Favourite Free S W Meals and Snacks Please :)

[Suzyjane1]

Am due to start SW again next week and would love to hear any recommended free meals or snacks. Thanks!

Loads of lovely, free warm dinners for this time of year. My faves are

Beef stew & mash
Chicken curry
Spicy salmon noodles(dh adores these, says it's better than the takeaway)
Homemade burgers
Pizza topped chicken
Carbonara
And a good old bacon butty - which I've just finished

I've only just started but last week had

SW chips, chicken breast and peas

Beef chilli with jacket potato

Ham and mushroom omelette with green beans, broccoli and new potatoes

Lunch was pasta salad with kidney beans, sweet corn, peas and tuna.

Am looking forward to some nice ideas on here for next week

how do you make the spicy salmon noodles please? they sound lovely!

Spicy salmon noodles takes 20 mins

Cook salmon in the oven for 20 mins under foil
boil dried noodles for 4 minutes drain and set aside
Meanwhile slice onions carrots cabbage (or I heat and use a stir fry pack)
Fry in fry light for 2 mins
Add garlic and 1 tbsp curry powder and fry for 2 mins
Add noodles to veg with 2 tbsp water & 1 tbsp soy sauce and fry for 2 mins
Flake cooked salmon and stir in to veg noodle mix

Eat with lots of yummy noises

Keep the ideas coming.. I confess to have toppled off the wagon. Just enough to have gained 1/2 kg.. So back on today and with a big effort.

Tonight is steak and salad here.

Tomorrow I'm thinking jacket Potatoes with chili beef

I have just had 95g chicken breast (b)
Yellow pepper
Red onion

Mix fat free yog with curry powder and thread onto kebab sticks

Grill and serve with boil in bag rice sprinkled with Bart's pilau rice seasoning.

Free on green

Thai prawn stir-fry:

Marinate raw prawns in chilli, garlic, ginger, juice of 1 lime, tspn fish sauce & chopped coriander (I use frozen)

Cook 1 portion of dry egg noodles whilst frying 1/2 pack stir-fry veg (I used tspn oil for 2 syns or fry-light). When it's nearly cooked add raw prawns & marinade, mix in noodles & once cooked set-aside & wok fry a scrambled egg - mix together & enjoy

Redor can I have your beef stew recipe & just wondering what (if anything) you add to your mash instead of butter/cream?

Quark is supposed to be nice mixed into mash but not tried it yet. I do have a tub in the fridge though

Hi pheobe

Beef stew

In a large saucepan fry lean beef in fry light until sealed then remove from pan with slotted spoon
Add whatever veg you like to pan and fry for 3-4 mins
Put beef back in with:
1tbsp Worcester sauce
Squeeze tomato purée or passata
800 ml beef stock (I use the rich beef stock pot - makes its own gravy so you don't need to add granules later)
Salt & pepper
Basil/ rosemary / any other herbs you fancy

Cover and simmer for 90 mins stirring occasionally
Remove lid, crank up the heat and boil for 20-30 mins until sauce has reduced (if you like it thick you can add a tsp or 2 of gravy granules at this point for 1/2 syn)

I add fat free fromage frais to mash to make it creamy, or cheese from my healthy A or occasionally a little mustard made up from mustard powder so it's free.

Thanks all. Sounds good. Have never used quark. How would you use it best. Ie with mashed potatoes, what else would you add to it?

I too would like to know what to do with quark! I have a tub in the fridge but now not sure what to do with it lol.

Quarks easy, cook some pasta, add some tomatoes and veggies. Take tub of quark, chuck it in the bin and enjoy your pasta

Just made this 'free' minestrone & it was so delicious my whole family had seconds (damn no leftovers for lunch tomorrow )
www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/4807/chunky-minestrone-soup