I love to go out for a meal at least once a week but my other half started telling me it was a waste of money so we stopped going as much until i started to receive the emails from www.myvouchercodes.co.uk and www.vouchercodes.co.uk with loads different discount vouchers each week.

All you have to do is fill in some details, print a copy of the voucher and take it with you when you go out.

At first my other half was embarrassed when i brought the voucher out but than he realised how much money we were saving so he got over that.

So far i have used the vouchers in the following:

• La Tasca
• Zizzi
• Pizza Hut
• Yo Sushi

Go and have a look and see what bargains you can get.

I had my friends around the other night and they taught me to make Home Made burgers and potatoe wedges, see below on how we made them:

Burger Ingredients:

• Lean mince meat
• 1 medium onion
• salt and pepper

Potato Wedges ingredients:

• Potatoes
• Chilli flakes
• salt & Pepper

Cooking Instructions

Burgers:
finely chop the onion and add to a bowl with the mince and season with salt and pepper.  Mix it all together than spray a griddle with low fat spray and cook turning every 2 minutes until the inside is cooked.

Potato Wedges:
Boil the potatoes until they start going soft (dont leave until they break when you touch them), remove from the pan and cut into wedge like shapes.  Spray low fat oil onto a baking tray and add the potato. Season with the chilli flakes, salt and pepper and cook in the over at 180 degrees for 20 minutes.

Serve with a salad and this is a healthy meal.

Ingredients
4 large tomatoes
1 large red onion
1 garlic clove
600ml tomatoe juice
300ml fresh stock
Dried mixed herbs
Basil torn into pieces
Small splash Tabasco sauce
4 small pots of low fat yogurt

Instructions
Place garlic tomatoes and onion into a roasting tin and spray with low fat cooking spray and roast for 20-25 minutes at 200°C.  After 25 minutes remove the tomato skins and chop.  Pour tomato juice and stock into a saucepan and add the vegatables, tomato, basil and Tabasco.  Bring to the boil than simmer for 10-20 minutes than serve.

Let me know how yours turns out as mine was gorgeous and i am making it again tonight.

I have just heard the most fantastic news ever, Cadburys do tours around their factory and you get free chocolate.

When you book tickets you get a Main Exhibition Time and you can wander around with a tour guide and see how the chocolate is made and also learn how it all first started.  You get shown all old advertisements and up to date ones.

At the end of your tour there is a shop which you can buy all of the things you don’t usually get.

Admission prices are:

Adult: £13.90
Child : £10.10
Senior Citizen & Students: £10.50
Under 4’s: free
Family (2 adults and 2 children): £42
Family (2 adults and 3 children): £49

It may be worth booking soon if what the press say is true and Kraft close it down.

I am not one to go out and buy a recipe book so i have been looking online to find some nice and easy recipes as i am not the most confident cook and i stumbled across the BBC website all about food.

They have fun and easy recipes to cook with your children, videos of cooking, a message board where people share tips and also updates of the cooking shows being shown at the moment.

You can search for 10,000 recipes so you are not limited to the selection there is and you can search by ingredients,  programme or by chef.

to have a look for yourself got to www.bbc.co.uk/food

Gordon Ramsay recently filmed Gordon’s Great Escape for Chanel 4 by traveling around India and learning to cook the traditional Indian Way and he has now published a book with lots of recipes he learned whilst on the road.

Another Celebrity Chef who likes to travel around is Jamie Oliver where his latest programme was Jamie at Home Christmas Special which i absolutely love as these 2 are my favorite celebrity chefs.

Gordon’s great escape starts Monday 18th January on Chanel 4 and i for 1 will be watching.

This can be purchased through his website, on Amazon and many other online and high street book stores.

I hate to admit it but i was given a slow cooker for Christmas and i absolutely love it.

When i get home from work my tea is ready for me so i dont have to spend even more time on my feet cutting, dicing and cooking.

So far i have made:

Chicken Curry
Chilli Con Carne
Sausage hot pot

and i really want to make an Onion soup in it as it is really cold at the moment and would be nice to have it to heat up when i get in from work.

You can pick up a slow cooker in any electrical shop eg, Comet, Argos, Sainsburys, Tesco, John Lewis

I am a big fan of Philadelphia cheese and I have been tearing out the recipe’s that have been in the magazines but if you go on their website you can print off the recipe’s for something a little bit different.

My favorite is the Parma Ham and Chicken Escalope and they are really easy to make even if you are not a good cook (like me).

All you do is put a slice in the centre of the chicken breast, fill with Philadelphia with herbs and wrap the chicken in parma ham and cook in the oven.  Add potatoes and veg and you have a healthy meal.

click on to www.philadelphia.co.uk and see what else you can cook up.

Further to our recent posts about all the food we  will be indulging in over the Christmas period, I will no sooner have eaten my 8th mince pie before I am considering starting the New Year Diet! I know it is a band wagon that many people jump on, but I take it very seriously. When cooking for one, it can be quite difficult with regards to portion sizes. However if you are cooking a healthy dinner like soup, you can pop it in the fridge and it will last all week. When making soups, you can be very versatile and experiment, basically anything can go in to them. They are a very healthy and quick dinner to prepare when you are very busy!- enjoy!

It is this time of year when we are all rushing around trying to get the last minute food shopping done before Christmas Day.  All the big supermarkets are open near enough 24 hours a day trying to capture as many sales as possible.  The shelves look like they have been ransacked, metal trolleys scattered all over and people running around looking stressed.
I picked up the turkey at the weekend and have got the majority of the alcohol and food that will keep.  It is now just a case of going back down to brave the rush for vegetables and consumables that are better to get closer to the day.
I think when Christmas Day actually arrives I will be sick of the sight of food and not want to eat any!

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