Flavour

I've failed on diets before now as it felt too much like denial. I felt I was missing out and couldn't motivate myself to eat an endless round of frankly boring food. That's why the Slimming World regime appeals so much and on the evidence so far is working. Better still whilst there is some denial I can still cook some of my favourite flavours with little or no impact on my daily allowance of SYNs.

Last night we dined on Beef in Black Bean Sauce from this wonderful cookbook. The Sauce was from a jar and contained a couple of SYNs in the portion and I didn't thicken the sauce with cornflour, but everything else was fresh, tasty and free of points.

Diets don't have to be boring and especially when you have ideas like this at your disposal. Great book and lovely grub.