Tuna rice salad - 7 pro points

Total Pro-Points for 1 serving is 7

Serves 2

Ingredients:
200g of leftover cold cooked rice - 10pp

1 Tin of tuna drained (130g) - 3pp
1 tbs Light Mayonnaise - 1pp

Red Pepper diced

Spring onion diced

Tomato diced

Squeeze of lemon juice


Method:
Put all the ingredients in a bowl and stir!

 

Total Points per recipe - 14 (7 points per serving)

 

Summer Chicken - 6pp



This is called summer chicken and I had hoped it may help me feel a bit more summery in this cold weather! It was really nice, I served it with rice for an added 6pp.

Total Pro-Points for 1 serving is 6

Serves 2
Ingredients:
2 Chicken Breasts approx 165g each - 4pp each
2tbsp Light Pesto - 1pp each
2tbp half fat creme fraiche - 1pp each
10 Cherry Tomatoes halved


Method:

Heat a few sprays of fry-light in a frying pan, preferably non-stick. Add the chicken and fry without moving it until it takes on a bit of colour. Turn the chicken and cook on the other side. Continue cooking for 12-15 mins until the chicken is cooked through.

Add the tomatoes to the pan and heat until softened. Reduce the heat and stir in the pesto and crème fraîche until it makes a sauce. Serve with rice.

This weeks meal plan

Ok, I am trying to create meal plans at the beginning of the week to incorporate the whole families needs! It is a bit of a weird week, it isn't normally like this but there doesn't seem to be any evening we will have a proper family mealtime. Doesn't always work but here goes:

Monday (husband not in for dinner)
Breakfast: Porridge - 4pp
Lunch: Light Cheese Wrap (4), Yoghurt (1)  - 4pp
Dinner: Chicken (4) New Potatoes (5) Sauce (1) - 10pp


Tuesday (I am out this evening so will eat early)
Breakfast: Weetabix - 4pp
Lunch: Wrap Pizza - 5pp
Dinner: Salmon topped with cream cheese and breadcrumbs (7), Half a baked poatato (4) veg - 11pp


Wednesday (Daughter has gymnastics so needs to be something I can prepare and heat later or very quick)
Breakfast: Porridge - 4pp
Lunch: Chicken Pesto Pasta Salad - 6pp
Dinner: Waitrose Goats Cheese Fiorelli - 12pp


Thursday (Husband at training so will eat late)
Breakfast: Toast and Peanut Butter - 5pp
Lunch: Bacon Sandwich - 7pp
Dinner: WW Sausage (3), Mash (5), Gravy (1) - 9pp


Friday (Good Friday/In-Laws coming and staying for weekend)
Breakfast: Weetabix - 4pp
Lunch: Roll & Ham - 5pp
Dinner: Ham and Egg Pie (will post recipie) - 10pp


Saturday
Breakfast: Porridge - 4pp
Lunch: Light Cheese Wrap - 4pp
Dinner: Homemade Chicken Korma (5), Mini Nann (3), Rice (6) - 14pp


Easter Sunday
Breakfast: Bacon Roll - 5pp
Lunch: Roast Lamb (6), Potato (5), Gravy (1), Yorkshire (1) - 13pp
Dinner: Crumpets - 6pp

Weekend chocolate treats

I have a few treats i keep in as a life without chocolate is not worth much!!
Cadbury caramel bunnies - 3 pp
Milkybar Minis Icecreams - 3pp
Wispa Icecreams - 3pp
Yum x

Stuffed Chicken Wrapped in Bacon - 5 Pro-Points

Total Pro-Points for this recipe is 5

Ingredients: 
140g Chicken Breast - 3
30g Garlic and Herb Light Soft Cheese - 1
1 Rasher of Bacon - 1


Method:
Cut a slit down the side of the chicken breast. Stuff the hole with the soft cheese. Wrap the whole chicken breast with bacon. Cook in the oven at 180 degrees for 25 minutes. I served this with the crushed new potato recipe  brocolli and cauliflower.

Crushed New Potato with Bacon - 4 Pro-points

The side dish for my dinner tonight was really tasty. The values below serve 1 but it is easily multiplied to serve more. 

