Happy 1st Birthday!

I can't believe my blog is 1 year old today! What a year it's been. A lot has happened, and a lot has changed in the past 12 months, but I'm proud to say that me and my blog are still together.

When I started my blog, I had no idea of what I wanted my blog to be like when it turned one year old...being honest I didn't think I'd still be here one year on. I've tried blogging in the past and never stuck it out for more than a month or two, so being a year old is a big achievement.

I wanted somewhere to just write down my thoughts and experiences so that someone out there in the world might stumble across them and learn from them. Whether that has happened or not, I don't know, but it has given me a different way to express myself and helped a few people keep up to date on what's happening in my life.

Blogging has helped me learn a lot about myself, but one thing in particularly. I've always known that I'm very self-conscious, and try my hardest not to upset people with the things I do, but I didn't how much I thought about this until I tried to write something I knew the whole world could see. I spent way too much time thinking about what the person reading it might think...I'm even doing it now...this is the third draft of this post you're now reading. This time next year, I don't want to be thinking the same.

For 2015, my blog development plan is to:

• Move to my own blog domain
• Keep up with regular posts - 1 a week ideally
• Remember to take more pictures when I'm out and about
• Stop overthinking what I'm writing

Here's to still being here this time next year!

Sarah x

Song Sunday - Paint the Town Green

Paint the Town Green

The Script

The Script are one of those bands where I just can't help but love all of their songs. This one in particular is a great little tune from their newest album. It's such a party song and makes me really want to be Irish! I can see this being played non stop on St Patrick's Day. I'd love to see them perform this live, because I think it would be such an amazing atmosphere when they did.

Sarah x

Asda Good & Counted Chicken Nacho Bake Review

In an effort to loose weight and keep healthy, I've cut out a lot the processed food from my diet and started making a lot of fresh cooked meals. But some days I just need something quick and easy to cook, so I'm on the hunt for a ready meal that's healthy (as healthy as they can be anyway).

On today's visit to Asda I stumbled across their new Good and Counted range in the fridge section. These caught my eye as they offered something a little bit different to the others around them. I decided to treat myself to the Chicken Nacho Bake with Potato Wedges meal, at the trial price of £2 (£2.68 from the end of the month).



The product claims to be very high in protein, and with less than 3% fat. I'm not an expert on how these macros are calculated, so I can't really comment if that's true or not, but when I put it into My Fitness Pal they flagged it as being high in protein.  For someone who struggles to get anywhere near my daily protein target, this meal was a big help. 35g is a lot to get from one meal.

The picture on the front of the packaging makes this meal look really nice, there's large chunks of chicken, with a few wedges, covered in tomato sauce with crispy tortilla's on top. When I cooked it, it looked nothing like that. Yes there were large chunks of chicken and some big wedges, but there were no tortillas and way too much sauce.

The sauce however was tasty, a little bit spicy, but not overwhelming. The potatoes were a bit hard...maybe this was me not cooking it for long enough. The chicken wasn't the best though, it tasted very cheap. But I have had worse tasting meat in ready meals before.

Rating: 6/10 - For a meal thats easy to make, and with good macros this is great, but you do compromise a bit on taste. I've still had worse though.

Sarah x