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Advantages: Delicious taste, quite easy to make.
Disadvantages: Not very good for your waistline, or your wallet!

This is my recipe for a chocolate slab cake which I have made a few times recently and always seems to go down a treat. Ingredients Required: For cake: 200g butter, plus extra for greasing 100g dark chocolate, broken up in to pieces 75ml tap water 350g plain floud 2 teaspoons of baking powder 250g soft light brown sugar 75ml soured cream 2 eggs, beaten For Icing: 200g dark chocolate, broken up in to pieces 6 tablespoons of tap water 3 tablespoons ...
...To make the cake: Preheat the oven to 190 degrees/gas mark 5. Grease a 33x20cm (13x8inch) cake tin and line the bottom of the tin with baking paper. I grease my tin with butter and use greaseproof paper for lining the tray. Melt the 200g of butter, 100g dark chocolate with the 75ml of tap water in a saucepan over a low heat (I use the lowest setting on the gas ring), stirring frequently. Sift the 350g plain flour and the 2 teaspoons of baking powder ... Read recipe

Advantages: Quick,cheap and easy as well as healthy
Disadvantages: None

This is a low fat recipe that maks a nice change from a normal cottage pie or shepherd's pie. It is one that I recommend for anyone following the Weight Watchers No Count/Core/Simply Filling plan as it can be eaten free at meal times. South West Turkey Cottage Pie Serves 4 Frylight 1 lb Minced turkey ½ jar chunky fat-free salsa, medium or spicy, well drained or home made salsa 2 cloves crushed garlic 4 large potatoes , peeled & chopped ...
...Seasoning 2 tablespoons skimmed milk Additional salsa, as an optional garnish Preheat the oven to 220°C / 425°F / Gas Mark 7 Spray a baking dish with the cooking spray. Boil potatoes in salted water until cooked. Mash add garlic - season to taste. Mix in the skimmed milk. Place turkey in dish. Add salsa and mix thoroughly with turkey. Spoon potatoes onto turkey-salsa mixture and spread to cover surface completely. Score potatoes in a crosshatch ... Read recipe

Advantages: easy to make great taste
Disadvantages: too easy to make very fattening

THe fisrt time I expernince this lovely desert was at work as someome who worked on the bank. a work brought this is for supper tea there was war from everyone to get a piece myself i do like too much sweet sickly desert but this fantastic served with rasperies. The last ine she brough in she whip the cream it gave a much smoother and creamer texture. The nurse in question has no left so now I have recipce its up to me to contiued the treat every ... Read recipe

Advantages: Quick and easy to make
Disadvantages: Not all ingredients available everywhere!

I tend to be a constant grazer, at work I tend to graze on fruit or vegetable sticks (how exciting!!) and then by the time I get to work I just fancy something tasty and filling! I go through phases, for weeks and weeks I will snack on the same thing over and over, then I will suddenly go off it and won't eat it for months! At the moment I'm into chips and dip! Or pitta bread and dip! I've got to say I quite like the new range of dips which supermarkets ...
...bringing out new varieties. However my mother makes fantastic homemade dips, generally when she is holding a party. So I have stolen her recipe bible and now I create them alot! They are easy to refigerate and eat as and when! I'm listing four of my favourite dips/ snacks as I think they are great and suitable for all tastes! Cream Cheese & Garlic Dip With Pita Toasts Recipe Ingredients: 8 oz low-calorie cream cheese 2 tbsp low calorie mayonnaise ... Read recipe

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...recipes that is not only quick or easy to do, but is also cheap and somewhat healthy. It is scrambled eggs on either toast or waffles (or whatsoever it is that you enjoy), as it seems to give me a lot of energy just before I am due to go in to work. I have never ever written a recipe down before, so do please bear with me. What you need before you start: First off, decide what it is that you are going to have them on! As I said, I enjoy either toast ...
...other. Eggs - I usually tend to do three per person, and even then it never quite seemsm to be enough! A saucepan, preferably a non-stick one. Milk, but only about 20-30 mls at the most - if not less! An oven top. A fork or other such whisk-like implement. A wooden spoon. How to do it: Initially, light the oven top so that it is nice and warm and ready for when you start to cook. At the same time, look at what it is that you are putting the eggs ... Read recipe