Any SINGLES on a budget that will try to diet on the cheapfrom January 2012?

Sharon87

up at 1:53am? I beat that 6am. Now I'm up for work at 8am. Just watched NASCAR. My body will probably hate me in a couple hours. It's not good for metabolism, but I didn't care, last night's race was truly mental. Montoya crashing into a jet dryer and causing a huge fire!

sock-knitter

hi everyone, can i join in please?
i live alone, so budget and cooking for one, and also trying to lose weight are my aims
i have lost 8pounds in the last 4 weeks, but i'm getting really bored now, and had a box of maltesers on sunday nite, and fish and chips for tea last night
so from today i will try and be good
todays weight is 13 stone 4pounds

shaz x

pinkneonmartini

Hi all,

can I join too please????

I've just moved into my own place and without my mum or mrs around to cook for me I'm struggling a bit. Food has quickly become my biggest expense.

I was doing really well at keeping costs down by eating porridge and cereals with skimmed milk, but even the fat content in this set off my gallstones If anyone knows a fat free alternative to milk that I can use, please let me know! But otherwise I'm getting my head round it slowly. I find the supermarket "3 for £10" meat offers are brilliant, because if I roast off a chicken the meat will last me 4 meals & the the carcass and juices are boiled up with mushrooms for a quick soup that will make atleast 2 portions, so thats 6 meals from 1 chicken!!!!

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

You can make porridge with water - I do.

It's best when you leave the oats to soak overnight, then you just need to warm them through, as well, so no standing over it for five minutes stirring - just about 60 seconds of wooden spoon action and it's done (or a few seconds in the microwave).

gettingready

Hello SockKnitter and PinkOneMartini - you are more than welcome in our little madhouse...

Pls have a look at https://www.myfitnesspal.com where most of us track the weight loss... my username there is Anna_43, if you PM me yours will add you as friends and we can watch each other

Yup was up at stupid time, at 4am out with the dog, then ... my timings are all over the place, will be a struggle to get back into a NORMAL routine when I start the new job... sigh......

pinkneonmartini

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

You can make porridge with water - I do.

It's best when you leave the oats to soak overnight, then you just need to warm them through, as well, so no standing over it for five minutes stirring - just about 60 seconds of wooden spoon action and it's done (or a few seconds in the microwave).

does soaking the oats overnight stop the wall paper paste effect? every time iv tried using water it just turns to glue?

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

pinkneonmartini wrote: »

does soaking the oats overnight stop the wall paper paste effect? every time iv tried using water it just turns to glue?

Sounds like you are either not adding enough water or you're boiling the wotsits out of it.

I usually do 2 parts water to one part oats. If you don't want it so thick, add more water. And heat it gently - that way you won't boil all the moisture away.

Stirring with a wooden spoon releases the creaminess as well. And bigger flakes have more texture than the dinky little fine ground ones.



(I originally started making it with oat milk until it dawned on me 2 weeks later that oat milk is made in exactly the same way. Never bothered after that)

saverholic

Hello to the newbies :wave:

well had my pitta 'pizzas' yesterday. Yum. Will confess they turned out to be more like paninis than pizzas but were delicious.

I carefully sliced into them, put a thin layer of tomato puree and hot sauce. Layered thinly with sliced mushroom and spring onion and then carefully pushed some grated cheese inside. Popped it into a toaster bag and into the toaster. Really really good. Plus point is that pitta bread are cheeeaapp.

Managed to make it to the large outdoor market. Veg was much cheaper there but some of the quality was not so good. Gave up on the strawberries when I couldn't find a punnet without mould *yuk*

gettingready

00:42 - I am HUNGRY

gettingready

Ok, I am grazing......



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