It’s going to be a long day...

Looking for Advice.

Im enjoying Blogland right now and have found one or two blogs that I’m making my way through, I do find it quite hard to use Bloglovin and quite often the page tells me that the link isn’t working.

So I’m looking for recommendations, preferably UK bloggers, any age, ECO FRIENDLY, FRUGAL, COUNTRY LIVING, SELF SUFFICIENT, maybe a little bit of  FASHION or HOME AND FAMILY LIFE,  I’m open to all suggestions 😊

Daily Life.

I almost always bring lunch to work with me, usually soup (that I buy) or leftovers, since I started to try and overhaul my diet I’ve cut out pasta as much as possible and when I do have it I weigh out 50g, I know that Pasta and carbs are my problem so avoiding them is the best I can do, this does mean that at least once a week I can’t really have leftovers, sometimes my meal plan will include things that at the moment I have to say no to, so I cooked up a tray bake recipe, portioned it up into 5 pots and froze them, this way if I’m stuck I can take one out of the freezer the night before and I have lunch for the following day 😊

Here’s today’s lunch:

I’ll have half of the soup today and finish it off tomorrow, my current addiction is Graze BBQ crunch, but I’ve already eaten that so can’t show it in the pic.

We’ve finished the first meal plan I shared on Friday, so we are now on month two.

We only deviated from Month one once and that was when we had sausages and mash instead of Toad in the hole so not a big difference.

I try to make sure we don’t have red meat too often, pasta and rice once a week, it’s easy to get sucked into having chips for dinner too frequently.

None of the children like fish, Not even fish fingers, my youngest is the only one would have eaten it except she’s been vegetarian since lent began so it’s off the menu for her anyway.

Last nights dinner was really simple and everyone enjoyed it although my fussy 17 year old picked out the spinach. I’ll leave the recipe in case anyone wants to try it! (Youngest daughter had Linda McCarney Sausages with the mash &veg)

Creamy Boursin Chicken with Mashed Potatoes sand Green Vegetables 

Ingredients:

Boneless chicken - any kind, I used 600g of mini fillets for 4 adults

1 Pack of Boursin with Garlic and Herbs

Splash of White Wine or 1 Stock Pot

1 White Onion diced

1 Clove of Garlic - crushed

80g Spinach

1tsp of Cornflour Diluted with a little water to thicken The sauce if needed

A little oil 

You can serve this with anything you fancy, I chose Mashed potatoes and broccoli, but sweet potato mash, rice or pasta would all go well with this dish.

Equipment:

A pan - I like to use a sauté pan as the lid helps to wilt the spinach right at the end

Wooden spoon

Method:

Set the job to around mark 7

Sweat the onion in a little oil (I use fry light)

Add the garlic and continue to cook for a minute or two.

Add the chicken and cook until browned.

Add the Boursin and stir, keep stirring until it melts and turns into the consistency of single cream.

Add the wine or stock pot

Put the lid on the pan and let it simmer for a few minutes this should thicken the sauce up, do stir occasionally to stop it catching on the bottom.

Empty the spinach on top of the mixture replace the lid and leave it until you see that the spinach has wilted.

At this point you can add the cornflour mixture if you are using one, give the pan a stir and it’s ready to serve! 

I had every intention of taking a quick photo but I was so hungry I forgot.

Chicken Talk.

Our little chicks are getting bigger, have you ever seen a Transylvanian Naked Neck Chick? We have two and they are really quite funny, beautiful in their own unique way, to me they look like a baby vulture - the ones with the red head.

Look at the size difference!