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Continue reading →: It’s too darn hot!
Mind you in better news this means lots of salad stuff (although quiche is possibly not the healthiest protein to go with it), this means I am slowly, very slowly losing weight! I am 81 lbs (36.7 kg or 5 stone 11 lbs) lighter than my heaviest ever weight. It…
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Continue reading →: One-pot no-chop spicy tomato and chickpea orzo
Ingredients 2 tbsp olive oil 1 tsp dried red chilli flakes 1 tbsp fennel seeds 4 garlic cloves, grated 300g/10½oz cherry tomatoes 1½ tbsp tomato purée (optional) 570g jar or 400g tin chickpeas, drained and rinsed 200g/7oz dried orzo 800ml/1½ pint vegetable stock or water sea salt and freshly ground…
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Continue reading →: Vegan spicy sausage casserole
Ingredients 2 tbsp oil 8 vegan sausages 1 onion, chopped 2 sticks celery, chopped 2 garlic cloves, chopped 2 red, yellow or orange peppers, chopped 1 tbsp chipotle paste or harissa paste 1 tbsp tomato purée 400g/14oz tin tomatoes or passata (or use a mix of tinned and fresh tomatoes)…
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Continue reading →: Just a check in
In weight terms I lost 5lbs this week (aka just over 2kg), I got through over 40 plant points and managed physio every day (unfortunately my computer crashed before I saved the information on a previous draft on here and I had already deleted it from my tracker … d’oh!)
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Continue reading →: One-pan mushroom and leek orzo
Ingredients 2 tbsp olive oil, plus 1 tbsp extra to serve 250–300g/9–10½oz mushrooms, sliced 2 medium leeks, trimmed and thinly sliced 400g/14oz orzo pasta 1 vegetable or chicken stock cube salt and black pepper Method Heat the oil in a large saucepan over a medium heat. Add the mushrooms and…
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Continue reading →: Why do I even try?
Another weigh in and I put 7 flipping pounds on! I was under my calorie target (as per MyFitnessPal) every day bar one (and even then I was only a couple of hundred calories over, thank you red wine!), so how? I mean if I am doing everything right, according…
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Continue reading →: Pea & new potato curry
Ingredients 1 tbsp vegetable oil 2 onions sliced 3 red chillies, deseeded and finely sliced thumb-sized piece ginger, roughly chopped 2 tsp cumin seed 1 tsp madras curry powder ½ tsp turmeric 750g new potato 300g podded fresh peas (or use frozen) lime wedges, to serve 2 naan bread to…
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Continue reading →: Creamy coconut lentil curry with crispy halloumi
Ingredients 1–2 tbsp olive oil 1 tsp mustard seeds 1 tsp cumin seeds 1 small onion, finely chopped 3 garlic cloves, finely chopped 2.5cm/1in piece fresh root ginger, peeled and grated 1 leek, finely sliced 1–2 green chillies, finely chopped, plus extra, thinly sliced, to garnish (optional) 1 tsp ground…
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Continue reading →: Semi check in
No weigh in this morning (I got up after Dr Dragon had started work for the day and spending extra time getting him to bring the scales, wait for me to weigh, take them back and so on hardly seemed fair!), I did track my food and plant points last…
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