What is your favourite wartime recipe?

Candy Apples- A 1940′s Halloween Treat? CLICK HERE for recipe I have a FREE weekend (so far…except for Halloween and grocery shopping) This means I get to catch up on a whole lot of cooking with at LEAST a few different recipes as for every lb I lose I’ll re-create a wartime recipe on my [...]

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Week 12 weigh in – 3 lbs off!

Being attacked by dogs and high school children and rapidly running out of time before having to leave for work (and I still have to pluck my chin hairs) so just a very quick update for now.. A day late with my weigh in this week but it’s very good news- 3 lb off!!! I’ll [...]

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Being less fat means you can do stuff…

Today I marched for climate change…. if this event had taken place just three months earlier I would have had to have shown my support from just the confines of my home hooked up to my lap top computer. I am discovering that being less fat gives you more choices. I may have only lost [...]

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Week 11 weigh in – down another 2 lb!

Start weight: 315 lbs (22 st 7 lb) Last weeks weight: 287 lbs (20st 07 lb) This weeks weight: 285 lbs (20st 05 lb) Week 11 weight loss: 2 lbs TOTAL weight loss to date: 30 lb (Yay! 2 stone 2 lbs) I admit to weighing myself earlier this week and I was already down [...]

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The big feed – invited to lunch.

Eating away from home when you are trying to stick 100% to something like I am doing can be quite challenging, especially when you are invited to lunch.. This past weekend was VERY busy for me..and for once the children took a back seat. On Saturday I enjoyed a day helping Dave down at the Mahone [...]

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Getting rid of THE biggest black pants…

I will remember today as a significant one.. October 16, 2009 was the day I cast aside THE BIGGEST BLACK PANTS (the ones that have been falling down) I have ever worn in my life and put on a slightly smaller pair of BIG BLACK PANTS…. I wanted to stamp on the pants to within [...]

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The Story of the Wobbly Bits (part 1)

As a teenager I always perceived myself as chubby but in reality my weight of 145-160 lbs for a 5 ft 6 inch lass was pretty average. You know what it’s like though. As a teen you are full of insecurities.. Then about 18 years ago the weight started to increase significantly. I had already [...]

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Apple Crumble

Monday was thanksgiving and I prepared a simple and modest slap up meal (that’s a contradiction in terms if ever I heard one!) No slap up meal is complete without the obligatory pudding/dessert and this is essential in creating that bloated  ’I-NEED-THE-COUCH-RIGHT-NOW-BEFORE-I-POP’ feeling that all good celebration meals should create.. I WAS going to make [...]

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Week 10 weigh in – another 2 lb off!

Start weight: 315 lbs (22 st 7 lb) Last weeks weight: 289 lbs (20st 09 lb) This weeks weight: 287 lbs (20st 07 lb) Week 10 weight loss: 2lbs TOTAL weight loss to date: 28lb (Yay! 2 stone) Well it’s the first time in my life that I have lost weight so slowly and steadily [...]

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Bread stuffing

I don’t suppose there was much meat to stuff during wartime 1940′s unless you were lucky enough to live in the country and raise your own animals BUT people did raise backyard chickens and turkeys as well as rabbits and I guess these would have been raised for special occasions like Christmas and thanksgiving.. Our [...]

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