Slimming World Quick and Easy Creamy Pasta

This Slimming world quick and easy creamy pasta recipe is so easy to makeand is super tasty PLUS its almost syn free, has plenty of speed foods and is really filling

Ingredients (serves 4)

• 1 tub tomato and herb Quark
• 500g pasta
• 1 Pepper de-seeded and chopped
• 1 onion chopped
• 10 cherry tomatoes chopped
• 1/2 tin or 140g frozen sweetcorn 
• 1 chicken stock cube
• 1 dessert spoon of grated parmesan
• Chilli Powder
• Garlic Powder
• Salt and pepper

• Bring a pan of water to the boil and add the stock cube, pasta, pepper and onion and simmer for 10 minutes

• Take out 2 serving spoons of the pasta water and keep to one side

• Add a teaspoon of garlic powder and a half teaspoon of chilli powder to the reserved pasta water and stir well

• Add the sweetcorn and tomatoes to the simmering pasta and cook for a further 5 minutes, then drain well

• Remove the pan from heat and retrn the drained pasta and veg to the pan
• Pour in the reserved pasta water and mix in the tub of quark and one dessert spoon of parmesan cheese
• Season with salt and pepper
• Stir well
• Serve

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Let me know when you try this yourself, I'd love to hear what you think.

Slimming World Chicken Kiev

I love Chicken Kiev, I mean properly fresh home-made Chicken Kiev, I grew up thinking Mr Matthews' products where the standard l so I didn't know how yummy this dish was until I had a freshly cooked Kiev in our favourite Italian Restaurant
Sadly its not exactly Slimming World friendly but a pal of mine shared her Kiev recipe with me and its so simple!

This serves 2 and is syn free if you use your healthy extra A or its 6 syns per serving if you don't use that healthy extra!

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• Two plump chicken breast's (so there's plenty of room for stuffing!)
• 90g Feta (healthy extra A)
• Garlic to taste (you can use freshly crushed, lazy garlic, dried, crushed or  the stuff in the jar, whichever is your preference

Crumble the feta into a bowl and mix with garlic

Make a slice along the chicken breast to form a pocket, try not to cut right through

• Stuff each breast with half of the cheese mixture

• Wrap each breast tightly in tin foil and place in an oven proof dish 

• Bake for 35 minutes until cooked through
• Unwrap and serve with rice and coleslaw

Slimming World Mediterranean Magic Recipe Book Review and Giveaway

You may have realised we like to travel a bit and one of the things we love the most is trying new food, Greek is an absolute favourite with all of us with Spanish dishes coming closely behind. Actually we just love food! So i was very very excited to receive a copy of Slimming World's Mediterranean Magic Recipe Book

The book has recipes from..

France

Spain and Portugal

North Africa

Italy

Greece

Middle East and Turkey

I love that there are desserts, mains and starters in each section and that the recipes are simple, easy to follow and all have great guidance like whether they are suitable for freezing or if they are SP (that's the boost days for a bigger weight loss) friendly.

It's a lovely hardback book and has lovely pictures in too.

But Oh my days it is jam packed with my favourite recipes and I have had so much fun working my way through some of them , I have to share with you that my absolute favourite is the recipe for Baba Ganoush! I have spend lots of time in Greece and ate lots of what they call Egg Plant Salad, a delicious creamy dip, but Ive only just discovered that elsewhere in the world this is called Baba Ganoush and now I have the perfect syn free simple recipe and partnered with tzatziki and hummus (also slimming world recipes) on a bed of rocket it's my absolute new lunchtime favourite.

 

We've also tried the Lamb Tagine but with a few Monkeyfooted twists like adding butternut squash and a cup of quinoa and letting it cook in the slow cooker all day. It was truly truly immense, although didn't look amazing it was so nice we had second helpings!

 

Now those lovely guys at slimming world are offering one of you lucky lot a chance to win a copy of this fab book by simply entering the raffle copter below.

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#Mummymakeover

It's been a little while since I posted about my Slimming World Journey. I've been on holiday so missed some weeks and then of course there was the post holiday recovery!

 So here's  a wee run down of April and May so far.

 April 2nd I weighed in at a different class and was disappointed at only losing 1/2lb which I will admit started me in holiday mode a week early! But then something clicked and whilst on holiday I realised I wanted to be slim more than I wanted dessert with every meal of the day! Alas 10 days in Greece after a week off plan at home took their toll and my post holiday weight gain according to my scales at home (which normally match those at class) was a whopping 5lb!!!!

 

April 24th saw me head into class for my first official post holiday weigh in with trepidation, I'd tried hard since getting back but we'd had a night out the night before weigh in! I couldn't believe that I showed only a 1.5lb gain! That meant I'd lost 3.5lb since my home weigh in ! Over the Moon with joy I set off for a positive week.

May 1st - Weigh in today was a bit disappointing,

I was hoping to get 'back in the black' which would have needed a 2lb minimum loss and I lost 1.5lb. I know it's good and positive but mentally I had a bit of a kid huff and I've been on a bit of self destruct and have snarffed down 2 packets (bags)  of fruit pastilles, several Curly Wurly's and a curry!

 

May 8th

After a week of self destruct I stepped on the scales with dread... And stepped of quite happy with a 1/2lb loss. It's not great but it's better than a gain! 

 

So there are 37lb's left that I'd like to shed, and 12 weeks until August which is when I wanted to reach my target which means I would have to lose 3lb a week! Looking at this realistically I'm not hoping to maintain that sort of loss as historically I haven't , so.... If I can lose 1.5lb a week I should reach my goal by November! That information makes me grumpy it's such a long time away but I'm going to try to stay positive and keep just trundling on.

 

One massive positive of losing what I have do far is fitting into dresses I've not worn in ages, and borrowing a dress from a friend for a swanky party which is a size and brand I wouldn't have considered  and it made me feel fab when I put it on.. 

 

 

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