Slimming World Support for Summer 2014

maman

Hope you enjoy your holiday lush. Your menu sounds great for today. Hope wonderbairn has settled.


I checked out the Chilli con carne recipe. Well spotted saverupper. There are more differences than just the tomatoes.


This is the one that's now on the website:


<li itemprop="ingredients">Low calorie cooking spray<li itemprop="ingredients">1 large red onion, finely chopped<li itemprop="ingredients">2 garlic cloves, crushed<li itemprop="ingredients">2 fresh chillies, deseeded and chopped<li itemprop="ingredients">500g lean beef mince (5% fat or less)<li itemprop="ingredients">2 tsps ground cumin<li itemprop="ingredients">1 tsp ground coriander<li itemprop="ingredients">1 tsp paprika<li itemprop="ingredients">A pinch of cayenne pepper<li itemprop="ingredients">1 green pepper and 1 yellow pepper, chopped<li itemprop="ingredients">4 ripe plum tomatoes, chopped<li itemprop="ingredients">300ml beef stock<li itemprop="ingredients">Salt and freshly ground black pepper<li itemprop="ingredients">400g tin of red kidney beans

'Old' recipe from a booklet dated 2011:

• 1 onion
• 3 garlic cloves
• 1-2tsps paprika
• 1tsp ground cinnamon
• 2tbsp ground cumin
• 511g extra lean mince
• 400g can chopped tomatoes
• 4 celery sticks
• 2 carrots
• salt and pepper
• 400g can of red kidney beans

The way I cook it tends to be a bit of both. I've never used fresh tomatoes but I do crumble in a stock cube. I use peppers and mushrooms as well. Like most recipes I tend to make it up as I go along.;)

RosieRosebud

Afternoon

I haven't been too good on Friday, got together with cousins and decided to order burgers. I thought I'd be ok with a grilled chicken one, with no mayo or chips... Only I wasn't the chicken was really greasy, salad was barely there and I didn't enjoy it one bit. To think I used to love them! Back to homemade food for me
Came home after the burger incident and helped myself to a toffee crisp.

Kept syns to a minimum over the weekend.
Catching up on this thread has given me some motivation - thank you!
WI tonight - feeling nervous but onwards and upwards from now.

Here's the line that needed to be drawn:

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New start from tonight

greentiger

Mildredd –WOTY - you tried to sneak that past us - woo hoo

Saverupper, I have 2 recipes for chilli, both from magazines. Portions are VERY generous for both. My family likes both recipes too.

Beef Chilli con Carne
Serves: 4
1 onion
3 garlic cloves
1 red pepper
1 green pepper
400g can red kidney beans
Fry Light
2 tsp chilli powder
1lb/450g extra lean minced beef
7ozs/198g chestnut mushrooms
400g can chopped tomatoes
salt and freshly ground black pepper
lime wedges, to serve
1. Peel and finely chop the onion and garlic. Deseed and cut the peppers into bite sized pieces. Drain the beans.
2. Spray a large frying pan with Fry Light and stir fry the onion and garlic for 2-3 mins.
3. Add the chilli powder and the beef and stir fry for 5-6 mins. Next add the peppers, mushrooms and tomatoes. Bring to the boil, season well, cover tightly and cook over a low heat for 20-25 mins. Add the beans and stir to mix well then return to the heat for a further 10 mins.
4. Serve with rice and a twist of lime for extra va va voom!

Chunky Chilli with Green Rice
Fry Light
1 large onion, finely chopped
500g extra lean mince
2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
1 red chilli, deseeded and finely chopped
2 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp smoked paprika
½ tsp cayenne pepper
2 carrots, peeled and cut into small pieces
400g can chopped tomatoes
6 tblsp tomato pur!e
300ml beef stock
200g green beans, trimmed and halved
400g can butter beans, drained
400g red kidney beans in chilli sauce

For the Rice
375g dried basmati rice
large handful fresh flat leaf parsley, finely chopped
600ml boiling vegetable stock

1. Place a large heavy based pan sprayed with Fry Light over a medium heat. Add the onion and beef, stir fry for 5-6 mins, then drain off any liquid. Add the garlic, chilli, spices and carrots and stir fry for a further 2-3 mins.
2. Add the tomatoes, tomato pur!e and stock. Stir and bring to the boil. Reduce the heat to low and simmer gently for 15-20 mins, stirring occasionally until the liquid has reduced and the carrots are tender.
3. Meanwhile, simmer the rice and parsley with the vegetable stock in a pan for 10-12 mins, covered. Remove from the heat and leave to stand, covered, for 10 mins.
4. Stir the green beans, butter beans and red kidney beans and sauce into the chilli. Heat gently for 5-6 mins, or until hot through. Divide between 4 plates and serve with the rice.

