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?!

The big problem with diets is that people go on a diet, lose weight, come off the diet and then pile the weight back on again.

It seems to me that recipes such as this one, which pander to people's sweet tooth, is going to encourage exactly that. To keep weight off, you need to make long term changes to your diet, and that should include weaning yourself off a fondness for sweet foods and starting to enjoy the many varieties of savoury flavours, which would include eating a wide range of vegetables and using herbs and spices. The idea of putting diet coke in a savoury meal is utterly rank.

Yes I bought a pack of hi fi bars last night. They are so sweet and seem to be puffed rice stuck together with something and covered in chocolate. How can two of those be a healthy extra? They must have no nutritional content at all! Fair enough as a low sun treat.

Delores you could use the avocado as a HE unofficially anyway. Just have whatever 120 cals worth of avocado is (1/3 to 1/2?) instead of a HE. You can also have nuts as a HE B along with dozens of other high fibre more natural foods such as muesli. No need at all to have hifi bars. But some people like them and obviously SW make money out of them so they won't be going anywhere.

HE A is to make sure you get calcium, but if you are eating a decent amount of fish and veg, and dairy on other days, you will be anyway.

HE B is to make sure you get enough fibre, but if you are eating brown rice/pasta, fruit, veg and wholemeal bread on other days.

SW is not a magic spell that needs to be followed to the letter to work. As long as you limit calories, it works. The most important part of the plan is eating mostly free food and limiting junk (syns).

When I've done it, I've used full fat Greek yogurt and cottage cheese instead of fat free and it still works because I don't eat pots of the stuff.

Most things can be made easily anyway without SW recipes.
I just had a lush curry made with spices, onions, garlic, tinned tomatoes and yogurt.
It was honestly as nice as a take away. Some of the recipes are such a faff.
The syns thing just helps you limit stuff that you shouldn't be eating much of anyway.

They must have no nutritional content at all!

You could read the packet, see how much fibre is in them, post the details here.

Or you could just go "oh dear, they MUST be bad" when the evidence is there for you to look at, you just haven't bothered to look.