My Pinch of Nom week

Most people know about the Pinch of Nom phenomenon.  That set of books from Kay and Kate Allinson that contain a whole myriad of healthy, calorie counted recipes (some a lot better than others, admittedly) to help us on our way.

Their web site used to hold all their recipes and they used to link them to Slimming World values but, for reasons I won't go in to now, that stopped.  Now one has to work them out but that really isn't a hassle.

I sat down with the six books on several occasions to work out a week's meals that conformed to the Slimming World plan; it wasn't that easy to avoid too many healthy extras and took quite a while but it's done now apart from a couple of off-PoN breakfasts.

I've copied and pasted the week's plan below.  

Please bear in mind it's my working plan with notes and mental reminders that will be refined as the week goes on.  Also, knowing the PoN portion sizes, there might be leftovers to have the next day instead of a planned meal -  I'm certainly not wasting food, nor do I want to clog up my freezer with bits and pieces when I am actually trying to reduce my food stocks somewhat but it's not always easy to make a quarter of a recipe.

The calorie values (at the bottom of each meal) are very approximate.  Ditto for As, Bs and syns until I actually make the meal.

The codes for the books are:

1 = the very first book, just called Pinch of Nom

CF = Comfort Food

E = Enjoy

EL = Everyday Light

Q = Quick and Easy

B = Budget

And here we are:

Week beginning 15-07-23:  Pinch of Nom week:                                                                                        

	Breakfast	Lunch	Dinner	Calories	A	B	Syns
Sat	Viking Toast E p34 1xA, ½ x B Add toms on the side 294	Bombay style potato and chicken traybake B p71 ½ syn for mango chutney 546	Lasagne bowl EL p181 1 x A Use savoury mince in freezer Add salad 323?	1163 plus extras	2	½	½
Sun	Hash brown breakfast bake EL p 38 Rest of baked beans on the side 189	Salt and pepper chicken B p 84 Add salad 294	Tandoori salmon with mango salsa EL p110 Add SW chips 355	838 plus extras	0	0	0
Mon	Fruit and yogurt Not PoN	Corned beef hash patties Q p 178 ½ x B for breadcrumbs, 1 ½ syns for lean corned beef (have more?) Add salad. Maybe ½ x A for cheese? 216	Chicken and banana curry Q p 55 Not synning cooked banana, cornflour neg, Add rice. 346	562 plus breakfast and extras	½	½	1 ½
Tues	Breakfast potatoes Q p 36 Add egg 200	Honey soy chicken thighs B p 109 2 ½ syns for 1 tbsp honey, sriracha sauce neg, 1 syn for 1 tsp mixed seeds Add salad 341	Pork and apple traybake Q p 154 Not synning apple Maybe add roasted sweet pot 308	849 plus extras	0	0	3 ½
Wed	Marmite mushrooms on toast CF p 24 1 x B, 2 syns for 50 g extra light philly Add toms 187	Ham and potato cakes EL p 99 1 A for added cheese Add salad 259	Creamy maple and bacon chicken E 150 1 syn for ½ tbsp maple syrup, 2 syns for 50g philly Add veg 296	742 plus extras	1	1	5
Thurs	Fruit and yogurt Not PoN	Welsh rarebit potatoes EL p 210 1 x A for primula squeezy, ½ A for 15g grated cheddar Add salad 307	Out for evening	307 plus breakfast and extras	1 ½	0	0
Fri	Apple and cinnamon pancakes 1 p 22 2 syns for milk 1 x B for oats/flour Not synning apple 341	Pasta arrabbiata and chicken EL p140 Add salad 316	Normandy style chicken E p 161 2 syns for 50g philly lightest, 1 syn for Dijon mustard Not synning apple Add rice 269	926 plus extras	0	1	5