Cubed potatoes with rosemary and garlic x

New yummy thing's that i have been making is rosemary and garlic cubed potatoes there soooo lovely and perfect if you need something with a little bite!

Preheat the oven to 180 for a fan assisted ( gas mark 5 )

You can either peel your pots if you want to or leave the skin on i use my nicer dicer to cut the potatos into little cubes obviousaly you can do this manualy.
Then in a pestal and morter i ground up 3 garlic cloves (i love garlic)
with 1 spring of rosemary.

Get a container with a lid and spray the potatos with fry light and add the garlic and rosemary to them, pop the lid on a give it a good shake so all the potatos are covered with the mixture.
Dispense on to a wire cooking rack there availble from £1 land and are so handy as everything cooks evenly pop in the oven and just leave them for about 20 minutes just keeping an eye on them.

Hope you enjoy them if you do try them they are so yummy :-) xxx

Oh and i forgot to mention there free on EE xx

Nicer Dicer Plus

Right you know when your getting old as i was askin for Kitchen Utensils for my birthday presents, however i wanted them to help me with my cooking for slimming world which it has done massivly !!

<---- This is the nicer dicer plus you may have seen it on the tele on one of the cheesy advertising things.
But honestly its amazing i got it last week and have definitly used it every day. It comes with 5 different attachments. Clean up is really easy as its dishwasher safe so thats even better.
Click this link and it will take you direct to the youtube advert

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYBYSevgHKk

Be careful buying it online as there are loads of fakes out there so you think your getting a bargain just double check its the JML one :-)
This is a link to amazon so you can purchase your own :-)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Genius-Nicer-Dicer-Plus/dp/B007RD93J2/ref=sr_1_1?s=kitchen&ie=UTF8&qid=1363691231&sr=1-1

Have fun dicing !!!!! xx

New treat under 3 syns

Now im a little excited about this the main thing i miss when im on Slimming World is CHOCOLATE!!! so i was doing my food shopping in Morrisons yesterday and discovered the new Cadburys hot chocolate drinks !!
There 40kcal per sachet and by the calculations of the synn calculator online there only 2 syns

I havnt tried them yet im waiting till i need the ultimate chocolate fix :-)

I think at Morrisons they were priced at 30p each or 4 for £1 please dont quote me on that.

If you know of any great treats under 5 syns please let me know

Take Care xxxxx

Slacking and feeling disheartened :-(

Hey lovelies well this last week has been interesting for me I gained 1lb this week :-( it has thrown me straight off course and I feel sooooooo disappointed so what did I do I had a bitch fit then thought what the heck am I doing I need to sort my life out. So I am back on track even though I am taking next Wednesday as holiday I need to get sorted and feeling better about myself in general before I go back to group so I went food shopping today stocked up on loads and loads of free and super free foods.
I am going to aqua Latino tomorrow night and Zumba on Tuesday :-) I WILL DO THIS !!!!

I found a few more of treats under 5 syns so ill do another post about them probably tomorrow

I will keep you updated take care :-) xxx

Wednesday 6th March Weigh in day!!

So Wednesday is the day of truth !!!!
I kept my day Syn free, started it off with Grapes and an alpen double choc bar :-)

Lunch was yet again another jacket potato !!! with baked beans and salad i have to say i am getting so sick of jacket spud i dont even like potatos but force myself to eat them as they are "good for you"
BLLEERRGH !!!
I had a muller light banana and custard yoghurt and nearly a whole punnet of grapes and an apple

WEIGH IN TIME!!!!!
Im going to sound so selfish now but please dont hate i lost 2 1/2 lb this week which to be honest with i am a little gutted with.
Obviousally i am happy that i lost but i just wish i had done maybe 4 as i have been really really good !!! Ah well cant win them all i suppose!!

Then i popped to a friends had a cuppa and before i knew it it was 8pm so ended up having my dinner really late which was just another stir fry nothing overly exciting.

If anyone please has any good lunch ideas please post them on the comment box or email them too me gemmaloumua@icloud.com
i would really appreciate it nothing with bread and preferably syn free :-)

Thanks lovlies :-) xxxx

March 5th :-)

Hi there so today its been an extra easy day again i cant win myself off them they are litterly too easy red and green just confusses me !!

Breakfast -  Alpen light double chocolate bar (2 of these count a HEB)

Mid morning - Apple

Lunch - Jacket Potato with baked beans and a massive salad of sliced egg lettace onion tomato red cabbage and rocket
      + a muller light yoghurt

Dinner plans havnt been made yet probally going to be a stirfry of some sort :-)

So i made my dinner oh my gosh i am getting to be a cullinary guiness!!!!

First of all i cut up the chicken and browned it off in some fry light
then i added fresh garlic and fresh ginger about a tspn of each then added spring onions, peppers, mushrooms, chestnut mushrooms, bean sprouts, water chestnuts, stirfried till chicked was cooked through then added fine dried noodles that had been cooking in boiling water for about 2 minutes added a good glug of light soy and DONE!!!! sprinkled with some dried chilli flakes and was soooooooooo yummy !!! try it out xx

OHHHH and i didnt have my freddo so syn free day x yey!!!

Gem xx

My Weekend !!!

Oh my god i have been so poorly generally just have a cold but feel so bleergh!!!! talk about having cravings for chocolate and snuggling infront of the tv but i managed to power through it and not give in to the temptation, woop woop go me !!!!

So overall i had a good weekend food wise to be honest i didnt have a massive appatite but made sure i had loads of fruit and veg :-)

Ill write what i remembered i had haha

I know on Friday i made the smoked haddock risotto with paoched egg it was amazing and i cant believe it is free so so tasty

i cant believe i didnt keep a food diary i really cant remember what else i had lol
Yesterday was my sisters birthday :-) so for a special dinner we had fillet steak with homemade chips peas mushrooms and 2 tablespoons of peppercorn sauce
No birtday cake but we did have birthday roulard which was a slimming world recipy online was really nice too.

I know i was good though and hopefully it will pay off in weigh-in tomorrow eeeek x

Hows your weeks been ??? xxx

Thursday 28th Feb

Cant believe i completly forgot to post yesterday grrrrrrr
I thought i better do a little update anyway

Breakfast i had a HIFI bar cup of tea with sweetner and an apple

Lunch was a big jacket potato with baked beans and red onion and a muller light toffee yoghurt and some grapes. 

I also had a mug shot tomato and basil one which were actually really nice :-) and another

Dinner i had slimming world pork and apple burgers again they are sooooooooo good and i had home made chips with peas mushrooms and 1 tbsp of tomato ketchup (1 syn)
I really fancied something sweet and had a weight watchers chocolate dessert which was (3 syns)

So overall i had a really good day xx