Low Calorie Sausage Rolls
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jdowns51660
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Good Morning,
This morning I woke up craving Sausage Rolls. Those of you the other side of the pond, these are not bread rolls with a sausage in them. Its filo pastry with a mince and herb filling. (Google "Greggs Sausage Roll"). So looking into it, I see that its 349 cals per sausage roll from Greggs, and I wanted to make Sausage Rolls but cut down them calories.
So heres my thinking:
1. I need low calorie filo/puff pastry
2. I need a low calorie lean mince filling
I do not think the filling is a problem, I believe I can use Lean Beef Mince at 94 cals / 100g.
But the lightest filo pastry that I have found is Tesco - Light Puff Pastry at 192 cals / 60g.
OK, so I could cut the calories by about 50, thats not what I am after, I want to get it down to about 150 cals. Any ideas about how I can do this? (Perhaps make my own pastry with wholemeal flour and only use 50g meat and 50g herbs and other things)... What do you think?
This morning I woke up craving Sausage Rolls. Those of you the other side of the pond, these are not bread rolls with a sausage in them. Its filo pastry with a mince and herb filling. (Google "Greggs Sausage Roll"). So looking into it, I see that its 349 cals per sausage roll from Greggs, and I wanted to make Sausage Rolls but cut down them calories.
So heres my thinking:
1. I need low calorie filo/puff pastry
2. I need a low calorie lean mince filling
I do not think the filling is a problem, I believe I can use Lean Beef Mince at 94 cals / 100g.
But the lightest filo pastry that I have found is Tesco - Light Puff Pastry at 192 cals / 60g.
OK, so I could cut the calories by about 50, thats not what I am after, I want to get it down to about 150 cals. Any ideas about how I can do this? (Perhaps make my own pastry with wholemeal flour and only use 50g meat and 50g herbs and other things)... What do you think?
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You're confused between filo and puff, two very different pastries. If you can find proper filo, you can make them much lower calories, though the pastry will be much much flakier and not have any chewiness to them.0
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its not filo pastry, and a proper sausage roll is not filled with Beef mince... go to greggs, enjoy a proper sausage roll, go for a run afterwards!0
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Oh, I missed the beef mince - yeah, nah.0
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Gotta love Greggs sausage rolls! but yeah, soo calorific! bumping to see what ideas others have too
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Morrisons do some nice reduced fat sausages, I use the normal ones when I make scotch eggs or the Cumberland ones for toad in the hole etc as they have more flavour.0
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Alatariel75 wrote: »Oh, I missed the beef mince - yeah, nah.
So you'd go for Lean Pork Mince (makes sense now I think about it), and Light Puff Pastry....brings me up to about 300 cals...might as well Gregg it up!
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No ideas about making my own pastry, that isnt too flakey?0
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To be honest, i love making my own pastry but can't for the life of me get it anywhere near lower calories than bought stuff. To have even decent texture, and that bit of flake, you need butter. I reckon a good sausage roll is something you just save cals for, or go for a run and earn and enjoy0
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I found this - maybe it will help
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1415684/the-ultimate-makeover-sausage-rolls0 -
Queenmunchy wrote: »I found this - maybe it will help
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1415684/the-ultimate-makeover-sausage-rolls
that's not a sausage roll....0 -
Yeah... I'm not sure if this is wishful thinking, blasphemy or straight up nonsense.0
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Queenmunchy wrote: »I found this - maybe it will help
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1415684/the-ultimate-makeover-sausage-rolls
At 99 cals per serve with 16 serves made from 1/2 sheet of pastry, it's barely an improvement on the calories of a normal one, if at all.0 -
This is interesting, 150 cals for 6 inch Sausage Roll... made with Filo though...
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/733064/my-44-calories-sausage-rolls
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Very much wishful thinking. Hehe.bluefish86 wrote: »Yeah... I'm not sure if this is wishful thinking, blasphemy or straight up nonsense.
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jdowns51660 wrote: »
Very much wishful thinking. Hehe.bluefish86 wrote: »Yeah... I'm not sure if this is wishful thinking, blasphemy or straight up nonsense.
You and me both.
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jdowns51660 wrote: »This is interesting, made with Filo though...
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/733064/my-44-calories-sausage-rolls
they look ok, but each one must be tiny... 50g of sausage meat isn't much.0 -
Lol, we don't have sausage rolls in the U.S., so I just googled. 0
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TavistockToad wrote: »jdowns51660 wrote: »This is interesting, made with Filo though...
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/733064/my-44-calories-sausage-rolls
they look ok, but each one must be tiny... 50g of sausage meat isn't much.
Each one is 2 inches, may be worth packing it with other low calorie things to beef it up a bit... (not beef though)...
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You are missing out...if you ever come to the UK, first stop Greggs. Or for a cheeky Nandos.Queenmunchy wrote: »Lol, we don't have sausage rolls in the U.S., so I just googled.
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Buy some Jus Roll and low fat sausages then freeze them? You could shove them in the oven when you take a shower so they are fresh and yummy 0
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