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Stinky

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any of you cooks out there got any recomendations for low fat / calorie diner??

trying to eat more healthy now, and do more (squash / running etc)

i know a lot of you cooks prob use GD rather than Sports. hense why i have posted here!
 
Dunno, but I love chilli cheese omelettes and you can make them for a smidge under 200 calories.

You'd probably have to let everyone know what sort of food you like ;)

Edit: Just a suggestion, the Slimfast website has a bunch of < 600cal recipes that look pretty good on it.

Here's the link: http://slimfast.co.uk/about/recipes/default.aspx
 
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Simple! If it tastes good, spit it out... There's far too many calories in anything good tasting.

Also don't be confused by the 'no fat' but high sugar content.
 
Posted before, just add lots of verg and swap things like chicken legs for skinless chicken breasts.

Aubergine spaghetti
1 x aubergine
1 X Onion
1 x can of tomatoes
1 x stock cube
1 teaspoon oregano
Spaghetti

Method:
1) Peel and dice the onion, add to a saucepan with a little olive oil and fry over a low heat until translucent
2) peel and cube the aubergine, 3/4-1cm cubes and throw in with the onions, increase the heat to medium and fry for a few mins.
3) add the rest of the ingredients and boil for about 20 mins until reduced to spag bol consistency.
4) meanwhile cook the spaghetti in slated water.
5) server
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Hungarian paprika chicken
Chicken legs/thighs
flour
Onion
Can of chopped tomatoes
Stock cube
3 tablespoons of paprika (if you like spice get hot, if you don't like spice get the normal)
Tagilteli

method:
1) on a plate mix some plain flour with salt and pepper.
2) lightly dust the chicken in flour and fry in a pan until coloured, remove and place aside.
3) peel and chop the onions, add to the pan and fry until translucent.
4) place the chicken back in with the onions, add the tomatoes, stock cube, paprika. And simmer until chicken is cooked and sauce is reduced.
5) meanwhile cook the tagiltilie in salted water.
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Thai spicy salad
1/2 cucumber sliced into thin battons
1 red onion (white will work as well) thinly sliced
1 steak (or other meat/fish)
3tablespoons lime juice
2tablespoons soy sauce
1tabloespoon fish sauce
3 chillies finely sliced (or to taste)
handful of fresh coriander shredded
handful of roasted peanuts

1) thinly slice the onion and place in a bowl with the lime, soy and fish sauce.
2) while this is marinading put the steak or other meat under the grill
3) cut the cucumber into thin batons and mix in with the cucumber
4) throw the rest of the ingredients in and mix
5) get the steak out of the grill thinly slice into strips and mix in with the salad
6) serve
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Also tomato based curries are good flavoursome and can be made very low fat

Stir-frys

Grilled paprika/other spiced fish with new potatoes and asparagus

Even things like spag bol, chilli can be very low fat. Go to your butcher select some lean steaks, and get the butcher to trim excess fat of, then mince if for you.

Burgers use same mince as above, an egg, handful of oats and then what ever spices/herbs you want. Use pita bread instead of roles. Oven cooked sweet potato chips and remember lots of salad.

Try replacing rice/pasta with *** brown versions.
Also try things like cous cous and bulgar wheat instead. These are fantastic and I have no idea why the UK seem to hate them so much.


Need something fast no time to cook?
1 frozen minted lamb burgers or other spicy meat (check calories and other info one back)
1/2 pepper
2 mushrooms
1 pita bread
some salad

slice two sides of the pepper cut the mushrooms into 3 thick slices. Place with the meat under the grill for 3 or so mins then turn and another 3 mins. Pile it with some extra salad into the pita bread, which needs a few mins in a toaster and some low calorie mayonnaise or other type sauces and you have a filling healthy and low calorie meal. Also good when your drunk.
 
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get some chicken breast wrap it up in some tinfoil with a splash of olive oil slap some sun dried tomatoes in there along with some basil or some other random herbs wrap it up and stick it in the oven at around gas mark 5-6 for an hourish or until its cooked,
then when theres around 20mins left get some cherry tomatoes still on the vine stick them on some tinfoil with a splash of olive oil and some balsamic vinager, then serve with mixed green salad yum
 
Do not buy supermarket pre cut chickens BTW. Buy whole chickens, and cut them yourself... Its disgraceful how much they charge for skinned boneless chicken breasts..

You can cut your own from a £3 chicken, and have chicken legs and wings, and the bones can be used to make chicken stock if you want to make a soup... Its easy to chop up a whole chicken, chop the wings and legs off first, then remove the skin from the breast, and cut down near the breat bone to make a chicken breast portion for a fraction of the cost supermarkets charge for pre packed chicken..

Chicken dishes are good healthy meals, skinned, do not microwave chicken, oven it. Goes well with baby carrots, salads or in pasta dishes....
 
TheDean said:
I would not reccomend that at all....You're better griddling it then oven. Or if you just want to oven it - do it for 20-30 mins at 200
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any reason why? I cook like this quite often and as long as you wrap it up tight the chicken steams away quite nicely and comes out still nice and juicy
 
Lysander said:
How the hell do you do that? Eggs have about 70 kcal each. It would have to be a very small omelette!
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Two extra large eggs. Two whites, one yolk (yolks are calorific.) Cook the omelette with low-cal cooking spray, and then just layer in some chillis/chilli paste and some cheese ;D Admittedly, you can use more cheese with the low-fat variety (which tastes just as good to me.)

One egg: 110 calories
One egg white: 30 calories
Chilli: Negligible, ~10 calories
Cheese: enough to make up the other 50cals (e.g. 12.5g of grated cheddar is 50 calories)
 
blitz2163 said:
any reason why? I cook like this quite often and as long as you wrap it up tight the chicken steams away quite nicely and comes out still nice and juicy
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The idea to cook like that works well with fish, but chicken will get stringy. Also - don't quote me on this (admittedly I am very funny about chicken) but that may not be hot enough to kill all the nasties on the chicken. Try it my way and see how you like it.
Alternatively you could marinade it overnight (something like a Nando's sauce is nice if you're in a rush) then heat the oven up to 180 and whack it in for 45mins.

Salad and chips and your sorted :)
 
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