The WW Foodie

It's always easy to focus on the negative when, as that glorious Edward Gorey quote suggests, there is plenty to be cheerful about. ...

  Sometimes, life gets in the way of both blogging and dieting.  And sometimes, it is not so much life as me... I get in the way of it...

I can't remember how it first arose, but recently D and I decided to enter into a challenge.  We are neither of us particularly frugal i...

The weekend passed mainly in a blur of despair and giant flying reptiles as we binged on the latest series of Game of Thrones. Gah, the...

It's D's turn to design a low budget eating plan this week as we compete to see who can put together the cheapest, most deliciou...

My parents both celebrated a big birthday this year.  One of those ones where the number ends in a zero.  Whereas such events tend to mea...

This week's meal plan should be sub-titled "How low can you go?"  D and I have challenged each other to design a budget we...

I can never be entirely sure whether or not I like crab.  Sometimes, I just find it a little bit cloying. D, however, is a huge fan, and is ...

Happy Monday all!  Meal planning this week was a bit of a last minute affair and mainly borrows from our seemingly bottomless freezer.  ...

I think my cat fancies herself as a blogger.  There she was, curled up asleep in her radiator bed, and the second I opened my laptop she...

So, we bought a barbecue.  A beautiful, kettle style, Weber jobby.  We bought a barbecue, and the weather promptly took a dramatic tu...

Greetings everyone, and welcome to a more summery meal planning Monday than I can remember for a good long while.  The weather is, qui...

For all my bravado a few weeks ago, I have yet to go back to a Weight Watchers meeting.  I don't know why, but the thought of setting fo...

There are very few places in the world that I love as much as Whitby.  I've been visiting since I was a child and much of it has...

Funny old week this week - I've got an exam on Wednesday so am a little bit...distracted, shall we say.  As soon as that is finished...

I am a fully paid up, card carrying, unashamed chocoholic. Let's just get that out of the way first, shall we?  If there is a puddi...

I wasn't going to bother putting this one through the WW recipe builder, because frankly, there are some things that we are better ...

(A very special guest post today from my partner in [calorie] crime!  For previous Cheap Eats in Leeds posts see here and here ...) Hi, D...

After being a little OTT with our spend for Easter Sunday, D and I decided to reign it in for a couple of weeks.  Which has meant taking...

This is not really a recipe so much as telling you a list of ingredients to bung in a food processor and blitz to an inauspicious looking pa...

When playing host, D and I like nothing more than to feed people until they pop and wash said food down with as much wine as we can ply them...

For all that Easter is the arguably more significant religious festival (to Christians, at least) it is Christmas Dinner that has become the...

I hope, most fervently, that you all had chocolate for breakfast...or, at the very least, a hot cross bun. I'll be back soon with tale...

D and I are on a continuing mission to sniff out the best places to eat out in Leeds for under £15 a head.  Earlier this month, we headed to...

Much as I enjoy writing weekly meal planning posts, I am occasionally surprised when Monday rolls around and I realise that I haven'...