{Recipe} Baked Oats For Breakfast

Oats are oats right?  Kinda boring but necessary when you're eating well as they fill you up.  Aha....think again my friend!

Over on Instagram I've been coming across all these amazing ways to have your Healthy Extra B choice!  Baked oats is my new favourite one and will be a lovely alternative to porridge when it gets a bit colder (which I hope it does...really soon!)

So what are these baked oats I hear you ask?  They're so easy to do! 

All you need is your 35g porridge oats (healthy extra B choice) 2 eggs, 50ml milk (from your healthy extra A choice) OR 2 heaped tbsp fat free yoghurt, few drops vanilla, tbsp sweetener.  

Whisk it all up and put it in an oven proof dish, I have two small heart shaped cake moulds, and bake for 22 minutes. Serve with yoghurt and your favourite berries for some extra speedy food. They're so filling and warm, they really are delicious and you can play around with the flavours. 

I added a sachet of Cadburys Options (2syns) for Chocolate Baked Oats, I've also seen people adding cinnamon, mixed spice and baking the fruit in the oats (although this has syns).

I did find they weren't great cold, but thats just my preference. Plus I'm a greedy guts once they're out the oven I want to eat them hot!

Until next time...

Love from Mrs B xx

Back At It

Like a bad penny or a slightly annoying stray cat, Im back!  I rejoined Slimming World on the 17th August (right in the middle of the summer holidays...was I mad??) for the last time!  My actual words to my consultant were "I'm tired of starting again", which she then wrote down and promised to quote me if she didn't see me at class one week!  I'm glad because sometimes I need to be bullied.

These words were so true though, I am tired of starting again, making the resolution and never ever flippin' sticking to it.  I've become the queen of excuses, waiting to start the next healthy eating plan on a Monday that never comes, so this is it, I'm done. I've made my choice of eating plan and I'm sticking to it!! (you can quote me on that one too if anyones reading - haha!)

I've looked at a few plans over the last few months, there are so many out there at the moment and so many mixed messages - high fat, low carb; low fat, high carb; high protein; its soooooooo confusing but I think I've tried most of them recently, only to fall off the wagon and be back to square one.  I've not found anything that fits around me, my husband and my girls, that doesn't mean all day prepping food on a Sunday (although I'm not totally against that now and again) and that means I can't eat out or have treats or my beloved sugar in my coffee first thing!

Favourite breakfast at the moment!

Slimming World seems to be the only thing that fits...and to be honest, I'm not really sure why I quit last time.  I love the plan, I love the recipes, I love that I can still have chocolate every flippin day if I want it!  I don't have to have a ratio of fats to protein, I don't have to eat 4kgs spinach a day, where I can have sugar in my coffee and not feel like I need to spend the next five days at the gym!

Don't get me wrong, every diet plan has it's limitations otherwise we could all eat chocolate all day every day and it would have no effect at all.  Slimming World though is the only one that lets me eat "normal" food...

AND I LOVE IT!

So this is me, my last Slimming World journey...and not because I think it's going to end as such but its the last time I'm going to start again.

Lots of love,

Mrs B xx