5 family meals on a budget

We’ve teamed up with Slimming World to bring you five quick, easy and tasty recipes for four for £25 as well as top tips to help you lose lbs while watching your wallet

With the cost of living rising, these days we’re all trying to make our money go further. However, eating healthily doesn’t have to break the bank. This week we’ve joined forces with Slimming World to show you how you can eat well for less – and still lose weight!

In today’s paper, you’ll find five filling and delicious recipes to feed a family of four for under £25. As well as this, we’ve got the inspirational story of family man Dave Winchester, who’s lost an incredible 14½st to be the dad he dreamed of being.

Slimming World’s generous and liberating Food Optimising plan puts you in control of what you eat, giving you the freedom to still enjoy the foods you love and choose recipes that suit your lifestyle.

Plus, Slimming World groups provide a powerful social network where members are surrounded by likeminded people on the same journey as them. Belonging to a group offers members support, commitment and accountability. In fact, a recent Slimming World survey has found that 73% of people who joined a Slimming World group said they made new friends and 63% felt more connected.

If all of this leaves you feeling inspired to embark on your own weight-loss journey with Slimming World or to get back on track, you’ll find an exclusive free membership offer on page 6.

Powerful, expert support

Anyone who’s ever tried to lose weight on their own will know it’s all too easy to give up before you’ve really even started. That’s why getting support to make healthy changes is more important than ever.

And there’s no more encouraging, inspiring and motivating place to help you achieve your dreams than in a Slimming World group. Members discuss the highs and lows of weight loss and develop strategies and tactics to enable them to stay focused on what they want to achieve, whatever life throws their way.

In fact, research from Slimming World shows that feeling connected in a group of kind and understanding people, who care about your success and positively support you to succeed, makes all the difference when you are trying to lose weight.

If you can’t make a Slimming World group, there isn’t one nearby or you’d like to lose weight with web-based support, you could join Slimming World Online. The online community and regular email support will mean you have Slimming World’s unique support available 24/7.

The power of the Food Optimising eating plan

It might sound too good to be true to hear that you can eat the foods you love, never feel hungry and lose weight. But Slimming World’s Food Optimising eating plan is based on sound scientific principles.

Research shows that we feel full due to the volume of food we eat, not the number of calories we consume. By filling up on lower energy dense foods (those with fewer calories per gram) you can eat a larger volume of food so you feel full for fewer calories, thereby naturally reducing your energy intake and helping you to lose weight, without ever having to count a single calorie.

Slimming World calls the foods that are the most satiating (those that trigger our sense of satisfaction and fullness) and low in energy density Free Food, because they can be enjoyed freely without having to count, weigh or measure, leaving you free from hunger. Food Optimising is flexible, easy-tofollow, filling and enjoyable – and as far from a diet as it’s possible to be!

The freedom to move more… and love it!

As well as making changes to your eating and drinking habits, at Slimming

World you’ll discover the freedom to get more active in a way that suits you and your lifestyle. Slimming

World members who increase their levels of moderate intensity activity, while eating more healthily, find it easier to maintain their weight loss long term.

Whatever your starting point, Slimming World supports you to incorporate movement into your everyday life, at your own pace and rewards regular activity. As well as being good for your physical health, being active has great benefits for your mental health too. Slimming World’s Body Magic physical activity programme is all about boosting your self-esteem and feeling body confident, so whatever movement you’re in the mood for it all counts. Slimming World members will also find a range of online activity videos on the member website and app to do at home. There’s everything from a gentle introduction to getting started with moving more to cardio workouts and dance routines. Before you know it, you’ll be fitter, healthier and loving life more than ever!

As a Slimming World group member, you

will get:

● Access to 50 years of nutritional and psychological weight management expertise and science. ● The warmth, understanding and accountability that comes from being a member of a Slimming World group.

● 24/7 access to Slimming World’s members-only website – with more than 1,800 delicious recipes, meal plans, weight-loss strategies and articles.

● Slimming World’s membersonly app, including the Slimming World barcode scanner, plus tools, planners, menus and more.

Slimming World Online…

…is the organisation’s digital programme, with access to the same content and tools as group members. Plus, online members also have access to a vibrant online community, regular email support and online events.

For details on your nearest Slimming World group or to find out about Slimming World Online, visit slimmingworld.co.uk or slimming world.ie or call 0344 897 8000 or

01 656 9696.