Get Your Kids to Eat Anything - Book Review

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When Emily Leary asked for fellow bloggers to review her book Get Your Kids to Eat Anything, I applied straight away.

The Perfect Slimming World Baked Potato With Spring Onion and Cheese - Recipe

The Perfect Slimming World Baked Potato With Spring Onion and Cheese - Recipe

To make the perfect Slimming World Baked Potato is not difficult. Just buy large potatoes, floury not waxy potatoes, and bake. What could be easier? To make it fluffy on the inside and crispy on the outside you need to add a little more. Although it is possible to cook potatoes in the microwave I find they shrink and go rubbery if over cooked just a little. For the best baked potato cook it in the oven.

Slimming World Garlic Chicken with Spicy Cumin Vegetables Recipe

Slimming World Garlic Chicken with Spicy Cumin Vegetables 

Before I started Slimming World I loved to cook recipes from Madhur Jaffrey's cookery book from her 1980s TV series. The recipes involve lots of spices and oil to fry them in. I thought I'd try adapting one of my favourite recipes, Spicy Cumin Vegetables and have Garlic Chicken to go with it. This is not a quick meal but it is easy. The chicken needs to be marinated for at least 6 hours so can be prepared the day before.

Slimming World Chicken Soup Recipe

Slimming World Chicken Soup Recipe

We have been making this chicken soup for many years, the original recipe is long forgotten. It is a French rustic dish with lots of carrots and potatoes to make the chicken go further. It also called for big dollops of butter, totally not Slimming World friendly. This is the recipe adapted and it is still delicious. I like it as it is but you could use your healthy extra's and have it with a wholemeal roll spread with Laughing Cow cheese.

Slimming World Fish Cakes Recipe

Slimming World Fish Cakes Recipe

I love fish and when I was looking for a quick way to use a tin of tuna I thought of fish cakes. Don't skimp on the fish. I use tinned tuna as I have it in the cupboard and it's already prepared but any strong flavoured fish will do, salmon, smoked haddock, mackerel. Just cook and flake while the potatoes are boiling. This goes well with salad but would also be great with lots of your favourite vegetables. I used a mixture of potatoes and sweet potatoes to give more flavour.

Slimming World Creamy Vegetable Pasta with Chicken, mushrooms and peppers - Recipe

Slimming World Creamy Vegetable Pasta with Chicken, Mushrooms and Peppers.

I have been trying Laughing Cow cheese triangles in some meals and they are very versatile. I have used them instead of butter in ham sandwiches and instead of cream in pasta. This recipe uses the triangles to make the pasta creamy. This is an easy, fast and delicious meal great for a quick lunch or supper.

Slimming World Chip Shop Curry Sauce Recipe

Slimming World Chip Shop Curry Sauce

If you are looking for a true Chip Shop Curry Sauce then you will be disappointed as the only place you really can get that is your chip shop. If you are looking for a delicious, easy Slimming World friendly Chip Shop Curry Sauce then try this. It is easy to make and really is delicious. This is adapted from a Slimming World on-line recipe.

7 Easy Baby Led Weaning Recipes

7 Easy Baby Led Weaning Recipes

When Bear was weaning we tried a mixture of pureed food and baby led weaning. He loved feeding himself but also he really liked pureed vegetables. So whether you are doing only baby led weaning, or a mixture here are a few recipes to give you a head start.

Slimming World Sea Bass with Tomatoes and Bacon Recipe

Slimming World Sea Bass with Tomatoes and Bacon Recipe 

This is another Slimming World recipe from one of their books. My initial thought was that bacon and fish was a very strange combination but they go together beautifully, cod works very well too.

Slimming World Salmon with Green Beans Recipe

We first came across Salmon with Green Beans recipe in one of Jamie Oliver's Recipe books many years ago. We love the simplicity of Italian meals and the flavours. It is not Syn free, it has olives and anchovies. We eat it just as it is but if you would like a more substantial meal  it is wonderful with boiled new potatoes or roasted sweet potatoes. Pop them into the preheated oven while you prepare the other vegetables.

Slimming World Salsa Recipe

Once I joined Slimming World I found that I had lost gravies and mayo and butter to cover my food and it was all a bit boring. Not the curries and stews but the cold meats and potatoes. My Slimming World Salsa Recipe is so easy, Syn free and really adds to any meal. Recipes do not have to be complicated to be delicious.

Slimming World Pork Meatballs with Orzo - Recipe

Slimming World Pork Meatballs with Orzo - Recipe

I love meatballs, I often make a version of Italian meatballs with lots of herbs but it contains breadcrumbs so I was really pleased to see a recipe in my Slimming World book that was Syn free. The recipe looked very complicated though with frying and grilling and lots of pans so I adapted it to go into the oven. The sauce is really rich and the meatballs very limey. Delicious and filling.

