While my eating hasn’t been the greatest, the banana cake I baked yesterday has been calling my name, I have been on 2 walks both 2-3km long.

I should confess that I have indulged in some of the aforementioned cake, however when in a moment of weakness I reached for it to have for breakfast ( I know, shock horror), I am quite proud to say I resisted. Instead I had nothing, the better choice by a slim margin but by no means ideal. After all, breakfast is the most important meal of the day, isn’t it?

I think I need to go back to writing down everything I’m eating. I really need to start tracking my points again but I’ll start with keeping a food diary to start with to get back in the habit of writing everything down and then start working out the points.

Have you noticed it’s getting colder over night? Brrr, winter is definitely on its way which isn’t going to help the whole exercise thing so I’ve got to get as much as I can in while the sun is still shining.

Updates on my other missions;

Organised Home – I was doing so well with keeping on top of the washing and dishes daily and then we had a manic weekend which threw everything out of whack so I’m back to square one. I did manage to do a deep clean and de-clutter of a corner of the lounge, that made me feel like I had accomplished something I cleared out the bookshelf, dusted and re-arranged, putting a stack of books into my “To Donate” pile. I threw out some rattan decorative balls that were old, faded and dusty and just really needed to go. So they’ve gone Some other bits and pieces have been moved to more appropriate homes as well.

Vege Garden – I  weeded the garden, again! This time however I actually dug in some Tui Organic Compost and watered it in. It then sat like that for about a week before I got out there again but then I (finally) transplanted my lettuce seedlings along with a rhubarb plant that I had been given at Christmas.

That’s it from me for today.

Keep well

C xx

I decided to do a bit of baking this morning to use up some of the frozen bananas I have in my freezer. Everything was going perfectly I defrosted and mashed the bananas and added them into the cake mix. As I was folding in the dry ingrediants though I noticed it had become really lumpy! And then I realised what had happened, when I mashed the bananas they weren’t completely thawed therefore still cold and the coldness caused the creamed butter to harden! Duh

So note to self (and any other novice bakers out there) – defrost your frozen bananas completely

I hope the cake still turns out okay despite of this.

I will let you know how it goes

Well, my big plans for Valentine’s Day have not gone to plan.

Hubby loves chocolate chip cookies, he’s the cookie monster around here that’s for sure. So I decided to put one of my Christmas presents to good use – 101 cookie cutters.

However….chocolate chip cookie dough just isn’t made for shapes I’m afraid :(. I chilled it in the fridge for about 30 mins but it was still to sticky, then I put it in the freezer. Ahem, yep not such a good idea, especially seeing as I got caught up doing something with DS and by the time I remembered to take it out it was almost frozen solid! So I let it rest on the counter for a little bit then tried to knead and roll it once it thawed a little. It wasn’t easy but I managed to cut a few heart shapes out before it became a sticky mess again. In the end I pressed the rest into a slice pan and popped them all in the oven.

Well, let me tell you what came out of the oven was not pretty. The heart shapes didn’t hold and just ended up as big blobs. The slice turned out fine though so I cut that up into squares. In order to try and salvage my Valentine’s Day present for hubby I cut the hearts out of the cooling blobs, some parts were quite crunchy, obviously the thinner parts but I still managed to crunch some shapes out of those parts

Here are the results….

Hubby loved them so I guess that’s all that matters isn’t it