30th March 2016
So far you've survived
100% of your worst days. You're doing
great.
I love that the clocks
have gone forward, I really struggle when they go back but this morning I woke
up a few minutes before my alarm and I feel ready to start my day, and what a
busy one it's going to be! I'm cooking
in my meetings this week, that's going well, and I plan to cook at home today
too.
I've had some Simply
Cook cooking kits, the box contains four kits to help me cook four delicious
meals, I just need to buy the fresh ingredients. Each kits has 3 pots to help
cook the meal, these contain unique flavour blends that
contain as many as 18 different ingredients! The perfectly measured kits may
include culinary pastes, infused oils, garnishes, rubs, specialist stocks and
herb/spice blends. Yes I had that spiel
from their website, but I have to say they look great and my mates been using
them for a few weeks now. Plus using
this link you can get the first kit for £1 - bargain! Even if you cancel the subscription and never
have anymore. I've left mine to recieve
one pack a month, as it's a great way for me to try new foods.
The meal I've chosen
to cook today is Chinese spiced duck salad, now it tells me theres 500 calories
in the meal when cooked according to the instructions, I've worked out that two
duck breasts with skin are 19sp, I happened to have two pheasant breasts in
freezer that I bought for some reason, so I'm going to use them, they're
skinless so only 5sp each, with all the spices in the kit, it'll be 8sp at most
for the meal. If I wanted to make it
even lower, I could use chicken. Tomorrow
I'm doing BBQ Tandoori chicken with sweet potato wedges, that works out at
about 16sp because it uses thighs with skin, again if I wanted lower points I
could remove the skin or use breasts.
Can't wait to try them all, I've also got kits for Chicken tinga, Goan fish
curry , Char Sui BBQ pork, Dukkah spiced salmon, west African peanut stew and
lebanese lamb with aubergine pilaf. I
love that they come with a shopping list of the few ingredients you have to get
and you can rip it off and pop it in your purse. So clever!
All they need to do to improve it, is tell us the nutritional
information or Smart Point the kits. I
think I might be emailing them today to make the suggestion!
Anyway, I'm getting
over excited about food again, so back to reality, it's only 5.30am, too early
to cook dinner ;)
And has I've already
mentioned sweet potatoes above, here's a Smart Pointed recipe to enjoy something
different, they're a good source of vitamin C you know and with so many colds
around at the moment, you can all do with some of that. They also have over 400% of your daily needs
for vitamin A in just one spud, as well as being loaded with fiber and
potassium, so they're great as a change from the good old ordinary spud.
Cheesy bacon stuffed sweet potato
Serves 1, 7sp
1 medium sweet potato
(5sp)
25g low fat cheese
(1sp)
1 rasher back bacon,
grilled and chopped (1sp)
2 cherry tomatoes,
quartered
freshly ground black
pepper
salad leaves
Preheat over to 200oC,
gas mark 6, prick potato and microwave on high for 5m, transfer to oven for a
further 20m until cooked. Scoop out
potato and mash with the soft cheese, stir in bacon and tomato and season with
pepper. Return mash to the potato
shell. Heat the grill to medium, &
grill potato until top in browned, serve with salad leaves.
Right I'm off to get ready for another
great day, already drunk my pint of water, ready for the next and tomatoes on
toast for brekkie I reckon with an egg on the top, mmm, love a bit of simple
food.
Focus on the healthy and the happy
BeYOUtiful.
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