We invested in a soup maker and it's great but toast night we decided to use it to make a bolognase sauce. Not only is this 0 syns but it's also super healthy, and it makes three portions. If you sterilise a jar you could save two portions in the cupboard.

Ingredients - for the tinned sauce

• 2 tins of chopped tomatoes
• Four garlic cloves
• Two teaspoons mixed herbs
• 2 beef stock cubes
• 2 tbsp of tomato purée
• 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce

Ingredients - for the bolognase

• 1 onion
• Pasta for two
• Mushrooms
• 250g Turkey mince

Method

1. Put the all of the ingredients for the tinned sauce in the soup maker with two tins of water and make according to manufacturers instructions.
2. Can into three parts.
3. To make the bolognase: fry the mince in a little fry light until cooked, chop and add the onions, fry for a few minutes, chop and fry the mush rooms and fry for a few minutes. Add the sauce and boil while the pasta is cooking.
4. Cook the pasta according to the instructions on the packet.

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September 11, 2017

We love Japanese food. It doesn't take much of an excuse for us to go out for Japanese food (or Korean, or Chinese for that matter). Now we're on a diet we need an alternative. I think a stone bowl is probably my absolute favourite and it always seems super healthy so I thought I'd give it a go. The great thing about this is that you can personalise it. We just used some left over ham that we had in the fridge, usually we'd have chicken teriyaki when we're out.

 

Indredients

• Portion of rice
• Portion of meat cut into chunks
• One carrot julienne (between two)
• One courgette julienne (between two)
• One spring onion each
• A few mushrooms chopped small
• One egg

Method

1. Cook the rice and serve in a pre heated bowl.
2. Place all the remaining ingredients on top of the rice.
3. Crack an egg into the top of the vegetables.
4. Serve as is and mix it up before eating, the egg will cook the rice and warm the vegetables. 

This is typically served in a very hot stone bowl to keep it cooking while you eat but we don't have these in the house. Served with siracca sauce (or just some soy for us).

5/5

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June 21, 2017

We used to make mushroom stroganoff with a packet mix but I think this recipe might be just as easy. We took our inspiration from here but made some tweets to make is syn free (or 2 syns with a bit of wine). We also added a few puy lentils, which we had left over, to our rice.

 

Ingredients

• A few sprays of fry light
• 1 large onion chopped
• 550g mushrooms, quartered
• 1 clove of garlic
• 1 tsp ground paprika
• a good pinch chilli powder
• 100ml water (or even better white wine - 2 syns per portion)
• 30g tomato purée 
• 1 vegetable stock cube, dissolved in 50ml water
• 100ml creme fraiche 
• ½ tsp chopped parsley

Instructions

Spray the pan with some generous sprays of fry light. Add the onions, mushrooms, garlic, spices and water (wine) and cook for 10 minutes. 

Stir in the tomato purée, stock and creme fraiche. Bring to the boil and then reduce the heat to a simmer. Add the parsley.

If the sauce is too thin, simmer the stroganoff until the volume of liquid has reduced to the desired consistency. 

Serve with boiled rice.

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June 15, 2017

So I better add a caveate before you read the rest of this. 5% lamb mince is REALLY hard to get hold of. Actually we used 20%, therefore no longer having it syn free. However it was so much better than we would have on a Saturday night that we decided to go with it.

The recipe is from here: http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/23670/authentic-turkish-doner-kebab.aspx

Ingredients

• 500 g lean lamb mince
• 1 teaspoon dried oregano
• 1/2 teaspoon dried mixed herbs
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon pepper
• 1/2 finely chopped onion (optional)

Instructions

1. 1. Preheat the oven to 180 C / Gas 4.
   2. Basically you just mix all of the ingredients together as much as you can - I put it in my mixer on high speed for about three minutes to ensure it was really smooth.
   3. When you're happy that it's as smooth as it's going to get, squish it into a meatloaf type of shape and wrap tightly in foil.
   3. Bake in the oven for around 1 hour 20 minutes. Turn the loaf half way through cooking time to ensure even browning
   4. Once cooked, wrap kebab meat in foil and allow to rest for 10 minutes.
   5. I sliced it as thinly as I could and served ours in toasted pitta breads and salad.
    
   
   
   We'll definitely be having that again. It's really close to a proper donner but with the added benefit of not being greasy.
   
   
   4/5

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May 20, 2017

We made this up and split it between two, so technically it's 0.75 syns, however this would easily go between three.

Ingredients

Packet of sugar free jelly (we used lime)

Two muller light yogurts (we used coconut)

Two tablespoons quark (optional)

Instructions

Make up a packed of lime sugar free jelly but with only 150ml boiling water, mix it up so that it's dissolved and then add a couple of ice cubes to cool it down. Add to two muller light coconut yogurts and two tablespoons of quark (I don't think this last bit it necessarily vital but we think it makes it a bit creamy). Blitz it up in a blender to add air bubbles, pour into bowls and cool in the fridge.

