Salmon and Substitutions are Slimming

Seventy and Superb

I dont know about you but I hate looking up a recipe when I dont know what to do for dinner only to find I dont have all the ingredients. So this is my recipe for today.

Poached Salmon and Salad

Salmon steaks
New potatoes

steam the salmon over the potatoes

Salad
Fresh lettuce
thin beans (Kept in Freezer and steamed then cooled)
cucumber
olives ( I always keep freeze packed olives in the store cupboard)

Prepared and drizzled with extra virgin olive oil ( said to be the best way to help your heart if uncooked.)

Followed by poached fruit (anything you have got in the fridge poached with apple/orange juice plus left over any kind of alcohol.)

Served with low-calorie creme fraiche( I always have this in the fridge as it is so versatile in cooking. e.g. fry some mushrooms in frylight and creme fracihe and serve on crusty toast. Voila!)

I recently went on a slimming course organised by NHS staff in my area.  It was designed mostly for people with an IQ of under zero, and made the assumption that in our age group and wirh our weight problems we spent 12/7 in front of the television.  There was a lot of five a day trotted out as though we haven't read about it in magazines, newspaper etc.ad nauseum.

However one interesting tip was substitution .  My weapon of mass destruction is Tomato Juice in the fridge.  Whenever i get a sweet tooth craving, if I have a glass of tomato juice ( luckily I quite enjoy it), then my cravings cease and tomato juice is very low in calories.

There you have it my tip for today. I have lost one stone so far so Keep on trying and I will too.

Exra store cupboard advice
tins of lentilsand chick peas are a good standby- low calorie and can go into any vegetarian recipe to improve protein content.