Meal Plan Monday - 20th November

So here we have it, my favourite day, start of the week and a while new week of food! 

I do love a Monday. Not sure if I've ever mentioned it but it's the one day I get to get stuff done! Everyone's where they need to be, I get to string a thought together without someone asking for something and I get to plan my meals for the week!


I'm no good at winging it...tried that doesn't work.  Dinner ends up being toast and coffee if I don't plan....and not even wholemeal toast!! 

Lunches need to be quick too, to stop me reaching for the biscuit tin.  So lately I've been tending to batch make some soup (carrot and red lentil is my favourite) or make a big Slimming World quiche to keep in the fridge to use for lunches and to snack on. Other snacks will be clementines, strawberries, boiled eggs and maybe some wafer think ham.  So this is what our dinners look like this week....

Monday - Hunters chicken, salad and wedges

Tuesday - Sweet and Sour chicken noodles

Wednesday - Lean Braising Steak and mash
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Thursday - SW Ready meal and veg

Friday - SW chips and curry sauce

The weekend I'll leave for now as we tend to have a picky tea on Saturday (all Slimming World friendly for me but includes lots of pickled onions!) and a roast on Sunday.

So thats  my week!  I'll do some further posts with recipes later in the week.  I'm most looking forward to Hunters Chicken tomorrow which is a recipe I found on Pinch of Nom.  It looks amazing on the website so I'm hoping it turns out as nice as it looks!

Wishing you a wonderful week!

Mrs B xx

Like a Bad Penny......

I'm back......again!!

So apparently I can't do this weight loss thing on my own.  Who knew staying on track and finding will power and motivation on your own would be so flippin hard!

After a not so great summer health wise, my heads now back in the game. I've joined a new to me group, on a Monday night (to hopefully stop me cheating at weekends!) and I'm more determined than ever to stick with it. My consultant seems lovely and the group isn't huge which I like.

Do I feel like a failure going back to group? No not really. I wish I'd never stopped going or stopped eating properly but I don't feel I've failed going back to group at all. That's like not going to the doctors when you're ill because you went last year, but now you're ill again! Of course you'll go back and ask for help. That's what the doctor is there for. Same as group, it's there when you need help, but only if you ask!

I'd forgotten how much I enjoy food optimising and the last two weeks have enjoyed my food so much more. We've been sitting down to meals again and planning our week which I love!

So.....here we go again!

xxx