Free on Green or Extra Easy
Ingredients
2 medium baking potatoes in skins, cut into wedges
1/2 teaspoon paprika
1/4 teaspoon of garlic powder
salt and pepper
Pam or Frylight
Method
Preheat oven to 200c or 400f
Add wedges to a saucepan of boiling hot water.
Blanch for approx 8-10 mins
Drain off water and add wedges to a  large bowl.
Add paprika, garlic powder, salt [...]

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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 syns + [...]

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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 teaspoon of brown sugar (1 syn)
Method
Spray a large saucepan with [...]

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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 that [...]

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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 [...]

Filed under: chicken, main course, pasta | 16 Comments »

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
1 teaspoon of sweetener
1 red pepper sliced
1 green pepper sliced
1 [...]

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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
free on Extra Easy or Green
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:
Fat Free Natural Yoghurt to serve
Method
Place yellow spilt peas in a bowl, and leave to soak overnight.
When you are [...]

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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 tomato puree (0.5 syns)
salt and pepper to season
Method
Spray a frying pan [...]

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