greentiger

Now for my menu today. Hmmm. I made a mix up in what I was using when I planned this - yes, it was planned - and I didn't even notice until I was cooking dinner!
Breakfast: 1 x wee slice hexb toast, jam (1 syn), banana
Lunch: baked potato stuffed with leeks, mushrooms and hexa cheese, red cabbage
Dinner: macaroni cheese with spring onion, beetroot, 1 wee hexb toast with scrape of butter (3 syns), ML banana & custard yogurt with sliced banana
Snack: choc dig (3 syns)

Thought I'd done well, sharing my toast out. If it had dawned on me, I could have omitted the cheese at lunchtime. As it is, I'll now be way over today's allowance

Oh well, There's always tomorrow.

blue_eyed_girl

joedenise wrote: »

You don't need liquid to use a SC - joints are lovely done in them. I usually put screwed up balls of foil in the bottom and stand the meat on them then any fat drips to the bottom.

Denise

Thanks denise. I was just a bit confused as in the instruction booklet it said that a third of the meat had to be covered with liquid. :undecided I still have my 'L plates' on as far as the SC is concerned.

Mildredd wrote: »

Woman of the year

-2lb

Congratulations Mildred on WOTY and your 2lbs loss.:T

Lioness_Twinkletoes wrote: »

Soggy afternoon here. Have done a load more housework - deep cleaning the living room today. House is looking pretty shiny now.

Weighed this morning -2lb. Pleased with that - especially considering I had -4lb last week AND a sticky toffee pudding!

Menu today:

Brunch - Strawberry granola again. I really love this, it's definitely my go-to weekend breakfast

Dinner - Pot roasted beef with veg and my new SW recipe spuds.

I've made some SW muffins (ham, leek and cheese) and a lemon drizzle cake so not counting Syns today :rotfl:

Oooohhhh sticky toffee pudding - nom nom - drool drool

Great loss twinkletoes. :T


Decided to give the Speed Soup a go tomorrow afternoon as I am going to be carless (MOT :eek:). Checked the cupboard to see what I needed and the only things I needed were a tin of mixed beans and a tin of green lentils. Trotted off to Aldi - no mixed beans and no lentils. Same result at Lidl so will have to go to Asda first thing in the morning. I know there are a lot of Aldi/Lidl converts around but I am not convinced I could do my main shopping there every week. I do use Lidl on a weekend for certain things however. Sorry rant over as I really should be going to bathroom to squeeze the last few drops out before I am off to wi.

b_e_g

Pennylane

Need to shift some weight again but can't get motivated.:(

The thought of having to plan everything is already getting me down.
I could be very good eating lean meat, loads of veg, fruit, fish, eggs etc and cooking SW recipes but Sunday tea times I could never think what to have. We gave up bread about 2 years ago so a sandwich is out.

beanielou

Mildredd~~Go girl :j :j :j

lush~have a fabby holiday

wizkid1

This is my Tuesday menu. Green Day.

B. Porridge. A/B blueberries, strawberries.

Snack. Jacobs crispbreads x 2 & damson jam 6 Syns green tea.

L. Cheese A on toast B, poached egg, tomatoes, clementines x 2.

Snack apple, Alpen light bar 3 Syns.

D. Jacket potato mixed beans tomatoes, banana.

A milk A cheese B porridge B toast
9 Syns
Water, NAS Vimto & lemonade

Saver-upper

Thank you to all the ladies with suggestions for chilli con carne-I will try out those recipes.I don't know why they would be tweeking with recipes on the website(glad someone else metioned they noticed it as well)-I will have to start downloading my favourites.

Had WI tonight,with a
2.5lb loss :j
Really pleased with that.I really only knuckled down last Wednesday,I think it was,but once all the "rubbish" was out of the house,it was very easy to get my focus back again.

Menu today:
Brekky:scrambled egg,bacon,baked beans,tinned potato,an apple
Lunch:banana
Tea: jacket potato with little am't of cheese,bacon,egg and full fat mayonnaise,sweet chilli sauce
Syns in mayo and a couple in chilli sauce as well I think.
Tonight I will have Alpen bars for Hex B

What low-syn/(maybe free?) mayonnaise does everyone use?I have tried one before but went back to full-fat.But if anyone can suggest a nice one I would be willing to try,thank you.

At meeting tonight we were having a "nibbles evening".I took along SW Farrero Rochers (weetabix and Nutella),which were very popular (probably cos they were the only chocolate item on the table :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:)

beanielou

Great loss saver-upper :j