At the start of September I got married and the last month I've been eating and drinking like Marie Antoinette. So now the honeymoon is over it's back to my healthy eating and getting my weight loss back in track!
The last few months I've been hearing a lot of great things about the slimmingworld programme, so I've decided to give it a go. So far I absolutely love it!
The basics of the slimmingworld programme are "free foods", "healthy extras" and "syns". All lean meat, fish, vegetable, pulses and beans and fruit is free, so you can eat as much as you want of these.
You have 2 lists of healthy extras (healthy a and healthy b) one is dairy and one is bread and cereals.
You also have your syns, 15 a day. 1 syn is 20 calories. You can have 15 a day or carry them over to the next day or have all your weekly syns in one day.
Most of the "low calorie" meals I cook are slimmingworld friendly which is brilliant. Things like my Chilli, Paprika Chicken, Shepards Pie and my absolute favourite Spaghetti Bolognese.
Here is a fantastic recipe for carrot cake. You can get slimmingworld scran bran at Holland and Barrett.
Slimmingworld Scran Bran Carrot Cake
Serves 8
2.5 syns per cake
CAKE:
Splash of Boiling water
10 Scan Bran
2tbsp Golden syrup
2 large carrots, grated
14tbspn SYN free granulated sweetener
1tsp ground ginger
1tsp ground cinnamon
1tsp ground nutmeg
6 Eggs, beaten
1tsp of vanilla essence
TOPPING:
1 tub Light Philadelphia
1tsp of vanilla essence
2tbsp SYN free granulated sweetener
Juice of 1 lemon
Soak Scan Bran in boiling water until soft. Drain then mash.
Add syrup, carrot, sweetener and spices and mix well.
Add eggs and vanilla, stirring thouroughly.
Pour into microwaveable dish (such as a silicone cake tin) and cook in microwave for 10 mins (it should start to shrink from sides a little).
For the topping, mix all ingredients together then spread over the cooled cake.
