When the sun is shining (or even when it’s not), nothing beats a flame-grilled feast with your family and friends. And we’ve got a sizzling selection of Slimming World BBQ recipes to help you make the most of the season.
While barbecues might seem like a bad idea when you’re trying to lose weight – with all that tempting food and drink on offer – enjoying a plateful of grilled goodies is actually a breeze with the Slimming World plan. Free Foods like lean pork, beef, chicken, fish, tofu and vegetables all taste delicious cooked over hot coals (or on a convenient gas barbecue), so it’s great that you can enjoy as much as you like with no worries about weighing, measuring or calorie counting!
Whether you fancy burgers, kebabs or veggie dishes, the blog is brimming with Slimming World BBQ recipes – and you’ll find many more on our exclusive members-only website. Take a look at how our members are enjoying their chargrilled favourites without putting their weight loss on the back-burner…
Slimming World BBQ recipes
Best-ever burgers
No cookout is complete without a couple of juicy burgers served with plenty of slimming-friendly salad – and Slimming World members are spoilt for choice for ways to fill their wholemeal rolls. You’ll find juicy beef quarter pounders in the Slimming World Free Food Range, available exclusively at Iceland. Or, if you fancy a home-made version, Kerry made these perfect patties with lean beef mince (5% fat or less), onion, garlic and herbs, then topped them with her Healthy Extra ‘a’ portion of cheese.
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Veggie burgers
If you fancy a vegetarian option, halloumi burgers are a fantastic choice. Gwen (@gwen4593) filled a wholemeal roll with reduced-fat halloumi, portobello mushrooms, red peppers and spinach to make this tasty-looking bap, which she served with home-made coleslaw.
Finger lickin’ drumsticks
Chicken drumsticks are a barbecue favourite – give yours a spicy twist by trying our Free jerk marinade and serving them with a fruity slaw.
Hot-diggedy dogs
Yes you can have the full hot-dog experience with Slimming World… chunky sausage, soft finger bun, sweet onions – and a squirt of mustard and ketchup if you fancy it!
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Colourful kebabs
There’s no limit to the delicious kebab combos you can create. Lisa (@lisa991_slimmingworld) served up these barbecue-flavour chicken skewers on a bed of savoury rice, along with roast potatoes and a salad of tomatoes, cucumber, peppers, onion and salad leaves, to create this tempting barbecue banquet.
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Sizzling steaks
Steaks are ideal for the barbecue – with the added benefit that they taste just as good cooked under your kitchen grill if the weather suddenly turns. Even better, as long as they’re cooked without oil and all visible fat is removed, steaks are a Slimming World Free Food.
Patrick enjoyed a sunshine supper of grilled steak served with potatoes, grilled peppers, onions and a drizzle of mushroom sauce (members can check the Syn value using the Slimming World barcode scanner).
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Sunshine salads
A barbecue staple, salads are brilliant for adding plenty of weight loss-boosting fruits and veggies to your meal. You’re not limited to lettuce, cucumber and tomato either. With so many Free Foods to choose from, your salads can be as creative as you like.
Check out the gorgeous plate Gaby shared with us. As well as a stacked burger and potato wedges, Gaby dished up broccoli, carrots and a big side of sweetcorn and tomato pasta salad.
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Bit of everything!
Burger… tick! Sausage… tick! Wedges… tick! Salad… tick! When you’re Food Optimising, you can fill your bowl to the brim with barbecue food, and still get a brilliant weight loss result. Slimming World makes enjoying summer food easy – with no timeconsuming calorie counting to worry about (we’ve done it for you!). There’s absolutely no need to miss out on garden gatherings and al-fresco feasts when you’re a Slimming World member.
Roz enjoyed her plentiful plate in the sunshine, saying: “Oh I love summer Food Optimising ❤️ Generous, filling and delicious 💥EAT MORE for less calories… and feel full! Pure GENIUS!!”
Fire up your weight loss with Slimming World
Are you looking for even more brilliant barbecue inspiration? Our members’ website is packed with ideas, from devilled drumsticks to spice-crusted salmon, and there are plenty of meat-free options, too. Join Slimming World and you’ll have more than 1,900 recipes at your fingertips – as well as all the recipe swapping, expert slimming advice and caring support you get in your local group and on our online Community.
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