Filling & Healthy all day long :)

21^st August 2013

 Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. Norman R. Augustine

I gained 1.5lb yesterday, I’m not disappointed though, I’m putting down to the fact I’ve been unwell, taking medication and haven’t really moved all weekend, so I’ll take that, I’m still 2lb lighter than I was a fortnight ago and I’m not overeating, I’m focusing on healthy and happy and I feel good for it.  Maybe the lump in my neck weighs ;-)

So yesterday I did a Filling and Healthy day, no ProPointing required and I enjoyed it too, had;

Breakfast – 2 crumpets with 2 poached eggs and tomatoes

 

Snack – 0% Greek yogurt, blueberries, raspberries, banana

Lunch – Rosemary and herb chicken breast, brown rice, onion, butternut squash, sweet potato, red pepper.

Tea – Beef goulash and sweet potato chip chunks.

Hot chocolate and a shot of whiskey (3pp) from weeklies

Earned 5pp on pedometer

So I quite enjoyed not having to ProPoint and doing this Filling & Healthy lark, so I’m thinking I might do it again today, also because I have leftovers that will save me cooking, I need to make something today for tomorrow as I’ll be too busy to cook tomorrow.  Ooo I might make a batch of soup today, that’d tide me over, I need to go get a few bits for that, pop in the Asda after meeting this morning I thinks.  Maybe curried parsnips if I can get any or butternut squash - did you know Butternut squash is not only zero ProPoints, but it has just 80kcal in 200g, which provides half of your daily vitamin C needs. It’s also a great source of potassium and magnesium, and curry powder contains turmeric, which research shows keeps your joints healthy and protects against arthritis.

Do you care?  Are you remotely interested in how nutritionally balanced your diet it?  Or do you just wanna be thin and as long as you stick to your allowance and lose weight that’ll do?

I think if you follow the Filling & Healthy plan then automatically you’re getting a good, balanced nutritious diet, obviously you need to learn portion sizes but that comes with practice.  Last night I thought I would easily eat 2-3 portions of that beef goulash but when it came to putting it out I had about 1½ portions, now I wasn’t ProPointing but if I had been that would’ve set me back 10pp so not a ridiculous amount, I also wasn’t even tempted to snack after eating my tea.

On the ProPoints plan, you can eat a good, balanced, nutritious diet also, or you can spend it less wisely, what I’ve found is the less wisely I spend mine the more hungry I am and the worse my results at the scales, so if you’re not bothered about what the foods doing to your body, try to eat healthier because it’ll give you a better result at the scales.

I easily ate my five a day yesterday and plenty of fibre, I don’t analyse my meals to see if they’re nutritionally balanced, I just try to make sure I use fresh ingredients where possible.

A good tool to use if you’re not getting the results you want is to track a little differently, get a pad and make 3 columns and head them up “Filling & Healthy”, “Treats, junk & booze”, “other”.  Then as you track your day put the ProPoints in one of the three columns.  If the treats/junk/booze column has the most ProPoints in it, then maybe your diet needs tweaking a little.  The first two columns are obvious, F&H is anything highlighted in green, T,J & B is anything all your cakes, crisps, chocolate, wine, even if the treats are low fat, low sugar ones – they’re still treats!  Then the other column is anything else that doesn’t fit in one of the first two columns J such as a ready meal or white bread or pasta.

It’s an interesting exercise to do even if you are losing, it helps you get to know yourself better and how you treat food, if there’s a lot of treats and junk you’re still using food in an emotional way.

Right I’m off, got painkillers to pop and antibiotics to take, going to my meetings yesterday was a good distraction from the pain, so hopefully I’m on the mend as I wouldn’t have been up to going at all last Friday.

Have a great day, EatGorgeous, BeYouTiful and take care you of you because you’re worth the effort.

 

 

Healthy & Happy but unlikely to be lighter!

20^th August 2013

 

When you choose to forgive those who have hurt you, you take away their power.

 

Well I’ll be amazed and chuffed if I manage a loss today, bearing in mind all the medication I've been taking, plus the lack of movement but whatever the outcome I’ll continue with the healthy & happy approach because I know it’s good for me.  My necks still swollen and painful but I’m a bit better in myself so I can at least work, wish the antibiotics would take the damn swelling down though.

