I didn’t do the New Years resolution thing this year, as starting up my diet again and getting the right focus could not be a flash in the pan for the first 2 weeks of the crappiest month of the year! Instead my desire to get my mojo back had to just wait until my mojo showed up, which it did last week.
Since the closure of our WW group last year, accurately tracking my weight has been difficult. I remembered that there were some pretty industrial scales in Boots and at the pool, but guess what? They have been removed since covid, and the ones I asked to use at the Doc’s need to be calibrated! So, my only real option was finding a new meeting, which I have done and plan to attend for a few weeks to get well and truly back on the wagon.
But before then, I needed a know that all important starting number. Yesterday I found another meeting, that I could pop into last night and get that. I have never been to AA, but if I had, and fell off the wagon, and then went back to a meeting, I suspect it would have fell very much like it did for me walking in there and getting on that square box on the floor yesterday.
Anyway that’s now done, I know where I’m starting, does the number matter? No, not really, the number which matters is how many lbs I can take off it in the coming weeks and months.
So to the recipe, why beans? Well lunch today involved beans for me, and anyone on WW will know that Heinz will set you back many points, full of salt and sugar and don’t really taste good enough, so I have been making my own (when I have been focused) for a few years following this simple recipe, and that is what I made today.
As always with my recipes, this is just a starting place, I would encourage you to change it and make it your own. Today I added curry power and a little smoked paprika to mine to make them a little more tasty.
Serves: 2
Prep Time: 5min
Cook Time: 10min
Ingredients:
400g Cannellini Beans
200g Chopped Tomatoes
200 ml Passata
1 Beef Oxo Cube
1 tsp Worcestershire Sauce
1 packet WW BBQ Sauce
Steps:
- Drain and rinse the Cannellini Beans.
- Add them to a pan with the chopped tomatoes, passata, oxo, Worcester sauce and BBQ sauce. If you don’t have WW BBQ sauce normal BBQ sauce works but check the points.
- Bring the boil and simmer very low for 7-10 mins to soften the beans. If you have longer, then that makes them softer, and I find leaving them covered for a hour makes them better.
Cooking by Matt 