You can still live out of the frying pan........just make sure it's a damned good nonstick one
Better still is a good non stick deep frying pan with a heavy glass lid that turns it into a steaming or stewing pan too.
(Morrison's are selling one this week for a fiver)
Joking aside, I'm serious. If that kind of crisped and roasted flavour is what really appeals to your palate then find ways to have it but without the extra grease. Otherwise you'll just backslide
A nonstick pan will cook your fish for you, or a bit of beef ham, or pork chops with the fat taken off, bacon medallions or slices of haloumi cheese, or an egg white omelette, with no bother at all and without adding any extra oil.
The egg white omelette can be folded over veggies which have been cut small and roasted in the same pan too....courgette, brocolli, peppers, carrots, peas (one of the freezer bags of small pieces for microwave steaming work well)...don't know what veggies you're able to, or like to eat, but there's a huge range available, season it to suit yourself. Slice of toast or a buttie, and there's the breakfast you crave. You can get low fat turkey bacon too.
Baked potatoes are simplicity itself with a microwave, and the fillings can be anything from salady stuff to baked beans.
Low fat coleslaw's good, well I like it, and it doesn't need any butter or cheese added
Filling tasty food.
Rice is good, and it's available ready to nuke if you don't like cooking it. Much cheaper to do you own, but the ready made is very quick and simple. Add veggies, or roasted chicken (the nonstick pan again
). Smoked fish works well too, though it's usually smoked mackeral, and that can be a bit oily...maybe in moderation though ? Haddock ?
Do you fish ? a stuffed trout baked is a very good filling meal
Cous cous is again very quick and it's easy to add things to as well. From veggies to meat.
I like oats, and I can eat them again
so the girdle's on the cooker again
Oatcakes, tattie scones, girdle scones, pancakes; these are all cooked pretty much dry on the girdle, but mind thon nonstick frying pan ? well it works well for these too
Bodge's Staffordshire oatcake recipe makes a thing like a kind of oatie nan bread, well worth a try
I like stew, I like big chunks of veggies in gravy; and if I can manage to make it tasty, and I'm a vegetarian, then surely someone who likes meat can.
Meat of any kind, turkey, pork, chicken, stewing steak, etc.,cut into suitable sizes and stir fried in the non stick pan (maybe a quick squirt of onecal spray), add chunks of veggies, stir, add stock, cover with the heavy lid and turn the heat down low. Let it simmer until it's all cooked and tasty. If you want to thicken the jus add a little seasoned cornflour in water and stir well.
The trick I'm told is to find ways to cook food you like, taste and texture, without adding fat or oil or extra carbs. Otherwise the vast majority of folks backslide and revert to their old eating patterns. Worth while thinking about portion size too; one buttie and a mug of tea is enough, don't make two or three.
If you like butties, then find a way to fill them without adding fat. The buttie itself is only about 120 calories, it's what you put in it that adds to the running total.
Very best of luck with this; it's so easy to say," Do this! ", but it's damned hard to stick to it for life.
cheers,
Toddy