 

My tracker looked like this yesterday;

 Breakfast – strawberry & red berry squash smoothie - 0pp

Brunch – 2 crumpets, tinned tomatoes, poached egg - 7pp

Tea – goulash & sweet potato mash – 13pp

Supper – pancake (5pp), banana, raspberries, blueberries, 0% greek yogurt, drizzle honey – 7pp

Glass wine 6pp

 

Total 33pp

 

Chilled again yesterday but did manage to walk Alfie and also I cooked the beef goulash from a recipe which was to die for, I served mine with sweet potato mash because that’s what was in the house, my beef was £12 because I went to Co-op as I didn’t wanna drive far, but it was delicious and made six portions, so about £2.50 a portion but I’m sure you can get beef cheaper elsewhere!  Here’s the recipe;

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One of the Co-op pancakes is 5pp or 3 of the Warburton's Scotch Pancakes, depends what you fancy!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Beef Goulash

Serves 6, 7pp per serving, or completely F&H

 

1kg good braising steak, preferably chuck steak (35pp)

1 tbsp sunflower oil (4pp)

3 medium onions, cut into 12 wedges

2 garlic cloves, crushed

2 tsp hot smoked paprika

1 tbsp paprika (1pp)

1 beef oxo stock cube

600ml cold water

400g can of chopped tomatoes

2 tbsp tomato puree (1pp)

2 bay leaves

1 red pepper

1 green pepper

1 orange pepper

Flaked sea salt

Freshly ground black pepper

 

Preheat over to 170^oC/Fan 150^oC/Gas 3.5.  Trim any hard fat off the beef and cut the meat into rough 4cm chunks.  Season well with salt & freshly ground black pepper.

 

Heat the oil in a large flameproof casserole dish.  Add the steak and fry over a high heat until nicely browned all over, turning regularly.  Tip the onions into the pan and cook with the beef for 5 minutes until softened.  Add the crushed garlic and cook for a further minutes, stirring regularly.

 

Sprinkle both paprikas over the meal and crumble the beef stock cube on top.  Add the water, tomatoes, tomato puree and bay leaves.  Season with salt and pepper, stir well and bring to a simmer.  Cover with a tightly fitting lid and transfer the dish to the oven.  Cook for 1.5 hours.

 

While the beef is cooking, remove the core and seeds from each pepper and chuck them away.  Cut each pepper into chunks of about 3cm.  When the beef has cooked for 1 ½ hours, carefully remove dish from the oven.  Stir in the peppers, put the lid back on and put the goulash back in the oven for a further hour or until the beef is meltingly tender. 

 

Serve with small portions of brown rice (for extra ProPoints) and spoonfuls of soured cream if you life (for extra ProPoints), but don’t be too generous soured cream contains less fat than double crem but still has 1pp per tablespoon.

 

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At least I don’t have to cook today, will have a portion of goulash with rice, I did pick up a chicken reduced to £2 which I shall cook in one of those bags, I love a bargain.

 

Here’s to a fast day J not one for rushing through life but I’d like to forward my week until I get my neck back to normal size, don’t like taking painkillers especially when they’re not working that well!  I’m sure my members will take my mind of it though and lift my spirits.

 

Eat Gorgeous, got cook the goulash & remember to BeYouTiful. x

 

Here's to a filling, healthy & happy Monday!

19^th August 2013

“The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.”  - Nelson Boswell

 

Well my necks bigger than Mike Tysons right now, thought it was going down last night, just looked like an egg sticking out but this morning its all swollen again, hoping it’s because I’ve been lying down, fingers crossed.  Painkillers are helping and they’ll get me through my working days this week ;) so I’ll be there!

Staying on track was difficult yesterday, I’m glad I hadn’t been to do a big shop, with the cupboards bare’ish I could only eat so much, if there had been any cheese and onion crisps in the house it would’ve all been over.  Television is rubbish, I couldn’t concentrate to read, so I just sat round a little out of sorts wishing I could concentrate to do something, hopefully I’m a bit better today and fingers crossed the swelling goes down soon!

Let’s focus on the positive, we all know when we lose weight there are so many benefits connected with it and just one was posted in our Facebook group (for my meeting members only) by a lovely member of mine who’s done fantastically so far having lost 45.5lb (over 3 stone), this is what Sam wrote;

 

“You know when you've always had 1 friend whose figure you've always admired ...WELL I’VE JUST FITTED INTO HER DRESS! I'll say it again Bev's Weight Watchers is amazing!”

