cheap easy slimming world meals please

[babyjjbaby]

haven't got much money at the moment so need quick easy slimming world meals like rice and stuff can't afford to buy meat apart from chicken so thought maybe rice and veg or summit but not sure so if u have any ideas please spill the beans lol

[shrooms]

Definately don't spill the beans - they are only a quid for 3 cans in sainsburys for chickpeas, butter beans ect. They are high protein and starchy but low fat and high fibre so are a super food really. Throw a can of chickpeas in with boiled rice and whatever veg you like plus some seasoning whatever you like. Filling and delish.

[Ledodgy]

I made tHe most lovely soup.
Ingredients are
1 onion halved
1 garlic clove peeled and crushed
2 red peppers
1 yellow pepper
pint of veg stock
1/4 teaspoon of cayenne pepper
pinch of chili powder

halve peppers then grill peppers until charred then peel, grill onion till cooked then chop, roughly chop peppers then add to stock on hob with a pinch of chilli powder and a quarter of teaspoon of cayenne pepper, add onion and garlic, simmer for 15 mins then blend.I swear it makes the best soup ever so tasty I have it with 3 slices of toasted weight watchers sliced malted danish as a healthy extra B.

[Ledodgy]

Also a good tip when making your bog standard veg soup add a tin of batchelors chip shop mushy peas before u blend it. Not only is it super speed but the soup tastes fab like you've bought it, my kids love it!

[babyjjbaby]

what could i do with the rice and chickpes lol i haven't a clue i useally have the batchelors pasta n sauce when i am on slimming world but it is to expensive now and needs to be stuff which u would have in the cubords like really thanks

[Furball]

you could make a nice veg curry?

I use a pataks tikka massala paste jar - but if for 2 people you only use a spoonful or so, so it lasts for a good 4 meals.

Add onion, chickpeas, potato, sweet potato, cauliflower and anything else you fancy a tin of tomatoes a spoonful of curry paste and cook for 40ish minutes.

The paste is 2 syns and i scoop the oily stuff of the top

[Furball]

also - do a Mn search for sliming world as there hae been loads of threads over the years that you could adapt to suit your taste and budget.

You are also obviously welcome to join the SW thread Over here

[Furball]

veg rissotto

literally chuck everything you fancy

I use rice, tin of tomatoes and a squirt of puree, garlic, onion, carrot, peppers and anything else you fancy. I dollop of bovril and enough water to keep the rice happy - check throughout cooking. and simmer for abut 40 mins.

add your HE1 allowence of grated cheese on the top.

[babyjjbaby]

thanks anyone know how to make a basic tomatoe soup sorry thick i know lol

[Furball]

tomato soup

I make alot of soup and basically I put in 1 3/4 pints of stock an onion and anything else I fancy so it may be cauliflower or broccoli and carrot, (I tend to use up whats left lol) I boil it up for about 45 mins then zap it with the blender and everytime you end up with tasty soup, tis easy peasy.

[SWlurker]

Hiya

I also have a budget to watch! I buy basic ingredients to add to for meals - tesco do huge (2kg?) bags of pasta for £2 I think, and a supermarket's own 5kg bag of potatoes will do for ages - they generally make decent chips, mash and jackets. Always compare the price per kilo/100g of product, sometimes it can be suprising what is cheapest. Likewise Huuuuge bags of rice can be cheap, although in my experience at lidl the smaller packets are actually cheapest on weight for weight.

You can get away with a lot of ingredients at Tesco value/lidl/aldi/asda smartprice/sainsburys basics brand level without noticing a difference in quality. In my experience this includes tinned tomatoes, passata (brilliant basis for soup and pasta sauce and free), fake smash, tinned peas/sweetcorn/red kidney beans/spaghetti hoops/baked beans/potatoes/dried spaghetti & pasta, mixed herbs...

Try swapping similar things depending on your findings - for example any recipe that wants chickpeas/butter beans etc could work with kidney beans (I tend to find they are the cheapest canned pulses, at about 15-20p a tin), cheapest brand dried spaghetti is generally cheaper than any other pasta, so can use that instead of penne.

I tend not to eat meat at all if I'm skint, but you can bulk out meat to make it go further. Apparently grating carrots into anything made with mince is a tried and tested way, and most people say their families are none the wiser. Stews and soups are your friend too - a little meat goes a lot further with lots of veg added. Buying a whole chicken is generally the most economical way - roast it, use the meat and boil the bones to make soup afterwards.

[babyjjbaby]

ok we got chicken tonight a roast dinner how do i do a soup with the bones lol haven't got much veg tho carrots tinned and frozen mixed veg and potatoes nythibg can be nade out of that lol

[startingoveragain]

i used to have spaghetti tinned and express rice fills you up no end

[babyjjbaby]

oh thanks i'll try that for lunch one day got scrambled egss for lunch today but think i eat a bit to many eggs lol

[SWlurker]

Carve off what meat you can, and keep that use use in whatever else. Pick off all the scraps you can too, and set them to one side. Cover the carcass and big bones in boiling water from the kettle in a big pan, bring to the boil, cover and simmer for an hour or so. Use any herbs and seasoning you want - and I like to add a whole peeled onion. You can add other at this stage, but I prefer not to - I'm paranoid about missing a bone when I pick the carcass out of the soup! Seperate bones and the stock that it made, chop the onion/veg (if used) and add it back in, add the scraps of chicken you picked off, and then whatever veg - I imagine it would be nice with mushrooms, or with passata and a few sweetcorn (not free on red).

If you want to buy other ingredients first then you can make the stock now and store in the fridge until you want to make the soup. It will go like jelly, you can either skim that bit off or leave it in, it will melt down again.