Total Pro-Points for this recipe is 4

Ingredients: 
150g New Potatoes - 3pp
Fry Light 
1 Rasher of Bacon - 1pp
1 Clove of Garlic Crushed

Method:
Boil the potatoes until almost cooked. Meanwhile grill a rasher of bacon and chop into small pieces  Put the potatoes on a baking tray and crush down with a potato masher. Cover with a few sprays of fry light and add the garlic. Give it all a stir and put in the oven on 180 degrees for 20 minutes. 

Planning Planning Planning

For me one of the keys to success in Weight Watchers and one of the things I find the hardest to do is planning! There are a number of reasons I find it hard!

My husband works irregular hours, sometimes is home for tea at 5pm sometimes 8pm who knows! He travels a lot and although I always ask him on a sunday his plans for the week it isn't always accurate.

My husband also does not like vegetables - of almost any sort. Or anything cooked in the slow cooker. And isn't a massive fan of having his food reheated. This rules out loads of dinners that I love to cook and eat.

My Son won't eat pasta, but this is a massive favourite of my daughter! He is 2 and going through a stage where he will only eat 3 or 4 meals.

My Daughter has gymnastics and also ha school dinners a couple of days a week and doesn't want to eat 2 dinners in a day and just wants sandwiches.

Some evenings I have looked back and realised I have cooked 4 separate dinners and been in the kitchen most of the evening.

So......this is my resolution, to spend more time planning, more use of leftovers and not cook more than 1 dinner a night!! I will post my meal plan for next week at the end of the week.

Discovery Plain Flour Tortillas - 3pp

Another food I eat a lot of are these discovery wraps. I like them more than the WW ones and at 3 points each is better than having two slices of bread for 5.

Chicken Pesto Pasta Salad - 7 PP

This is one of the things I make using the Sainsbury's Lighter Pesto. It is a really filling lunch or sometimes I add more pasta or chicken and have it for dinner.

Total Pro-Points for this recipe is 7

Ingredients: 
84g cooked pasta - 2pp
70g Cooked Chicken Breast - 2pp
30g Sainsbury's lighter Pesto - 1pp
30 g Half fat Creme Fraiche - 1pp
18g Grated Cheese - 1pp
Salad (I use lettuce, tomato, cucumber, red pepper, red onion and some pineapple)

Method:
Make a big salad. 

Add pasta, chicken, Pesto and creme friache to a bowl and mix. Add this to the top of the salad. And top with the grated cheese. 

This weeks loss

I lost 1.5lb this week...aim for more next!

Asda French Bread Pizzas - 7 PP's

I really like these French bread pizza from the freezer in Asda. They are only 7pp and give me a pizza hit!  

One of my fav's - Sainsbury's Lighter Pesto

This is one of the things I use all the time, this sainsburys lighter pesto is really nice and I don't think it tastes any different from the standard version.

You can have 30g of this for 1 Pro-point. The standard pesto would be 3 point for the same amount. I will post some of the recipes I use this for soon!

Waitrose Goats Cheese Fiorelli - 12pp

Another quick dinner is a whole pack of this Waitrose Goats Cheese Fiorelli. It is lovely and the only filled pasta I have ever found with reasonable points! It is quite expensive at £2.99 but they sometimes do 2 packs for £4 or you can pick it up in the reduced section. Yummy!!

Chicken Fried Rice - 11pp

Tonight I had one of my favourite quick meals which I cook on a night when I am pushed for time. Sometimes I eat separately from the rest of the family if I am going to the gym in the evenings so this is for 1 person, if my husband is eating with me I would cook 3 times the values below as he likes a big portion!  I save some cooked rice from dinner the night before and the rest is just chucked in!

Total Pro-Points for this recipe is  11.

Ingredients: 
165g cooked white rice - 6pp
70g cooked chopped chicken breast - 2pp
1 medium egg - 2 pp
1tp seasame oil - 1 pp
Light Soy sauce - 0pp
Chopped spring onion - 0pp
Spray of fry light oil - 0pp

Method:
Crack the egg into a mug or bowl and whisk up lightly. Spray the pan with fry-light and tip the egg in to make a kind of omelette. When the egg is cooked tip out onto a plate.

Tip the rice, chicken and spring onion into the pan and stir fry until warm, add the sesame oil and a few squirts of soy sauce.

Chop the omelette up and add to the pan. Serve and eat immediately.