The WW Foodie

Today is my birthday. I awoke to a text from my brother telling me not to feel too bad about approaching 40. Which might have bothered a les...

Cats, books, life is good 2015 has not always been a very easy year.  In fact, at times, it has been downright unpleasant.  I can't ...

Although this is not the last Monday of 2015, it is likely to be the last meal plan.  In fact, one week today is my birthday so I will be lo...

Being a terribly sad spreadsheet obsessive, I keep a record during the year of our evening meals. Not all of them, just the ones that we wou...

This year we were lucky enough to go to not one but two 2* Michelin restaurants.   While Michelin is certainly not the be all and end all, t...

I have been suffering with a hacking cough and a crackling chest for over a week now and I'm officially bored.  I sound like a consumpti...

So those little monkeys over at Weight Watchers have decided to change the plan again, just a few years on from the “Pro Points” re-vamp.   ...

I am intrigued by the increasing number of bloggers (and I follow a lot of people – foodie, beauty, random…) who have been posting Christma...

Are we allowed to talk about Christmas yet?  Are we?  It's practically December so I think that's OK.  In the last week or so I'...

I suspect that I was a bear in a previous existence.  Or a hedgehog.  Or a squirrel.  Some sort of woodland animal, the kind who likes to s...

And so to winter.  I loved the crisp cold of this weekend, especially since for most of it I was toasty warm inside and pottering around the...

British food in general has managed to get itself some pretty good PR in recent years and, as a result, the famous edict that to eat well i...

I don’t think that I ever met a sandwich that I didn’t like.  Not all sandwiches are created equal, obviously, and the slightly flabby, pre...

Nigel Slater recently criticised the term foodie.  I like his quote that food should be “something to be quietly enjoyed rather than put o...

It goes without saying that thoughts and prayers are with the people of Paris today.  Maybe it is trite to continue blogging about “What I’m...

There are certain dishes that are never going to be particularly photogenic.  And, as readers of this blog know, I have a way of making eve...

I don’t think that I have ever mentioned Friends of Ham on here and that is very remiss of me because if you were to find yourself ...

Well, another week another meal planning Monday.  And what a miserable Monday it is!  Grey, wet, windy - AND our office didn't have any ...

We've been wanting to go to Restaurant Sat Bains since the early days of Great British Menu when we witnessed him make an amazing slow ...

While we primarily went Nottingham-wards in order to have dinner at Restaurant Sat Bains (an early birthday present from the parents - thank...

My attitude to Weight Watchers this month has been, in common with most of the rest of the year, that I could not give a flying firkin. ...