You know the usual issue with portion sizes is that something says, for example, "serves 4" and you know it's only enough for 2? meeshy got me a clotted cream and strawberry fudge bar for my birthday which reckons it is 2 servings. I have eaten one ninth of it and I feel sick. I think eating half of it in one go could send me into a diabetic coma.

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I made (fake) All Bran cake today... it looks beautiful and tastes yummy! No burnt bits, all even and golden and nummy.

Mmmm. 

 
Today I have done some last minute extra present shopping (and wrapped the presents), delivered a few presents and cards, made a beautiful trifle (of the kind that doesn't have icky sponge fingers, jelly or cream), wiped and defragged the hard disk DVD recorder and fixed the DVD recorder so when you ask for channel 4 you get channel 4 instead of ( Read more... )

• I find it reassuring that the packaging for my smoked trout says it 'contains fish'. This is a good sign.
  

• I'm watching old international Gladiators and am very amused by there being a Gladiator named Hammer.

• After a lot of googling I sussed out how to play Region 1 DVDs without switching the region on my laptop today. Purely because I bought an ( Read more... )

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I made soup! It's not the best soup ever, but it is perfectly edible and good with tiger tail bread. It was carrot and sweet potato and not bad for a first ever effort, in my opinion.

(Ooooh, tags autocomplete now, that's very helpful when I can't quite remember what they are!)

Does anyone remember some sweets that were kind of like chewits but green and white and minty?

What were they called?

*edits*

Scrap that, they were pacers apparently!

I went a bit crazy last week, food-wise. It was a shit week generally, so I ate junk, but also craved sugar cos it was my first week off chocolate, so overcompensated by eating too many sweets. I'm making a concerted effort to be healthier though, and got through so much fruit I was running out, so I stopped at Asda on the way home and everything I ( Read more... )

Ugh, channel 5 are so sneaky. They're showing SVU from 11pm to midnight on a Friday apparently. It's Season 3 episode 1 tonight I think. No adverts to tell me, just sneaking it into the schedule. I don't know if I'll get to watch it, but it was even less likely when I didn't know it was on ( Read more... )

My bread's gone mouldy! I had fresh bread, which has gone hard, and sliced bread, which has gone mouldy. So I'll have to buy lunch again tomorrow... I was gonna be so good too, cos I ended up being really lazy last week and buying lunch about 3 times, so it'll be bought again tomorrow I guess. I'll see what the sandwich lady has to offer, cos she' ( Read more... )