Quiche

The sun has been shining in Manchester over the weekend and I fancied something other than my usual salad, so I made Slimming World quiche. It turned out so well that I thought I’d share the recipe with you.

Ingredients:
-Your choice of superfree veggies. I used one small onion, one pepper and two handfuls of mixed frozen veg;
-150g of low fat cottage cheese;
-3 eggs;
-Salt and pepper.

Method:

1)      Dry-fry your vegetables of choice.  

2)      In a separate bowl mix together the 3 eggs and 150g cottage cheese (make sure you check the syns before you purchase your cottage cheese).

3)      Add salt and pepper to both the veggies and the cottage cheese mix;

4)      Put the chopped vegetables in an oven-proof flan dish -- also known as a sandwich dish -- and pour the cottage cheese mix onto it;

5)      Set the oven to gas mark 5 and cook for 30 minutes until the quiche is golden brown.

Your quiche should slip out of the dish onto the plate.

Here’s one I made earlier...

 
I found this was really tasty (despite the fact that I don’t usually like quiche) and next time I plan to experiment with a bit of bacon and some mushrooms.

I definitely recommend this for a summer’s day. Five out of five!

My progress…

Hello, 

I'm sorry I have been quiet of late, I have been taking pictures of things to blog about, but I haven’t actually sat down to write anything for a while.

As I have been away for a bit, I thought I’d update you all on my progress:

Weigh in 5: -5lb

Weigh in 6: -1.5lb

Weigh in 7: -maintain

Weigh in 8: +0.5lb

Weight in 9: -4lb

Weigh in 10: -0.5lb

Weigh in 11: -2.5lb

I have now lost a total of 1^st1.5lb this year and 3st1.5lb in total! I have been trying various recipes and activities to help me along, which I will share with you over the coming weeks.

Losing 1^st1.5lb in 2012 also means that I can now wear my two weight loss treats… I bought these two items from Tatty Devine when I was last in London. I told myself that the owl would be my half stone treat and that the bunting would be my 1 stone treat.

It was quite nice because the bunting got its first outing last Friday when The Queen was visiting Manchester. I felt ever so patriotic!

 

I have also decided on my 1^st 7lb treat -- this is also from Tatty, but it's part of the special Selfridges 'Word' collection:

 

Let’s hope I get there soon!

xxx

Help needed

Okay, its confession time… I had a very bad weekend food-wise. By bad weekend, I mean bad. On Friday, after having a Slimming World friendly breakfast and lunch, I consumed the following:

• One ham sandwich on white bread 
• 6 pints of beer 
• Half a bottle of medium wine 
• About 10 items from a sharing platter – including pitta bread, breaded mushrooms and deep fried rubbish 
• 1 packet of jelly beans 
• 1 packet of cheese and onion McCoy crisps
• 1 sausage butty (they were syntactic sausages).

…Oh dear. That looks so bad in black and white, but it gets worse… 

Not content with ruining my Friday. I went on to eat the following on Saturday:

• 1 Greggs tuna crunch baguette 
• 1 packet of cheese and onion squares 
• A lot of random crap at my friend’s house -- including Haribo, salt and sweet popcorn, Doritos, hummus, Tahini Dip, Pringles…

Now I have managed to turn it around and Sunday, Monday and Tuesday (today) have been Slimming World friendly.

However, I am missing this week’s weigh in as I am in London with work between Wednesday and Thursday. Missing weigh in is far from ideal, but I am also worried about being let loose in London on expenses and completely blowing the diet.

I have thought of a few things I can do to help prevent a meltdown. Here are my ideas:

• Take sachets of porridge with me and have these, topped with fruit as for breakfasts. I can cook these in the office each day  
• Go to the local deli and ask for a plain baked potato, with beans and an undressed side salad for lunch 
• Take some Mug Shots along for a quick, easy and filling Slimming World snack 
• Go to Pizza Express for my tea. Pizzas in the Leggera range have 12.5 syns in them 
• Use the hotel gym on both nights 
• Make sure I stick to diet coke and don’t hit the wine. It all goes wrong when wine is added into the equation… 

I would love to go back to class next week with another 5lb loss. That would equate to 2.5lb a week. Obviously, after my weekend slips it may not be possible, but it is something to aim for.

Has anybody got any hints, tips or fast food ideas that might help me along?