i really like cooking so i thought I'd put on some of my favouite recipes on heres, and most of them are healthy and are all cheap to make, i hope you enjoy making them, and if there's any you like to make feel free to contact me on here and i will add them to the website.

Pasta Sauce

Ingredients

1 tin of tomato's

2 teaspoons of tomato puree

Garlic (as much of little as you like depending on if you like garlic, put you can leave it out)

1 small onion chopped

2 teaspoon's sugar

A little bit of mixed herbs

Method

Chop and fry the onion

Chop garlic, and add to the pan along with the mixed herbs

Then add the tin of tomato's and sugar

Leave to simmer on a low heat for about 20 minutes

Enjoy

i always make a big batch of this and once its cooled down you can out it in tubs and put in the freezer

Stir Fry

Ingredients

Chicken or Pork (or any other meat, or you could just leave the meat out all together)

Soy sauce

3 or 4 Spring Onion's chopped

1 carrot grated

A handful of bean sprouts and Spinach

8 to 10 mushrooms chopped

Rice or Noodles

(you can add whatever veg you like to the stir fry this is just what i add)

Method

Cook the meat until its cooked all the way threw

When all the veg is prepared add it to the pan, and add as much soy sauce as you like

Cook the rice or Noodles

Enjoy

Flapjacks

Ingredients

180g/6oz butter

60g/2oz sugar

2 tablespoons of golden syrup

200g/7oz oats

Method

Preheat the oven to 180oc

Put the butter, sugar, and golden syrup over a medium heat until the butter has melted and all the ingredients have combined

Add the oats to the mixture a little at a time until all the mixture has formed

Put the mixture on greaseproof paper on a oven tray and cook for 10-15mins

When taken out of the oven cut into squares and leave to cool

The flapjacks will last up to a week in a tub in the fridge (that's if they last that long)

Enjoy cooking

Alex

There will always be times when you cant cope and you dont know what to do snd you might feel out of control but there is always things that you can do and here are some techniques that might help you feel better and to calm you down and also ways to distract you from the way you are feeling and also some of them can be fun and might make you laugh, these are the ones that help me so you might find others along the way that help you

Writing- write down how your feeling, you could write a poem or a story or in a journal whatever helps you to feel better

Music- listening to music can make you feel better, it can cheer you up and distract your mind and you can sing along to the music (i sometimes do that) just try and make sure its not sad, depressing music it will make you feel worse

Go for a walk- i know you might not feel like going outside because your feeling down or upset but if you go outside and get some fresh air it can help you to calm down or to clear your head

Draw- drawing anything or doodling can help you get out how your feeling, it can distract your mind and you never know you might draw something really good and get your creavitity flowing

Punch a pillow- if your angry punching a pillow can help you get your anger out

Talk to someone- talking to someone when you're feeling down or that you cant cope can help you, whether its talking to a friend or family member or ringing a helpline in confidence it can help you to feel better and like you're not on your own

Reading- reading a book, magazine or comic can help you to distract your mind and think of something else

Get enough sleep- making sure you get enough sleep can help you feel better, if you're tired and not getting enough sleep it can make you feel worse so try and get at least 8 hours sleep a night

Eating healthy- try and eat healthy (i know it boring to eat healthy) but getting fruit and vegetables in your system can make you feel a bit better but having too much caffine and sugary food will make you feel worse

i hope some of these help you

alex

These are some quotes that might help you or cheer you up they might help me when I’m feeling down so maybe they will help you.

•Scares show where you have been they do not determine where you are going

•Stop and listen to your inner voice

•Stay connected to those who love you

•Always have a positive attitude and an excuse for everything

•Don’t let the twists and turns of life get you down

•Is it me of is everyone else crazy?

•Have the courage to be yourself

•Sometimes it’s better to just smile and nod

•Try and focus on what’s important

•Life is a great big canvas throw all the paint on it you can

•If you can dream it you can do it

•Creativity is inventing experimenting growing, taking risks, breaking rules making mistakes and having fun

•The word ‘impossible’ is black ‘I can’ is like a flame of gold

•Be true to yourself and the rest will follow

•If you want to stand out don’t be different be outstanding

•Follow your heart

•Do things you're good at

•Any decision is better than no decision

•Don’t compare yourself to others

•Don’t beat yourself up

•Accept that life has its ups and downs

•Every night reflect on the ‘good’ things about your day

•Believe in yourself

•Value who you are right now

A water bearer in China had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole which he carried across his neck.

One pot had a crack in it, while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water. At the end of the long walk from the stream to the house, the cracked pot arrived only half full.

For a full two years this went on daily, with the bearer delivering only one and a half pots full of water to his house.

Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments for which it was made.

But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable that it was able to accomplish only half of what it had been made to do.

After 2 years of what it perceived to be a bitter failure, it spoke to the water bearer one day by the stream... ‘I am ashamed of myself, because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your house’.

The bearer said to the pot, ‘Did you notice that there were flowers only on your side of the path, but not on the other pot’s side?’’ That’s because I have always known about your flaw, and I planted flower seeds on your side of the path. Every day while we walk back, you’ve watered them. For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table ‘without you being just the way you are, there would not be this beauty to grace the house’’.

Moral: Each of us has our own unique flaw. We’re all cracked pots. But it’s the cracks and flaws we each have that make our lives together so very interesting and rewarding. You must take each person for what they are, and look for the good in each one.