Peas pudding & Stottie Cake

If you’ve spent a decent amount of time in the northeast of England this will be something familiar to you. Peas pudding is very similar to pea and ham soup, just thicker, not quite as strong, its not a soup, you let it set and cut it into blocks and you serve it hot or

Simple bread recipe

First of all, you may as well do 2 loafs at a time because it takes just as long and uses as much energy as it does to make just 1. This is for two loafs of bread, half the ingredients if you insist on making just one Ingredients Method Put 640g Luke warm water

Bread my Demon

My enemy, my love, my demon, my favorite thing in the world, the root of all evil and the orchestrator of every doomed diet I’ve failed. So what do I do? I tried living without it, avoiding it completely, and yes, that works really well for a while, and I lose weight very quickly, but

Behind Enemy lines

I wrote this about 2 or 3 years ago and don’t think I ever posted it, I wish I had and I wish I read at least once a week to remind me of who I am and maybe I would not of got lost in a place I could not get out of for

Bacon & Egg Macmuffin

Don’t need to explain what this is, the title is self-explanatory In this I used 77g of cooked super lean bacon 2 eggs 2 proper muffins just like you get at Macdonalds 13 g of Mature 30% less fat cathedral city cheese, not really sices more like shavings, the cheese is so strong you need

3rd week weigh-in

Forgive me if I don’t write my actual weight here, the truth is if I look at my weight I am so far away from a number where I want to be its a bit demoralizing. If I had a 5 stone weight loss, I would still be nowhere near so I thought it would

Quick tasty snacks

This is normally where my diet falls apart the dreaded sandwich 🥪, now while I was boiling my rice to go with my beef and mushroom I was about to make a sandwich, and that is exactly what I’ve been doing wrong for years turning one meal into two So this time, I made a

Take away food

At some time or another, we will get tempted by takeaway food. This temptation can come at almost anytime, a social occasion, just at home and in my case, the temptation comes normally at work. This does not mean we have to suffer in silence. Generally, if we are having a take out at work,

Meat & potato hot pot

Basically, this is potato ash with a lid, obviously I’m thinking calories here, if I just use just enough pastry for a crust lid im only using about a 3rd of the pastry i would use if I made a full pie, infact the crust is made from the off cuts of the last pie

Changing it up a little, don’t let it get boring

Pretty much the same as yesterday, the only difference is I really want a fried egg, im doing a gym day so i need the extra protein any way, but dont avoid what you want change how you prepare it and go for it, you won’t satisfy your need no matter how many apples or