by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 6, 2016 | My Diary
a too busy week What a busy week it was this week! A too busy week really. I am trying to cut back on things I do so I have more time to spend with new husband, and of course gardening season will soon be upon us. On Monday there was the filming that I spoke about...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 2, 2016 | My Diary
Back at the gym Had my three week review at the gym this morning. I had lost 1lb on the scales up there. Wasn’t even expecting that to be honest. Alex, my coach, went through everything. He examined in great detail the report I had printed off from myFitnessPal...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 1, 2016 | My Diary
A bit of filming Did another little bit of filming this morning. I wrote three posts for the Guiness Partnership. The last one being on Valentine’s, which is what they wanted to film – a little bit of talking, and making the main course. The Valentines...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 21, 2016 | My Diary
My daughter got married in June 2015, and as part of her wedding gift, I thought it would be nice to make her a quilt with a purple theme, like the wedding theme. I found some dark purple fabric leftover from making a skirt and one of her Dads shirts, and went hunting...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 16, 2016 | My Diary
The last few days This week, the days are whizzing by extra fast! I don’t seem to be doing anything much except go to the gym, eat and digest! I’m being really good and recording every mouthful on myFitnesspal so I know accurately how many calories I’m having. A...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 11, 2016 | My Diary
Just had dinner, and I’m still hungry! We had what has become a favourite, peanut butter noodles with loads of veg and a tiny bit of chicken. It was tasty, satisfying, but now, half an hour later, my tummy is rumbling again. I’ve started a 12 week program...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 9, 2016 | Breakfast, Cakes and Bakes
Do you have a savoury flapjacks recipe? I was on the hunt for a savoury flapjacks recipe today. I Googled, as you do, and absolutely every single recipe I found had cheese in it, and carrots. By the tenth recipe, I was thinking s#d this, I’m going to do one without...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 5, 2016 | My Diary
Had a lovely day today. It started off early as I woke up at 5:00am. Millions of calories At 8:00 I went off up to the gym for my set up meeting with my new coach for the next 12 weeks. One of the things he did was work out how many calories he wanted me to eat,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 3, 2016 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
Couple of use it ups today, Roquefort tart and split pea soup. Use it up meals, Roquefort tart and split pea soup. I was convinced I had blogged the split pea soup recipe before, but after extensive searching, I can’t find it, so I can’t have. It’s a...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 2, 2016 | My Diary
Well, here we are again, another January 1st, and all the usual resolutions apply. The next 12 weeks I’ve signed up at the gym I go to to their new program. In a couple of days, I’ll be going to set up a 12 week program with them. They go through all your...
by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 23, 2015 | My Diary
Heathfield was heaving today, hardly surprising being Christmas Eve Eve. It was so nice to get out and about in some light and sunshine. I decided to have a wander in the town, partly for the sheer joy of it, partly to get a bit of exercise- so easy to vegetate this...
by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 22, 2015 | Christmas
I love this week! Christmas Week, (I think of it in capitals!) the week before Christmas. It holds one of my favourite days, the shortest day. This means that Spring, is just around the corner, longer, warmer days, and an evening that doesn’t make me feel shut...
by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 21, 2015 | Lunches
Had an experiment that turned out lovely today. I intended to make a Dahl, but it ended up as Dahl soup because I added too much water. There were the stalks and stems from an entire cauliflower in the fridge, and I thought it would make a delicious Dahl, with some...
by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 19, 2015 | Cakes and Bakes, Christmas, Love Your Leftovers
A few days ago, I made some mince pies for the U3A Christmas meeting. I had bought a new large jar of mincemeat, but then remembered I still had 2.5 jars of the same size left from last year. So I dug out one of those and used that. I made some oil pastry, then used...