 

Now that is cause for celebration, that’s one of those none scale victories that just make you grin wide like a Cheshire cat.  I love it when my members share those kids of happy moments with me, I’ve received texts from members in changing rooms sharing they joy with me – it’s brilliant. 

 

One of the ladies at the church handed me a couple of pair of second hand jeans last Thursday to try on and anyone who know me knows when it comes to buying jeans I’ve got a funny shape body, I’ve spent hours in a Levi shop only to leave feeling deformed because they couldn’t find a pair that fit me correctly.  So I looked at these jeans and they were size 12 from Next, I smiled and said they won’t fit me, she insisted I try them on and they did, I was thrilled, they even fit in length too, chuffed didn’t come close especially as they were 50p a pair – result.

 

So think about some of the changes you’ve noticed, or if you’re struggling to get on track think of some of the changes you’d like to notice!  We celebrated Rachel being at goal for a year last Thursday after losing 11 stone, and as she wrote in her words “It’s been the best year of my life, here’s to many more!”

 

See you can lose it and keep it off forever, you can change how you think about food and how you behave around it, if you work on your thoughts as well as what/when and how you eat at the same time, the changes you make will last, there isn’t a quick solution, this way is much more enjoyable.   I like food, I’ll always enjoy eating, I’ll even overeat at times because it serves a purpose for me, I’m okay with that, it’s part of my personality and as long as it isn’t making me unhappy nor unhealthy it’s ok.

 

So back to my tracker I didn’t do too badly with my eating yesterday,

Breakfast

Bagel (6pp) with chicken and blue cheese (6pp) total 12pp

 

Lunch

½ can chicken soup, slice of eggy bread 6pp

 

Snack

Muller strawberry cheesecake Corner 6pp

Bit of left over chicken, 3pp

 

Tea

Waitrose ham hock & pea fiorelli 5pp topped with 1pp Parmesan cheese. 6pp

Highlights chocolate 1pp

2 ryvita with WW spread 2pp

Milk in tea 3pp

 

Total 39pp

 

That’s more or less my weeklies wiped out and although I did earn activity ProPoints because I’ve barely moved the last 3 days, I’m ignoring them.  Weigh day tomorrow, so I’m going to opt for a F&H day today I think, see what I can concoct to keep me satisfied.

 

Here’s to a filling, healthy and happy Monday of Eating Gorgeous and Being BeYouTiful even with a thick neck ;)

Short one today...

18^th August 2013
“Most of us spend our lives as if we have another one in the bank.” Ben Irwin

Yesterday was a long day!  My lump in my neck started to get bigger so I called NHS direct who made me an appointment with an emergency doctor who then sent me to the hospital, WOW who’d think one sentence in real life would take 5 hours!  Outcome after examinations and camera up nose and down throat was it’s infected, so antibiotics and painkillers but at least I got to come home.  So I’ve just had a good 11 hours sleep which can only help to heal.

I did manage to stay on track though, especially as I realised the significance of yesterday, 9 years ago on 17^th August I reached my goal with Weight Watchers, can’t believe it’s gone by so quickly! 

So yesterday looked like this;

Jam on toast – 7pp

Chicken portion  (waitrose portion bought on way to doctors, checked on esource) – 8pp

Bagel (6pp) with cheese (2pp) chicken (3pp) & mustard (4pp) – 11pp

Total 26pp

Was in bed by 9pm, gonna chill all day today and give the drugs chance to kick in, it’s not so bad if I don’t move my neck ;)

My brains not working much today either obviously as I’m out of stuff to say, so I’ll leave it there, but please have a great day, Eat Gorgeous & BeYouTiful.

 

Right pain in the neck ;-) still on track tho!

17^th August 2013

“You can't keep blaming yourself. Just blame yourself once, and move on.”  Homer Simpson

 

Another early night last night, feel much better in myself today so hopefully I’ve got this cold on the run, my neck still hurts but good news I now have my next hospital appointment end of August (even better I won’t have to miss any of my meetings), then hopefully it won’t be long before they whip it out, another scar to add to my fine collection.

 

Apart from an hour walk with Alfie yesterday morning my day was mostly spent in my office then sat on my bum in front of the tv, I just wanted to chill out and give this cold chance to work through my system whilst drinking wine to ease my pain J and it did might I had, first drink in 12 days, it wasn’t the nicest I’ve had so was a little disappointed.

