The WW Foodie

Ugh, I am so over 2019. I have spent much of the last few weeks feeling under the weather. Not ill enough to indulge myself like a proper in...

A disadvantage of being born in the period between Christmas and the New Year is that a lot of nice restaurants are shut. I mean, it’s n...

What is it about January 1st that makes us all think we will suddenly ditch our every bad habit and arise from the ashes of our previous fai...

It’s 2019 mes amies! And how has it started off for you? I am not going to spend my first meal planning post of the year whingeing so I’m ju...

As with most years, 2018 was like the curate’s egg – good in places.   For the most part, it involved a lot of keeping on keeping on.   Wor...

Seasons greetings to all! We are now in the period of the year where, if your household is anything like ours, you will be barely moving apa...

Mince pies and a filthy imposter! As I mentioned in my last post, my team at work had a mince pie bake off recently.  I toyed with a n...

I cannot believe that Christmas is almost upon us and I, for one, am nowhere near prepared.  How goes it for you, dearest readers? Most of ...

This is my take on a dish called panade, which, I must admit, I knew nothing about until I started to look for ways to use up some kale lurk...

I’m about to throw an empty packet away, and with it the instructions that I’ve been using to cook sushi rice. What is this blog, I ask...

I’ve had to switch my WW membership to online only for the time being. I’ve missed a number of meetings due to other commitments and was usi...

For D's 50th birthday we hoped that we would find somewhere pretty special to eat, but given that we were in an unknown city we had...

I think the best thing to do in Venice is just to wander the streets and soak up the atmosphere. It’s a bit like being on a film set; at tim...

Gah! I can’t believe that I have got to the end of another week and STILL have two Venice posts to finish not to mention various other half ...

Still deep in the post holiday blues, I didn’t get around to doing a meal planning post last week which is a real shame because it was a gre...

I actually wrote this post on Tuesday morning sitting outside the Doge’s palace but never got around to publishing it! Back home now and mor...

A slow cooker curry recipe is perfect for this time of year and this one, adapted from the BBC Food site, is lovely. Please, please do not b...

At least in diet blog land. It generally means that someone has fallen off the wagon and is sitting by the side of the road with chocolate r...

Before we get to pizza, I just wanted to post this pasta sauce recipe. It apparently was all the rage among food bloggers in oooh, 2010 or ...

Today is my brother’s birthday. Happy birthday D2! Fun fact - not only do my brother and my husband share the same first name, but I hav...

As I write this on Sunday afternoon, I am full of cold and feeling most grumpy about it. I do not feel ill exactly - certainly not poorly en...

It’s been a while since we had an update so let’s get straight to it: Weeks 1-4: -8.5lbs Week 5: -2lbs Week 6: -1lb Week 7: -1.5lbs We...

Greetings chickadees and I think it is safe to say that summer is well and truly over after a weekend which saw us a) light our fire every n...

Well, the scores are in and after shamefully missing not one but two weigh ins, and consuming more points over this last weekend than a good...

On Monday, D and I celebrated our 7th wedding anniversary. And of course we did so by spending an entire weekend indulging our appetite for ...