Ratatouille Bake

I didn't take a photo! It looked amazing, you'll just have to believe me when I say this :).

So in my fridge I had 2 courgettes, an aubergine and Greek yogurt (among other things) but I kept thinking that I wanted to do something with them. First I found a recipe for ratatouille, but then I kept thinking about this aubergine bake I had a couple of weeks ago so I decided to mix the two!

Ingredients
1 Aubergine chopped
2 Courgettes chopped
2 Tins of tomatoes
200g Greek yogurt
50g Cheese grated
1/2 red onion chopped
Splash of ground nut oil

Fry the onion in the ground nut oil in a frying pan. Then add the courgette and the aubergine, sweat down before adding the two tins of tomatoes plus any spices (I added Worcestershire sauce and chili). Then place this into a baking dish and top with greek yogurt mixed with the grated cheese. Then bake in the oven at 200C for about 20 minutes.

I served mine with a sweet potato :) This also made enough for three meals :D

Nutritional Info
186 Calories
13g Protein
14g total Carbs

Sausage Casserole

There is already one sausage casserole recipe on here, but this one is slightly different...not very, but a little bit.

Today I had my last exam! I'm at work all day tomorrow then I need to start clearing my flat out as we're moving out this year (so sad), so it hasn't quite hit me yet that I really don't have anything to do anymore. But I wanted something yummy and warm for tea to celebrate :)

I didn't take a photo, but it did look amazing, but very similar to all the other sausage cassroles I've made :)

Ingredients (serves 2)

4 reduced fat sausages

2 carrots

1 onion

Handful of mushrooms

Can of chopped tomatoes

Can of haricot beans - drained

1 garlic clove

Drizzle of olive oil

100mL chicken or veg stock

2 baked potatoes

1. Grill your sausages until sealed, then set aside - do this as you're doing the rest really.

2. With the oil, fry your onion, garlic, mushrooms and carrot until soft, then add them to your casserole dish

3. Add in the tomatoes, beans and stock, and chop up your sausages and add them, too. Season well.

4. Bake for 20 minutes with a lid, then take off the lid and continue baking for 15 minutes.

We served ours with bake potatoes :D

Nutritional Info

662 Calories

8.2g Total fat

104.5g Total carbs

19.2g Fibre

39.3g Protein

147.5% Vitamin A

Vegetable Pasta Bake

This is a very yummy pasta bake, it's full of vitamins (200% your GDA of vitamin C) it also has your entire recommended daily allowance for fibre (though I tend to aim for 20g, per serving this has 14g). It's very easy to do, and requires very little effort, which is ideal for me, what with being a student and all :).

Ingredients (to serve 2)
3 handfuls of dried pasta
1 courgette
1 red pepper
2 tomatoes
1 onion
1 crushed garlic clove
handful of frozen green beans and peas
200mL vegetable stock
some grated cheese

Boil your pasta, and while that's going, chop up your onion, courgette, pepper and tomatoes and grate some cheese. Then fry your onion and garlic until soft, before added in everything but the cheese. Simmer for about ten minutes, then drain you pasta and mix with your vegetables before adding to an oven proof dish. Cover with cheese and bake for 30-35 minutes.

I used full fat cheese, because I think it melts nicer, but you could use low fat cheese to reduce the calories. Also, if you dry fry your ingredients you'll reduce the calories too. But you need a little fat in your diet, so I generally cook using just a little bit of oil.

Nutritional Info (per serving)
475 Calories
25.7g total fat
14g fibre
24.3g protein
116% vitamin A
274.4% vitamin C

Raspberry Smoothie

This was so yummy, but a bit seedy, good for brekkie though :)

Ingredients
1 cup frozen raspberries
1 tinned pear
1/2 cup coconut milk
1/2 cup raspberry/cranberry juice
1 tablespoon wheat bran
1 peach yogurt pot

Nutritional Info
219 calories
2.9g fat
37.4g total carbs
8.0g fibre
8.3g protein



For lunch I found this amazing recipe on the Be Food Smart app and made it for me and Rob.
2 slices of brown toast, 1 onion, green pepper and tomato chopped and grilled. Then top the toast with the grilled veg, add a little cheese and grill again :D. 207 calories per portion.

I also went to the gym today, cycled for 20 minutes, did some interval walking/running on the treadmill then did a ton of weights. Then me and Rob went for a 30 minute walk.

And I weighed myself. I've lost another 4lbs :)

Sausage Casserole

I'm going to see The Rocky Horror Picture Show tonight at Sunderland Empire, and I'm so excited! I have my costume - Columbia - which I made myself. Plus it's been cold lately, so me and Rob wanted something warm, but filling, so we wouldn't want to snack in the theater.