 

Delicious 5/5

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May 17, 2017

Here is another recipe from the book, however I think my husband could do better. Here's the recipe:

 

And here's our meal:

 

I'll update when my husband does his own recipe.

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May 17, 2017

I got the inspiration for this from: http://pinchofnom.com/recipes/1-syn-corned-beef-hash-slimming-world/

"Regular corned beef would cost you around 3 Syns per 100g, but if you get Princes Lean Corned Beef it will only cost you 1.5 Syns for the same amount" - beware though that a tin is 200g so if you want a 1.5 syn meal then you need to share your tin of corned beef between two people.

I actually tweaked it a little by oven baking it rather then frying it and adding the egg separately, and we used a tin per person (it was quite a lot so you could easily share a ton of corned beef and cut down the syns).

I took some cooked cooled potatoes and roughly mashed them, then I added in the corned beef cut into chunks and a spring onions cut up quite small. Mixed it up and then put it in a cake tin, I made a dip in the middle which I cracked the egg into.

 

Then put it in the oven at 200 degrees for 30 minutes.

To get it out, I tip it onto one plate (so it's upside down) so that I can take the tin off, and then put two plates together and flip it into the second plate so that it's the right way up.

 

It was delicious! 5/5 for this recipe.

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May 16, 2017

Here we ate our cheesy leeks with trout and boiled potatoes. We got the trout from ASDA and had it in a packet that you put straight in the oven (we love a minimum effort meal)

 

The cheesy leeks were a bit inspired. This makes two big portions

Ingredients

Two big leeks/4 small leeks

30g Cheddar, grated (Healthy A)

2tbsp Creme Fraiche - low fat/fat free (1 syn)

Method

Fry the leeks in a bit of fry light. When they're nearly ready add a tablespoon of water to steam them slightly.

Add the cheese and mix for a few seconds to melt the cheese.

Take off the heat and stir in two tablespoons of creme Fraiche.

Serve straight away.

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May 15, 2017

Our attempt at a Sunday roast always factors in minimal effort.

Here we cooked a joint of pork, (just following the instructions on the packet), some veg which we chopped and put in the actifry with a few squirts of fry light, and some leeks fried in fry light.

 

We had some slimming world gravy. To be completely honest it tasted like French onion soup 2/5. I think I'll try my own next time.

 

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May 15, 2017

These are chocolate pots, which are simply quark mixed with two spoons of lite hot chocolate. They're ok, like the top of a cheesecake. They could do with a bit more flavour which I might look into a bit more but they do satisfy a craving!

 

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May 13, 2017

On a Saturday night you really need a treat. Ours was always chip shop chips. We're having the same here but with a couple of tweaks.

Homemade chips: cut, soaked in water for an hour then cooked in our actifry for 45 minutes with a few sprays of frylight.

Sausages: Slimming World's own from Iceland.

 

Chip Shop Curry Sauce: Slimming World's own from Iceland.

 

I'm not sure about the sauce, my husband like it, but I like a Chinese curry and this is more of a fruity Curry. I might try and make my own next time.

 

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May 13, 2017

This is another recipe from the slimming world book. This is a total winner! I think we'll be living on this. We love burgers and Subway salads as this is kinda inbetween the two. The sauce on it is also absolutely delicious. This made far more than we needed but we've saved it for later.

 

 

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May 13, 2017

You can't beat a bit of steak and this couldn't be simpler.

We have an breville actifry, which is aweosome. We cut the potatoes up and left them to soak in a bowl of water until we're ready (we usually aim for an hours soak). Then we put them in the actifry with a few squirts of fry light for 30 minutes and then (and this is the ingenious part) we add seasoning and then cook for 15 more minutes. They come out beautifully.

For the steak, we heat the pan, and spray the steak with fry light and some black pepper, then we just fry it for one minute on each side. Once done we add a tiny splash of water to the pan to lift the meat juices and two tablespoons of creme fraiche the either some garlic, or some black pepper, whatever you're in the mood for. At 0.5 syns for a tablespoon of low fat creme fraiche you can't go wrong!

 

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May 12, 2017

Tonight's special treat was one of the recipes from the member book - sweet chilli chicken. It was really good. We actually put in the time to strip the skin from the thighs and I think it was really worth it for the marinade to soak into the meat. Delicious!

 

 

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May 11, 2017

When I get home from work I am absolutely starving. I didn't really know what to have as I was new to Slimming World and we haven't been shopping yet but I figured that chick peas was a safe bet.

 

Soy Chickpeas 1/2 Syn

Indredients

1 can chickpeas

2 tbsp soy sauce

1/2 tsp honey

1/2 tsp garlic powder

1/2 tsp rice wine vinegar

Instructions

I put the chickpeas in the actifry for 8 minutes while I mixed the sauce ingredients together. After they'd cooked for eight minutes I poured the sauce all over and cooked for another 5 minutes.

They are delicious. Sticky and salty and slightly sweet. They are really fab!

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May 10, 2017