Spicy Potato Wedges Slimming Eats Recipe serves 2 Extra Easy –  syn free per serving Green  -  syn free per serving

Filed under: Extra Easy, Green, lunch, main course, potatoes, side dish, syn free | 2 Comments »

After my experiment with potatoes and flour for my quiche base, last week. I decided to have a go using similar ingredients for a pizza base. This turned out lovely and light and crispy. I can’t wait to try different toppings on this. It was really delicious!! Serves 2 (half the pizza each) 5 1/2 [...]

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1 syn for entire recipe on  Green or Extra Easy Ingredients 800g of tinned plum tomatoes 900ml of chicken stock 2 sticks of celery, chopped 1 carrot, chopped 1 large sweet Spanish onion, chopped finely 2 cloves of garlic, crushed salt and pepper to season non stick spray basil to serve 80g of pasta 1 [...]

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While grocery shopping yesterday and scanning the fruit section for what  new fruits I could buy to try. I spotted Honey Pomelo on offer, 2 huge ones for $3.00. So being a grapefruit addict at the moment and knowing a Pomelo is pretty similar. I thought I would buy some and see what they are [...]

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That is a question you hear from so many newbie’s to the Slimming World diet. They really can not get their head around the fact that you can indeed eat all these filling foods and still lose the weight. I think that is mainly because far too many of us have been brainwashed into believing [...]

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I was really craving some chicken enchiladas, but of course on Slimming World, tortilla’s are synned. So I came up with an idea of using manicotti pasta shells instead to keep the syns down and OMG it was so good. If you can not find manicotti shells, then you can replace with cannelloni, but you [...]

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serves 2-3 1.5 syns for entire recipe on Extra Easy Ingredients 200g of large prawns (I used frozen cooked ones) 200g of egg noodles 4 tablespoons of dark soy sauce 1 tablespoon of sweet chilli sauce (1.5 syns) 1 tablespoon of rice vinegar grated fresh ginger 2 cloves of garlic crushed 2 spring onions chopped [...]

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This was a bit of an experiment. I had planned to make another Baked Cheesecake of some sort, but noticed I had some scan bran in the cupboard that needed to be used up. So I just threw together some ingredients, aiming for a kind of bread and butter pudding. OMG it was lovely. I [...]

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Serves 4 Extra Easy – syn free per serving Green – syn free per serving Ingredients 2 courgettes, chopped 2 onions chopped 2 cloves of garlic chopped 1 stick of celery 1 teaspoon of cumin 170g of yellow split peas 1 litre of chicken stock salt and black pepper to season non stick spray optional: [...]

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Serves: 3-4 1.5 syns on Red or Extra Easy Ingredients 400g of extra lean beef mince 2 red onions, chopped finely 2 cloves of garlic crushed 9 button mushrooms sliced 400ml of beef stock (made up from Bovril) 2 teaspoons of Dijon mustard (1 syn) sprinkling of thyme splash of balsamic vinegar 1 tablespoon of [...]

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