meal plan....

hay loves

hay all i do my weekly meals from Thursday to Thursday as that's the days we get our shopping money we budget "50 for each week that includes bathroom things and kitchen and washing bits ext.... not very often we go over our budget. so here are the meals Ive planned for this week 17/01-24/01

 

Meals

Thur - sausage casserole

fri - carbonara

sat - homemade pizza

sun - easy chicken and chips

mon - beef and ale stew with roasties

tue - leftover stew in pie crust with pots

wed - basque chicken

thur - sausage pasta

 

well here are some pics of some of the meals we have already had this week I'm most looking forward to the beef and ale stew with roasties it sounds so yummy this week on food shopping i spent just under £33 so the leftover money is for a small treat at the end of the week.

 

our carbonara was so yummie and so cheep cant believe i use to pay about £8 for this when we when on date nights

 

Taylor loved this she loves anything cheesy with sauce lol

 

i had no time the other day to cook i just had too much to do but i wanted to stick to the meal plan so here's what i did

 

browned my sausages in a pan and bunged them in the slow cooker with a chopped onion and some beef stock enough to just cover that sausages then placed a layer of foil over the top an wrapped two large potatoes in more foil and placed them on top popped the lid on and cooked on high for 4 hours when i get home it was all cooked and yummy all i did then was turn the cooker to low take out my jackets and popped them in the oven for 20mins to crisp up while i boiled some peas and carrots easy yummy and almost all in one pot and little effort was nice to come home to after i had been out in the cold all day and Taylor loved it she wolfed it down.

 

 

thanks for reading guys and dolls

 



homemade recipes......(book rieview)

hay lovies

hope you had a holly jolly Christmas and the big guy got you everything you wanted. we had a lovely day with lots of mess giggling films and food what more could you want hay hehe.

 

i got a book this year off my mummy and I'm so excited to use it if you don't already know i love cook books i love looking at the photos and seeing how yummie and easy everything is too cook well this year coming (2013) I'm going to try and cook everything in this cook book.

 

 

things i love about this book....

my favourite thing about this book is it is full of everyday easy to cook simple meals. like meals you would eat everyday. tuna pasta bake, roast chicken,homemade fish cakes and carbonare are just a few recipes I'm excited to learn how to cook properly (not just my bang stuff together and it it tastes how i think it should then its good) cooking properly is one think I'm really interested in i want to be able to feed my family health home cooked yummieness

 

 i love how each page has a cute little border and big pictures and it has the 1,2,3..... sections so you don't have to keep reading the same parts over and over because you've lost your place. (I'm forever doing that) this list of ingredients is neat and tidy and always layed out the same on each page.

 



i made my own jam last September and it lasted us until the following June it was so yummie too i made black berry jam and this year I'm going to try making a few different flavours. also i wanna make apple sauce to give to Taylor as her pudding its so easy and Ive not given it her since she was about 9months old if i remember right she loved it. also shows you how to make marmalade Ive never tried this and it looks so yummie.

Ive also never been able to make roasties properly i always cheat and par boil the potatoes then dunk them in the fryer so I'm looking forward to giving this one a try look how good them roasties look. as part of this I'm going to be comparing the meals from the book to how mine look in real life haha as Ive always found that the photos in the book never look as good as the final product i come out with in the end.  i thought it would be fun

so overall i love this book i also like the opening line on the back cover "this is a wonderful collection of traditional, tasty recipes, full of fail-safe favourites and warming comfort food" hehe as i read this i was thinking this is so made for me. so wish me luck with this project i hope i can keep it up.

thanks for reading guys and dolls

p.s how cute is this its one of the little extras that are on each page...

 

 



 





what i ate today........

hay sweeties

i thought it would be a fun post to show you what Ive eaten in a day cause anyone that knows me knows i love food ha ha. if you like this post leave me a comment i will make it a regular thing might give people ideas about what to make maybe. also i will do a what my toddler ate Tuesday let me know if that sounds good too.

 

so for breakfast today i had rolled oats cooked with milk with banana honey and a little sugar cause i like my breakfast sweet. i love porridge it can be eaten in so many different ways with so many different fruits and it always keeps me full until dinner. i find it really hard to keep myself full i got in to the habit of eating when i am bored and as of right  now i am trying to get out of this habit because i know its no good for me. plus oats are so cheap we get a big bag for 75p and they last us at least 3 weeks so all in all i love porridge. i want to try and make some oaty muffins to try and get Taylor eating more oats and fruit she likes fruit but some days its so hard to get her to eat any any one know any tricks?

