We tested out the meal boxes, delivered to your door, for the whole month
It's January, it's cold, there's not much going on so it's the perfect time for a health kick. Many of us will be thinking of ways to try and get some of that Christmas excess weight off, and there's a wide variety of diets out there to help you do it.
I've successfully lost a lot of weight using the Slimming World plan in the past, although I'm not currently a paid-up member. I tested out the Slimming World Kitchen boxes when they first launched last year, and lost six pounds after using them for a week while following the wider rules of the plan.
Choosing them is a relatively straightforward process, there are menus for each calendar week, and you choose up to five meals from it. Dishes for the weeks I was picking included the likes of jerk hake with mango salsa, hunters chicken with baby roasties and sticky spiced tofu and rice. Now, this might be fine if you have one of those large American fridges, but I don't. So I could not simply put all the bags inside my fridge. So instead I had to take out the veg that I felt needed to go on the fridge from each bag.
The recipe booklet also gave thorough point-by-point instructions on how to cook each meal - with preparation times given as a guide also - ranging from 25 minutes to 45 minutes depending on the dish. The great thing for people following the Slimming World plan is that the meal boxes are ALL entirely free meals, so you're able to use your HEA and HEB choices during the day on your other meals.
I never went hungry and ate, quite frankly, massive portions of healthy, veg-packed, home-cooked food in these meal boxes and yet I still lost a great amount of weight by sticking to the plan. I also ordered a jerk pork dish that I had forgotten I tried last year that I didn't like then. And it hadn't improved now unfortunately so I regretted ordering that.
The fresh meat and vegetables also seemed to be really great quality, and the stock cubes and tinned produce on some recipes were quality brands. Now, I love the taste of a fried onion and I know they're a great way to add flavour to a dish. But I'm not all that keen about the way they stink your entire house out, not to mention your clothes and your hair, when cooking with them.
The verdict There's no doubt to me that for Slimming World followers and long-term devotees these boxes offer some great inspiration and new recipes to try.
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