on a diet kick and so's the missus so
give me your ideal/best meals that are low fat or reasonably low
but actually taste nice.
carrots and a glass of water aint my style!!

Why would you want low fat?

Decent chinese style stir fry: Rice, Soy sauce based sauce, broccoli, carrots, spring onion, ginger, galic, chili, chicken. All fried up and eaten with chop sticks. Low fat and tasty.

Fish/Poultry/Pasta/Noodles/Veg/Salad/Grains.

etc.

Risotto. Use creme fraiche instead of cream and low fat marg instead of butter. So many ways though to make it delicious.

tops!
any more?

practically anything using fresh ingredients…

with meat, just cut most of the fat off, probably use chicken or fish

says the man just frying some lovely plump sausages for use in Tiger Bread (cut sideways!) sandwiches.

*brainwashed*

OOO BR can I have some please!? sounds great .

pick 3 vegetables; pumpkin, parsnip, red pepper for example.

peel if necessary, chop into chunks, chuck them in the oven for 20 mins.

put the cooked chunks in a big saucepan, cover with hot water from the kettle, add some salt, ground black pepper and a pinch or 2 of chilli powder. (a teaspoon of bouillon and a bay leaf work wonders at this stage).

whizz it up a bit with a hand blender, leave a few chunks, stuff it in your face with some chunky bread.

if you make loads, this can see you through a few days of lunches.

(the problem with dieting with your girlfriend, is that get seriously huffy when you lose more weight, and faster, than they do…)

I'm with you FoxyChick, but I'm curious what your point of view is?

It's nice to see someone else rejecting conventional – and misguided – convention.

why misguided convention?
if someone is overweight or not eating a healthy diet
they need to change there habits??
or am i reading this wrong?

Why not just move a bit more and eat less rubbish? It's not that complex really. 🙂

There are none.
Meals with fat taste better for good reason.

Well, the idea that a low-fat diet is healthy and good for you is bunkum. We have been well and truly sold a lie there.

If you follow a low fat diet – as recommended by most health professionals – you are actually increasing your risk of illness. Strange, but largely true.

The most effective way to reduce weight and eat healthy is cutting down on processed foods – in particular to reduce sugar and carb intake.

See if you can get hold of the movie fathead – interesting stuff about how the existing diet orthodoxy is largely wrong and how it is being challenged. That of course is not the complete story, but it will give you a good entry point to the debate.

"reduce sugar and carb intake"

so bacon sarnies all the way and ill be fine??

aren't most fish dishes low fat? get a rick stein seafood recipe book. fish soup? pea and mint soup? all kinds of vegetable soups you could make.

Stop eating when you are full and move about more.