Is there such a thing as a hot low fat tasty meal?

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I'm trying to lose the last bit of baby weight and can't think of a nice hot, low fat meal I could eat!

I'm not a salad person and I'm running out of ideas! Any suggestions please?

Homemade veggie soup??

Veg curry

Spaghetti bolognaise with quorn mince instead of beef is pretty low fat.

Or spaghetti with garlic and oil is yum too.

Jacket pot with cottage cheese and grated celery

chicken baked in foil with grated zest and juice of lemon / chillis / spring onions scattered over
serve with brown rice and lots of veg

A million different stir fries!

Prawns stir fried quickly with onions, peppers and piri piri seasoning, served with quick n dirty packet rice or noodles.

Quorn chilli with brown rice

Shepherd's pie made with v low fat mince, loads of veg and tinned toms. Swede/sweet potato topping.

Turkey with thyme and garlic sauce (low fat evap milk!) Let me know if you'd like the recipe.

Carbonara with lean bacon.

Homemade potato wedges.

Salmon, pasta, spinach with a little Philedelphia and milk stir in when hot.

Grilled fish and new potatoes.

White rice, broccoli and chicken breast.

Homemade sweet and sour chicken.

Soup is an idea and I do have it for lunch but find it gets a bit boring. Plus I can't get hubby to have it for dinner and he needs to lose weight too!

Cherrypie the turkey sounds good. Recipe would be great!

Some fab ideas thanks

Is Quorn mince tasty? Thinking of fussy hubby and his eating habits

It's not quite the same but I like it :) The sausages are an acquired taste too. I've sometimes made a quorn batch and meat batch of the chilli. Or maybe half and half might work?

I shall dig out the recipe now!

I wouldn't worry too much about the fat but instead concentrate on reducing the amount of carbs you have with a meal eg. have 3 scrambled eggs on one slice of toast, rather than 2 scrambled eggs on two slices, sorta thing.

Bibbity carbs is my downfall. I immediately think bread or potatoes when I'm hungry. Salads don't fill me up and I crave carbs

What bibbitibob suggest
Cut the carbs, rev up the protein and spice and bulk up with veg and pulses

I do roughly half and half 5% fat beef mince and dried soya mince soaked in beef stock.

Cooking techniques help too, for example frying in a non stick pan with one cal spray and draining the fat off meat and grilling on a rack so fat drains. I found portion control makes the biggest difference though and I had over three stone to lose.

Turkey mince chilli is yummy and low fat. I have with a small portion of oven-baked wedges.

If you love your carbs try different veg cooked as you would potatoes - baked sweet potato, roast swede, mashed neeps, mashed cauliflower.

I love my carbs and lost loads of weight on slimming world eating more carbs than protein and lots of veg.

Oooh turkey mince is brill for making burgers. My DH gets a spicy meatball mix and makes great big spicy burgers. We have that with oven-baked wedges and baked beans with some chilli and spring onions stirred in.

I've just made veggie lasagne, you do double tomato/veg sauce and leave out the bechamel, then put fromage frais and a bit of cheese on top. It smells nice, will be ready in ten mins hopefully!

750g turkey breast fillets
large onion
4 cloves garlic (crushed)
1tbsp fresh thyme
60ml lemon juice
125ml low fat evap milk
125ml chicken stock
1tsp cornflour mixed with 1 tsp water

1. Cook turkey in pan til browned, remove and put to one side.
2. Add garlic, onion, lemon to same pan until onion soft.

Add milk, stock, thyme and cornflour.

1. Stir and cook til sauce boils and thickens slightly.
2. Return turkey to the pan and season.

I usually chuck in some green took like spinach.

Some great ideas! :)

No.

Agreed.

Chachouka?

Slice some peppers and an onion, slowly fry in oil with cumin seeds, add tinned tomatoes, sliced garlic & smoked paprika. Cook on a low heat for about 10 mins, then transfer to an oven proof dish. Make a couple of wells, crack in two eggs, bake until as set as you like. I normally have it with tabbouleh or flatbreads.

That sounds really good Quotationist!

Paella is low fat and delish.

Moules mariniere or however the hell you spell it.

A really gorgeous home made tomato and basil sauce for pasta is low fat.

Nigella's minestrone is low fat.

Tonno e fagioli (Italian buffet dish of tuna and white beans and parsley)

Anything Japanese

or Chinese (apart from the deep fried things)

will be low fat

• those are all delicious