The WW Foodie

If you have ever travelled up to York or Harrogate, you may well be familiar with Betty’s Tea Rooms. The York branch was never without a qu...

You were promised a Meal Planning Monday and, my friends, you shall HAVE a Meal Planning Monday. Not that I flatter myself that the majorit...

I think that we might need to up our game with the meal planning a little bit as neither this week nor last week have I felt inspired to blo...

When we last saw our heroine, she was looking forward to a lazy weekend resting her poorly foot (or paw as Lesley called it – I much prefer ...

This week has seemed very long and, as I write this on Friday afternoon, I am looking forward to a weekend of doing very little. I managed...

I managed a 4lb loss this week following the 5:2 plan. That’s a pretty satisfying result for any first week back, but doubly so when you co...

So firstly – news from the scales. Today I weighed in after my first full week, post-Christmas, on 5:2 and recorded… (drum roll please…) a ...

Happy new year lovely blog readers! Sorry for the delay in getting back to you, I basically decided to do the square root of FA over the Ch...

2016 proved a bad year to be a celebrity or, indeed, a fan of democracy. But leaving all of that aside, the really important issue is what ...

I'm braising red cabbage at the moment, which is filling the house with a very (for me) Christmassy scent. I make this recipe pretty mu...

I am unclear as to when a stew ceases to be a stew and becomes a tagine. I'm calling this a stew, despite the obviously Moroccan influen...

Coming into the holiday period, with far more social engagements popping up than is usual, it is going to be tough over the next few weeks t...

I write this from the living room which has been festooned with fairy lights and currently boasts not one but TWO Christmas trees. Joy. Th...

If I still included Weight Watchers points at the bottom of the recipes on here, this one would probably stand at eleventy million.  There i...

It's December everybody!  We're already five days into our Advent Calendar, and the countdown to Christmas is well and truly on - hu...

I need to start handwriting accounts of our foodie adventures when (or just after) they occur.  I could buy myself a new notebook for the pu...

There’s only so many times that you can make grand announcements about starting back on the dieting wagon and have people take you seriousl...

Well, here we are, Monday again. The weeks slip by depressingly quickly. I have lots to say but my blogging mojo has been a wee bit lacking ...

I have Paris themed posts to share with you; they currently lurk, slightly disconsolately in my drafts folder waiting for a bit of final TLC...

So here I am in Paris. Bonjour! We arrived yesterday, after a mercifully brief flight from Manchester airport. Good lord, but I hate fl...

This week it was Bonfire Night in the U.K. An occasion on which we celebrate, through the respective mediums of bonfires and fireworks, the ...

It's D's birthday week! On Sunday, the big day, we are off to Whitby. We will walk to the end of both piers and visit the arca...

Meanwood, a suburb to the North of Leeds, has been undergoing something of a middle-classifying since Waitrose opened a branch here several ...

A shamefully long time ago, on arriving back from our Scottish trip, this was waiting on my doorstep. Not literally, you underst...

We've just booked ourselves a long weekend in Paris in November and I could not be more excited. It's been ages since I last visited...