I love my slow cooker. It makes cooking a family meal so much easier. You can just prep your ingredients and throw them into the slow cooker in the morning then leave it cook for the rest of the day. One of my go to slow cooker recipes is chicken casserole. However, although nutritious, it…
-
Cookery Books from The Works
Read moreIt’s no secret that I love home cooking. I’m not a fan of ready meals, but sometimes I’m just too busy to cook a meal from fresh so a ready meal has its uses. When The Works asked me to review some cookbooks, I chose the following ones: The Healthy Slow Cooker and 100…
-
Liven up your salad the easy way!
Read moreWhen you hear the word salad what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Rabbits? Summer? Healthy eating? What if I said winter? A warm, hearty salad dish? A lot of people associate the word salad with summer. On a hot summers day I, like many other people enjoy tucking into a tasty salad. I…
-
Impressive, easy recipes
Read moreWe’ve all experienced it…. Culinary inadequacy. You’re hosting friends at your house or you’re invited to an event and instructed to “bring a dish” but your idea of cooking is nuking the water for Ramen noodles. Don’t bother getting sucked into the black hole of Pinterest looking for an impressive dish. (Haven’t you heard of…
-
On a mission to lose weight
Read moreOne of my new years resolutions is to loose weight. After doing some research online and looking at various types of diets I have decided that the one I’ll be following is the NHS Live Well 12 week plan. I used the NHS BMI healthy weight calculator to check my BMI and it came back as 25.64. This…
-
The Weekly Shop Challenge
Read moreWhen Twin Daddy and I first moved in together our weekly food bill was around £60. I look back on those good times with fond memories! For no longer are our weekly shops so cheap. Most weeks we spend on average anything from £120-£150. Don’t ask me on what because I truly do not know!…