Jacqi B. Patient Expert

female, a Londoner no longer living in London (but still in the UK), overweight, enjoys cooking, likes eating, owns too many cookbooks, is new to blogging
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2009 Photo-Diet Project by Jacqi B. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Well it’s just a few weeks till my birthday. I’m not going to be anywhere near my target weight for my 50th, but I am fitter and a bit slimmer (about two dress siz ... Read on »
Food Shopping Project: Sainsbury, Nov 28th by Jacqi B. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Lucozade £1.49 x2 (BOGOF) Lamb steaks £5.99 Chicken thighs & drumsticks x2 £1.50 x2 Mature cheddar cheese x2 £3.86 (BOGOF) Cubetti di pance ... Read on »
Food Shopping Project December 2008 by Jacqi B. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Bought from a stall in Queensway, Bletchley. 7lb red potatoes 3lb bananas 3lb satsumas bag of green seedless grapes two cabbages iceberg lettuce pineapple two punnets s ... Read on »
Food Shopping Project: 18 November 2008 by Jacqi B. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Shopping from Costco on 18th November.Lemonade, diet, Schweppes (6 x 1.5 litres) £3.35 (56p per bottle or 37p per litre) Beers, Connoisseur collection, £12.91(&po ... Read on »
Lemon & Pepper Chicken Wings by Jacqi B. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating This is my version of Sasha’s version of a NIgel Slater recipe. a pack of chicken wings (about 12) two unwaxed lemons 1 heaped tbsp black peppercorns 2 tbsp olive oi ... Read on »
Food Shopping Project by Jacqi B. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Semi skimmed milk £1.66 (x2) special offer £2.50 Anya potatoes 99p (reduced from £1.32) Carrots 67p Onions 50p Lemons, unwaxed £1.69 Parsnips (39 ... Read on »
I lost eleven pounds last summer... by Jacqi B. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating I lost eleven pounds last summer with the photo-dieting. This year I plan to lose a stone (14 pounds) by Easter, another stone by the end of August and a third stone by the e ... Read on »
I’m having trouble sticking to m... by Jacqi B. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating I’m having trouble sticking to my self-imposed limit of 1200 kcals per day. In fact, I’ve not yet managed it.Here’s Monday’s food: 1348 kcals. If I&rs ... Read on »
Losing weight and cms at last (two pounds off) by Jacqi B. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating As I’m not going out to work at the moment, I’ve decided to devote as much of my ’spare time’ (what spare time?) as I can to exercising to get the weig ... Read on »
Food Shopping Project 2/3 by Jacqi B. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating If you click on the photo it will take you to the original on flickr where notes on each item will tell you what they are and the individual prices (in GB£).I hadn&rsquo ... Read on »
Three weeks ago I started to pho... by Jacqi B. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Three weeks ago I started to photograph everything I ate. At the end of the first week I made a photo-mosaic and took a good look at what I had really eaten rather than what I ... Read on »
At The Spice Lounge in Milton Ke... by Jacqi B. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating At The Spice Lounge in Milton Keynes For three weeks I have been photographing everything I eat and learning to eat healthily-sized portions. I’ve logged the food in WLR to ke ... Read on »
On the first day of the second w... by Jacqi B. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating On the first day of the second week of my photo-diet project I started a group on the photo-sharing website, flickr.I’d been posting my food photos and the daily and weekly mo ... Read on »
The second week of my photo-diet... by Jacqi B. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating The second week of my photo-diet project saw me making some changes to what I ate. I weighed or measured most of my food and filled in my food diary on weightlossresources and ... Read on »
I made my first tagine a couple ... by Jacqi B. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating I made my first tagine a couple of weeks ago. Well, a casserole with fruit, really as it wasn’t cooked in a tagine - I haven’t bought one yet. I want to get one before next wi ... Read on »
Tandoori chicken bites I made th... by Jacqi B. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Tandoori chicken bites I made these for lunch again this week. The recipe is from the Australian Women’s Weekly (AWW) Low-Fat Meals in Minutes. The original recipe is for eig ... Read on »
No, I don’t mean lots of exercis... by Jacqi B. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating No, I don’t mean lots of exercise, though of course that helps. I shall be back at my water aerobics class tonight after a short break. SO can’t participate at the moment as h ... Read on »
I’ve created a clickable list of... by Jacqi B. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating I’ve created a clickable list of recipes I’ve posted to the blog - you’ll find it on the side bar, under the blogroll. I’m thinking of making a new page listing the recipes I ... Read on »
Here’s a strange thing. The more... by Jacqi B. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Here’s a strange thing. The more care I take with food preparation, making my lunchbox look nice, the lower in calories it tends to be. And when it looks nice I find that less ... Read on »
Yesterday morning I was looking ... by Jacqi B. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Yesterday morning I was looking for clean, ironed, clothes to wear for work and spotted the trousers I bought when I lost a few pounds about 18 months ago. They didn’t fit me ... Read on »