67GOINGON50 PRE-DIABETES WEIGHT LOSS PROGRAMME

 PRE-DIABETES/WEIGHT LOSS PROGRAMME FROM 67GOINGON50

11 Nov: 

The Blogger has been registered on an NHS pre-diabetes digital  programme with a personal guide and access to other digital participants.  

The programme will start in earnest after Christmas.

'HUMAN GUINEA PIG' TRIAL

The Blogger has overweight friends who struggle to diet,  mainly because of a lack of cooking skils and time.  They're mostly - but not all - men and a food blogger like me longs to provide easy, tasty, budget-friend food to help them lose weight and improve their health.

67 is thus pleased to introduce the first volunteer 'guinea pig' who'll test ther blog's weight loss/pre-diabetes recipes.  How tasty are they?  Was it  easy to make the dish?  Are the instructions easy to follow?  Was money saved?  (After a period of time...) are you losing weight?   

The answer to these questions will be posted in due course. 

Man A is 68 years old and a former town planner.  He spends 'quite a lot' on food, mainly on fresh food kits which leave him 'very hungry by the end of the week when the kit runs out.'  He's a vegetarian. 

Man B is an early-30’s professional in creative industry.  He is fairly fit but wishes to eat more healthily and cook more from scratch rather than rely on take-aways.  He’s a flexitarian and likes easy recipes that are healthy’ish butaste really good."

To begin with, they'll send comments on the recipes posted either weekly, fortnightly or monthly.  

The Recipe(s)

67goingon50 will post at least 1 recipe a week.

The 'guinea pigs' have been chosen to represent the people who find it most difficult to follow a food program: singletons and couples.  

Moist people try to eat healthily but portion control is harder for singletons than families..  Recipes will be planned for 1 or 2 but in keeping with 67's ethos will multiply easily for families.  

Batch cooking is a good way for beginners to start; there will be plenty of left-overs for freezing and re-heating.

THIS WEEK'S RECIPE 

Usually only a single dish but with all aspects covered: ingredients (with substitutions), method, equipment required, serving sugggestions;  storage; how to re-present leftovers 

Sometimes an easy low-fat dessert will be included.

EFFORTLESS CHILLI: Budget friendly, low-fat/salt, Triple-Duty, batch cooking; smal households

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Beat the Cost of Living Crisis with this effortless low-fat, low-salt chilli with flavours and textures to knock your socks off...

Rich, thick, savoury chilli: budget friendly, weight conscious but nutritious and satisfying

(the first recipe on the Weight loss/pre-diabetes programme)

If you think cooking from scratch is too hard...think again.  If you can chop and onion, open a few tins and measure out a few spices, you can produce an intensely savoury pot of chilli that will knock your socks off.

It uses turkey, not beef, or vegetarian substitutes to reduce cholesterol and fat. Tinned tomatoes not salt-laden tomato paste reduces salt.  And all without loss of flavour.  

The texture is divine and so satisfying.

And the recipe produces a generous pot guaranteeing leftovers that can be frozen for future meals.

This is the recipe that started off 67goingon50 and has graced many a table  since 2015.

Cost: around £5 not including carb, salad and garnishes; possibly less for vegetarians

Serves: 3-4 (recipe easily doubles)

Ingred:
   250gm/9oz minced turkey OR firm tofu OR (67 has not tested this: your  usual vegetarian mince)
   scant 1/2 tablespoon olive oil
   1 large onion, finely chopped OR roughly processed 
   1 garlic clove, grated OR generous 1/8 tsp garlic granules (opt)

   1x 400g/14 oz pureed tinned tomatoes OR passata 
   

   1/2 further tin plum tomatoes, kept aside for later

   2 tbsp mild chilli powder OR

       1.5 tbsp mild chili powder + 1/2 tbsp hot chilli powder
   1 small or 1/2 med dried Chipotle chilli, reconstituted in 2-3 tbsp water (optional but adds tons of smoky flavour).

   1/2 tsp smoked paprika
   1/2 tablespoon flour
   1 bay leaves, crumbled

   1/4 tsp powdered cumin
   1/2 tsp oregano
   

   1 400g/14 tin kidney beans, rinsed and drained

   up to a tablespoon of sugar
   pepper & salt

     

   Garnish: chopped parsley

Method:

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HEALTHY BREAKFAST: APPLE SLICES WITH PEANUT BUTTER

 Quick & easy breakfast. bursting with nutrition and deliciousness..

Crisp, juicy, nutritious and satisfying.  And did I say pretty? 

67goingon50 doesn't know about you but sometimes oatmeal, eggs or toast simply doesn't appleal at  breakfast.

Berries are great, with or without yoghurt, but don't seem as filling.

Something that really fills the gap but has good protein, fat and anti-oxidants is a whole crunchy apple with peanut butter.

67 likes a crisp apple and the apparently UK grown 'new' Kissabel apples (pictured) are absolutely glorious - red or pink interiors, juicy, crunchy (in a good way; kids will love them!) and tasty with a hint of berry.  

They're a lovely discovery though apparently they've been around for a few years.

67 has a single caveat -- the peel on the apples was greasy and tacky.  Once peeled, the interiors were absolutely fine; if you had the time, soaking the applies in a 90-10 solution of water and vinegar for 20 minutes might help.   

Apparently the French started researching Kissabels 2 decades ago.  They are now grown in the UK, Germany, North and South America and Africa.  

The Kissabels were on sale at M&S at 3 for £1...a terrific bargain.  If you can't find them, Granny Smith or new Coxes will do.

Cost (late October 23): 75p'ish

Feeds: 1

Ingredients:

1 crisp apple, preferable unwaxed; if not, peeled

2-3 tbsp peanut butter, crunchy (67's pref) or smooth

Method:

1. Wash apple; peel if necessary
2. Cut apple into quarters, remove seeds, slice each quarter into 5-6 slices
3. Fill a small dish with peanut butter
4. Arrange on a plate
5. Enjoy

   

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