Stacey in the Sticks

Follow Me Home by Jen Benjamin | Book review

by StaceyUpdated on October 23, 2016October 23, 2016

I’m not sure how many of my readers are on Goodreads but if you are, then you can friend me here. Earlier this year I set my reading challenge at 104 books. This is double last year and averages out at two books a week. I don’t think I’m going to manage to hit it though as I’ve had quite a few reading slumps this year. I’m currently on book number 49 though, so I think I will surpass what I read last year. I might lower it a bit actually, just so I can complete it 😉 A recent book …

Slow cooker 5 bean chilli recipe. In slow cooker

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Slow cooker 5 bean chilli | Recipe (Slimming World friendly)

by StaceyUpdated on March 24, 2026October 21, 2016

I love my slow cooker, and especially in autumn and winter, it comes out a lot. One of my favourite one-pot meals to cook in there is a chilli. It’s usually a beef chilli, but I decided to make a veggie one this time using the beans I received in my September Degustabox. I added a variety of tinned beans to make a 5 bean chilli – it’s syn free on Slimming World too, and makes a great EESP meal 🙂 This one is fairly hot, but you could use mild chilli powder instead, or halve the amount of hot …

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Slimming World weigh in – the one where I’m losing motivation…

by StaceyUpdated on April 11, 2024October 20, 2016

After my weigh in last week it was one of those weeks where I knew I had been bad, so I was happy with my small gain. I really wanted to smash that target this week though so I went away from group with a plan; a few EESP days before weigh in (again!), stay around 10 syns every day, and lots & lots of speed food. I managed to stick to that, even enjoying cake as I factored it into my days syns and just ate free and speed food for the rest of the day. On Sunday I started …

Giveaway Party

£30 Party Supplies voucher | Giveaway (CLOSED)

by StaceyUpdated on November 20, 2016October 19, 2016

I absolutely love planning parties; I think my favourite one so far has to be the joint one I planned for the boys earlier in the year, with a dinosaur theme. Don’t get me wrong, it would be so much easier and less stressful to host a party somewhere, where everything is provided and taken care of for you. But I love the satisfaction of knowing I planned something from the off, and I just love getting creative. I do like products that make planning a bit easier though and last year for Jacob’s 3rd birthday I reviewed some minion …

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Orange & lime battenberg | Recipe

by Stacey October 17, 2016October 17, 2016

It’s been a few weeks since I joined in with the #GBBOBloggers2016 bake along; it was The Husband’s birthday, then the week after it was my birthday, and this week I am very last minute as I have been having Internet connection issues and getting incredibly annoyed! Anyway. It seems to be working again for now, so here I am! We’ve all been feeling under the weather and with it being Tudor week, everything just looked… well, complicated! I didn’t really fancy any of it to be honest, but in the end I decided I would have a go at …