d**t food inspiration please

pinkypig

carrieparkinson wrote: »

:rotfl: its all good... yesterdays yellow jellys had a disturbing effect!kinda wanna get rid of it asap!!! the nuggets are mcds ones but rejects (mishapes) and oven cooked on a grill pan so im hoping the damage re calories is limited...

i like chicken soup/ tomato soup (both heinz cream of or weight watchers from heinz ones) mushroom at a push if the shrooms arent big. and mulligatawny

Hi Carrie

Have you ever made your own soup ? It's really easy and you can hide loads of veg if you don't like it much. It also really fills you up and is a low cal snack if you are peckish between meals.

Other things I find useful are sugar free jelly (add fruit if you can stand to) or mix in a spoon ful of low fat natural yogurt and you get sort of a mousse.

Do you like cream cheese? The Aldi lighter ones are eally nice and good value too.

Best of luck with your challenge

PP xx

thehappybutterfly

These basics should all be in your cupboard:

• Tinned tomatoes/passatta - the base for many a dish, soup curry chilli bolog, even just mince and tatties
• turkey mince - lower in fat than beef and stays nice and chunky. Makes fab burgers!
• sweet potatoes - tastier than white potatoes and a good low fat ingredient for curry
• Butternut squash - again, a fantastic base for curry, soup, baked as a main dish
• sugar free jelly - always have it made up to pick at if you're fridge-lurking!
• UHT skimmed milk - 'thicker' than fresh skimmed and much much nicer than it used to be!
• granary bread - one slice is way more filling than three slices of that airy-fairy diet stuff
• beans - all kinds. Kidney, baked, borlotti, chickpeas, soya. If you buy them dried, follow the instructions and batch cook them, they can be frozen and used straight from the freezer in chilli, soup etc. Cheap, low fat and filling.
• Fruit tea - with a drizzle of honey to sweeten. Thirst-quenching and if you're like me and reach for a biscuit every time you have a coffee, a godsend. Tip - let it steep for at least 10 minutes and leave the bag in while you're drinking it. It needs to be strong to taste right. Many people make the mistake of treating fruit tea the same as regular tea - a 2 minute dunk ain't enough!
• Veggies - grate carrots into bolognese, remember that all beans count towards your 5 a day, white potatoes don't, celeriac makes a good alternative to mashed potato.

ETA: avoid all WW sauces etc. Awful awful things. Tasteless, sugary, not always the lowest in fat/calories and also very expensive! Same with the diet versions of beans and things - maybe lower in fat but higher in salt and sugar.

dandy-candy

If you must eat nuggets, for goodness sake make your own and don't eat processed ones!
Small portions is great, but what are you eating in the way of fibre? You need that and a lot to be healthy and push all the waste out of your body. Different veggies are very different, just like meats, and try not to let yourself be put of by manky school dinner versions! Are there any vegetarian restaurants near you where you could try a few bits? If veggies really make you retch and you can't face them, at least eat plenty of fruit.
Some foods take getting used to. The first few times I tried eating
bran flakes to be healthy I hated them, so I made my self have a tiny 2 spoonfuls each morning and then they grew on me. I love them now and look forward to brekkie!
Good luck with the diet

SwipernoSwiping

Chris25 wrote: »

carrie, you can still have yoghurt - just need to make sure it's very low fat. The 0% greek yoghurt is lovely

I found (being almost 7 stone lighter if you include gains) that the switch from full fat full sugar to 0 Fat and 0 sugar was near impossible to do. But like Chris says, the greek ones are the best for me. Shape 0% rhubarb and apple is quite nice for the sweet toothed folk The greek mullers are a bit of alright too. Some of those low fat yoghurts have a lot of sugar in to make up for it, others are packed with sweetners.

If you like pasta and potato, google some of the Slimming World Extra Easy menu ideas - as much pasta, rice and potato as you like- or check their website out there are some free menus on the main part of the site. You don't have to join. They do specify that you do have 1/3 of your plate as greens and such. But you could use fruits and the various selections of what you will suffer. Their spag bol is dead easy and cheap if you drain the fat off the cheaper minced meats. Use the slow cooker to make a big batch of the sauce up, use it for lasagne and cowboy pie. Blend carrots, sweetcorn, spinach, add it to your sauce for nutrients.
Breakfast - try a vanilla yoghurt on weetabix, try alpro milk (sweetened) in your coffee Not quite as delish as cream but better than SS milk.:D S'good on a bowl ful of porridge too.

Are you a sausage fan? - M&S do some lovely reduced fat pork sausages that go nice with chips (Tefal actifry )
Just a few ideas for you to be going on with - good luck!

pennypusher

Have you thought about exercise classes in the swimming pool. Some places do water resistant classes, that might be helpful to you.

carrieparkinson

Hi again n thanks just done 25 mins on the punishment cycle to work off the slice of oh's bday cake.... I know... I shouldnt have... But id have normally got a can of lager out n drank that while watchin tv after.

Few ppl at work go slimming world. Will poke about n c what i can muster

cream cheese... Is that cheese spread? I can do dairylea or philly or primula.....on ryvita mmmmm

uht skimmed.. is that in tetra pack? I call that plastic milk i have that in my cuppas at work.
Granary bread... Is that the stuff that looks like its been at the bottom if a budgie cage? Never had ut b4 but it looks nice
my fruitintakes better.. gone from the free piece from work a month to 3/4portions a day :

Fruit tea... I used to have rasperry leaf whrn preg with ds n dd2... Wasnt that bad ... Any reccomendations on flavours?

Thanks again




never seen turkey mince b4* will have a look as im making a shepherds pie for him n kids to eat one night next wk as im at work til 8.
*i have had many failed attempts at soup...it goes stodgy in the pan n tastes of burnt flour... Even the cat wont entertain the chicken after...:-[

carrieparkinson

My typings all over as im in the bath soaking my legs.

Local pools just down the road but classes are b4 i finish work. :-(

baconandcabbage

carrieparkinson wrote: »

i get a bit of help from the gp. hes prescribed me xenical and i c a practice nurse once a month to get moaned at/ weighed. she gave me a sheet of paper with a list of stuff i can eat n how many times a week i can eat it but a list doesnt make a meal iygwim....
the groups are no good as theyre during work hours (i do a 40 hr a week, anything between 8am - 8pm 7 days a week on a 15 week rolling rota).

will google the rosemary stuff thanks

You will NOT be able to eat all foods on Xenical check out minimins (google it) if you eat too much fat in your diet your going to get the Tango effect. You can't have eggs/cheese/butter you can eat no more than 45g of fat per day

baconandcabbage

carrieparkinson wrote: »

ive hears cathedral citry lites nice ...
slices as in prepacked proper or the plastic cheese slices?

The laughing Cow cheese spread is the only one you can have on those tablets as far as i know

room512

We always used to grate a block of cheese and use that in sandwiches as you use far less than if it's sliced - so money saving too!
Just eaten 0% Total fat free greek yogurt for the first time - it's lovely, absolutely gorgeous and has no added sugar or preservatives. Expensive though - but worth every penny!