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bramble1

tori.k wrote: »

www.weightwatchers.co.uk/food/index.aspx try a gander at this bramble1

i dont follow weight watchers as a rule but they do have some great non rabbit food recipes and there no point soup is lovely, would your other half eat veggie mince? that a good way of cutting alot of cals/fat from spag bol or cottage pie.
cheese is my biggest downfall but found a low fat soft cheese heated up with skimmed milk make's an ok cheese sauce for veg.
I found it was better for me to change the way i cooked food and portion control (in bold to remind me as mine has gone thru the roof) works better then the whole deprivation thing.

Thanks tori, i think i could con him into eating veggie mince..i just won't tell him what it is!

I really need to work on portion control! My problem is that most reciepes etc are for more than 2 people, but instead of having 2 portions left we divvy the food up between two of us! even giving OH a double portion I should still have food left over for lunch the next day.

Alexnikov

bramble1 wrote: »

Has anyone got any meal ideas they can suggest? I need lunch and dinner ones, but the dinner ones need to be filling and something that my OH won't immediatley realise is 'diet' food! - oh and cheap!!

I'm not very inspired with my menu planning I'm afraid! One of my resolutions is to learn at least one new main course recipe per month but this is the house of food allergies so quite a lot of things aren't allowed.

Having said that, here are some things I usually have:

Lunches

Sandwiches (using the mini sized loaves) and a packet of Walkers Baked crisps
Two pieces of mini toast with one of those mini tins of beans & sausage/ravioli/etc
Occasionally baked potato with topping (although it's all about finding out what works for you cos I've quickly established that baked potatoes don't fill me up!)
Leftovers from the night before, minus the carby part of the meal.
Porridge
Sometimes as a treat one of the M&S miso ramen noodle soup pots (what I like to call posh pot noodles :rotfl: )
Homemade veggie soup or if I've run out, tinned soup. Can't recommend homemade soup enough really, it's the easiest thing to make and tastes delicious.
Poached egg on toast.

Dinners

(bearing in mind I don't like pasta or fish, can't eat dairy and am [STRIKE]quite[/STRIKE] very lazy when it comes to thinking of stuff to cook I'm sure others can suggest much better alternatives)

Quite a lot of the stuff I have for lunch (soup with extra bread etc)
Veg frittata - can really recommend this too, dead easy to make and delish.
Any type of meat and steamed veg, sometimes with a very small portion of McCain's rustic oven chips (tasty and not very calorific if you're careful about how many you have)
Free From thai green/chicken korma curry and a mini portion of rice
A rather random but very tasty concoction of chicken, veg (usually courgettes, onion, pepper, mushrooms) and a Knorr chicken stock pot to make up a sauce, with rice or sometimes a few chips.
Sausage and mash (although sausages are a bit naughty so I don't have this often)
Gammon, new potatoes and veg
Casseroles
Bacon, chopped onions, cherry toms and mushrooms.
And in the freezer as an "I can't be arsed cooking" alternative, Weight Watchers chicken dumpling casserole which is delish and only about 250 cals.


Admittedly I'm only cooking these for two people and we're both losing weight so I don't have the hassle of trying to please a whole family when it comes to meals. Bramble, perhaps you can cook your usual stuff for dinners and just bulk it up with veg and/or serve yourself smaller portions?


Oh and I will just say that cutting down on alcohol has really helped. I didn't ever drink that much anyway but it's just empty calories and most of the time now I'd rather have more food than a drink if it's a choice between the two!

sparklymessygirl

I agree wholeheartedly with the portion control - when I lived as a student with just women I was so tiny but into my second decade with OH I find I am competing with him and his mansize portions.
(Just looked at the Hungarian Goulash soup - WW online - 2 points - looks tasty)

I am normally quite fit although sick with flu for the last month or so - to get back in the mood for the gym and training I am watching http://www.bodyrock.tv/
I would love to be as fit and toned as she is - I find it very inspiring to watch her! She trains for just 15-20 minutes a day but in a super-intensive way.

Sparkly

coco1980

i am planning on making lasagne this week, was going to use turkey mince and i have brown pasta sheets(yous know what i mean i hope) but im really not sure about how to make a healthy sauce any ideas much appreciated

milann

Can I join too please Dragon

I need to lose about a stone and a half. I was ill a few years ago with a perforated bowel and had several bouts of surgery. I lost loads of weight at the time (too much) but have struggled with my digestion ever since - hospital says it is muscular and doesn't really make much difference what I put in - if the muscles can't work they don't push out the other end!! - I took this as my ticket to eat 'anything' as I was fed up with it all - I am now very nearly up to my weight before I was ill which was about 2 stone overweight - it won't sound a lot to some peple but I am under 5ft and a small frame - so carrying it all around my middle - which is uncomfortable as I have a lot of scarring.

