Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's superfree!

...in which I briefly ponder the meaning of "super".

Superfree foods are food that Slimming World describe as "very low in energy density". What this means in practice is that you can eat a lot of them without consuming a lot of calories, and they fill you up so you can't actually eat too much of them. 

Basically they are fruit and vegetables (but not all vegetables - e.g. a lot of pulses/starchy vegetables are free rather than superfree).

They won't turn you into superman/woman and they won't make you fly, but they do help fill you up and stop you eating too much, plus they help you feel full for longer. 

The Slimming World guidance is that 1/3 of your diet should be superfree foods. The easiest way to make sure you do get 1/3rd superfree is probably to have some with each meal, but there are other options - e.g. most of my breakfast is super free as I always have fruit because the amount of cereal you can have for a healthy extra b is minuscule; this helps to make up for the fact that I don't usually have a lot of superfree food at lunchtime, and I rarely feel hungry in the afternoon. 

5th June 2014

Breakfast

Apple, Satsuma, Pear, Mullerlight (Orange with dark chocolate sprinkles)

Lunch

Bacon & Tomato on a wholemeal roll (healthy extra b)

Dinner

Vegetable & Quorn chilli
My own recipe: 1 courgette, 1 red onion, 1 onion, 1 green pepper, 4 - 6 closed cup mushrooms, 3 cloves garlic (finely chopped), 1 400g tin of tomatoes, half a tube tomato puree, ~1/2 a pack frozen Quorn mince, 250 ml vegetable stock, 3 tsp chilli powder (choose your heat)!, 1 tsp paprika.

Roughly chop all of the veg; fry the onions, peppers & garlic for 5 - 10 minutes until the onions are softened. Add the mushrooms and stir fry for another 2 - 3 minutes. 
Add the tomato puree, chilli powder and paprika and stir to coat the veg; add the tin of tomatoes, stock and courgettes and stir to mix. Simmer for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally. 

This was the first time I'd made this using this recipe - in future I think I'd use passata instead of the vegetable stock as it didn't taste as tomato-ey as usual. I'd usually put baked beans in a chilli too but I forgot!

Serve with boiled rice, peas & sweetcorn (optional but middle child wanted them)

Evening Snacks

Fruit. Lots of fruit. So much fruit it's not even funny. Seriously, it was like a small mountain. 2 apples, a pear, a 1/4 of a melon and some strawberries. Plus a satsuma.

Exercise

15 Minutes on exercise bike
30 minute run