Jenny's Cookery Corner

Stats
Starting weight:159.2kg
Current Weight:142.4kg
A loss of:-16.8kg
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I've been reading through a few of my recipe books over the last couple of days and I have to say, I think I've come across a couple of winners.

This first recipe is worth about 1.5 'points' on the Weight Watchers system, for a serving of 4 spring rolls.

Raw Vegetable Spring Rolls
These are the vegetables that I used:
-Capsicum sticks
-Corn Kernals
-Carrot sticks
-Letuce
-Chopped Tomatoes
-Rice Paper Spring Roll wrappers

Too make these all that you need to do is follow the directions on the packet to prepare the rice paper, put your raw vegetables in and wrap it up. There's a dipping sauce to go with in made up of 1/4 cup of Kecap Manis (a sweet soy sauce) and a tablespoon of sweet chilli sauce. Just mix these two together and start dipping!
It's best to eat them within a couple of hours, but if you're like me, they won't last much longer than that anyway!

The second recipe is a vegetable soup. It's very nearly 'point' free unless you add noodles like I did. It's really easy to make too.

Vegetable Soup
You'll need 2 Litres of stock, either chicken or vegetable, and whatever veggies you want to add (I used carrots, cauliflower and zuccini), though it's probably best to stay clear of potatoes as they're a starchy vegetable. Chop up all of these vegetables, put them in a pot with the stock and simmer until they're cooked. Then your done. If you don't mind the extra calories, feel free to chuck in some pasta. I think it makes 4-8 bowls of soup depending on how many vegetables you throw in.

Both of these recipes are really easy to put together though the spring roll recipe takes a little bit of time to put together. Hope you like them. Enjoy!