A couple of weeks before Christmas I started a new treatment which so far so good seems to be doing the trick for me. I don't feel nearly as bloated as I did and tummy feels fairly flat in comparison to before....so all I need to do now is get rid of the fat and tone it up best I can - 'simples' LOL

I use a side plate - oh laughs as he says I just pile it higher!! My downfall is nibbling - don't mind whether it's choccy, crisps or fruit or biscuit!! I think I'm going to try little and often and not ban myself from anything but take things in moderation - see EASY - lol lol - IF ONLY!!!!!!!!

Will be wii fitting too.

Milann

jack92

Just weighed in on the wii fit at 11st 11lbs, so that's my start weight.

On the subject of portion size, I use a smaller dinner plate than dh and I weigh almost everything for myself apart from veggies.

Coco1980 - Asda do a really good white sauce mix (around 40p per packet) which is made up with water rather than milk which you could use as the white sauce for the lasagne. Cathedral City do a reduced fat mature cheddar which is the best light option cheddar I've ever tasted, melts really well too unlike some of the other reduced fat cheeses. As for the tomato-based sauce, you could make some up with chopped tinned tomatoes, garlic, onion, herbs and a bit of sugar if it's a bit acidic. If you can't be bothered with that then I really like the Ragu onion/garlic sauce and it's only around 60 cals per 1/4 jar.

Hope that helps

Nicky
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Edited to add that I'm just checking out bodyrock.tv - she's amazing!

lostinrates

re menu planning, it helps me that I only have to ''worry'' about feeding DH three days a week, and that he is really supportive, and a healthy eater anyway. He's Italin though, and I don't do well on pasta at all, so sometimes I make things that I eat alone and that he adds pasta too...e.g. roast mediterranean vegetables I eat s they are and he adds pasta too, and salmon, can quickly be broken up and form the major part of a five minute suace.

We are also reasonably adventurous eaters: shell fish, which are great for me, are DH's favourite, and mussels can be served with a variety of sauces and some bread for him, or indeed some pasta (pasta al cozze or al vongole or whatever shellfish we have got).

A big trick I think, is to recognise that eating patterns have to change for life, and that being braver about eating might be part of that



We just had a squi stirfry (rabbit food ) I'm not keen on stirfry TBH, but it was quick and I really fancied squid. I added some spinach noodles to DH's squid and veg.

coco1980

jack92 wrote: »

Just weighed in on the wii fit at 11st 11lbs, so that's my start weight.

On the subject of portion size, I use a smaller dinner plate than dh and I weigh almost everything for myself apart from veggies.

Coco1980 - Asda do a really good white sauce mix (around 40p per packet) which is made up with water rather than milk which you could use as the white sauce for the lasagne. Cathedral City do a reduced fat mature cheddar which is the best light option cheddar I've ever tasted, melts really well too unlike some of the other reduced fat cheeses. As for the tomato-based sauce, you could make some up with chopped tinned tomatoes, garlic, onion, herbs and a bit of sugar if it's a bit acidic. If you can't be bothered with that then I really like the Ragu onion/garlic sauce and it's only around 60 cals per 1/4 jar.

Hope that helps

Nicky
x

Nicky
thank you i will def give this a try

The_Dragon

I managed to get through 1,380 kcals yesterday so was really pleased with myself (not sure what the dietician will make of it though as most of the day seemed to be mugs of tea :rotfl:)

Filling dinners - get some cheap meat (skirt for instance) and slow cook it with loads of diced veggies (carrot, turnip, swede, onion), bit of red wine for flavour if wanted if not then beef stock (or chicken or pork or lamb depending on your original meat!), dish it up with mash and you take more of the veggies and some meat and give your OH more of the meat and some veggies! Try steaming some leafy greens to go alongside to fill the plate up and make it look more for less (IYSWIM),

Economy Gastronomy had a cheats white sauce using a tub of Philly - if you used the low fat one (maybe with herbs or black pepper in it) that should make a good lasagne sauce (will see if I can dig it out in a bit!)

Milann - welcome to the madhouse and I will just go and add you to the starting post!

coco1980

The_Dragon wrote: »

I managed to get through 1,380 kcals yesterday so was really pleased with myself (not sure what the dietician will make of it though as most of the day seemed to be mugs of tea :rotfl:)

Filling dinners - get some cheap meat (skirt for instance) and slow cook it with loads of diced veggies (carrot, turnip, swede, onion), bit of red wine for flavour if wanted if not then beef stock (or chicken or pork or lamb depending on your original meat!), dish it up with mash and you take more of the veggies and some meat and give your OH more of the meat and some veggies! Try steaming some leafy greens to go alongside to fill the plate up and make it look more for less (IYSWIM),

Economy Gastronomy had a cheats white sauce using a tub of Philly - if you used the low fat one (maybe with herbs or black pepper in it) that should make a good lasagne sauce (will see if I can dig it out in a bit!)

Milann - welcome to the madhouse and I will just go and add you to the starting post!

we were going to buy philly in asda this morn and changed our minds as we didnt think it would be poss