Lose Weight 7

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dihunny wrote:

Hi Honey,

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Honey
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madauri

Honey, I've got a slow cooker and I adore it.
I use it mainly to prepare dinner while I am out. Yesterday morning I chucked in a couple of pieces of chicken, some celery, spices, some onions and a can of tomato and switched it on. Went to work. Came from work, switched it off... dinner is ready!
Lovely to make pot and not have to check it!

Eels100

honey28 wrote:

Consultant - I've been thinking about getting a slow cooker for a while now. Would you recommend it? What sort of things do you make in yours?
Anyone else use them?

YES, loads and yes!

With the hours I work I find the slow cooker a godsend. To give you an idea of what I make, here are my favourites:

Beef/venison browned off then added to pot with onions, vegetables, and seasoning and cooked all day. A couple of hours before serving pop a layer of new potatoes over the top - they will absorb the flavours and you don't need any more pans!

Gammon joint - trim off any fat then cook slowly in water - makes delicious stock and the meat is melt-in-the-mouth.

Bolognaise sauce - because it's cooked so gently the flavours are fabulous.

It's also a really good way to use up old veg/add more veg to your diet/bulk out expensive meat dishes with veg, because the veg absorb the flavours and are less noticeable! I suspect the length of time cooking may make them a bit less nutritious but it's easy enough to blanch some cabbage or broccoli to go with a stew.

I know you can get slow cookers where the pot can be used as a pan in its own right, which means you can brown off any meat and then transfer the pot straight to the slow cooker base. Saves washing up!

I can honestly say it's one of the easiest ways to eat healthily when you hav got no time, because even the least appealing ultra-healthy cardboard-flavour foods seem so tasty when cooked this way! :T

moiracm

Hiya everyone

Hope you are all doing ok? Have had another good day by keeping myself busy - you wouldn't beleive how clean my house is and how organised I am lol and have had lots of time with the little one too!!

It's part of my 'plan' that consultant spoke about last week. I identified that the times I fall of the wagon are when I am bored and/or tired - so the plan is to keep busy and stave off that feeling instead - which is a two way thing cause then I don't eat rubbishy snacks and I am using more energy which should hopefully = weightloss.

Once I have this sussed my next plan is shopping snacks and how to beat them - you know the coffee and chocolate twist in Costa, Suasage sarnie in Tesco cafe etc as those are my treats for doing chores like the weekly supermarket shop lol

Consultant - I will go for the challenge with your group. I am going to try Sweet Potato. I have bought it several times but had the Madauri experience of letting it forment in the veg basket only to see the cold light of day into the bin!!!! So I am going to dig out a recipie and see what happens.

Tallgirl - I like you would have assumed a 7pm meeting meant some sort of refreshments even if it was just sarnies. Hope you had a better time tonight.

Jenpoptab - well done on the 1.5lb loss - laughed re the hands in the air and dropping another 1.5lb :rotfl: Only 1lb away from your healthy BMI in just 14 weeks that is terrific.

Eels - thanks for the tracker. I will use that too now I am not going to SW classes anymore.

Rachel - 0.5lb off well done and especially since you have had a bad week with family issues and work. Chin up and good luck for next week.

Maduari - the veg and fruit bit I can totally identify with. I love both but sometimes even when I plan my good intentions of using the plums, or the asaragus to make 'X' never really comes to fruition - I hate to think how much salad I ditched over the summer as it went off before I got round to eating it.
Now I have decided to do two shops a week for fruit and veg buying a little at a time and only what I need - also buying frozen where possible to save on waste.

Oakdale minx - good luck on your first target - Lois runs a 2lb weight loss club which we record our losses on and she has just set up and Xmas target club. I am sure she will be happy to add you to the list if you wish.

Hope you all have a good day tomorrow.

madauri

How much water for the gammon, Eels? I don't put water in my slow cooked stews because since there is no evaporation it becomes watery anyway.

Lois_Lane

honey28 wrote:

I've been thinking about getting a slow cooker for a while now. Anyone else use them?

My slow cooker is a life saver, and it's a great way to eat healthily - I often make up some quorn chilli in the morning, then all I need to do is cook some rice to go with it. Another thing I often do in the winter is vegetable soup - there are two WW soup recipes that I've combined, I make a batch and take it to work for lunch. I'll have to dig out the recipe and put it on the recipes thread. I cooked a joint of beef in it on Sunday, and tomorrow I'm planning to do a beef casserole - the aim is to make enough for two meals and freeze half, but I'll have to make sure OH doesn't go back for seconds!

And the other thing I do is vegetable curry - there's a good recipe for it on the recipes thread - I fry the onions and spices to get the full flavour, then add the tinned tomatoes, chick peas, and kidney beans and bring back to the boil before adding it to the slow cooker with the potatoes and carrots. It makes loads - OH and I don't have anything else, but for a family you could pad it out with boiled rice or couscous.

You do need to allow some time in the mornings to do the preparation, although some of it can be done the night before if you're really pushed.

I recommend buying the largest you can find - it's better if they're too big rather than not big enough.

LL

jenpoptab

Thanks everyone, sorry started typing individually but lost it then couldn't be bothered to type all your names again- sorry

Anyway, thanks for all your positive comments, I'm sooooo pleased, and may even wear a bikini on hols- I bought so many cheap ones but wasn't sure if I'd be brave enough. Anyway nobody will know me apart from OH and DD1 & 2, so I will see how I feel when I get there!

JenI, glad you liked the wedding pics. I may try my wedding dress sometime soon to see how different it looks on me now.

Good luck everyone this week- and remember wave your hands in the air if you want to cheat and get another lb off , he he

Jen

Lara

honey28 wrote:

Consultant - I've been thinking about getting a slow cooker for a while now. Would you recommend it? What sort of things do you make in yours?
Anyone else use them?

I have two, a 6.5 ltr and a smaller one which is good if you want to make smaller meals or dessert. If you go on the Money Saving thread you'll find loads of information about them. Cick on the recipe index, slow cooker and you'll find invaluable information. Now autumn is on it's way you'll wonder how you mananged without it.:j

JenIttels

Thanks Madauri, that was interesting. In some sense it's maybe discriminating but I'm not sure on that (and although you don't see overweight models I doubt that they're actually banned in this way - they're discrimnated against much earlier on). It's got to be a good thing though - can't believe these women would damage their health for their career.

OT...welcome and good luck to Oakdale!

madauri

JenI, the current state of things is discriminating. Against the immense majority of women and against health. The measure they are supposed to introduced now is for safety. I don't find it discriminating because the sort of women designers require these days simply does not exist in nature. Happy girls start a career in modelling to exploit their natural beauty and lean, graceful bodies, and if they are successful they find themselves forced to lose their health in order to satisfy some sort of sadistic instinct that moves designers to require skeletons on their catwalks.