Sunday, 11 March 2012

Please Support Irish Autism Action


I have signed up for a 18k hike on good Friday April 6 in support of Irish Autism Action
Click on link below to support and for more information 





I have registered with mycharity.ie to help raise funds and if any one would like to help please click on my page below and donate any amount, it will all help 

http://www.mycharity.ie/event/niamhkellygoodfridaywalk/

Thursday, 8 March 2012

Weigh In! & Zumba

Well I think I am still on a high after my WI today I lost a whopping
4 and a 1/2 pounds

I was in shock could not believe it! seems my hard work showed up this week
Happy Days 
for Weight Watchers 
I got my 10% and  I am 1/2 a pound away from my 3rd sliver 7

So I have updated my ticker from my starting  weight I was, when I came home from the hospital to present day and I have lost 24 pounds over all 

I updated my goal but might change that to a smaller one and move it forward when Ì get there I have come a long way but have a long way to go but I am ready! 


ZUMBA


I started my first class in Zumba  ( Zumba Carlow you can find them on Facebook)http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001523668695 on Wednesday night and I am hooked loved it, had such good fun and I was sorry when we finished. I would highly recommended it and a great way to get out of the house and meet people and for me an hour uninterrupted from my lovely children and all bussy mums need that. can not wait for next week I am hopping I can go twice a week.

Just had to spread the 



Monday, 5 March 2012

Fruity choc-pop bars

I made this at the weekend for the kids and ME :) and they went down a treat! lasted till today so 3 days not bad!

2 pp per bar

calorie controlled cooking spray
50g ready to eat dried apricots, chopped
50g raisins or sultanas
50g rice krispies
50g plain.lightly sweetened or salty popcorn
100g marshmallows
100g milk or plain chocolate,broken into pieces
25g low fat spread

1,mist a 23 cm backing tray with cooking spray and line with baking parchment.

2, In a large bowl, mix together the apricots,raisins or sultanas, Rice Krispies and popcorn.

3, Put the marshmallows,chocolate and low fat spread into a large saucepan and melt on a low heat,stirring often with a wooden spoon. Remove from heat occasionally  to allow marshmallows to melt slowly.

4,Tip the fruit mixture into the melted mixture and stir thoroughly to coat.Transfer to the prepared tin and level the surface. cool for a few minutes,then transfer to the fridge for 40 minutes to chill and set.

5, Cut in to 24 equal pieces, then store in the fridge,with pieces of baking paper between layers,Alternatively, freeze for up to 3 months

Sunday, 4 March 2012

Quick and Easy Friday Favourite Chunky Sausage Pasta Bake

This had to be my children's favourite dinner in fact my 5 year old would have it every night if he could, its one of those when your finished you have to say! only problem is you want more! its quick and simple and one every one will love : ) I make it two ways depending on time first is my way second it from my new cook book The Complete Kitchen!  I have no picture as it was gone before I thought of it !


Sausage Pasta bake: 11 pp
200g of pasta any shape I prefer the bows
8 low fat sausages WW if you can get them
1 jar of low fat pasta tomato sauce 
125g of low fat mozzarella cheese diced 
low cal cooking spray
preheat oven to 200 oc fan 180oc 
Cook pasta and drain, cook sausages and chop in to pieces, place pasta in baking dish with sausages and pasta sauce and chopped cheese, place in oven for 15 to 20 minutes and serve
( remember to check pasta sauce and sausages in case using different ones the PP might be more or less) 
The Complete kitchen
 Chunky Sausage Pasta Bake 
37 PP per recipe 9pp per portion
20 minutes prep 
20 minutes cooking
serves 4 
Speedy tomato sauce 0pp
400g can of chopped tomatoes
1 garlic clove,crushed
1/2 teaspoon grated lemon zest
1/4 teaspoon mixed dried herbs ( I use garlic Italian herbs) 
1 teaspoon of castor sugar
salt and pepper to taste
Place all ingredients in a lidded sauce pan and bring to the boil, cover and simmer for 10 minutes stirring once or twice.

