Weight Loss the Old Style Way! Part 7. Please read posts 1 and 2 before posting.

floyd

The first one is my favourite sausage casserole recipe and its so hearty I just serve it with steamed cabbage, cauli and peas as it doesnt need potatoes or any other starch portion. It makes enough for 4 normal portions or 3 big portions. A normal portion is just under 500 calories if you buy good quality pork sausages and it works well with cumberland or pork and leek. The second recipe is an old Slimming World recipe that I really used to enjoy but it has more of a tomato flavour but they are quite similar.

Sausage casserole



2 large leeks, sliced
1 garlic clove, minced
6 sausages each cut into 4
4 medium carrots, peeled and diced
5 flat cap mushrooms, sliced
500ml passata
250ml beef stock (I use Knorr Just Boullion)
1/2 cup of red lentils
1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
1 can of cannellini beans
1 bay leaf
2 tsp thyme
salt & pepper

1) Fry leeks and garlic in a large saucepan in a small amount of olive oil until soft. Add the sausage pieces and fry until beginning to brown.

2) Stir in carrots and mushrooms and cook for 2 min. Pour in passata, stock, Worcestershire's sauce, bay leaf, thyme and seasoning. Stir. Simmer for 25 min.

3) Stir in lentils and cook for another 5-10 minutes until starting to soften. Then add cannellini beans and cook for another 5 mins. Regularly stir during these 10 mins or the lentils and beans can catch on the bottom of the pan.


[FONT=&quot]Winter Sausage Casserole[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]6 quorn sausages[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]8oz bacon[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]1 red chilli[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]½ tsp paprika[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]500g passata[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Worcestershire sauce[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Soy sauce[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]1 tsp thyme[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]400g can baked beans[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]300g can cannellini beans[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]300g can borlotti beans[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Oil spray[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]-Cook sausages in oil spray[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]-Cook bacon, chilli and paprika in another pan[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]-Add passata, Worcestershire, soy and thyme to taste[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]-Add sausages and beans and warm through[/FONT]

candlepower_2

Well done everyone on starting and those that have lost.
I have been MIA .weigh in at friends and have put on another 2 lbs...
So today will try again
B-toast with peanut butter and banana
S.hm 3 bean and spring green soup
L-hummus and oat cakes
D-tunna carrots Quinoa
S melonand handfull of seeds.
will try to avoid the booze until weekend.

Eltee12

Hi

Weighed myself today for the first time in months.......aaarrrgh! Had a foot op back in April so was literally off my feet for a couple of months. Obviously have packed on the pounds.


So, starting healthier lifestyle (again)......will be managing with what's lurking indoors until the weekend cos have been away for a week so not much shopping done.

Starting weight 16st 2.25lbs :eek:

The next few days as follows

Today:

B - Apricot jam on toasted turkish bread, mmmmmm, cuppa tea
Sn - Low cal choc n fudge snack bar (sounds like Balpen Bight)
L - Toast n pate mmmmm
Sn - Banana
D - Pasta (not HM, but good quality fresh stuff with arrab-whatchamacallit sauce, on special offer), followed by fruit n yog.

Exercise:
25 mins walk to bus stop this morning, same again tonight.

Plan for Tomorrow

B - Supermarket own brand wheat biscuits, sug & milk, coffee
Sn - apple with honey & yog
L - corned beef salad roll
D - salmon, new spuds, minted mushy peas, broad beans

Exercise:
25 mins walk am; 25 mins walk pm.

Plan for Friday (my non-working-for-a-living day)

B - mushroom omlette, o.j., toast & l/f spread
L - JP n beans
D - fish n chips (it's Friday)
Sn - something cold to wash the fish n chips down!

Exercise:
mega clean out of bedroom
10 mins walk each way to the chippy

rachbc

Right ho - I fell off the wagon at half term and need to get back on. I am currently 10 8 and have a target of 9 4 with an aim to shifting 2lb a week - so 9-10 weeks give or take

Breakie - HM granola
Snack - large iced coffee
Lunch - Quark, spinach and bacon quiche, salad
Dinner - tbc - forgot to take stuff out of freezer this am

Walked about 1 mile this am and will do 2 more this pm

Boodle

Hi everyone. Eltee, I hope your foot is doing ok. Taplady - thanks for the boost! The only problem is, I do housework anyway and my weight is stuck - I don't eat all that badly (I think so anyway ) and push buggy everywhere/balancing and flinging around a huge baby in my arms most of the day (!) so I know that really I need to up the exercise and toning to get anywhere

Today not so great food-wise but a good bit of exercise: 200 sit ups. Played kickabout for about 20 mins with DD - am. 1.4 miles walk, all uphill, pushing 1 baby all of the way and 2 of them together some of the way. Played an hour or so - pm - with girls.

