to think these Slimming World recipes are rank?

[JesusTapdancingChrist]

Sat outside school googling for healthy recipes and came across this recipe for a sausage and lentil casserole made with coca fucking cola (not envy face).

Also saw a chicken korma recipe last week that used a Mullerlight and then there's their Fanta chicken .

What's with SW encouraging people to chuck cans of chemical filled fizzy drinks/artificially sweetened desserts into dinner recipes? I just can't imagine anyone in possession of their faculties and the internet choosing to cook such bizarre sounding dishes.

Am I wrong and am missing out on some real treats?!

I've made the diet coke casserole and I can confirm it is indeed rank.
As are all the Iceland frozen meals.
I just adapt my usual recipes using low fat meat and dry frying.

Mullerlight in chicken Korma?
Course you'll lose weight, you'll barf it all back up.

Diet Coke chicken is a firm favourite in our house! It tastes like BBQ sauce. It's not the same recipe you're quoting there, but it is nice.

Can't comment on the rest. A Muller Light korma sounds dodgy.

Some of their recipes are really nice. But I agree about the Iceland meals, they are vile.

eh?! How fucking bizarre.

You think they're rank. Check this out.

There are some quite delicious SW recipes too.

We also like the diet coke chicken in our house (not the casserole,haven't tried that).

Lots of recipes sound rank, and not just slimming world ones. Many a time I've read 'yummy' recipes shared one hear only to shudder at them. Though evidently (goung by the responses) this isn't the reaction of all others.

What's with SW encouraging people to chuck cans of chemical filled fizzy drinks/artificially sweetened desserts into dinner recipes?

Read through a good few - there's multitudes of slimming world recipes that don't include them at all. Some do because (for reasons I don't understand) people like them.

I think that a lot of 'slimming' recipes are very sweet and nasty. And low quality. A combination of wanting to appeal to everyone and 'substituting' lower fat/calorie stuff for stuff that actually tastes nice and is actual food. Which gets you more addicted to sugar.

My boss is on SW (so am I, minus the dodgy recipes!) and she sings the praises of that korma made with coconut muller light. Not my bag, but she loves it.

Also i imagind there's a good few people attending slimming world because they are overweight due to a sugar addition. It's just substituting sugar with artificial sweetness to satisfy the cravings.

A lot of slimming world things are totally rank. My mum makes a cake out of weetabix (not envy) It takes about 50 years to cook and its just grim. You can eat loads of it because it's low "syns" apparently but I'd rather have a tiny piece of actual cake.

Is that pasta with yoghurt and fruit? Looks like something the dog sicked up 🤢

Im having a slimming world meal recipe meal tonight, it's called dirty rice.

Consists of peppers, onions, garlic, chilli, cajun seasoning, chicken livers, pork mince, brown rice and a huge, salad to serve.

There are loads of recipes that dont include silly recipe. Also people have used coke in recipes for years. so don't see the issue there.

I've never tried diet coke/fanta chicken. It just doesn't seem right. I've never really jumped on the SW bandwagon though of muller lights and mug shots, as I didn't really eat the equivalent pot noodles etc.
The muller Korma, I've tried, but I've also used greek yoghurt instead which worked just as well. Its substituting cream so all it adds is a creaminess, not much flavour.
Some of the slimming world recipes are dodgy AF, but the dodgest aren't slimming world per say., its the websites with the strange jelly sweets, cakes made with basically egg and sweetner, etc. that are really bizzare...I'd rather use more syns and have the real thing.

I remember doing Weight Watchers years ago. The meeting leader would reminisce about some of the more awful recipes - her description of the fruit crumble using no sugar and crushed Ryvita and Weetabix for topping (served with low fat yoghurt...) was astounding!

Some of the recipes aren't great, but lots of them are really nice. I won't be making a curry with Muller yogurt any time soon either, but I've had some really nice SW meals and my DP has happily eaten them too and doesn't notice that they are 'diet' meals.

I think the horrible ones are the ones where they have come up with because people whinge about not being able to certain things on a diet, so they've found weird ways of attempting to recreate a dish that can't actually be recreated without a shedload of fat and sugar, if you see what I mean. And that never really works that well.

To be honest, I think if you usually cook from scratch and improvise without recipes, which I do, you don't need recipes to do SW either. You just look at what's 'free' and come up with something from that, without actually needing recipes every night. I have used some SW recipes that have been nice though - not a Muller yogurt in sight!

My mum makes a cake out of weetabix envy (not envy) It takes about 50 years to cook and its just grim. You can eat loads of it because it's low "syns" apparently but I'd rather have a tiny piece of actual cake

Yes, awful. Pretty sure it's not actually even low in syns either, because if you use things like Weetabix/All Bran etc on SW as a substitute for flour in cakes/biscuits, they don't count as being syn-free any more. See also 'Doritos' made from lasagne sheets, 'scones' made from potato powder etc - pasta and potato powder are only 'free' if you use them for their intended purpose. That's what our SW leader woman told us anyway, and I've read this elsewhere too.

Why would anyone put Mullerlight in a korma? Beer? Than I realised that I was getting Mullerlight confused with Miller Lite.

I have never done SW so don't fully understand it but it does seem to be aimed at those with a sugar addiction. I've read blogs/watched YouTube videos of people doing it and there's a lot of focus on hifi bars and other sweet snacks.

I don't care for any food that is marketed as 'diet' friendly as it's usually chemical laden crap. As other posters have said, I'd rather just have small amounts of proper food and stick to my calorie limit.

I've also seen people saying that if you don't eat the full 15 'syns' (I hate this term) a day, you won't loss weight which goes against all logic .

Diet coke chicken is nice. It goes sticky and sweet, like the OK or BBQ sauce from a Chinese takeaway. People make this at home rather than having a takeaway because they are trying to lose weight. It isn't hard to understand, despite the many threads that appear slagging off SW/WW.

Dirty rice is gorgeous Skint. I have it a lot, but the veggie version with quorn mince and quorn fillet

Syns is short for synergy because you need to eat

The sugar and fat in the to help wth the weight loss process. Don't ask me how but that's why they are syns not because they are sinful

skint Would you share the recipe please?

OP I agree that does sound rank. As does the baked bean lasagne / curry I see social media raving about

It's not all like that though. Tonight I'm having Buffalo chicken bites with chips, coleslaw and blue cheese dip.

I love the Fanta recipe.