{Recipe} Pancakes Slimming World Style

Hello My Friends and Happy Shrove Tuesday!

Hasn't that come around quickly!  Or is it particularly early this year?  Either way, we love a pancake in this house!  Girls love pancakes with Nutella, I love pancakes with ANYTHING on them!!  I love them so much, when I was in Paris (many) years ago for a weekend I ate FOURTEEN crepes....a fact I'm quite proud of :) haha!  Maybe its this lack of an off switch which is why I'm overweight and the size I am today.....haha!  However, I digress...

A you may know I'm following Slimming World this year to lose at least two and a half stone. So, I've been doing my research, practiced a few recipes and I think this one is a winner.  Its a syn free pancake, which I was so happy with because it meant I could sit and have pancakes with my girlies before school this morning!  So, here's what I did....

Slimming World Syn Free Pancakes

2 eggs

2 tbsp fat free yogurt

2 tbsp sweetener

2 or 3 drops vanilla essence

• Mix together all the ingredients in a bowl
• Heat a little fry light in a frying pan
• Put a little of the mixture into the frying pan over a medium heat, to form a small round pancake shape
• Flip (with a spatula!) the pancake after a few minutes and fry the other side
• Serve with fresh fruit or a little more fat free yoghurt

Et voila! Thats it.  A little tip - I would say keep the pancakes small ish as they can be quite difficult to turn over.  You wont be able to make any crepe sized ones with this mixture!  That suited me fine though and I thoroughly enjoyed my pancake breakfast!

Thanks for reading, I hope you enjoy!

Love Mrs B x x

slimming world update and a recipe

Hello Lovelies!

It's been a few weeks since I started back at Slimming World and so far I've lost 6.5lbs!  I've tried some lovely recipes this week.  Now, if you're like me and the idea of going without chocolate is unthinkable, you need to get quite creative in the kitchen.  Friday night I needed something cakey.  I wanted a big chocolate fudge cake.  Luckily for me there was no such thing in the house (or I quite possibly would have eaten the lot!)  So I did a little research and looked at what I had in and came up with this!!

So simple for this you will need:

1 sachet Cadburys chocolate options (2 syns)

1 egg

2 tbsps sweetener

2 or 3 drops of vanilla essence

Put all the ingredients in a medium size mug and whisk well with a fork.

Put into the microwave for two minutes  

Put in a bowl and enjoy with fruit, yoghurt or both!!

Its that simple and it really got rid of those cakey cravings I was having Sunday night!  Its for this reason I love Slimming World so much!!

As I mentioned its been a few weeks since I rejoined Slimming World and considering I've had my nieces birthday in London, my birthday weekend and a meal out with my mummy friends, I think I'm doing pretty well!

I'm currently 6.5lbs down in four weeks which is amazing considering all I've eaten.  I do so well during the week but the weekends let me down, especially when I'm away!  I was a little bit gutted I didn't get a shiny last week, I only needed half a pound to get a shiny (a sticker you get every time you lost half a stone) but I'm hopeful for this week.  Its one of my February goals to get a shiny!

Thanks to the weather I've not been out running as much as I would have hoped.  Im very much a fair weather runner and take no enjoyment in running in the rain!  Some people feel a bigger sense of achievement after completing a run in the rain.  Not me....I'm a wuss :)

Would love to know if you try this recipe or if you have any other Slimming World cake recipes!  I found a Banoffee Pie I might try soon....looks amazing!

Thanks for reading!

Love Mrs B xx

my birthday weekend at the cotswolds

Hello lovely friends!

We had THE best weekend at the lovely Bourton-on-the-Water.  I've wanted to go to The Cotswolds for as long as I can remember.  From pictures I've seen the villages look beautiful, the cottages so cozy and I just think its an amazing place to go and visit.

Knowing this, my lovely husband booked us a weekend away for my birthday and gave it to me, in a cracker at Christmas (making me wait until dinner and everything!).  We were staying in an apartment called The Lake House, which, as the name suggests is situated on a lake!  Not just any lake, its own private late, which you can walk around and fish on should you so wish.  It was a bit cold for sitting by a lake, it being January and all, so we just admired the lake from the warmth of our lovely apartment.

The view I woke up to on my birthday!  Not at all bad :)

One of the first stops we made after checking into The Lake House was for afternoon tea of course!

I love a good afternoon tea!  I did forget any kind of Slimming World rules this weekend :) It was quite drizzly the afternoon we arrived so we decided to get supplies (mainly wine and nibbles) and head back to The Lake House for a film.

Next day was glorious though (if  a little cold) and I really wanted to head into the village and go to the Model Village and then over to the next village which I've heard so much about.

The model village is exactly that, I miniature of the actual village of Bourton-on-the-Water!  Its a massive tourist attraction (as is the whole village) and got quite busy but we took some lovely photos and got our bearings of where we were and where we needed to go.  It was as pretty as the really thing!

Bourton-on-the-Waters Model Village is so pretty! 

After that, we put out walking boots on and headed on a five mile round trip over to Lower Slaughter. It was as beautiful and picturesque as I'd hoped.  I'm sure people thought I was weird taking pictures of their front doors but I figured they're probably used to it by now!

On the trek back we decided we'd earned a pub lunch so stopped off in a pub back in Bourton-on-the-Water to warm up by the log fire and have something decent to eat.

I'm ashamed to say that, because I'm old, I was done by the time we got back to The Lake House so we grabbed a couple of pizzas to heat up and snuggled down for a night of films.  This might sound boring to some but when you normally cant watch a film without getting interrupted by a small person, a night on your own is heaven! 

Me and my lovely handsome hubby

I thoroughly enjoyed our whistle-stop tour of a small part of The Cotswolds!  I can't wait to go back! In fact, its only an hour and a half away so I may even get my hubby to take me on a day trip one day as they do an amazing afternoon tea....definitely worth the travel :)

Thanks for reading!

Love Mrs B xx