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| Turf on his very cold walkies last night |
I also want to share with you two of the Oh So Lean dinners J and I had recently. The first one we had last week (I think we had it on Thursday) and the second one we had last night...
So last Thursday J and I decided to try the Oh So Lean burgers. Two steak burgers and two chicken burgers are included in the family pack. I tried the chicken and J tried the steak. Both were lovely! Very filling! Another quick thing I want to mention is the importance of plate size when eating. J and I have some quite big plates which came in a set we bought when we first moved in together. We try to keep the portion sizes down by only filling the plate to the first rim. I find this helps prevent us from over filling plates and wasting food - any leftover food goes straight from the pot to a tupperware box to cool before being put in the fridge.
Okay so we had beans, onions and eggs with our burgers. I'll not do a recipe for this as it's pretty straight forward. If you like mushrooms why not add some of those in to! The more superfree foods the better!
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| I peeled and chopped the onions. I've used 4 small onions here |
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| Beans in a microwavable bowl |
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| We had two eggs each. I know eggs are a superfree food, but they can also be quite bad for your cholesterol, so typically we would only eat eggs one or two days a week |
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| Fry off the onions in frylight until softened |
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| I fried the burgers in some frylight first (slowly on a low heat) before putting them on an oven-tray and oven cooking them to make sure they were cooked through |
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| Eggs cooking... |
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| This was my meal (J also had some nimble toast with his. You can actually see the rims on our plates in this photo. this plate is slightly too full - some times our eyes are bigger than our bellies! |
Last night we tried the Chicken, Stuffing and Ham Pie from Oh So Lean. I had heard great things about this pie and couldn't wait to try it. It is quite a big pie and you get a lot for your syns. There are 15 syns in the whole pie or 636 calories. That is quite low! As I hadn't had any syns at all yesterday I decided that I would just simply split the pie between J and myself with some free and superfree veg.
This is what the pie looks like in the carton...
It's very easy to cook, you simply open the carton, put it on a baking tray and place it in a pre-heated oven for 30-35 minutes. It does say to give it an egg wash first, although to save on time (and eggs) I just sprayed mine with frylight. It was ready after 30 minutes.
You have chicken and ham in the pie which are both free foods on EE (a red day food), then you have your syns in the stuffing and pastry. So to balance out the plate I added parsnips, free on EE (but classed as a green day food) and then the brussell sprouts are superfree, which means they are free on all plans - I hope that makes sense! I added some onion gravy over mine which was an extra 1.5 syns. All in all it was 9 syns for the whole meal (or 458 calories). Not bad at all for half a pie with gravy and veg!
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| This is just a wee look inside the pie, you can see the filling is layered, meaning you get a mouthful of tastiness every time! |
You can freeze any of the products (including the sauces) but the only things I froze were the superfree curry pot and the pack of chicken fillets. A wee thing to note with the pie that I have heard from other people is that if you are going to freeze it, cook it first, then freeze it, don't freeze it while it's uncooked.
Has anyone else been trying the Oh So Lean range? Please let me know how it has helped your weight-loss.
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