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To Maz and whoever else wanted a few slimming world recipes!

Insalata Di Mare 8oz peeled prawns 4oz cooked shelled musses 4oz cooked squid rings 6oz can white crab meat Juice and finely grated rind of 1 lemon 2tbsp fat free vinaigerette salad dressing 2tbsp chopped parsley Salt and ground black pepper 4 large whole prawns 8 green or New Zealand mussels (optional) Lemon zest and parsley sprigs to garnish 1) Wash and pat dry the prawns, mussels,and squid and place in a bowl. Flake the crab meat and mix into the fish along with the lemon juice, salad dressing, chopped parsle and seasoning. Cover and chill for 30mins 2) To serve, pile on to serving plates and serve each portion with a whole prawn and two green mussels, if using. Garnish and serve with extra lemon if liked. This Italian seafood salad can be used as a starter and is free on an original day and 9 sins on a green day

Put in a large saucepan...carrotts, onion, swede, turnip, celery, red pepper, chicken stock cubes (all chopped small). Start by adding 2 pints water, and top up as required. Bring to boil and then simmer till well cooked (keep lid on saucepan when simmering). When this has been done, blitz it with a hand blender ( careful its hot ). Add salt and pepper to taste, and if too thick, add more chicken stock. Serve as needed throughout the day as a "filler". When serving sprinkle with fresh parsley. And the whole pan of soup is FREE on either Green or Red day.

Garlic Chicken and Vegetable Pot Roast 2sm red peppers 2sm green peppers 8oz Shallots or sm onions 1 bulb Fennel 3lb oven ready chicken Salt and ground black pepper 1sm Lemon 142ml chicken stock made with Bovril 2 sprigs each of thyme, rosemary and tarragon 2 bay leaves 1 bulb garlic 1tbsp fennel seeds 1) preheat the oven to gas 4/350F/180C. Halve and de seed the peppers and cut in half again. Place in the bottom of a large oval casserole with a tight fitting lid. Peel and halve the shallots or onion and mix into the peppers. Trim the fennel and slice thickly. Place in the casserole 2) Halve the lemon and place inside the chicken. Place the chicken on top of the vegetables and pull some of the veg up around the sides of the chicken. Pour in the stock 3) Tie the herbs together and place in the casserole. Break the bulb of the garlic up and peel away the outer paper but do not peel the cloves. Scatter over the chicken and veg and sprinkle with the fennel seeds 4) Cover the casserole with a sheet of foil and then place the lid on top. Bake for one and a half hours until tender and cooked through 5) Drain the chicken and veg and place on a warmed serving platter. REMOVE the chicken skin before eating and serve with the garlic cloves and vegetables Free on an original day 10 on a green day

Quick Recipe for Chilli Bean Treat Open up a can of mixed chilli beans and throw in a pan with some onion, tomatoes and Quorn mince. Add a pinch of chilli powder and stir until cooked. Serve on top of a bed of rice Free on a green day

Hash Brunch Fry lots of potato cubes in Fry Light until browned, add some chopped onions and cook until tender. Stir in some chopped beetroot and 3oz ham (from b choice) and fry until piping hot. Serve with an egg fried in Fry Light and freshly chopped herbs Free on a green day if using ham as a b choice

Gammon and Egg Bake Cut some gammon into chunks and quickly fry in Fry Light with some onion and garlic. Add a can of chopped tomatoes and a couple of diced peppers. Place in an oven proof bowl and hollow out the middle. Drop an egg into the hollow and bake in the oven until the egg is cooked Free on an original day

Vegetable Hot Pot Cook some chopped onion in 142ml Bovril stock until tender and then add a generous portion of frozen casserole vegetables, a can of tomatoes, herbs, spices and seasoning and cook until tender. Pour in a can of chickpeas, heat through and serve with a huge mound of mashed potato. Free on a green day

Tuna Quiche Fry some onion and peppers in Fry Light. Place in an oven proof dish with lots of flaked tuna, Pour a beaten egg over thetop and bake until set. Free on an original Day

Faster Pasta Bake Throw any combination of vegetables into a frying pan sprayed with Fry Light whilst boiling up a big pot of pasta. Add a can of chopped tomatoes with herbs to the vegetables and seasoning to taste. When the pasta is cooked, drain and stir in some very low fat natural fromage frais. Place the vegetable mixture in the bottom of an oven proof dish and then spoon the pasta on top. Sprinkle with cheese (from healthy option) and bake in the oven until golden and bubbling. Free on a green Day

Last One for Now...Grilled Steak & Peppercorn Sauce 4tsp mustard powder 8 fillet steaks Fry Light For The Sauce 1 onion 2 garlic cloves 11fl oz chicken stock made from Bovril 1tbsp crushed black peppercorns 1tbsp Worcestershire sauce 7oz very low fat natural fromage frais 1) Sprinkle the mustard powder over the staeks and rub onto the surface. Spray with fry light, cover and set aside. 2) To make the sauce: chop the onion and crush the garlic, place in a pan with the stock and bring to the boil. Reduce the heat, add the peppercorns and worcestershire sauce and simmer for 15-20 mins or until the sauce is reduced and slighly thickened. 3) Remove the sauce from the heat and stir in the fromage frais. Keep the sauce warm until ready to serve (do not boil at any point or the sauce will curdle) 4) Meanwhile place the steaks on a hot griddle sprayed with fry light and cook to you liking. Serve the steak with the peppercorn sauce and lots of stemed vegetables The Peppercorn Sauce is Free on both days

Line an oven proof quiche dish with mashed potato . Get together some cooked vegetables (chopped small ) of your choice. Add some onion which has been chopped small and cooked in microwave. Put on topof the potato. Beat eggs and a little milk from daily allowance, and add healthy extra cheese, grated (stronger the better ). Pour over the vegetables and bake in oven on number 4 till golden brown. FREE on Green day and delicious hot or cold.

I love the chips and so easy to do !!!

Do you not think Weight Watchers is better?

Not me Bernice...I can't be bothered keeping track of points...with SW you can eat as much as you like and I keep to 10 sins a day off my list I have. I love it....lost 5lbs last week and can't wait for next weeks weigh-in!!!!

Glad you like the recipes and will post some more later! Bev

I make a quiche similar to Annes........... except I add very low fat cottage cheese to the egg (free!) and mix together. I then make up any of the free pasta and sauce and put that on top of the potato case then add all veggies, etc and egg mix then cook. It sounds really weird but totally works. You can't tell it's got pasta in it. It just gives it a firmer texture. The whole thing is free on green day. Try it! Joanne

Here you go Jill....just a few recipes to get you off to a good start!!! Enjoy. Anne.

Cajun Chicken Goujons Rub plenty of Cajun spices into some chicken fillets, grill and slice into strips. Meanwhile roast a mountain of mixed pepper, courgette,onionand tomato chunks to serve up with the goujons.......yum Free on an original day

Curried Pork Patties Make some pork patties by mixing together a chopped red chilli, some spring onion and crushed garlic with lots of extra lean pork mince. Add a pinch of cumin, ground coriander ans seasoning. Add enough very low fat yoghurt to bind before shaping into burgers and frying in Fry Light. Enjoy with an 8oz jacket potato (from healthy option b) and a huge salad Free on an original day when using potato as healthy option