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Compromises between "healthy" and "unhealthy" meals
Hopefully an interesting notion for a thread. The idea is to contribute recipes for "comfort food" that makes some concessions to healthy eating.
Here goes: Full English Breakfast Bake the sausages and bacon, and pour the fat into something to put it out for the birds. Grill the mushrooms, tomatoes, black pudding. Baked beans as usual. Eggs scrambled, poached or omelette instead of fried. Toast instead of fried bread. Not so much of a cholesterol binge as the usual version, but still nice. |
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That's pretty much how I cook my full English as it is, grill everything and if want a fried egg I do it with cooking spray. Have done for years. Not that I am trying to be particularly healthy I just don't like my plate swimming in grease.
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Hopefully an interesting notion for a thread. The idea is to contribute recipes for "comfort food" that makes some concessions to healthy eating.
Here goes: Full English Breakfast Bake the sausages and bacon, and pour the fat into something to put it out for the birds. Grill the mushrooms, tomatoes, black pudding. Baked beans as usual. Eggs scrambled, poached or omelette instead of fried. Toast instead of fried bread. Not so much of a cholesterol binge as the usual version, but still nice. Edit: Just realised that FeNerd recommended the same.
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One of the best little things I bought last year was a nice stainless steel pump action mister. Absolutely great for cutting down on the oil/fat for cooking.
You can pretty much cut the amount of oil/fat you use in most recipes with very little effect on flavour. As such a lot of recipes begin with frying chopped onion, a good tip I came across is to start the onion off in a bit of boiling water and when its almost ready, tip it into a hot pan with a tiny bit of oil - still tasty but lower in fat. |
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If you still want a fried egg, I have the Fry Light spray which only has one cal per spray, and you can actually fry an egg using a couple of sprays of it, if you have a decent non stick pan.
Edit: Just realised that FeNerd recommended the same. ![]() |
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Home made burgers with lean minced steak, onions and oven baked wedges instead of chips mmmm
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See, if I have an English breakfast, I do it because I'm feeling decadent so wouldn't take the healthy alternative. Kudos to those who do, though!
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i love frylight! the best thing invented! lol
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