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Raspin

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Hi,

I'm 2 1/2 weeks into the Newcastle diet which seems to be going well. i'm sticking to it and my will is remaining strong so far. Having no problems with a shake for breakfast, soup for lunch, and a shake when i get home in the evening. That's the easier part as i just drink them at certain times and i don't really have to think too much about it.

The taxing part is the 200 cal/min 200g of non starchy veg i eat in the evening. I either stir fry it with 1 cal spray or i steam it depending on what i am having. The problem is ,without some kind of...you know..flavour from a sauce, steamed green beans, brocolli or cauliflower can get boring pretty fast. i really need some low carb, low cal solutions but all the sauces i look at don't fit the bill.

With stir fry, i've had some limited success with reducing a tin of chopped tomatoes down, adding some chilli powder, and using that as a sauce but again, a bit of variety would be really nice. Has anyone got any suggestions for low carb/low cal sauces which are relatively easy to make so the regime is a little less boring?

Appreciate any suggestions, Raspin
 
chinese 5 spice on veg is awesome! no idea if it fits in with your newcastle diet though, but if it does you should try it for sure.
 
Spring onion, garlic, ginger, chilli, chives, cumin, corriander, cardamon, cinnamon, fennel, fenugreek etc etc. Or if you can't be bothered, as Andy says, ready mixed spices such as chinese five spice or asian garam massala. Personally I like small chopped fresh tomatoes with very thinly sliced red onion.

If you stir fry veg with the first four above though, you'll taste the difference and, you can vary the relative proportions for different flavours.

and then there are pickles, pickled onion, pickled gerkhin, pickled chillis etc.
 
Have you tried the pasta sauce recipe from the newcastle diet website? I used 125g of the sauce with 125g of courgette ribbons. It doesn't look like much in the bowl but is filling. (BTW the pepper soup is tasty too)
 
You can have salad too....... and 200-250g of salad looks loads on your plate - you can use a fat free dressing, but I go for salt and vineagar - sounds odd but tastes fab
 
I have made a container of salad to have with chicken for tea and have added 1 tspn of extra virgin olive oil and 1 of salad cream, I know I can tolerate that and it gives some extra flavour. I have no idea of the other sauces mentioned on this site. For me, cooking has always been a bit of a chore rather than a pleasure :oops:.
 
Thanks for the replies,

Yorksman & Andy, thanks for those. I'll certainly be chucking in some crushed garlic and ginger etc with my stir fries to make them more interesting and ill give the 5 spice a try. Now the amin problem... improving the steamed veg in a non-cheaty way.

Hi Lescci, have you got a link for the newcastle diet site you mention. Don't think i've seen that. Also, I didn't think you were allowed salt but i might be wrong.. I'm not having a prob with the size of the plateful, if anything they are too big. 200 cals of steamed brocolli and cauliflower and greed beans is like over half a kilo of veg. Its hefty. Its something to make it taste nicer i'm after.like, off the top of my head a parsely sauce or...well.. anything really that goes with it and is low carb and low cal.

Beshille, I can find low cal dressing but not low carb. They all seem to have sugar in. I'm trying to stay as on point as pos for the 8 weeks though naturally ill loosen severity a lot when im don, .Looking forward to mature cheddar cheese and chicken!
 
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