200g of dried pasta shapes of your choice
low fat cooking spray

6 qourn sausages chopped, ( I used low fat sausages 2 per person 10 pp) 
2 onions chopped roughly
2 teaspoon chopped fresh rosemary/ and or 1 teaspoon of dried chili flakes

150ml of veg stock
125g low fat mozzarella cheese drained and diced
25g grated Parmesan

1, preheat oven gas mark 6, 200oc fan 180oc , Make the speedy tomato sauce, bring a saucepan of water to boil, add the pasta and return to boil, cook for 9 minutes or 1 minute less per instructions so pasta is cooked but still has a little bite,.
2, Mean while, heat a non stick pan, spray with low cal cooking spray and cook qourn sausage chunks and onion,rosemary, chili flakes cook for 5-6 minutes on a medium heat on still starting to colour,
3, Drain pasta and mix with sausage mixture, the tomato sauce and stock, transfer to oven dish  and scatter cheese on top.
4, Bake for 20 minutes on till bubbling with a golden cheesy crust.

Thursday, 1 March 2012

Progress to date :) and WI :(

Good News :) :
Here is a ticker of my progress to date including the weight I lost before joining WW and on till now




Its actually better than I thought I had done, I'm happy with my progress to now, I am on track to getting my 10%  sticker with Weight watchers my 3rd silver 7 kind of raging I waited a few weeks before joining WW after I had my lovely little man, as I have them by now! but wanted breastfeeding established before returning to WW

Not so good News :( :
Got my TOTM today and knew I would be up,I was  hoping for a sts or at worst a 0.5 gain, naaa it was a dozy 1.5 gain! thank you body( on checking my card its the exact amount I gain every totm) , I was a little upset because all I needed was a loss of 0.5 and I have had my 10% sticker with WW and 3 pounds to my next 7 pounds off.. but I was a little taken aback when my leader was not to impressed with my gain and said I needed to lose more weight each week and try tracking  better so we can see the weight come down. I'm pretty happy with my progress so far and as I am feeding a baby, the guide lines recommend a loss of a pound a week as any more could effect milk supply and quality. I wouldn't mind I can count the amount of gains I have had on one hand and its still not 5 :) I lose slow and I've learnt to accept that, so a little upset with my leader for not remembering that I am breastfeeding and for making me feel worse, and in front of other people as its not very private in our meeting. also another week she would be telling you how losing slow is better !! insert rolling eye picture!! 

I am planning on chatting to her about it next week as I hadn't enough time today, also going to show her a tracker, so she can see I do stick to the program and write down my exercise so she can see that also and see what she says oh and remind her AGAIN that I am breastfeeding .... 


Friday, 24 February 2012

Take away pro points

Found this and just had to share: 

Subway

With Cheese-
Chicken and Bacon 12pp
subway melt 9pp
veggie patty 10pp
italian bmt 12pp
spicy italian 14pp

LOW FAT - WITHOUT CHEESE
Beef 7pp
chicken breast 8pp
ham 7pp
subway club 8pp
sweet onion 9pp
turkey 7pp
turkey and ham 7pp
veggie delite (just sub with salad) 5pp

BREAKFAST
Bacon 7pp
Bacon and Egg 9pp
Sausage 10pp
Sausage and Egg 13pp

SAUCES
Sweet Onion 1pp
Honey Mustard 1pp
BBQ 1pp
Light Mayo 2pp
Southwest 3pp

EXTRAS
Bacon (2 strips) 1pp
Cheddar (cheese) 1pp
American (cheese) 1pp


Mcdonalds

Big Mac 13pp
Cheeseburger 8pp 
Hamburger 7pp
double cheese 12pp
4 chicken nuggets (happy meal) 5pp
6 chicken nuggets 7pp
chicken mayo 9pp
mcChicken sandwich 10pp
fillet-of-fish is 9 PP 
med fries 9pp
small fries 6pp
milkshakes small (all flavs) 6pp Med (all flavs) 11pp
Hashbrown 3pp
Bagel 6pp
Bagel with strawberry jam 7pp
BBQ Dip 1pp
Bacon and Egg Muffin 9pp
Bacon roll with ketchup 9pp
sausage and egg muffin 11pp
sausage egg and cheese bagel 15pp
bacon egg and cheese bagel 12pp
pancakes and sausage 12pp
pancakes and syrup 14pp

