Slimming World Support Thread

Skint_Catt

http://www.slimmingworld.com/lifelineonline/food/recipe_liven_linguine.asp

Can anyone tell which of the receipes on the page is the one in the picture at the top? Carbonara maybe?

Trying to decide what to cook my parents tomorrow night (first time they've come round to dinner since we've moved in .....15 months ago - I'm a terrible daughter :rotfl: and Mum would like a nice pasta dish :eek: !)

angie_loves_veg

I posted a recipe a while back for 'Pumpkin and ricotta canneloni' (which you make using lasagne sheets).... it is really tasty and rather flash ..

(trying to find it...)

judderman62

Skint_Catt wrote: »

http://www.slimmingworld.com/lifelineonline/food/recipe_liven_linguine.asp

Can anyone tell which of the receipes on the page is the one in the picture at the top? Carbonara maybe?

Trying to decide what to cook my parents tomorrow night (first time they've come round to dinner since we've moved in .....15 months ago - I'm a terrible daughter :rotfl: and Mum would like a nice pasta dish :eek: !)

there's always the old fallback of Baked Bean Lasagne

angie_loves_veg

Found it lurking on p 211

Pumpkin and Ricotta Canneloni

Pumpkin and Ricotta Canneloni

I designed this recipe to be FREE on Green using 1HeB (and optional 1HeA) per person.

Two generous portions - doesn't really need a side dish, although a salad would be nice. Makes too much tomato sauce, but the extra can be frozen, used as a pasta sauce, meatloaf sauce etc etc...

Firstly start your tomato sauce:

Empty two cans of plum tomatoes into a saucepan. bring to a simmer. Dry fry one chopped onion and a clove of crushed garlic, add to the tomatoes. Add a splash of balsamic vinegar. Leave to simmer, stirring occasionally, for as long as this recipe takes! (about 25 mins)

Preheat your oven to 200. Halve and deseed two peppers, place them face down on a baking tray and spray with frylight. They can go in the oven while it is warming up.

Then the filling:

Steam (peeled and cubed) 300g pumpkin or squash (I used butternut this time), until soft. leave to cool a little before:
Mash and mix the cooked squash with 170g ricotta (HeB), 2tbsp vlf/0% natural yog and a grate of nutmeg, salt and pepper.

The canneloni:

In a large pan of boiling water, cook 8 lasagne sheets for 4-5 mins until al dente. Remove from the pan carefully, and lay them out on a clean tea towel and pat dry. Put about 2 heaped tablesppons of the mixture at the end of each pasta sheet, divide any extra evenly. Roll them up into canneloni.

Assemble

I made these in individual dishes. Spray your dishes with frylight.
Put a couple of spoons of the tomato sauce in the bottom of each dish. Add a handful of spinach leaves (optional - they needed using up!). Slice the roasted peppers into thick wedges, and lay ontop of the spinach. Put the canneloni tubes on top. Spoon several spoons of sauce over the canneloni.
OPTIONAL - grate 28g parmesan (HeA) over each dish.

Cook for about 20 mins.

Skint_Catt

PMSL. I could only imagine my Mums face when I serve her Baked Bean Lasagne! It would be like that Semen receipe book thats doing the rounds by email :rolleyes:

It needs to be 'pasta pasta' rather than lasagne if you know what I mean?

Was thinking a light cabonara or ricotta and spinch canneloni but I've never made either before

(Not too worried if its not a SW special - I can manage the syns if it means something tasty!)

C xx

Skint_Catt

Thanks angie! Sounds good - might try that for next time (I need something quickish for tomorrow as we'll be out all day.

There's always my fave - penne, baked beans & grated cheese.....:o

jay11_2

Pennylane wrote: »

I have passed my original personal target which was to lose a stone. :j Then I set myself another stone and am now 2 lbs off that. TBH I could do with losing another 1.5 stones beyond that.

I am motivated, I love the plan and WANT to get that 2 stone sticker award but something is stopping me and I'm not sure what.

Well done on passing your target, that's a GREAT loss:j:j:j:j

I saw some Scandinavian research a while ago which showed that regular, small, amounts of calcium rich food encourages weight-loss. They gave a load of women identical daily calorie intakes for a month, but half had little yogurts 3x a day as part of it. Those women lost a few pounds over the time, the others didn't. The theory was that fat binds to calcium or something like that, might be worth a try.

I try to keep my 'free' yogurt and quark intake up and am losing, (despite not being very 'good' ) but I'm fairly new so might be losing anyway:cool:.

robpw2

i had weetabix and fruit for breakie
jacket and beans for lunch
quorn sausage mash and roasted veg for tea

Chaos_Theory_3

I like to think I have varied taste in music. Everything from Ella Fitzgerald (she makes me cry!) to Muse and even more variety. I still love 80s stuff. We have been known to have drunken evenings in watching VH1 classic and dancing to all the 80s number 1s.

consultant31

retiredlady wrote: »

My favorite singers were Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Elvis, The Beatles and Hermans Hermits. Don't you all feel like youngsters now!!
Marion

Yay Marion, I'm with you, lol, but you didn't mention The Hollies, The Beachboys, The Supremes, Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons.............ooh, I could go on for ages. I'm old, so old :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

PennyLane, have you tried Fast Forward? I'm sure that would give you a boost, or if you don't fancy anything so 'tight', what about Success Express?