B: Half a bowl of my 30g instant oats made with water + 1 date - the other half went on the floor Banana smothie with 1/3 of a banana and 100ml oat milk.
L: 2 slices of nimble granary, about 3 tbsp full-fat hummus, 6 green olives and 4 cucumber slices. Bowl of watercress, icerberg, carrot + white cabbage. Cup of tea with splash of oat milk + 1 hm choc walnut brownie.
1 and a 1/2 smallish burger buns with 4 veg nuggets + ketchup, and about 1/2 a dozen oven chips. 1 bottle of alcohol-free lager.

Looked this over and, my goodness, it is not like me to not have much fruit n' veg in there. Though dinnertime was unplanned and awkward. Will have a peach, cherry tomato, watercress, iceberg and a couple slivers of tofutti mozzarella as a salad in about 10 minutes

meanmarie

Today I have eaten:

B....Banana, pecan danish, tea;

L..Soup, half roll, haddock, cabbage, turnip, mash, rhubarb crumble, custard, ice-cream, espresso with 1 tsp sugar;

Sn....apple;

D...ate so much at lunch just had ham sandwich, slice bread with red currant jam ( just made so had to test it!)

Marie

CCP

Evening all.

I think the diet might be taking effect - I tried on my new blue trousers while getting ready for work this morning and they're definitely less tight than they were when I bought them a couple of weeks ago. :j

Today I've had:

B - small bowl of muesli with semi-skimmed milk
S - pear
L - cheese, tomato and salad cream roll (:drool:); small portion marinated olives
S - 2 kiwi fruit
D - spinach and goat's cheese lasagne with a tomato and carrot sauce (I used slightly more goat's cheese than I probably should have done, but it was pretty tasty so I'm not going to feel too guilty )

Good luck to everyone with our continued weightloss (hopefully!)

vixtress

hi everyone, am posting from work so it will probably be all 1 paragraph with no smilies or anything, sorry.
didnt get chance to post yesterday and will have to catch up with everyone when i get home.
well yesterday would have been pretty good had it not been for the 1/2 bottle of red that slipped in with dinner ihad:
b, 50g oat cluster cereal.
s, apple
l, pitta bread with loads of roasted veg, 200g punnet of cherries.
s, a couple of tbs of pasta with a sprinkle of cheese when the kids had tea.
t, 1 x pitta with salad and hm thai chicken in yoghurt (made up recipe, very yummy ) 1 square of dark choc. and said 1/2 bottle of red .

today not looking too bad so far.
b, 2 x wh toast with peanut butter.
l, pitta brad with ;loads of roast veg, big bowl of watermelon.

tea will be left over thai chicken and salad in a wrap & NO WINE! will be at karate for 1 1/2 hrs tonight not bad, feeling more 'in the zone' as it were.

hope you are all having a good day.

vix

Boodle

Hi everyone. Definitely not done eating for the day but checking in while I can. CCP, I think the "trouser" test is the best way to judge. Sometimes there might not necessarily be weight-loss but the doing a zip up feels fab! :j

200 sit-ups and a bit of furniture moving-style housework. Will try another 200 situps before bed.

B: 30g instant oats made with water + 1 date. Water to drink.
L: 2 slices nimble granary, 1/2 an avocado, mustard, 4 slices pickled beetroot. 18g bag plain crisps. Also finished baby's sarnie - so 1 slice white bread with about 2 tsp full-fat hummus and about 1 tsp vitalite as well.
T: Cup of tea with splash of oat milk. A tester sliver of hm vanilla oat slice.
Will be veggie curry with 1 "healthy choice"-type mini naan, salad including the other half of the avocado from lunch.

Boodle

meanmarie wrote: »

B....Banana, pecan danish, tea;

My goodness I love pecan danishes so much. My favourite thing (r perhaps the only good thing? )about corporate meetings etc when I was still working was seeing a table laden with coffee and danish pastries....