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confused57

JanCee wrote: »

I wonder if any of you can help me with a SW recipe. It is a lamb & spinach curry(saag gosht) from the May/June 2011 edition of the SW magazine. I have cooked it before & was planning to do it again this weekend but now I can't find the mag and I think I may have thrown it away.

Many thanks in advance.

P.S. it is on page 65 of May/June 2011 if anyone still has it.

SAAG GOSHT

2 lamb leg steaks, all visible fat removed, cut into 1 inch/2.5 cm pieces
1 small onion, finely cubed
1 garlic clove, finely chopped
1 inch/2.5 cm piece fresh root ginger, finely grated
1 red chilli, deseeded and finely chopped, reserving some to garnish
2 tbsp mild or medium curry powder
5 oz/142 g frozen spinach, defrosted and roughly chopped
9 fl oz/255 ml chicken or lamb stock
1 cinnamon stick
2 cardamom pods, crushed
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Lime wedges to serve

METHOD

Preheat oven to 180 degrees C/350 /gas 4. Place the lamb, onion, garlic, ginger, chilli, curry powder and spinach in a flameproof casserole dish. Add the stock, cinnamon stick and cardamom pods. Season well and stir to combine.

Bring the lamb mixture to the boil. Cover tightly and cook in the oven for 45 - 50 minutes or until the sauce is thickened and the meat is tender. Remove from the oven, sprinkle over the reserved chillies and serve with lime wedges.

JanCee

Thank you so much confused57 for going to the trouble of finding that for me. I have written it down now so I can stop searching for the magazine.

I can highly recommend this recipe if anyone wants to try it. The quantities given are only for 1 but I just increased it to serve 4 and froze a couple of portions. It freezes very well, I also bought a leg fillet of lamb rather than steaks because it worked out cheaper.

sarahs999

Just wanted to introduce myself... I started SW for the first time two days ago. Doing it online and finding it quite difficult to keep track of As and Bs at the moment but I guess it'll become clearer as I find things I like.

I want to lose just over a stone; I did Alizonne over a year ago and have kept most of the weight off, but a series of weekends away, birthdays, holidays and general laxity has meant that I'm now nine pounds over my goal weight. Which is nothing, in the grand scheme of things (I've lost nearly five stone since my heaviest point!) but I'm desperate not to do that creeping thing where you think it's Ok, and then suddenly you wake up right back where you started. Been there before..

I've also decided to take my goal weight a bit lower than it was originally I was only 1 pound inside the normal BMI range and it meant that every time I put a couple of pounds on I was offically 'fat' again, which is not great psychologically! It was a goal set by Alizonne and was always meant to be movable, depending on how I felt when I got there.

I've had a look at the recipe thread which has some nice ideas; I wondered if there are any threads or sites anywhere that have good SW packed lunches? I work full time and we have no microwave, only a fridge, so it would have to be something that doesn't need heating up....

maman

I'm a fan of pasta salads at lunchtime sarah, or the obvious sandwich. With the weather likely to turn cooler, it might be worth getting a food flask so you can take a warming, filling HM soup to have with them.

I'm very lazy with HEs. My HEB (easy to remember because B stands for Bread) is almost always bread but occasionally porage or cereal. I have Puffed Wheat as you get a huge portion compared with other cereals. I've never bothered to make cereal up with crispbread to the full HEB as instructed. Technically if you don't have all your HE you should syn the bit you do have but I've never bothered. For HEA, I almost always have SS milk but occasionally have Laughing Cow light/extra light with it. That's not often as I only buy them when they're on offer.:)

Sorry to tell you about bad habits when you've only just started:o I always though that if I hit a plateau I would start measuring milk properly, eat Scan Bran_pale_ etc. but it never happened.

Definitely eating SW today (although a few syns) as I had a meal out last night and another planned for tomorrow.

EE menu:
B: NAS squash, 2 boiled eggs, HEB toast, HEA milk for teas
L: tomato & cucumber sandwich
baked cod, SW chips, tomatoes, cauli & broccoli cheese
Syns: weekend wine:j tbsp cornflour, tsp spread, cheese (shared with DH)

confused57

JanCee wrote: »

Thank you so much confused57 for going to the trouble of finding that for me. I have written it down now so I can stop searching for the magazine.

