Root vegetable Frittatta salad

Saladify everything. That's how you lose weight. Surprisingly, this was not at the forefront of my mind when I was thinking of ways to use up the fritatta, salad mix, dressing and tomatoes in my fridge. I'm just buying a lot of fresh produce lately.

Easy Minestrone

This is the easiest minestrone dish I have ever seen or made. It involves boiling celery, onion, canned tomatoes and diced carrots in stock, then adding easy mac, waiting for that to cook, and finally adding baked beans. This is served with a side of slim noodles fried with leftover onion. This meal great value for calories and delicious.

Making the most of pre-made pasta meals

This is spinach and ricotta canneloni. Previously, I wouldn't have touched this kind of cheesy pasta dish with a ten foot pole. But when I was shopping, it was on special and I happened to be craving it. Luckily, a single serving is a bit less than 400 calories, and with some vegetables there is a complete meal. That wasn't so hard, was it?

Kangaroo Burger

It never occurred to me until now that I could eat a normal sized burger and not be hungry afterwards. That is until I realised that kangaroo burger patties are small anyway and only need a small bun (not those large hamburger style buns where you tend to find that there is way too much bread for the meat and you have to use far more sauce for everything to be not too dry). By making the bun smaller, I had enough calories to add a side of vegetables and stay within my 400 calorie range.

Sushi

I used 1 cup of sushi rice (also short grain rice, even arborio rice, are both fine), to which I cooked according to instructions and to which I added sushi vinegar. I didn't use a sushi mat, I just laid out the nori on a chopping board, pressed a cup of the prepared rice onto half of the sheet, laid out the filling in the middle of the rice, in a line, then rolled up the whole thing, making sure to wet the two pieces of nori that were coming together. It was like making a Vietnamese cold roll, or tortilla wrap, only you don't have to fold in the sides as well. After the roll was wrapped up, I sliced it. For the filling, I used leftover fish fingers. Which aren't the best, but are an extremely cheap protein source. The sauce is mayonnaise mixed with wasabi powder.

We had already made sushi with proper ingredients like carrot, cucumber and smoked salmon (and egg!) but they had already run out rather quickly, and I needed to use up my fish fingers.