A
diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure.
Well
I had a lovely time in my kitchen yesterday morning after taking Alfie for his
walk. I decided I wanted to make a
Spinach and Ricotta cannelloni recipe so I went through every Weight Watcher
cook book I had and found one in the last book = typical! Then I laughed when I took the lid off the
ricotta to find another recipe under that, I read both and decided not to
follow either, I wanted to make up my own recipe and get creative, it would either be a messy piece or a master piece! The following makes two dishes one with tuna
and one with chorizo, if you’re vegetarian you could just leave them out and
reduce the ProPoints value.
| 2 batches of white sauce -complete
kitchen (16pp for 2/3rds) (you could buy and use a jar I suppose) |
£0.52 |
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250g ricotta (10pp)
|
£1.00
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can olives (5pp)
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£1.00
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200g sweet chilli philadelphia light
(8pp)
|
£1.75
|
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200g defrosted frozen spinach
|
£0.30
|
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160g bag spinach
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£1.00
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diced pepper
|
£0.60
|
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250g box cannelloni (24pp)
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£0.65
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jar pasta sauce (whatever's on offer)
(7pp)
|
£1.00
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400g passata (0pp)
|
£1.00
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cathedral city light (120g) (10pp)
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£1.50
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£10.32
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tuna x 2 basic (6pp)
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£1.50
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chorizo x 50g (6pp)
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£0.75
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tuna one cost £6.66 served 6 at 8pp
each £1.11 per portion
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chorizo one cost £5.91 served 4 at
11pp each £1.45 per portion
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Split between two bowls.
Add 2 tins of tuna to the one bowl.
In two oven dishes, split the tubes, in one fill
the cannelloni tubes with the tuna mixture, in the other dish use the other
mixture bowl and do the same.
Next combine pasta sauce and passata in a jug then
pour over the two dishes, ½ in each.
Slice chorizo onto the top of the none tuna dish.
Next make double quantity of the white sauce recipe
as in Complete Kitchen cook book (24pp total) split it three ways, (put 1/3rd
in a jar for use in the week as a pasta sauce or for cauliflower cheese) and
pour the rest between the two dishes.
Top with cathedral light cheese and cook in oven
for 40mins on gas mark 6.
Delicious, tuna dish serves 6 easily, and the
chorizo one serves 4. Both are freezable.
This could be made as a lasagne rather than
cannelloni, I used the veggies I had to hand, and you can leave out anything
you don’t like.
One on left is tuna, the one below is the chorizo, both were very tasty.
I also made my favourite chicken hotpot and chicken curry which is so easy, 2 packs of chicken thighs for £7 from asda, 8 used in the hotpot, 6 in curry, 2 for Alfie!
Chicken
hot pot
8 chicken oxo’s in 1 litre boiling
water, 8 thighs (skin removed & obvious fat cut off), 3-4 medium onions,
4-6 medium carrots, 600g potato
Place chicken, carrots & onions in
roasting tray, thinly slice potatoes to top casserole, then pour chicken oxo
stock over the top, get all the potatoes wet.
Cover in foil and cook on low for a few hours, remove foil and turn ove up
higher, leave to brown. Serve and enjoy. (12pp if you have 2 thighs &
serving 4 or 6pp if serving 8) Cost = £1.58 per portion
Optional
- add 1 diced carrot & 1 onion
diced (helps with 5 a day)
- I add sultanas (1 tablespoon = 2pp)
because I like them, it sweetens the curry.
Serves 3 (11pp) or 6 (5pp) depending on
your appetite, then 60g of rice per person for an additional 6pp or 200g frozen
chips for 7pp.
My fridge and freezer is now full and I
have plenty of food for the week, made over 20 individual dishes in a couple of
hours.
I’ve
worked out how much my eating has cost me over the last three days and it
averages at £3.39 a day for three meals, I think that proves you can afford to lose
weight and use what you save to come to Weight Watchers ;-) I’ll continue to do it for the foreseeable as
I put together a month of meal plans for the future.
I
caught my mom at the ice cream van yesterday buying crisps, she spent a
fiver! That shows where money gets
wasted, it’s not the good wholesome food, it’s the unnecessary junk we
eat.
YAY
it’s Monday, try to remember every days a bonus x
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