Egg Muffins Slimming World style #Recipe

One of my new favorite recipes and only takes around 30 minutes to make egg muffins and I promise they are delicious.

What I made them with...

Ingredients

- 50ml skimmed milk (if you are doing slimming world don't forget to deduct the milk from your allowance)

- 4 Eggs

- 5 rashers of bacon with the fat removed

- 1 Red Pepper

- 4 medium button mushrooms

- Fry light

- Salt and pepper

- Preheated oven 160

Recipe

1. pour your milk into a measuring jug, then break the eggs into it and whisk thoroughly then set to one side.
2. chop up the bacon, mushrooms and peppers into small pieces
3. spray a frying pan with fry light, and lightly fry the peppers, mushrooms, and bacon
4. using a spoon distrabute the mixture evenly between six cake cases or the tin I used silicon cases.
5. pour the egg and milk mixture over each of the cases so that there is around the same amount in each, add salt and pepper if you wish. 
6. cook for around 20 minutes or until the top is browned 

This recipe is so easily adapted you could add different vegetables onions or more meat, gammon or sausage meat been as daring as you like and the recipe is really quick and easy these are great to add to a dinner or just for snacks throughout the day.

A quick and easy Slimming World #Recipe

• 1 X onion diced
• 200g mushrooms diced
• 500g extra lean minced beef
• 2 X teaspoons chopped garlic
• 1 X teaspoon mixed herbs
• a small bag of frozen mixed vegetables
• 3 x beef stock cubes
• Frylight

1. Put the frozen vegetables in a a pan and boil them until soft and they are cooked.
2. Whilst the vegetables are boiling spray a large pan with fry light and placed on a medium to high heat
3. fry the mushrooms and onion for around five minutes
4. Add the mince, chopped garlic and mixed herbs fry until the mince is browned
5. Add the beef stock
6. Drain the water away from the frozen vegetables and add to the beef mixture leave to simmer for around 20 minutes so the flavours infuse, stirring occasionally
7. Serve with steamed broccoli or Brussels  

The meal is syn free and it makes quite a lot I usually freeze some down for later in the week its yummy not only that you can adapt the recipe to suit yourself why not try adding in some different vegetables or serving it with butternut squash instead of chips or the above vegetables!

Slimming world my favourite food staple

This week I maintained my weight loss journey, I'm glad I did I was expecting a gain, I don't know if you feel the same, but this week has been an emotional one, what is the one thing you do when you are emotional whether it be happy or sad I always find myself turning to food, but not vegetables or fruit I don't want healthy I want takeaways especially dominoes pizza its actually my favourite, of course not forgetting my love for chocolate, so I basically sabotaged my own journey, this week one of the meals I have cooked is cottage pie from Slimming worlds Food glorious food book, this is one of my favourite meals and the boys enjoy it too not only that there is enough left over to save some for the rest of the week either freezing or placing it in the fridge for the next day - so here is the recipe.

Free On Extra easy -
It is easy to make, just make sure you prepare everything before you start to make it.

• 1kg potatoes, peeled and chopped 
• salt and freshly ground pepper
• low calorie cooking spray
• 1 red onion finely chopped 
• 2 garlic cloves crushed
• two celery stick's finely chopped
• two carrots peeled and chopped finely 
• 500g 5% fat lean minced beef 
• 400g can chopped tomatoes
• 1 tbsp vegetable stock
• 1 tsp sweetener
• 2 tsp dried oregano 

Cook the potatoes in a pan of lightly salted boiling water for 12-15 minutes - or until tender mash until smooth season well and set aside.

meanwhile spray a large frying pan with the low calorie cooking spray on a high heat add the onion, garlic, celery and carrots and stir fry for five minutes then add the mince and stir fry for a further five minutes until brown.

Then add the tomatoes, stock, sweetener, and oregano bring to the boil and and then turn the heat down low let it simmer for 12-15 minutes.

Pre-heat the oven to 200C/ Fan 180C/Gas 6.

Transfer the beef mixture to a large casserole dish and spread the mashed potatoes on the top, smoothing the surface with the fork bake for 25-30 minutes or until golden brown and bubbling - don't forget to fill up the other half of your plate with super free vegetables!