Lentil Bake

Lentil Bake

Ingredients :

• 1 Large onion
• 2 carrots
• 400g can chopped tomatoes
• 2 veg stock cubes
• 400g can green lentils
• 950g sweet potatoes
• 2 tbsp thyme
• 25g butter
• 85g cheddar cheese

makes approx. 4   ready in about 45 minutes,  531 cals,  17g fat , 

1. Heat oil in a pan and fry the onion until soft. Add the carrots and thyme. Pour in 250mls of water and the tomatoes. Sprinkle in the stock cubes and simmer for 10 minutes. Tip the whole can of lentils in and cover and simmer for 10 minutes more.

2. Meanwhile boil the sweet potatoes for 15 minutes, drain then mash with the butter. Put the lentil mix in a pie dish, spoon on the mash and then sprinkle on the cheese and thyme.

lentil mix with half the mash

Mash added



Cheese added, and ready to bake or freeze

3. Bake in the oven on gas mark 5, if cooking the lentil bake straight away cook for 20 minutes. or if from chilled 40 minutes.

Defrost thoroughly before cooking.

I Managed to make 5 medium size portions that i put in foil containers with lids, to freeze. Remember to defrost before cooking and bake for 40 minutes. If you would like to make this healthier just leave out the cheese.

xxx

Serenity Saturday : 5

Welcome to the 5th week of Serenity Saturday. Thank you to everyoine who linked up last week. there were some great posts. 

Shoregirl over at 2 love learning came up with this great idea of Book Bingo.

a great way to get the kids reading!

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Rules :

you can link anything you want! only rule is that you place my link button on your post.


The post that I like the most will be featured in my blog!

Film Review : Rango

Rango

I watched this on DVD yesterday with my 6 year old son and 21 month little girl. It's about a pet chameleon that that comes across a little western town in the desert, where he is made sheriff and tries to make the town a better place. My little girl got fed up with it after about 10-15 minutes and went off playing with her toys, my 6 year year old enjoyed it and found some parts really funny, but wasn't fully engaged with it. I thought it was a little bit boring and I expected it to be a lot better especially since the voice of Rango is Johnny Depp. Personally think that there are a lot more better kids films out there than this. And plus I don't like westerns, so this didn't help matters.

        

Overall we give this           

Serenity Saturday : 4

Welcome to Serenity Saturday! A place to add your link up to a craft, kids project, recipe, scrapbook idea or any other great ideas you have come up with!!

Love this idea of a Book storage system over at meg and andy

Rules :

you can link anything you want! only rule is that you place my link button on your post.

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The post that I like the most will be featured in my blog!

Freebie : Post-it super sticky notes

Holds stronger and longer, yet removes cleanly. Just fill in your details to get a free sample

Click here for your free sample

Snack Box

Here's another idea I found via pinterest, the original is Here and also another Here

A snack box for the kids (and me!)

I got different dried fruit, cranberries, cherries, strawberries and raisins and put them together in small self seal bags

Then I just put them in a box where the kids can easily get to them. I also filled some bags with cheerios and small cheesy crackers, and put a few cereal bars in there too.

Go here to see our Breakfast box

xx

How to fold plastic bags

Here's a great idea that I found over at A Lil Bird told me.. How to fold carrier bags into neat little triangles!

I got all my plastic carrier bags out from under the kitchen sink where I normally just stick them inside each other a put them anywhere they will fit. And decided to do this great idea. I was sitting at my dinning table folding my carrier bags into lovely neat triangles when my husband walked in, he asked me what i was doing and when i told him he just stared at me in disbelief and walked out the room shaking his head. I know this might sound a bit too far for some people, but I think it's great!! Just take a look at my nice folded carrier bags! they look tidy and take up a lot less room under my kitchen sink.

The tutorial is Here

xxx

 

 

Serenity Saturday : 3

just want to say sorry for this link up party being a day late, i've just been sooooo busy this weekend!

thank you to everyone who linked up this week. But i have to say the blog post that caught my eye this week was At home with Mrs H about the London riots, and the other riots that took place all over the UK. Thankfully it looks like they have come to an end, but at a cost of over £10 million! And sadly the death's of 5 people trying to protect their nieghbourhood's and communites. My thought's go out to all their familys.



Source : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14453918

Another post that i thought was a really great idea was Cheryl's over at My Frugal Family



Foto Friday : Water

Waterfall in a bowl

Here is my first attempt at foto friday over at la-la's home daycare. And this week is water. I'm rubbish at taking photo's so please be nice :)

Serenity Saturday : 2

second week of serenity saturday. I have to say, last week was  bit of a dissapointment, only 3 entries and two of them were mine! LOL
so here's this weeks featured post: 

Ocean Number Puzzles at Nurturing Naters

so lets see what we get this week!

Freebie : Clipper green tea

Free pack of Clipper pure green Tea

Get yours Here

I-spy sheets

I-spy colouring sheets are easy to make and great for keeping the kids busy when their bored. I found this great idea on pinterest, the original idea is here

All you have to do to make your own is go on google images and write in 'outline clipart'. there's loads to choose from, just save the image to your computer. When you have collected all the images you want just open word (or whatever you have) and randomly place the pictures on the page. Then print out, your done!

to play say to your child 'i spy a tree' or whatever, and once they found it they colour it in. And when you play next time, just re-arrange the pictures around before you print the sheets out