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Weight Loss Forum / WeightWatchers / May 2005Crock pot meal
I work weekends and spend a lot of time on the road. I take my lunch with me, but dinners have always been a problem because i never feel like cooking when i get home. Hell, I never feel like cooking anytime! LOL Yesterday I decided to bite the bullet and put something together that would be ready when I got home from work. Sorry I can't be more specific about quantities - but this is definitely Core, and you points counters could easily figure it out. CrockPot Chicken Thighs 8 frozen solid chicken thighs shredded cabbage - maybe 4 cups chopped garlic - lots 1 large yellow onion about 1/2 cup frozen peas about 1 cup frozen cauliflower 1 small can tomato paste. Put it all in crockpot in no particular order at 6 am and by the time i got home at 5 it was to die for! Tasted too good to be diet food I tell ya! Lynne Highest Weight - 308 WW Start Weight this time around Dec 29/04 - 222.4 Weight this week - 218 Goal - 150 (Subject to change) "Change doesn't happen while you're sitting around." Sounds yummy. We added a 3.5 round roast, 1 package onion soup dry mix, salt & pepper plus enough water to cover on low for 6-8 hours. With an hour left we added peeled potatoes to the pot. DH did steam some cauliflower in a separate pot on the stove. It did turn out well done meat (I prefer med rare) but it was tasty and easy to throw together. A lot of crockpot receipes can be modified to make them core just like you can with regular receipes. Have fun experimenting. > I work weekends and spend a lot of time on the road. I take my lunch > with me, but dinners have always been a problem because i never feel [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > Goal - 150 (Subject to change) > "Change doesn't happen while you're sitting around." I cut 4 chicken breast in two put them at the bottom, added onions, celery, carrots, zucchini, yellow squash, broccoli and potatoes (little red quartered with the skin)... added some chicken broth and veggie broth (ran out of chicken broth) salt pepper oregano.. Et voila.. 8 servings !  SignatureWill~ 196.2 / 131.8 / 137 lbs 89 / 59.8 / 62.1 Kg Personal goal 125 lbs / 56.7 Kg > Sounds yummy. > [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] > > Goal - 150 (Subject to change) > > "Change doesn't happen while you're sitting around." Highest Weight - 308 WW Start Weight this time around Dec 29/04 - 222.4 Weight this week - 218 Goal - 150 (Subject to change) "Change doesn't happen while you're sitting around." >I work weekends and spend a lot of time on the road. I take my lunch >with me, but dinners have always been a problem because i never feel [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] >about 1 cup frozen cauliflower >1 small can tomato paste. That should read 'tomato sauce.' Sorry - sauce is Core - I don't think paste is. Lynne Highest Weight - 308 WW Start Weight this time around Dec 29/04 - 222.4 Weight this week - 218 Goal - 150 (Subject to change) "Change doesn't happen while you're sitting around." > Highest Weight - 308 > WW Start Weight this time around Dec 29/04 - 222.4 [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > That should read 'tomato sauce.' Sorry - sauce is Core - I don't think > paste is. Tomato paste is also core. >Tomato paste is also core. Thanks Laura. I have the book - maybe I should try reading it...LOL Lynne Highest Weight - 308 WW Start Weight this time around Dec 29/04 - 222.4 Weight this week - 218 Goal - 150 (Subject to change) "Change doesn't happen while you're sitting around." I work weekends and spend a lot of time on the road. I take my lunch with me, but dinners have always been a problem because i never feel like cooking when i get home. Hell, I never feel like cooking anytime! LOL Yesterday I decided to bite the bullet and put something together that would be ready when I got home from work. Sorry I can't be more specific about quantities - but this is definitely Core, and you points counters could easily figure it out. CrockPot Chicken Thighs 8 frozen solid chicken thighs shredded cabbage - maybe 4 cups chopped garlic - lots 1 large yellow onion about 1/2 cup frozen peas about 1 cup frozen cauliflower 1 small can tomato paste. Put it all in crockpot in no particular order at 6 am and by the time i got home at 5 it was to die for! Tasted too good to be diet food I tell ya! Lynne Highest Weight - 308 WW Start Weight this time around Dec 29/04 - 222.4 Weight this week - 218 Goal - 150 (Subject to change) "Change doesn't happen while you're sitting around." Lynne, the recipe sounds great. Given that you put in frozen chicken, do you cook this on High--or does the long time on Low work? (I contracted salmonella poisoning in 1970 and am still scared spitless to get it again.) By the way, I'm finding my Crock Pot to be helpful in getting more cooked dried legumes into the diet. (There's too much salt in the canned varieties.) Thanks in advance for your follow-up. thorn >Lynne, the recipe sounds great. Given that you put in frozen chicken, do you >cook this on High--or does the long time on Low work? My pot has an 'auto' feature which starts out on high and then at some point in the day switches to low. I would imagine that a long time on low would work - it's easy enough to tell if chicken is done. Mine probably spent a lot longer time in the pot than it needed to, but it was falling apart and soooooo yummy! Lynne Highest Weight - 308 WW Start Weight this time around Dec 29/04 - 222.4 Weight this week - 218 Goal - 150 (Subject to change) "Change doesn't happen while you're sitting around." >By the way, I'm finding my Crock Pot to be helpful in getting more cooked >dried legumes into the diet. (There's too much salt in the canned [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > >thorn I could have put this in my previous post, but I'm a tad braindead this day...LOL I use my pressure cooker for dried legumes. I don't even have to plan ahead when I'm going to use them because they only take about 20 minutes to cook with pressure. Lynne Highest Weight - 308 WW Start Weight this time around Dec 29/04 - 222.4 Weight this week - 218 Goal - 150 (Subject to change) "Change doesn't happen while you're sitting around." what pressure do you cook them at? Lee, who would like to do this soon, > >By the way, I'm finding my Crock Pot to be helpful in getting more cooked > >dried legumes into the diet. (There's too much salt in the canned [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > Goal - 150 (Subject to change) > "Change doesn't happen while you're sitting around." I can almost smell it.. mmmmmm SignatureWill~ 196.2 / 131.8 / 137 lbs 89 / 59.8 / 62.1 Kg Personal goal 125 lbs / 56.7 Kg > I work weekends and spend a lot of time on the road. I take my lunch > with me, but dinners have always been a problem because i never feel [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > Goal - 150 (Subject to change) > "Change doesn't happen while you're sitting around." I have made it a life goal to never turn on the stove or oven, so far in 12 years I am successful at the oven part, I will use the crock pot and micro, only have turned on the stove a few times, to make DH soup when he was ill, Lee, crockpot lover > I work weekends and spend a lot of time on the road. I take my lunch > with me, but dinners have always been a problem because i never feel [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > Goal - 150 (Subject to change) > "Change doesn't happen while you're sitting around." |
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