Mcflurrys
Crunchie 9pp
Dairy 9pp
Rolo 11pp
Smarties 9pp
Strawberry sun 10pp
Toffee sun 10pp
sugar doughnut 6pp

Chinese

Chicken and sweetcorn soup 6pp
Spring roll 9pp each
Prawn crackers 9pp
Char Sui Pork 11 pp
Chicken and Cashew Nuts 9 pp (not including rice)
Chicken with Mushroom 8 pp (not including rice)

Mushroom Chow Mein 5 Mushroom Foo Yung 6 
Roast Pork Cantonese Style 10 (not including rice)
Special Chow Mein 9 
Szechuan Prawn with Vegetables 12 (not including rice)
Vegetable Curry 8 (not including rice)
Lemon Chicken 10 (not including rice)


Indian

Starters
Chicken shish kebab 9
Chick tikka (6pieces) 6
meat samosa (each) 9
Veg samosa (each) 7
Onion bhaji (each) 8
Tandoori king prawn 6
Tandoori mixed grill 11

Mains - 
Chicken balti 18
Chicken korma 24
Chicken tikka masala 23
Fish curry 18
Lamb balti 23
Chicken biryani 37
Chicken Ceylon 30
Chicken dhansk 30
Chicken dopiaza 25
Chicken jalfrezi 24
Chicken Kashmir 30
Chicken madras 27
Chicken pasanda 25
Chicken saag 23
Chicken tikka (8pieces) 14
Chicken vindaloo 23
Tandoori chicken (half) 15

King prawn madras 19
King prawn vindaloo 15

Lamb biryani 40
Lamb korma 34
Lamb pasanda 34
Lamb organ Josh 29

Prawn biryani 29
Prawn ceylon 23
Prawn dhansk 23
Prawn dopiaza 17
Prawn jalfrezi 16
Prawn Kashmir 22
Prawn korma 22
Prawn Madras 19
Prawn pasanda 17
Prawn vindaloo 15

Veg biryani 29
Veg curry 15

Side orders
Bombay potato 8
Cauliflower bhajee 6
Chapati 12
Cucumber raita (per tea sp) 2
Keena naan 21
Lime pickle (per tea sp) 1
Mango chutney (per tea sp) 1
Mushroom bhajee 9
Peshwari naan 18
Pilua rice 16
Basmati rice 12
Boiled rice 12
Plain naan 12
Popadom(each) 4
Saag aloo 8
Paratha 10
Stuff Paratha 16

Dominos

Starters and Sides
Bbq dip - 1 point
BBQ Ribs - 3 points
chicken kickers - 10 points
chicken strippers - 12 points
chicken wings slightly spiced - 12 points
coleslaw - 5 points
Garlic and herb dip - 6 points
garlic pizza bread - 7 points
honey and mustard dip - 4 points
potato wedges - 4 points
sweet chilli dip - 2 points

Medium Regular Crust (Per Slice)
America Hot or Big Smokey - 5 points
Americano - 7 points
Bacon Double cheese - 6 points
Cheese and Tomato - 4 points
chicken feast or chicken tikka - 5 points
Extravaganza or full house - 6 points
ham and pineapple - 5 points
hot and spicy - 5 points
meat lovers - 6 points
meatball mayhem or meateor - 7 points
meltdown the revenge - 5 points
mighty meaty or pepporoni passion - 6 points
piri piri - 4 points
tandori hot or texas bbq- 5points
the sizzler - 7 points
vegaroma - 6 points
vegetarian supreame or vegie volcano - 5 points

Medium Double Decandance (Per Slice)
American hot or big smokey - 8 points
americano - 9 points
cheese and tomoto - 7 points
chicken feast - 6 points
extravaganza or full house - 9 points
ham and pineapple - 8 points
hot and spicy - 8 points
meat lovers -9 points
meatball mayhem or meateor - 10 points
mighty meaty or pepproni passion - 9 points
tandori hot or texas bbq - 8 points
the sizzler -9 points
vegetarian supreame - 7 points
vege volcano - 8 points

Thursday, 23 February 2012

Let's do Lunch!

