I’m a bit late writing this as yesterday we travelled to Spain, we left home at 4am on Sunday morning, which left us feeling pretty disorientated for the rest of the day. I woke this morning to a beautiful sunny day, I feel very blessed to have this wonderful bolt-hole in the sun and pinch myself every time I’m here. Last week was another busy week, the builders are now on site so I’ve been contending with some additional mud, mainly from Woody, our Jack Russell, who, after running around...
Week 16
Wow, four months in and I’m still shopping locally for all my food! Unfortunately, I had to go to a supermarket this week; we needed boring stuff like toothbrushes, bleach, washing up liquid, cleaning cloths etc. And because we have the builders here now for the next few months I bought a big box of t-bags (they requested Yorkshire Tea) and coffee. I chose the local Co-op as it’s a small shop and on the middle of an estate, which means that it helps lots of people who might be a bit less...
Salad Jars
Beautiful looking tasty jars of salad, make it your own and pop in the fridge. Everyone else is sure to have food envy!
Good bread is my ultimate convenience food
I don’t know about you, but when I was a kid we had bread with pretty much every meal. Then along came the low-carb fad diets and my intake of bread was drastically reduced. In recent years, I’ve made my own bread: but honestly, it takes flipping ages, and usually by the time its proved, proved again, baked and cooled all my enthusiasm has gone, and I’ve consumed at least two meals! I’m delighted to be able to say that we still only eat home baked bread, but it’s no longer me that’s doing...
Posh Noodles in a Pot
A posh pot of noodles for lunch, healthy and easy. I would love to hear your favourite combination.
Week 15
This week started with the amazing Lichfield Food Festival, over 60,000 people visited our little city over the bank holiday weekend. We had a fab time on the Monday and came home with a bag full of goodies, although that did mean we ended up eating scotch eggs for breakfast, pork pies for lunch and meat pies for dinner for a few days, not that I’m complaining, but my waistband did groan a bit. You can read about my day at the show here. I picked up some healthy organic chicken breasts from...
Week 14
So far it’s been a beautiful bank holiday weekend, I hope you are all enjoying it as much as me. it’s been a busy weekend which started on Friday with a lovely sunny brunch at Faro to celebrate my friends birthday earlier in the week. We then travelled up to friends in Leeds for the evening and on to York Races on Saturday, it was a great day at the races, the weather and company was perfect. Then a delicious meal afterwards at The Star in the City, which I can’t take credit for booking: my...
Week 13
I finally managed to make it to an Indian supermarket this week, I ended up in Walsall at Johal Supermarket, the main reason was that they had parking!! But I was impressed by the range of products on sale and will definitely be there again soon. I managed to buy loads of dry and tinned beans and pulses, but not only that; they had proper shopping trolleys and basics such as cling film and washing powder. I was blown away by the range of really interesting fresh produce they had too, so...
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