Experimenting with food is something i love doing.Have you discovered Quinoa? It is from the spinach family and can be used instead of couscous ,which can be bloating.Google it,you will find loads of recipies!!!!
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Healthy meals without potato?Re: Healthy meals without potato?Well done Lisa
Experimenting with food is something i love doing.Have you discovered Quinoa? It is from the spinach family and can be used instead of couscous ,which can be bloating.Google it,you will find loads of recipies!!!! If you always do what you always do ,you will always get what you have always got!
Re: Healthy meals without potato?Hey MM
 I've never heard of quinoa before, but I will definitely try it! Do they just stock it in the usual supermarkets? I've never seen it, but then again I've never looked for it  Re: Healthy meals without potato?Yep Lisa!!!You should be able to find it with the rice etc..... It smells odd when you cook it but it does taste nice ....honest
 If you always do what you always do ,you will always get what you have always got!
Re: Healthy meals without potato?Hahaha, I trust you
 Does it just go with the usual things couscous does? Like a bit of spice, peppers, mushrooms, courgette?
Re: Healthy meals without potato?I dropped by sasda's before and was looking for the Quinoa but couldn't find it.... don't think I was looking in the right places though.
Are wraps better for you than bread? I've just had a wholemeal wrap with loads of shredded lettuce a bit of ham, chives and a squidge of low fat cream cheese and mayo  Bev x
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Re: Healthy meals without potato? oh Lisa, you do make me giggle.If you give me a list of what you like to eat I'll think of some dishes for you to make  Bev x
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Re: Healthy meals without potato?I'm so fussy aren't I
 Well, I like any quorn products, most fruit and veg Any fish I HATE, nuts, cauliflower, wraps, beans, chips, I don't eat meat (other than fish) Trying to stay away from bread, potato, pasta, rice, cheese 
Re: Healthy meals without potato?Not so much fussy, more you know what you want!!
I'll put on my thinking cap Bev x
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http://www.supercook.com/ http://recipeland.com/recipes/by_ingredient http://www.recipematcher.com/ ¸.•´¸.•*´¨) ¸.•*¨)✰
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Re: Healthy meals without potato?Quinoa is cheaper in the health food shop here, rather than the supermarket. (If you need to ask for it, it's pronounced keen-wah)
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Re: Healthy meals without potato?
I'm so glad you told me that because I would of just said it how it looks LOL. We don't have any health food shops close by D:
Re: Healthy meals without potato?Have you tried your couscous yet Lisa? I eat it all the time, most days as the basis of my packed lunch. The general rule is 100g of couscous to 200ml of liquid. What I do, and this is extremely easy, is boil a kettle and make up vegetarian stock to the amount I want, poor it over the dried couscous, mix it up quickly, cover and leave for ten minutes. That is the hard bit. Now all you need to do is fluff it up with a fork and be inventive. A top tip for adding tons of flavour is to mix through some pesto (I like sun dried tomato or roasted pepper) but a squeeze of tommy sauce works (mix it with Mayo if you like). I have had cans of mackerel in tomato sauce mixed through before. I quite like spring onion, cherry tomatoes, cucumber and celery with feta cheese but it is very much up to your own imagination. If you don’t want to use sauce then a splash of extra virgin olive oil stirred through is delish. I also like to pop a couple of soft boiled or poached eggs on top and let the runny yolks mix in with the couscous.
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Re: Healthy meals without potato?Oooh that sounds very yummy MrSpoony
Bev x
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