Some lunch idea's 
Follow in this order!
GRILLED VEGETABLE TOSTADAS 7pp serves 2: heat grill to medium heat, place chopped courgette,red onion,red pepper, tomatoes on the vine on tinfoil and grill for 5 minutes,turn and grill for a further 5 minutes remove  + place each tortollia wrap in grill arrange vegetables on top, top with chopped  40g wafer thin ham and 25g low fat mature cheddar cheese  grill for 2-3 minutes till cheese is melted and wrap is warm. serve immediately with some mixed salad. 

SPICY MEXICAN JACKET POTATO 7PP serves1:  cook 1x250g potato in a microwave for 15 minutes or until cooked,split open + place 35g WW or equivalent low fat cheese in a bowl + add 1 tsp jalapeno peppers in brine drained and chopped + add 1 tomato chopped and deseeded + mix in 1/2 a tbsp of fresh chopped coriander and use to top potato, ( grill if you like or add some sweet chili sauce just make sure you track it!

CHICKEN SALAD 8PP to 10PP per serving:120G chicken breast no skin, chopped & cooked, a good portion of mixed salad leaves ( 0pp so as much or as little as you like) handful of cherry tomatoes, red onion sliced, red & yellow or green peppers sliced,cucumber (optional) sweetcorn, handful of fresh basil leaves, handful of salad croutons I love Rochelle salad croutons Mediterranean herb flavor croutons (20g 3pp) add in some low fat feta cheese then toss together, add some low fat salad dressing, I love some sweet chili sauce and some balsamic vinegar mixed! you can add more veg or leave out feta cheese and croutons for a lower PP portion.

Try some of these if you are just sick of salad and 0 pp soup :) 

 http://www.weightwatchers.com/util/art/index_art.aspx?tabnum=1&art_id=9761&sc=3005



TURKEY PITA SANDWICH
1 small pita2
3 oz oven-roasted deli turkey breast without the skin2
Spinach leaves, tomato slices, honey mustard0
1 cup bell pepper slices with 1/4 cup store-bought hummus3
TOTAL PointsPlus VALUE7
EGG ENGLISH MUFFIN SANDWICH
English muffin3
3 scrambled egg whites1
1 oz low fat shredded cheddar cheese1
tomato slices0
1 cup vegetable soup0
TOTAL PointsPlus VALUE5

VEGGIE BURGERS AND FRIES
Light hamburger roll1
Frozen vegetarian burger2
Red onion slices, lettuce, tomato slices, ketchup0
Large baking potato, thinly sliced, coated with cooking spray, sprinkled with Kosher salt and cooked at 400°F, until slightly browned, turning once, about 20 minutes4
TOTAL PointsPlus VALUE7

CHEDDAR AND BROCCOLI STUFFED POTATO
Large baked potato3
1/2 cup cooked broccoli florets0
1 oz low-fat shredded cheddar2
1 cup vegetable soup0
TOTAL PointsPlus VALUE5

GREEK OMELET
3 egg whites1
Sautéed chopped green pepper, onion, tomato (cooked with cooking spray)0
1/4 cup crumbled feta cheese3
1 small wheat pita1
TOTAL PointsPlus VALUE5

VEGETARIAN MEXICAN WRAP
Burrito-sized wheat tortilla2
Salsa, shredded lettuce0
1/2 cup low-fat refried black beans, warmed1
1 tbsp fat-free sour cream0
1 ½ tbsp shredded reduced fat Mexican cheese1
1 cup crudités with mango salsa0
TOTAL PointsPlus VALUE4

CHILI AND CHIPS
1 cup canned low-fat vegetarian chili, warmed3
8 low-fat baked tortilla chips1
1 cup crudités with 1/4 cup fat-free black bean dip1
TOTAL PointsPlus VALUE5

REUBEN AND VEGGIE SOUP
2 oz deli-sliced roast beef2
1 oz Alpine Lace Swiss Cheese2
2 slices high-fiber light wheat bread, toasted1
1 tbsp low-calorie Russian dressing1
1/2 cup packaged coleslaw mix (shredded cabbage and carrots)0
1 cup vegetable soup0
TOTAL PointsPlus VALUE6