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Cheap low fat recipes

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  • Pink.
    Pink. Posts: 17,650 Forumite
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    Hi onetomany,

    I've added your thread to an earlier one on low fat recipes to keep the suggestions together.

    This thread may help too:

    Losing Weight Recipes Collection

    Pink
  • palna
    palna Posts: 438 Forumite
    From Monday I want to eat to lose weight and have more energy eat only healthily/low fat food 5 days a week.

    I am a vegetarian at home, eat meat outside the house.

    So what could I have for breakfast lunch and dinner everyday with low fat and no meat or eggs?
  • palna
    palna Posts: 438 Forumite
    looking for simple cheap food love tuna salad for example but cant eat, meat at home
  • Vegan food tends to be naturally low fat so you try some ideas from the vegan thread (here) or lots of vegan websites.

    Breakfast
    Try porridge made with water but add a splash of milk (dairy free if you want to be really low fat) and sugar/syrup at the end to make it taste richer. Also add some bananas, stewed fruit, etc for vitamins and tastiness.
    Smoothies are an excellent way of filling up without fat. Just blend bananas, berries and juice. Or make a 'thickie' oats, dairy free milk, and fruit (banana/berries/etc).
    I generally eat some nuts at breakfat. Though not strictly low fat, they're good fat and will help you stay much fuller than a fat free breakfast. In fact this is generally true. A tiny portion of nuts/seeds and dried fruit is a much more filling snack than 'fat free' cookies etc.

    Lunch
    Homemade vegetable and lentil soup and bread.
    Bean pates or low fat hummus and pitta bread with salad.
    3 bean salad
    Couscous/quinoa and roasted veggies and fresh herbs.
    A big salad bowl of veggies, grains and a low fat protein such as tofu or cooked pulses. All covered in a tasty dressing and sprinkled with some toasted seeds.

    Dinner
    Well, anything veggie and low fat really. Generally avoid cheese as it's really high fat!
  • rosie383
    rosie383 Posts: 4,981 Forumite
    My favourite lunch at the mo is a few ryvita spread with a bit of yeast extract and cottage cheese on top. Really tasty and takes a while to eat so it feels like you have had a lot.
    If I fancy something sweet, then I would have maybe banana cut up with a few spoonsful of nice yoghurt over it.
    The 'chosen for you' range of yoghurts from asda are reduced to 50p for the big tub, and they are the nicest yoghurts we have ever tasted. Because they are in big pots, and so full of flavour, they are lasting us longer, as we will maybe have a couple of spoonsful of maybe coconut and of banana on our fruit, rather than a whole pot each. The lemon one is delicious too.
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  • adelight
    adelight Posts: 2,658 Forumite
    Do you eat a lot of pulses? Bean based dishes are extremely filling and tasty. There are a lot of vegan/vegetarian indian recipes(not just curry!!!) that use some pulses you might not normally know what to do with, you can easily omit the oil from dishes- mung bean soup, various dals. Try swapping normal potato for sweet potato or plantain, will keep eating healthy more exciting and both of these are better for you than normal white potatoes.
    Avoid too much oil, too many nuts, sugar, full fat cheese, and you'll find most vegan dishes are very healthy.

    For breakfast porridge and fruit w/yoghurt are good options, or porridge pancakes can be made without egg (make up a bowl of porridge with oats and cold milk, leave in the fridge overnight and dry fry like normal pancake batter, great with chopped fruit in it).
    Living cheap in central London :rotfl:
  • palna wrote: »
    So what could I have for breakfast lunch and dinner everyday with low fat and no meat or eggs?

    If you want to lose weight, you could join the OS Lose Weight thread :) As this has fallen from the front page of OS, I'll add it to the existing thread to give you more ideas.
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  • I was looking for a recipe for baked bananas and stumbled across this site http://www.skinnytaste.com/2009/10/baked-bananas.html.

    It has loads and loads of low fat recipes....I made the baked bananas and they were scrummy.

    The site is American and I don't understand the points system they use for the recipes but they do look rather delicious.

    Farf x
  • recipes look fab xx
  • Apparently the points in the recipes are weightwatchers points.

    I am going to make the cauliflower soup and mashed sweet potato brulee tomorrow.

    Farf x
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