Thursday 1 December 2011

Cowboy pie! green or red.

Ingrediants - 
6 quorn sausages (or real low fat ones if red day)
2 tins of baked beans
handful of mushrooms sliced
1 large onion chopped
worcester sauce
3 or 4 potatos boiled


1. Brown onions, mushrooms and sausages.
2. Peel and boil potatos.
3. Mix onions, mushrooms, sausages and baked beans in casserole dish. Add a few drops of worcester sauce.
4. Mash potatos and add to top of mixture. Put in oven for approx 20 to 25 mins on medium. Take out 5 mins before finished and add cheese, 42g of low fat cheese per portion is a healthy extra A.
Got 6 portions from mine which made it 0.5 syns per portion.

Wednesday 23 November 2011

1 Syn coleslaw!

Ingrediants
1/4 of Green cabbage (or red would be nice too!)
2 carrots
1 onion
0% natural yoghurt (like total or something)
70% fat Heinz salad cream

1. Grate/chop all the veg, i use the grate setting on my blender and its done in seconds.
2. This makes a lot, so then take a big big handful of the mixture and place into seperate bowl. 
3. Add as much natural yoghurt as you like, i used about 2 and a half heaped tablespoons for a bowl. Mix between adding more so that you know how much you want in.
4. Add 2 tablespoons of Salad cream (2 syns for 70% one).

Half a bowl is 1 syn. It is quite a lot too.. Love it!! Sorry the pic is a bit rubbish, phone on my camera is awful sometimes.

Sunday 20 November 2011

Best Slimming World tips

Last week in class we were talking about our best tips for slimming world, and mine honestly is "go to class!!!". Some people may be able to manage from home but classes are just amazing. It helps you out massively and the support you get from your fellow members is invaluable. I messed up and didnt go for 3 weeks and i felt so miserable, so deffo go!!
Other tips were stuff like "make double the amount on the night time and then take it for work the next day" "slimming world chips!".. Love my class xxx

Friday 18 November 2011

Quiche - free on green and ee

Ingrediants

Makes approx 12-14 cupcake cases worth, or one big one. 
600g cottage cheese,
5 eggs,
fillings - for my last i used onion, yellow pepper and sweetcorn, however i find that mushrooms makes it watery.
Silicone cupcake cases.

1. Mix cottage cheese and eggs in a bowl, could use an electric blender but if you dont have one spoon is just as good.
2. Add whatever it is you're using as filling and stir a bit more.
3. Put into cases or dish for approx 20-25 mins or until firm. Depending on how thick it is the time varies.

4. If you want to add cheese just add it 5 mins before they're done and put them back in.

Thursday 17 November 2011

Quick and easy egg fried noodles - Free EE and Green

Ingrediants
1 pack of low fat chicken batchelors noodles
1 egg
mushrooms and peas (optional)
soy sauce (optional)

1. Cook noodles as instructed but add peas and mushrooms to water.
2. Once cooked drain and leave to dry off for 30 seconds.
3. Beat egg and add noodles back to pan.
4. Add beaten egg and stir gently for approx 5 minutes or until egg is cooked.
5. Add soy sauce about 30 seconds before taking it off the heat.

Tuesday 8 November 2011

Spinach and Ricotta Canneloni!! - Green day

I should say, i often don't measure stuff.. I go with how it looks/smells/tastes, but this is how much i've used and how much I feel is right.

Spinach and Ricotta Canneloni

Ingrediants -
Frozen spinach - 1 bag,
1 pot of ricotta - i used 250g pot,
3 frozen garlic cubes (defrosted!),
3 large spoonfuls of cottage cheese,
2 eggs,
2 cartons of passata,
Canneloni tubes,
salt and pepper to taste.

1. Deforst your spinach and squeeze the excess water out.
2. Place spinach in a largeish bowl and add ricotta, cottage cheese, garlic, eggs and stir like crazy!
3. Get piping bag or freezer bag with a corner chopped and pipe the mixture into the tubes laying them in a oven suitable dish next to each other.
4. Pour passata over so the tubes are covered and put in the oven for approx 30 mins mediumish heat.
5. When taken out after the 30 mins, add 42g of reduced fat cheese to each section and put back in to brown.
1/3 of this is 2 healthy extra a's, one from the ricotta and one from the cheese for the top, although I have eaten it for EE without the extra cheese on top so its still all good!

Friday 4 November 2011

Potato and Leek Bake - Green Day!!

Ingrediants
2-3 potatos depending on size
1-2 leeks depending on size
1 onion
1 stock cubes
1 courgette (optional)
Spray light.
82g of low fat chedder cheese (optional)

1. Chop leeks and put in pan along with enough water to cover and 1-2 stock cubes.
2. Chop onion and brown in frying pan with spray light, then add onions to leek and water.
3. Peel potato's and slice thinly, approx half a cm each slice. Spray dish and place potato slices in bottom.
4. When leeks are cooked enough for your taste, drain but keep the liquid. Add half of the leek/onion mixture to the top of the potato's.
5. Slice courgette into thin slices and layer over the leeks. Add the rest of the leeks and pour liquid from pan so its approx half full.
6. Add more chopped potato to the top and then spray with spray light.
7. Add to oven and cook at 180 for approx 30 mins or until you feel satisfied that its cooked. Add cheese (half of this is a Healthy Extra A) and put back in til melted.
8. Serve with baked beans or accompanying veg.

0 Syns on green or extra easy, 1 healthy extra A if cheese is used.