The winter is well and truly on its way and it is time like this when all you want to do is cuddle up with a good book in front of a warm fire with a nice bowl of soup - cliche?? maybe and yet true!

It is such a simple think to throw together some homemade soup but one of the girls at work was truly perplexed when I said I had just thrown veg in a pan and whizzed it up! So i thought I would take some photos as I did it and share with you - simple or not...

 Red Lentils, Sweet Potato, Regular Potatoes, Parsnips, Asda fresh small veg pack and a Stock pot. Basically i just chopped it all up and chucked it up and threw it in a pan whacking the heat on!
 When it is done, I whizz it up using a hand blender and your done!
I like to eat homemade soup with the potato scones instead of bread which I blogged about here.

What is your favourite type of soup? Are you a homemade soup fan or is it just too much effort???

If your following me on Instragram you may have noticed that I have started posting pictures of foods recently :) Yesterday I posted a picture of a lovely chilli which we made last night! It was so lovely - healthy and was less that a tenner for 3 of us! Bargain! 
We used a Coleman's mix to make the chilli, all you need to add is the chilli beans, the mince and some onion. We picked the meat and the Coleman's mix from a local butchers in town, the mince was £2.35 for a pound, the Coleman's mix was 99p. We had the Jacket Potatoes from the market which were 4 for £1. I know its convenient but I think we have lost the buying from local stores or markets. Its so convenient to buy things from the Supermarket now but I really couldn't believe how cheap the mince was! And the Jacket Potatoes were twice the size of the ones you get in the Supermarket! Plus the good thing about buying from a local butchers is you can choose just buy as much as you want! Which is great if there are just 1 or 2 of you!

I have started to kick back in to slimming world, I have been doing it for a while and have already lost a stone but have kicked back in full steam! I am really focused at the moment so you may be seeing a lot more foodie posts of things I am enjoying! I shall be posting things on my instagram too so if you see anything on there you fancy knowing how I have made then let me know and I shall do a post on it :)