 

for lunch i had half a scotch egg and prawn cocktail with boiled egg tomatoes and cucumber on whole grain bread it was scrummy they used to sell prawns and boiled egg sandwiches where i used to work and my mum use to have them all the time. me i didn't like the look of them until one day she got me to try one and oh gosh i fell in love if you've not tried it please do its so good. i couldn't find prawns on there own in my local shop so i used prawn cocktail and it was just as good the sauce make it even better i think. I'm also not enjoying white bread that much at the moment. i think Ive ate too much of it. but I'm discovering my love for whole grain again. some times you just need a change things get samie other wise.

 for tea we had chicken wrapped in bacon stuffed with soft cheese this was so good with chicken flavor rice and a big yummie salad. i don't eat many salads in the winter i always feel like comfort food so this was a nice change from what we have been having the past few weeks

 

thanks for reading guys and dolls

 

 

 



yummie goodies......

hay curvy lovelies

so this week we have been eating home cooked meals every night and its been so nice and cosy cuddled up in the evening with a big plate of yummy filling food. i made a scrummy chicken pot pie made the pie crust all by myself too it was so nice and we made so much we had the same the next day i found the recipe on candid mommy her youtube is amazing and Jen and her family are so much fun i love how much cooking she does it makes me want to cook more.

 

 

so yummie and so filling but next time I'm not using tined carrots on the side they were not so yummie

 

i also popped gammon in with my chicken for more flavor

 

me and Taylor also made double choc muffins these were so good i ate about 3 in one day naughty i know but ill live

Taylor and mark loved them too but there are still some left as they made about 16 from the mix i found this recipe on you tube again clairelou09011988 i love watching Claire as she is a fluffy bum loving home and children loving lady from the UK i don't know many youtubers from the UK x

 

any who this was a lovely meal and i hope you try the recipes out

thanks for reading guys and dolls

 

 



meal plan monday.........

hay lovelies  

Ive been planing my weekly meals for a few months now and Ive saved so much money so why not show you all how i do it and what we eat all week this week I'm using a ready made template from Mine for the Making  this week we are having lots of chicken cause i got it from the butcher for £10 for 10 breasts super good deal  going back there next week to get our meat again. i only really plan dinner for everyday as we usualy have something like butties or soup or wraps for dinner we have all this stuff left over from last week as we got lots last week.

this week we spent £33 on food we do have the basics like flour, eggs and breakfast cereal and a little bit of fruit in as we always have things like that in usually left over from the week before haha

tonight i make  roast chicken but cheated they has no stuffing when i went shopping we shop at Aldi just in case you were wondering and also the butchers. next week will be a bit more of a mix of things not just chicken but as we love chicken we don't mind.

 

(btw they are  roasties but ive changed my oil in my frying pan)

 

 

i make all my own sauces for the pasta and the casserole and pasta bake and always make my own dumplings and pie crust its easy saves money and means we are not putting all the ready make crap in to our bodies and in case your thinking what does Taylor eat she eats what we eat just smaller plate full

thanks for reading guys and dolls

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get to know me better...............

1. Full Name - amy louise cooper

2. Zodiac sign - cancer
3. Three things i fear - harm to my daughter, Dying alone, rats.
4. Thee things i love. - romance,hair,glitter.
6. four turn off’s - bad breath, farting during 4 play,smelling bad, toe nails.
7. Best Friend - Emma and Hayley
8. Sexual Orientation - bisexual
9. My Best First Date - movies then chatting and for getting time it was lovely

10. how tall am i - 5ft7"
11. what do i miss - being careless
12. what time i was born - 6am ish i think

13. Fav Colour - Purple
14. Do i have a crush - Yes yes i do
15. Fav Quote - if your a bird im a bird
16. Fav Place - liverpool.
17. Fav Food - italian.
18. do i use sarcasm - me? of course not…
19. what am i listening to right now? -  biggest fan by nevershoutnever
20. First thing i notice in a new person - eyes and lips
21. Shoe Size - 6
22. Eye Colour - mix of green blue and brown
23. Hair Colour - rose red
24. Fav style of clothing - anything i dont have one style
25. Ever done a prank call - yeah
26. what colour underwear im wearing right now - blue and pink panties

27. Meaning behind my URL - curvy girl that makes things
28. Fav Movie - the notebook

29 - Fav Song -  all that ive got by the used
30. Fav Band - the used, nevershoutnever,cute is what we aim for
31. how i feel right now - tired

32. Someone i love…- my mr marky.
33. Current Realtionship Staus - taken
34. realtionship with my folks- nether of them wanna know (im fine with this)
35. Fav Holiday - never been but id love to go to new york

36. Tattoo and piercings i have. - 8 tattoos and 6 piercings.
37. Tattoo’s and pericings i want - not sure as ive only just had two tattoos

38. Last Book i read.. - my sisters keeper

39. do i ever get ”good morning” or ”good night texts” - nope i dont use a phone
40. have i kissed the last person i text - well yeah as when i did use a phone my last text was mark
41. when did i last hold hands - today

42. how long does it take me to get ready in the morning - 15-30 minutes.
43. have i shaved my legs in the past few days - yeeep
44. where am i right now - on the sofa

45. if i was drunk and couldnt stand who would look after me.. - my other hald and my friends they always have my back

47. do i like my music loaad or a normal level - depends on my mood

hope you all know me better <3