Weekly food update

The last week, i know ive been good on the diet, and not really cheated at all. Im being loyal to my weetabix, bran flakes and now all bran breakfast and stuck to it. Im now kinda stuck in the "breakfast is the most important and best meal of the day", as it gets your body into the eating and getting rid of mode straight from the off. Also its the time of the day, where you can eat your carbs and get away with it, as it slowly releases the food into your body, so its ok to have bread and toast. I have crumpets as im finding brown toast a bit boring at the minute. I got on the scales this morning, and had a 3lb loss in the last 10 days. So im kinda chuffed, that i can diet without exercise and do well! Which is a 1st time ever! I cant wait for the new year, where im gonna be sticking to this diet of cereal and good hearty tasting meals,

Yesterday i got some seabass from morrisons, which was from £4 to £2 a hole fish! I love morrisons with there whoopsy bargains they have, which go off that date. But i can buy loads and just freeze them and take out the day i need them. Whole fillet of plaice £1! I also do it with the meat as well, got joints of meat and good pieces of steak for bargain prices. If i can freeze it, il buy il! Great tip for anyone. I bought some raw king prawns from sainsburys for 35p! from £3.25! Bargain and a half me thinks. Love getting good quality discounted food. People under estimate fish and shellfish, as alot of it is super healthy and very good for you as well. I would always try and get fresh seafood, prawns are about the only thing i dont mind getting frozen.

On saturday i did the seabass, with some fish seasoning, lemon juice, pad thai sauce, left to marinade and baked for 20mins in oven, and its lovely! Today i got some chicken legs, and took fat off, marinaded in sweet chilli sauce, teryaki, garlic, soy sauce, seasame seeds and baked in oven slowly for 3 hours, with some coleslaw and salad. Perfect! 2 good healthy heart recipes. Obviously you can use chicken breasts, but they are more expensive than legs, as i got 6 chicken legs for £2.90.

I also made a big pot of leek, potatoe and baby carrot soup. Basically onion and leek in a pan with a bit of butter, add flour and stock, then the potatoes and carrots (hole) and cook for 2 hours, crush the potatoes in the pan. Perfect hearty soup!! If you make alot, leave to cool, place in plastic tubs and freeze for another day. The vegetables cost me £2 to buy from morrisons, and a few herbs as well, parsely, mixed herbs, i added some mint and gave a lovely flavour, or perhaps some mixed herbs, and for that £2 you have spent, a big pot will do you about 5-6 good servings, maybe more.

I do have a good store cupboard of dry ingrendients, herbs & spices, sauces, rice, noodles etc, so usually i just need to buy the main ingredients for it. So it is wise to stock up on the dry ingredients, as they do last a long time in the cupboard.

Earlyer on in the week, i made some homemade burgers. I got some minced steak from morrisons, again on a whoopsy! So made them that day and froze them, £1.99 for the pack and made 6 burgers, so 33.33p a burger! Bargain! Nice roll, fresh lettuce, pickely cucumber (gherkin), sauce of choice, perfect! If you off the cards, then a burger on its own with the rest of ingredients as a nice salad. In the burger i put, finely chopped onion, garlic, ketchup, mustard, some breadcrumbs, but not many. Freeze or fridge straight away before you use them,

I am a firm beiliver of doing home cooked food, and doing it well, and if i can make it healthy and affordable, them im on the way to doing something ive always wanted to do. My girlfriend is a really good guinea pig, and you may say the luckyest girl in the world as she tastes all the healthy hearty tasty food i make! Think you must have at least 1 proper cooked meal a day, I hate ready instant meals and most of them are full of rubbish and crap anyway. Ive seen the size of the weight watcher meals, and i would need about 3 of them to make me feel full, there suppose to be lower in fat, but really, they are just smaller portions and not as tasty!

Im loving the sun paper at the moment. Every week, there is at least 2 good health articles in it. Gary Barlow put up his diet, after his take that split, he balooned upto 16-17stone, and hit the diet. His main way, was cutting down the portions, keeping the calories to a good level, and exericse alot. To me, this be a perfect way, except i wanna exericse full throttle than stop start all the time. January, il be hitting the running machine hard!

I was going to have a moan about stuff in live, but im gonna keep it on a good note. Tommorow, im heading to my mums and going to my old local pub, and as low fat beer is outta the equation. It be a few nice beers and some southern comforts as a mini bday treat!