 

My tracker wasn’t fab, but I stayed on track;

Breakfast

Tin mackerel in mustard sauce on ryvita (10pp)

Dinner

Tin tomato soup (6pp) with 2 slices bread (5pp) and WW spread

 

Tea

Snacked on 3 ryvita (3pp), 1 crust (3pp), cheese (4pp), 13g lurpak garlic butter (3pp) (weighed the block this morning as it was a nice one last week so know how much I had!)

 

Milk in tea (3pp)

Wine (22pp)

 

Total ProPoints consumed; 59pp

Weeklies used 33pp

Weeklies Left = 10pp activity PP left = 15pp (didn’t earn any yesterday)

Still on track, despite the poorly, I’m not willing to let myself use a head cold and a pain in my neck as an excuse to stray off track!

 

 

The lovely Deb finished our tune for us, so get learning the words;

 

We're moving, we're grooving,

we're in the zone & we're losing.

We're rocking, we're rolling,

we're on the right track & we're strolling.

We can do it, yes we can.

All together, that’s our plan.

Our meetings, we won’t miss,

With Bev, we're gonna do this!

 

It made me smile yesterday anyways, so did the lovely messages and support I got from everyone.

 

Here’s to a better day today, it can stop raining, I’ve got a dog to walk, I think I need to go do a bit of shopping too so I can make something delicious to eat, I don’t want another day of not having a plan, it makes for snacking.

 

Here’s to a great day, wonder what deliciousness I can knock up for less ;) watch this space.

 

EatGorgeous remember xx

 

The poorly head is trying to stray me!

16^th August 2013

 

“Nothing makes you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.” - Zora Neale Hurston

Just rolled out of bed, 8.45!  Took night nurse last night as not feeling too clever and it’s worked its charms, a good sleep, can’t have a cold as it’s really making this lump in my neck painful and we all know the best medicine for pain and poorly is food and drink and we can’t be having any of that whilst I’m trying to get back to my goal ;)

I love how the illogical greedy, thirsty brain works, when I started feeling a bit rubbish on Wednesday, instead of thinking;

“That’s the first time this year I’ve felt a bit rough, I’ve really got away with the colds and flu’s for a good while.”

My “I’m trying to lose weight” brain instead thought;

“See not drinking red wine is bad for me, I haven’t been ill all the time I’ve been drinking and eating too much, the minute I start losing weight I get ill, my body obviously doesn’t like it and needs more nourishment and red wine!”

Erm, yeah WATEVA Beverley, get a grip!

So yesterday despite feeling a bit poo, I managed to get through the day enjoying my meetings, sharing my members success and staying on track, it was partially helped by the tune that I’d got stuck in my head (Thanks for that Emma), I’ve even added a second line;

“We're moving, we're grooving we're in the zone & we're losing!”

We’re rocking, we’re rolling, we’re on the right track & we’re strolling!

So yes I am still on track, yesterday looked like this;

Breakfast

Scrambled egg & crumpet 7pp

Lunch

Cauliflower mozzarella cheese 10pp

Tea

Chicken balti (using a maggi cook in the bag 2pp) and tilda microwave roasted pepper & courgette rice 14pp (if I’d used breast it would’ve been less pp.

Snacks

Banana & handful of raspberries

Pedometer earned me 4pp (no dog walking yesterday)

So I’m now 4 hours behind with my paperwork because of my lie in and I’m thinking a slow easy day, will take my time doing all the office stuff, then take it easy today to try and shake off this headcold.  Will have a bath and fill the bathroom full of steam and menthol crystals in the sink too, I will not be ill for long – sickness is not welcome in my body.

So here’s to another day on track, I’m entering the weekend with my weeklies intact so I do plan to use them this weekend, not sure yet what one, may a glass of the good stuff or a delicious meal cooked from scratch, unsure as yet – watch this space, one thing I do know is I won’t be ending the week with the intact ;-)

Eat Gorgeous everyone, here’s to a fabulous weekend ahead whether it rains or shines.

xx

 

 

Easy this weight loss ain't it - ERM NO!

1 5^th August 2013

It’s not easy – but it’ll be worth it!
 