I can highly recommend this recipe if anyone wants to try it. The quantities given are only for 1 but I just increased it to serve 4 and froze a couple of portions. It freezes very well, I also bought a leg fillet of lamb rather than steaks because it worked out cheaper.

You're welcome. It was no trouble. I am going to try it myself, thanks. x

confused57

It's quiet on here lately, only 7 posts today so far (and two of them were mine!). Where is everyone?

dizzyk

:j:j:jHellooooo folks

Just a quickie from the Dizzy one...... I've just landed back from my doggie sitting duties - but the soaps are on & I want my tea

I'l have a catch up on the posts & be back later x x

alm721

piglet74 wrote: »

well good for you!! thats fantastic :A
i had 3 syn free days last week (tho i just lost 1lb) and every day this week has been syn free, but i have chinese takeaway tomorro nite, tho its my lunch and dinner and syns all rolled into one,
i am not finding it a bit hard so far, at 15.06.05 i have a good 4 stone to loose, tho at the mo my target is 12.12, only cause when i initially started at 18.1, i was scared out of my wits to make a final target, as i thought...OMG...:eek: 7 Stone to loose...i just could not think that far away with scaring the hell outta myself:D

when i get down around 12.7 i will have a rethink on the final target,

do you exercise much? did you before hand?

good luck with ur SW journey xxx;)

I haven't even thought about a final target, as it would prbably scare me. I'm just taking it in small chunks and setting smaller targets like loosing a stone/getting my club 10 etc.

I have started exercising. I'm going to the gym once a week. TBH I had gone to my GP and asked her to refer me for gastric surgery as I really felt I had gone too far to be able to get back. Due to funding our pct won't refer anyone unless they first follow something called the 'live well' programme. It's a 6 month programme where you get to meet a fitness/diet instructor once a week who tracks you'r weight, gives you advice on diet/excercise and does some exercise with you.

She refered me for it and I started about the same time as I joined SW. TBH its been brilliant. I meet my instructor once a week at the gym and she does some excercise with me, so it does keep me motivated to go, and I probably would never have gone in by myself for the first time. I am so pleased she didn't refer me for surgery as I know now that I can do this myself, and I had really given up all hope.

Since I've been doing that I've also started swimming once a week:eek: Despite proabably terrifying anyone else in there I really enjoy it. After I'd gone the first time it was really not bad. I go on a night when it's the adult only swim and it's usually really quiet. In fact I've just got back about 1 hour ago.

I'm also walking more, we walk to the pub on a Sunday, rather then take the car, it's only a couple of miles but it all helps. I've also got a pedometer which has been brill as it's really surprising how much/little I do on certain days, depending on wether I'm working or not, and having just makes me that bit more concious of doing more.

I really feel so much better after doing some exercise,and It really helps stop me thinking about going off the rails, although to be honest, so far thats not reallt been a problem.:)

Flat_Eric

piglet74 wrote: »

i have started to take green tea with cranberry today, is it true it helps you loose weight?

how many cups should you drink a day?

A stand in consultant we had once mentioned the benefits of drinking green tea. I don't remember him saying it helps you lose weight - I think he said that it aids digestion. He suggested having a cup after meals.

I guess - have as many or as few as you like ? I can take or leave green tea and haven't had any in ages.

WeBeBroke

Hi All,
Can I join in? I've just signed up for the Online Slimming World membership as I can't make the commitment to classes. Has anyone done this before? I'm not technically too bad (just over 25 BMI) but it's a struggle to stay at this weight and I keep putting on a couple of pounds and then struggling to lose them. I'd lose one of the pounds but keep one until the next weight gain IYSWIM. So I'm really trying to lose around 10 lbs and stop the weight creep.

I do quite a bit of exercise (run 12-15 miles a week and swim 2K) but I tend to eat to compensate - this is my downfall because the weeks where I don't manage to get in so much exercise are the weeks I put on a couple of pounds. So I'm obviously overeating and sleepwalking my way to obesity.

Anyway, sorry for the waffle - I'm hoping the eyewatering £79.95 it cost for 3 months membership will shame me into sticking with it. It's not very MSE at all but it's mostly to give myself a kick in the *rse!

Right I'm off to spend a leisurely morning looking at the SW site and learning the ropes until my boys start the daily nag:D

WBBx