This recipe is something I've come up with myself, taking inspiration from a few recipes on the Be Food Smart website, but adjusting them accordingly for what we have in our cupboards and coming up with this :).

Ingredients for 2 people
4 reduced fat sausages
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 onion - chopped
1 crushed garlic clove
1 apple cored and chopped (keep the skin on)
Can of chopped tomatoes
Can of haricot beans
1 tablespoon tomato puree
2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
2 teaspoon dried mixed herbs
pinch of black pepper

Cook your sausages under the grill, and in the meantime, heat up a pan with the oil in and fry the onion and garlic, until the onion is tender.
Then add all the other ingredients and cook through for about 15-20 minutes - or until the sausages are cooked under the grill.
Chop up the sausages into quarters then add to the pan and cook for a further few minutes.
We served ours with sweet potatoes.

Nutritional Info (per portion)
480 calories
12.6g total fat
65.4g total carbs
15.9g fibre
28.4g protein
438.9% vitamin A
48.4% vitamin C
6% calcium
7.4% iron

Lunch Time!

Not having a smoothie for lunch, but having something equally as healthy to use up some of the shit in my fridge.

So it's lettuce, a tomato, half a tin of tuna, some tinned sweetcorn and mayonnaise :D


Nutritional Info
170 calories
16.8g total carbs
4.6g fibre
21.4g protein
20.5% vitamin A
26% vitamin C

Sausage, Tomato and Butter Bean Bake

Using the app I downloaded, the one from the healthy living people, me and my finace are making this amazing looking bake for tea :D

Ingredients
4 Sausages
1 can chopped tomatoes
1 can butter beans
1 chopped onion
Olive oil
Sage

Brown the sausages under the grill, then set aside on a plate for later.
Add oil to a frying pan and on a low heat fry the onions and sage until the onions are soft but not brown. Then add the tin of tomatoes and simmer for about 5 minutes until thickened, keep stirring occasionally.
Then pop the tomato mix in a oven proof dish, add in the butter beans (drained and rinsed) and mix in. Then hide the sausages in the mix.
Cook in the oven at 180C (Gas mark 4) for about 15-20 minutes.

I served ours with mashed potatoes, but you could just leave it as is or serve with boiled veg or something.

Nutritional Info
412 Calories
18.0g Fat
38.9g Total carbs
7.4g Fibre
31.9% Vitamin C
13.5% Iron

It was so tasty! I can't even describe how good it was. Definitely doing this one again :)

Roasted Vegetable Soup

Afternoon. I've just spent 2 hours cleaning my flat in preparation for people coming over to see if they want to rent it. It is now spotless, and I'm intending for it to stay this way.
Rob's gone to his exam, and the snow's started again - yippy.

Need something warm for my lunch, so I'm having a dabble at a home made soup. Like all these smoothies, I'm making it up as I go, unless I say where I got the recipe from - so everything on here is my own.

Ingredients
1 carrot - peeled, chopped and boiled
1 onion chopped
2 tomatoes chopped
Little bit of Worcestershire sauce
Bit of salt and pepper for taste
and as much boiling water as you want

Pop the chopped tomatoes and onions on a baking tray and slam in the oven on high until all nice as soft/roasted. While they're cooking, boil the carrot. Then shove all of it into the blender with a little Worcestershire sauce and blitz until smooth.
Then add however much water you want until it's as thick or smooth as you like :D

I also had two slices of bread with mine, so that's included in the calorie count.

Nutritional Info
255 Calories
9.2g Fibre
10.2g Protein
199.2% Vitamin A
54.8% Vitamin C
6.6% Iron

Dinner Time!

Time for some proper food. Home made pasta bake - yay!
I found this recipe on the BBC Goodfood website, and I'm tweaking it a bit, since I don't have all the ingredients.

Ingredients (serves 2)
3 decent handfuls of pasta
1 chopped onion
1 tin of chopped tomatoes
Couple of splashes of Worcestershire sauce (Lee and Perins)
50g grated cheese
Peas and broccoli

Cook the onion in a frying pan, then add the tomatoes, a pinch of sugar and the Lee and Perins.
Meanwhile, boil the broccoli and peas, and the pasta (in separate pans)
Then pop it all in a dish, sprinkle over the cheese, and pop under the grill for about 10 minutes :D
This was sooo tasty. Not too much sauce, but plenty of veg. Total calorie intake of the day (including shape delights yogurt and some special K crisps) 960 calories.

Nutritional Info (per serving)
501 Calories
22g Fat
5g Fiber