Yesterday could have very easily been an off track day, I got to work at 9ish and didn’t feel 100%, think I’ve got a bit of a head cold coming and it’s making this cyst lump in my neck hurt and it has swollen more, it’s all connected through my sinus – not nice.  So I thought painkillers to try to reduce the inflammation, plus I have some good ones from the doctor for my back – problem sorted, took one felt worse, my head now feels all light and fluffy and it was then I realised I’d forgot to have breakfast – HOW!  Well my brother had turned up at my house that morning and thrown me out of routine and I clear forgot.  Had a Weight Watcher sweet and nutty pecan bar to tied me over but still wasn’t right till I got home and had a bowl of serial which at least sorted the dizzy out.

I’d planned on making homemade fishcakes (recipe in this weeks YOUR WEEK) for lunch, I’d even taken the salmon out of the freezer and just felt like I had so much to do that I was having second thoughts about standing in the kitchen cooking, so contemplated just having salmon and microwave rice, but then I reminded myself how fab I’d felt yesterday with my weight loss and how a half hour break from work would do me good.  The fishcakes were delicious by the way and we had them with green beans and leaves grown fresh by Tracey my lovely helper on Tuesday night.

I’ve been fancying Warburton golden syrup scotch pancakes since I bought some for my mom the other week, especially after finding out they were 3 for 5pp so that was tea with raspberries, blue berries, banana, honey and squirty cream – nice ;) just hit the spot it did.  And total of 7pp was a bargain, add this all to my milk in my drinks all day and I managed to end on 26pp, with 5pp earned on my pedometer, Alfie wasn’t in a walking mood yesterday so I didn’t clock up many.

Realised I didn’t drink much water yesterday so I’m sat here with a pint in my hand, I’ll need it even more today after taking painkillers, they don’t help my insides at all!

Someone said to me yesterday having lost 22lb so far “Losing weight is now a priority not something I hope will happen”, doesn’t that sound great, both the weight loss and the fact she’s made it a priority.  I smiled and nodded as I read it, because it’s a great feeling when you are there and realising that you’re important too and putting yourself first or as a priority. 

Unfortunately life gets in the way doesn’t it, I realise there are times when it isn’t easy to remember that you are important and making weight loss a priority is unlikely to happen, take the six weeks holidays for example, especially if you work - you’re so busy trying to get all your housework done, keep the kids entertained, do your day job, dealing with feelings of guilt because you’re unable to spend the holidays with the kids and have fun with them, you probably feel even worse because you can’t even afford day trips or a holiday out because there are so many bills to pay and yet you’re working and should be able too.  This is when you’re likely to think well the least I can do is treat them to McDonald’s or the Wacky Warehouse and a pub meal!  Plus doing that means you haven’t got to cook which is a double bonus because you’re shattered!  Recognise yourself?

Or are you someone who’s looking after an elderly or sick relative, do you spend most of the day taking care of their needs, running round trying to get everything else done too, because you’ve still got a family to take care of also.  Do you have to make different meals for everyone and by the time you get to you, you just think oh I can’t be bothered?

Yes when life’s easy, weight loss is easy; when life’s a little harder you have to try a little or even a lot more. 

And do you know what, the harder you try, the better the reward feels!  You’ll be so glad you did prioritise yourself, your kids will be glad too because they’ll have a happier parent, your sick relative or elderly parent will be chuffed too because you’ll have much more energy and patience because you’ll feel better and happier. 

Yeah it’s tougher but so worth the effort.

So today just for once put you first – it isn’t selfish, it’s self care. Xx

I haven’t planned or decided what I’m going to eat today so I’m going to check out the kitchen now whilst I get myself another glass of water and put the kettle on for a cuppa, so if you haven’t decided either, go do the same, take 5 to check out your cupboards and get on track.

Remember EatGorgeous, BeYouTiful and you are worth the effort.

Have a fabulous, on track & in the zone day.

One of my Gorgeous members wrote this yesterday on our group page, as you read it – sing it with me;

“We're moving, we're grooving we're in the zone we're losing!”

WHAT A TUNE!  Learn the words and repeat regularly and if you’re lyrical maybe you can write a few more lines for me ;-)

BOOM I lost weight! Just a little smiley ;)

14^th August 2013

It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life. Bryant H. McGill

 

BOOM! 3.5lb gone, how pleased was I to step on the scales yesterday, I was looking for 2lb as I’d been 100% on track, so was over the moon with my results.  So at my heaviest this year I was 11st 8lb, and I’m now 11st 1.5lb, my bmi is 26.9 and my waist has already gone down an inch in a week (that’ll be the bloatiness)! Why had I gained weight – because I wasn’t following the plan if I’m honest, I still continued to weigh foods and ProPoint my meals, I just didn’t stick to my allowance and I was drinking more alcohol too so steadily it’s crept back on.  Also if I’m honest I’d started to blame my age, hit my 40s bound to happen, you change and so does your body shape, blah blah blah.  It feels great to have my mojo back although I’m very aware of how easy it is to lose that momentum so I’m determined to ensure I enjoy everything I eat and think about my choices. 

