It's been a while

Hi there, it's been a while, life's a bit chaotic at the moment.

A couple of weeks ago I was losing the will a little bit, I wanted to eat anything and everything. My lovely group leader Donna helped me by just having a chat really and giving me a few pointers, I managed to get through the bad patch unscathed, although I haven't had a loss for a few weeks. I know I probably need to make a few changes and switch HE (a) and HE (b)'s around a bit and perhaps a bit more variety. I have got into a rut and I'm eating the same food and using the same recipes - a lovely lady (who I have never met), has given me some SW http://slimmingworld.com/ recipes so I'm going to try a few of them soon.

Anyway, a while back a promised some photos of Banana Muffins, I calculated the syns to be around 7 syns per muffin as I swapped the sugar for sweetener. They were fine and went lovely with a cup of coffee. I found the recipe at http://bbc.co.uk/recipes, and adapted it to my tastes. I think I made eight cakes with the quantities, but you could use smaller cases for less Syns but more cakes.

Another thing we all like is sugar free jelly, with either frozen or fresh fruit in, so for example, make strawberry flavour jelly, chop up some fresh strawberries, divide between four serving dishes and allow to set. The sugar free jelly is half a Syn per pack so is minimal divided by four. I usually serve this with some quark flavoured with a little vanilla extract and some sweetener. These are both worth the effort and make lovely desserts.

See you all soon

Moon, stars and everything else astronomy ish!

Haven't seen any stars for a couple of nights as it has been really cloudy. Whilst on holiday, the moon was fabulous, they way it reflected on the sea was quite amazing. I would get up in the early hours of the morning, sit on the balcony and just stare mesmerised at the sky. The 'milky way' looked wonderful and magical with no light pollution in the middle of the atlantic ocean. I follow a great astrological group on Twitter (or could just be one bloke), they were called the Newbury Astronomy Society, but they've recently changed their name and I can't for the life of me remember what it is, I'll check and get back to you on that one. I've actually learned quite a bit since following them and they have some great information and links which again, I'll pass on soon.

Okay, so shopping done, although I haven't planned meals for week (bad start), but have plenty of healthy lovely stuff to make meals with. Bought a curry recipe book last night, so I will be making something from that at the weekend. I have also just printed a couple of recipes one of which is for chocolate fudge cake which is made with beetroot? It sounds very odd but will try and calculate Syn values before I attempt to make that one. I made a couple of things yesterday whilst I was off some banana muffins and jelly with fruit (not very exciting I know), but I have taken some photos and will upload them a bit later and will give all the details of them etc. See you later.