So basically I still quite like traditional meat dishes, and I'm very happy that there is lots of stuff to replace the meat so I can still cook my favourite meals. Quorn is one such product, which comes in all sorts of formats, like mince, "chicken style bits", sausages, escalopes etc. So what I tend to do is log on to the WW recipe catalogue and look through "normal" meat recipies, then edit them to replace the mince, sausages, chicken breast or whatever with quorn. And here comes the bonus - it saves points!!
For example
- Bolognese sauce with extra lean beef mince - 4 points per serving
- Bolognese sauce made with quorn - 2 points per serving
- Spicy sausage and pepper pasta (WW recipe) -4.5 points per serving
- Spicy VEG sausage and pepper pasta - 3 points per serving
It might look like a small difference but when you're struggling to stay within your points (like I do every day...) then those extra couple of points saved come in very handy! So that's my tip of the day ;)
Time for bed, night night!
Oh, I wish I had the character to go veggie, but so far I've been too damn lazy. Maybe when my points go down and it starts getting hard to fit everything in, I'll have an extra motivation! Thank you for the tip :)
ReplyDeleteHehe well that's the thing with stuff like quorn - I'm lazy too and quorn means I can keep cooking what I usually do. I've performed blind tests on many a meat eater who haven't realised the lasagna or spag bol I've served them has contained no meat whatsoever :) So it's worth a try, if you can get hold of quorn in Belgium? (I know in France when I was there for a few months I couldn't find any!)
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