Hello all, New to the site but have been doing slimming world for a couple of weeks now. Did it before and lost 2 stone for my wedding... 2 babies later and I am back.
My tips from last time which I am doing again now. At the start of every week, make up a big tupperware with fresh fruit, pineapple, kiwis, strawberries, grapes etc squeeze lime juice over it -= keeps it fresher, longer. Bulk it up every day with fresh sliced apples and bananas. The other thing is to make up a big tupperware of marinara sauce each week. You can add a bit of stick to it and heat it up for a lovely soup. use it as tomato sauce for pasta or cottage pie etc you can even add it to plain rice as a really nice stir-fry paella type thing. last night I added chillis and curry powder and added the sauce to pre-boiled then fried (fry-light) potatoes with onions for a fab bombay potato recipe (a proper curry with tonnes of rice) Yum!
Marinara sauce:
3lb Tomatoes, large and ripe
1 tin tomatoes
garlic
courgettes
mushrooms
1 oxo stock cube
grate carrots (in fact any vegetable you fancy really)
herbs
worcestershire sauce
slice tomatoes in half, put on baking tray in oven with some whole, unpeeled garlic cloves, spray with fry-lite and bake for about an hour. fry-lite fry all other veg, add stock and roasted tomatoes, whiz it in a blender - season with herbs, salt and pepper to taste. If you wanted to have a couple more sins in it you could add tomatoe puree and olive oil but it is yummy anyway and will last a week in the fridge.