftover chicken from my roast dinner, and save the quorn for another
day, maybe make a curry with it or a carbonara.
Anyway that's me off to get me another pint (of
water), I have a busy day today, lots of work stuff to do! Yeah it's my day off! Hey Ho ;)
Happy Monday BeYOUtiful.
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