Slimming World Tomatoey Potatoes - Recipe

Slimming World Tomatoey Potatoes - Recipe

This is a family favourite, it makes boring boiled potatoes delicious and is great served with a green vegetable like broccoli and cold meats. It is also Syn free on Slimming world.

Slimming World Pork Kebab with Tzatziki - Recipe

Slimming World Pork Kebab with Tzatziki

I love tzatziki. I make it quite often, it always reminds me of Greece. Traditionally it is used as a dip, eaten with crudités, bread or grilled meat. In Athens next to the meat market there was, maybe still is, the best souvlaki place. Wooden sticks with cubes of meat, lamb or goat I guessed, dipped into lemon and oregano and served with chunks of rustic bread that I have never found outside Greece. This is my homage to that.

Slimming World Pizza Chicken - Recipe

Slimming World Pizza Chicken

OK so it's not pizza, it's chicken breast with pizza topping but is so easy and very delicious. We will definitely be having this again. We served it wth roast vegetables and cous cous.

Serves 2

Prep Time 15 mins Cooking Time 20 mins
Syn Free

Ingredients

2 Free Range Chicken Breasts
1 small red onion thinly sliced,
1/2 red pepper
1/2 yellow pepper
Tomato puree
Half tsp dried oregano
Fresh chopped Basil or Oregano to garnish
Fry Light

Method

Pre heat oven to 200C/180C fan

Butterfly each chicken breast by placing your hand flat on top of the chicken and slicing each horizontally almost completely through. It is easiest to start from the thicker end. Open out the breast and lay flat. Cover with cling film and bash with a rolling pin to make the thickness even.

Butterfly chicken, cut and pressed open.

Cover a baking tray with non-stick baking paper and spray with Fry Light.

Place the chicken breasts on the paper and spread tomato puree on top. Sprinkle with the dried oregano.

Cover the chicken with the sliced vegetables and bake for 20 mins or until chicken is cooked.

Sprinkle with the chopped fresh herbs to serve

This was really delicious and although not really a pizza the flavours are just so good. Feel free to change the topping to suit your taste. This recipe was adapted from Slimming World's new Free and Easy book.

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Slimming World Weigh In #5 and Best Recipe Of The Week

Slimming World Weigh In #5 and Best Recipe Of The Week

I was supposed to be going out with friends on Friday for a meal but due to the bad weather we had to cancel last minute. My first thought was to order a takeaway. We didn't. We cooked chicken noodles, so instead of lots of Syns the whole meal was about 2.5 Syns.
My Slimming World best recipe of the week is a delicious creamy mushroom sauce that is syn free.

Slimming World Weigh In #4 and Best Recipe Of The Week

Slimming World Weigh In #4 and Best Recipe Of The Week

I have reached week four and been experimenting with some different meals. We have been making our favourite meals by adapting them and have tried some new ones too.

Slimming World weigh in #3 and Best Recipe Of The Week

Slimming World weigh in #3 and Best Recipe Of The Week

This week I have only had one meal out. That was lunch at Jamie Olivers and I chose the Classic Super Food salad. Most of the meals looked like they would be drenched in oil and the only other option was chicken, served with chips or Caeser salad but I suspected the dressing would be creamy. My salad was delicious, I added grilled chicken and removed the skin so that was free. When I neared the end of the meal there was some olive oil so I left the veg and beans that were in it. I think I am slowly getting to grips with the detail of Slimming World but when I got home and checked the Syns it came out at a massive 15, for a salad! I realise now that the half an avocado is 7 syns, I would have left it if I had known. I did leave a lot but I am still adding the 15.

Slimming World Weigh In #2 and Best Recipe of the Week

This is my second week on Slimming World and my first best recipe of the week. We Grandad has been experimenting and trying out lots of different recipes. He has also adapted some favourites such as Spaghetti Bolognese to be Syn free too. The Best Recipe of the week is definitely potatoes with peppers and I have included it here for you. Firstly, how did my second week go?

Baby Friendly Finger Food Recipe - 5 Roasted Vegetables

Baby Friendly Finger Food Recipe - 5 Roasted Vegetables

Roasted vegetables are a great way to get your little ones to eat their "5 a day". Babies love holding their food and feeding themselves and these are so easy (and clean!). Don't forget that potato chips are good too when just one of the vegetables and cooked in scrummy olive oil in the oven. You can roast most veg including onions, shallots, tomatoes, garlic, mushrooms and herbs.  Here's my favourite roasted vegetables for babies.