16th January 2017
Your past is just a story & once you realise this, it
has no power over you.
Just turned the radio on to be told it's blue Monday,
supposedly the 'most depressing day of the year' WHATEVER! A big load of rubbish put together to help a
travel company sell holidays! We all
know it's more likely to be the day before you get paid this month, that moment
you stop and think YAY, I finally get paid tomorrow, then realise even when you
do, none of it is going to be left because you spend way too much on Christmas
;0) oops, let's just accept January is a
month of skintness and embrace the stuff that don't cost anything to do, like
chilling with a good book, going for a walk, enjoying a long soak in the bath, playing
board games (which reminds me we haven't played tipping point yet, must get
that out and force mom to play!), snuggling up in front of the tv with your
family (mom and I enjoyed Batman v Superman yesterday - who knew we'd turn into
superhero fans) and not forgetting catching up on sleep with a good early
night. Yeah let's enjoy the calmness of
the month, remind ourselves we can live on less and still enjoy life.
Sticking with the skint theme, I decided to make use of all
the leftovers in the kitchen yesterday, I'll make the lasagne today now. I had 3 stale seeded flatbreads (9sp), 5
slices stale bread (8sp) and the leftover chicken meatballs (3sp) from the
recipe I'd done the day before and wasn't impressed with it. I whizzed the flatbreads up in my food processor,
it wouldn't turn them to breadcrumbs that's how hard they were! So I put them in a ovenproof dish, torn up
like this;
I fried some onions and mushrooms (if you had raw chicken
mince you would fry it with the onions at this point), I then stirred a few
handfuls of spinach through the cooked mixture, then added it all to the
ovenproof dish. I also had some fresh sage so I'd shredded a couple of leaves
into the mixture.
At this point I remembered I had some ham (5sp) leftover in
the fridge also, so I cubed that and fried it for a few minutes before adding
it to the ovenproof dish.
Next I added some herbs, I think it was a bit of thyme,
oregano, rosemary and some chives - you could use anything. Mix it all together
and sprinkle on the top of the dish.
The whole dish came to 33sp, there was easily 5-6 portions
in there depending on the appetites of the people eating, I had about a 1/5th
of it for my main meal, well worth 7sp, so tasty and filling. I always end up with leftover pittas and
bread because I don't want to eat them all and I forget to freeze them, so this
is a great way for me to use them up.
For tea I had about 1/6 of it, 6sp with leftover beans from
the fridge 3sp and a dry fried egg (2sp) blooming lush!
I've got my meals sorted for the next few days, and I've inputted
a couple of recipe ingredients into my shopping basket on the Sainsbury's app
ready for when I have my next delivery, probably Wednesday now as I have enough
food to keep us going till then. It
really is helping doing my shop online, I'm definitely saving money and
thinking about what we actually need, rather than just rocking up at a
supermarket and mindlessly throwing food in the basket. If I don't see it on the shelf, I can't be
tempted, yep I'm hoping this is going to help with the healthy, temptation not
so easy online.
Right I'm off for my morning cuppa, think about what might
help you with the healthy this week? I'm
going to also go get me a pear and maybe an apple, start my day with fruit and
a yogurt today as I did yesterday, I really enjoyed it too. If we don't make changes, we'll stay the
same! Have a marvelous Monday BeYOUtiful,
dictate your own mood xx
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