 

I’m sure I had a bigger weight loss this week because I didn’t eat my activity ProPoints nor did I have any alcohol, that I can confirm won’t last.  I have no intention of losing all those extra ProPoints every week, I was erring on the side of caution last week unsure if I could do a full week on track as I’d been messing about for so long.  I also cut alcohol out because I wanted to give my body a rest and if I’m totally honest I wanted to prove to myself I could, it’s good to make sure something isn’t controlling you, whether that be booze, fizzy drinks or a food type!  I’ve proved it isn’t which has made me feel better, and I’ve also proven to myself it’s just a habit, something I do because it’s there and now I don’t want to have a drink every day – don’t worry I’m not about to turn teetotal, I likes a glass of red too much!  However I don’t need to have a glass every day, I love St Agur blue cheese but don’t feel the need to consume that every day so why should I with the red stuff.

 

Sometimes getting to this place “in the zone 100% on it and enjoying it” can seem like a distant dream (I know it has for me many times) and I also know that when someone else is there it can really get up your nose - I know it has mine many time, I think that’s because when I’m not there but I want to be I’m a little resentful of those that are and a little envious.  It’s different when I’m carrying a few extra pounds and it’s not bothering me then I’m happy for all the celebratory success I see online, however when I do want to be losing and I’m struggling, I don’t find it motivating at all seeing everyone else’s success, I find it deflating because I’m not doing it too.  If you feel a little like that, all I can say is ‘I get ya’, the only advice I can offer is keeping trying, keep doing the little things that help and eventually like myself those little things will add up and turn into lots of things that make a difference, then you’ll get that initial weight loss and you’ll want another one. 

 

I’ll be happy now with ½ - 1lb a week because I do love my food and I want to indulge in the good stuff, today I’m going to make Salmon Fishcakes (recipe in this weeks your week), I’m also going to dig out my slow cooker and put that to use.  I know need to go buy some St Agur cheese, mmm stuffed chicken breasts with St Agur wrapped in ham and served on a bed of rice (or cauliflower rice), it’s not even 6am and I could eat that ;)

 

Right I’m off to get some work done, before I go, if you haven’t already remember or discover all the reasons why you want to lose weight, be honest about them and write them down (pop them in your purse or on your fridge), remind yourself you are worth the effort because you are.  Eat Gorgeous & BeYoutiful.

 

Here’s what yesterdays tracker looked like, I was busy so didn’t want to spend too much time in the kitchen, I’m also a little skint so am trying to stay away from the shop for as long as possible.

 

Breakfast (cost 25 pence)

½ can Heinz cheese beans (4pp) on 2 slices of toast (3pp) (taken from a 400g loaf) - 7pp

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lunch (cost 50 pence)

4 Asda smart price fishfingers (5pp), mashed potato (5pp), veggies

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tea (cost about £2.50 at a guess)

A 10pp Bev concoction from stuff in the kitchen;

I used 3pp pork loin, a nest of whole wheat noodles 5pp, handful of water chestnuts, a carrot chopped, cherry tomatoes, 3 diced spring onions, 2 rings of pineapple chopped, oil spray 1pp, diced green pepper, tablespoon of hoisin sauce 1pp.

 

Boiled noodles for 4 minutes whilst stir frying everything else. Mixed all together then stirred in hosin sauce before serving.  Really tasty.

 

 

 

Milk in drinks – 3pp

Total used for Tuesday – 30pp

Daily Allowance = 26pp, so Weeklies used – 4pp

Pedometer ProPoints earned - 6pp

 

So I ate for less than £3.50 yesterday, not bad at all.

 

This picture shows how the scales accurately weigh fish fingers and tell you how many ProPoints are in the different quantities, I personally always go for the one that gives me the best value which was 4 for 5pp!  60 pence a box of 10 fish fingers and they tasted alright to be fair.  Someone asked me online how the scales work, you can either input the nutritional information from the packaging or type in the word of the food using the keyboard e.g. "cheese" and it'll already have the ProPoints stored.  clever things they are.