Slimming World special

In light of the pandemic, we’re being encouraged to maintain a healthy weight, so we’ve teamed up with Slimming World to bring you an exclusive eating plan to help you drop pounds and feel great!

HOW IT WORKS:

1 Choose one breakfast, one lunch and one dinner every day. Feel free to repeat meals you enjoy and you’ll find more ideas at www.slimmingworld.co.uk.

2 Foods printed in bold are ‘Free Food’, which you can enjoy freely to satisfy your appetite without needing to weigh, measure or count at all. Base meals around Free Food, like lean meat, plain tofu, and Quorn, fish, pasta, rice, potatoes, eggs, pulses, fat-free dairy, fruit, vegetables and more. If you feel hungry between meals, snack on these foods. For the very best weight loss, reach for fresh fruit or vegetables first.

3 As well as Free Food, stock your store cupboard with fat-free dressings, herbs, low-cal cooking spray, oil-free tomato purée, seasoning, soy sauce, spices and stock cubes, most of which can be used freely to flavour meals.

4 To help support an overall healthy balanced diet, Slimming World encourages you to enjoy measured amounts of foods that provide calcium, like milk and cheese (two per day), and those providing fibre, other essential minerals and healthy oils, such as wholemeal bread, high-fibre cereals, crispbreads, nuts and seeds (one per day). These can be enjoyed as part of your meals and where we’ve included them as such in this plan, we’ve given specific measurements. Alternatively, you may choose to use them in hot drinks, or on their own as a snack. Where you’re enjoying them separately in this plan:

● Choose 350ml skimmed milk, 250ml semi-skimmed milk or 400ml plain and unsweetened soya milk with added calcium, or you can opt for 30g full-fat hard cheese or 40g reduced-fat hard cheese. Other varieties are available too, you’ll find out more when you join.

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● Boost your fibre intake by enjoying two slices of wholemeal bread (from a small 400g loaf), a 60g wholemeal roll, 60g wholemeal pitta or 60g brown, high-fibre white or multi-seed, gluten-free bread/roll.

5 Treat yourself. Enjoy up to two snacks from the list provided every day.

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