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Lemon & Pepper Chicken Wings by Jacqi B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating This is my version of Sasha’s version of a NIgel Slater recipe. a pack of chicken wings (about 12) two unwaxed lemons 1 heaped tbsp black peppercorns 2 tbsp olive oil 2 tsp sea salt flakes 1. Put the chicken wings into a roasting dish (check for stray feathers first).2. Grate the lemon rind onto the chicken.3. Halve the lemons and squ... Read on »

Food Shopping Project by Jacqi B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Semi skimmed milk £1.66 (x2) special offer £2.50 Anya potatoes 99p (reduced from £1.32) Carrots 67p Onions 50p Lemons, unwaxed £1.69 Parsnips (390g @ £1.98 per kg) 77p Cucumber 68p Broccoli 300g 79p Greens 79p Bananas, Fairtrade (530g @ 85p per kg) 45p Tomatoes x 6 99p Saxa rock salt 350g 92p Table salt... Read on »

I lost eleven pounds last summer... by Jacqi B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating I lost eleven pounds last summer with the photo-dieting. This year I plan to lose a stone (14 pounds) by Easter, another stone by the end of August and a third stone by the end of 2008.As well as photographing everything I eat and making sure that I give the day an end by uploading that day’s photos and doing a mosaic (I then can’t ... Read on »

I’m having trouble sticking to m... by Jacqi B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating I’m having trouble sticking to my self-imposed limit of 1200 kcals per day. In fact, I’ve not yet managed it.Here’s Monday’s food: 1348 kcals. If I’d not had the hot cross bun I would have been below 1200, though.At least I’m staying below 1500. I guess if I allowed myself 1500 I’d be going over that.I&... Read on »

Losing weight and cms at last (two pounds off) by Jacqi B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating As I’m not going out to work at the moment, I’ve decided to devote as much of my ’spare time’ (what spare time?) as I can to exercising to get the weight off. Yesterday I was at the gym before 7.30am. Yes, you read that correctly - before 7.30am! Why so early? My SO was going to the gym before work and offered me a lift.I... Read on »

Food Shopping Project 2/3 by Jacqi B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating If you click on the photo it will take you to the original on flickr where notes on each item will tell you what they are and the individual prices (in GB£).I hadn’t thought about shopping bags before I left the house as I was going to the gym. But I caught the train back and that stops near(ish) the supermarket so I got my shopping ... Read on »

Three weeks ago I started to pho... by Jacqi B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Three weeks ago I started to photograph everything I ate. At the end of the first week I made a photo-mosaic and took a good look at what I had really eaten rather than what I thought I’d eaten. It was a real eye-opener.This is what I ate for the first week: I was surprised at just how often I visited the calorie table for ‘just a little bit of ... Read on »

At The Spice Lounge in Milton Ke... by Jacqi B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating At The Spice Lounge in Milton Keynes For three weeks I have been photographing everything I eat and learning to eat healthily-sized portions. I’ve logged the food in WLR to keep track of the calories, the fat and the fibre.On Wednesday my partner and had ticket for the theatre and went out for dinner first. We went to The Spice Lounge in the The... Read on »

On the first day of the second w... by Jacqi B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating On the first day of the second week of my photo-diet project I started a group on the photo-sharing website, flickr.I’d been posting my food photos and the daily and weekly mosaic into my pool but I wanted to be able to add extra info in the way that can be done in ‘discussions’ in Flickr pools. I was also hoping that a few people might join me ... Read on »

The second week of my photo-diet... by Jacqi B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating The second week of my photo-diet project saw me making some changes to what I ate. I weighed or measured most of my food and filled in my food diary on weightlossresources and took care not to overload my plate The next step was to ensure that I could still see some of the plate after I put my dinner on it. Lemon chicken with basmati rice. You... Read on »

I made my first tagine a couple ... by Jacqi B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating I made my first tagine a couple of weeks ago. Well, a casserole with fruit, really as it wasn’t cooked in a tagine - I haven’t bought one yet. I want to get one before next winter’s comfort food season - although with the awful weather we’ve been having in the UK recently, it feels as though winter is not far away This is a recipe I will be mak... Read on »

Tandoori chicken bites I made th... by Jacqi B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Tandoori chicken bites I made these for lunch again this week. The recipe is from the Australian Women’s Weekly (AWW) Low-Fat Meals in Minutes. The original recipe is for eight people but I have halved it and use it for lunch for two people for two days.250g chicken breast fillets 1 TBS tandoori paste quarter cup (65 ml) low fat yoghurt quar... Read on »

No, I don’t mean lots of exercis... by Jacqi B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating No, I don’t mean lots of exercise, though of course that helps. I shall be back at my water aerobics class tonight after a short break. SO can’t participate at the moment as he had had an operation on his leg but he can drive and will drive me there and bring me home. Such a sweetie. I’m hoping that it will be Stella taking the class tonight as ... Read on »

I’ve created a clickable list of... by Jacqi B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating I’ve created a clickable list of recipes I’ve posted to the blog - you’ll find it on the side bar, under the blogroll. I’m thinking of making a new page listing the recipes I want to try as I keep looking through cookbooks and magazines and thinking ‘ooh, I must try that’. Read on »

Here’s a strange thing. The more... by Jacqi B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Here’s a strange thing. The more care I take with food preparation, making my lunchbox look nice, the lower in calories it tends to be. And when it looks nice I find that less satisfies me. Maybe it’s because more of the senses are satisfied - not just the sense of taste but sight and smell too. So I take more time actually enjoying the food rat... Read on »

Yesterday morning I was looking ... by Jacqi B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Yesterday morning I was looking for clean, ironed, clothes to wear for work and spotted the trousers I bought when I lost a few pounds about 18 months ago. They didn’t fit me for very long then. Having dropped a size I got lax and the weight crept back. I thought ‘they might fit in another couple of weeks’. Then, remember that I keep finding bit... Read on »

I first tried this recipe at a C... by Jacqi B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating I first tried this recipe at a Chinese cookery class run by a lady called Paula. I enjoyed it so much that I made it again at home a few days later. I’ve used half the amount of chicken but the same amount of everything else both times. 1kg (approx) of lean skinless chicken, cut into bite sized pieces 6 dried chinese style mushrooms or chestn... Read on »

When you have left your bananas ... by Jacqi B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating When you have left your bananas for just a bit (or a lot) too long and they are too soft and squidgy to eat this is a great way to use them up. You don’t have to wait till they are that soft, of course, but very firm bananas would not be right for this recipe. 4oz butter or margarine 6oz sugar 8oz self raising flour 2 eggs 2 large or 3 medi... Read on »

I wasn’t sure what to make tonig... by Jacqi B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating I wasn’t sure what to make tonight, I just knew that I didn’t want to spend ages and I didn’t want potatoes. I looked in the fridge and found bitsa this and bitsa that and came up with this. Take two thin pork steaks that need to be used soon and slice them reasonably thinly (about 1cm). De-seed and slice a red chili that also needs to be used ... Read on »

now gone. by Jacqi B. Patient Expert

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