A Southport woman has taken a starring role in this month’s Slimming World magazine after being inspired by her Nan’s favourite wartime recipes.
Dee Wright, 49, is a Slimming World Consultant who runs five sessions in Southport every week.
Over the past six years she has supported hundreds of people to lose weight and enjoy healthier lifestyles.
Dee is now delighted to take her turn to be the focus of attention, after taking three of her beloved Nan’s top dishes from the 1940s and recreating them as healthier versions that are still delicious and packed full of flavour.
The three meals are: Potato and Bacon Bake; Sausage Quiche; and Savoury Mince.
Dee, who lives in Southport with her 10-year-old daughter, Autumn, said: “When I joined Slimming World, I never thought I would go on to become a Consultant and support other people.
“Now my recipes are in the Slimming World magazine! They are all inspired by my Nan. I am so proud.
Southport Slimming World Consultant Dee Wright stars in this months Slimming World, sharing healthy recipes inspired by her Nan, Dylys. Dee Wright with her daughter, Autumn. Photo by Kevin Brown Photography
“I have had lots of really lovely comments from my Slimming World members and from other Slimming World consultants since the magazine was published, saying it is really nice to see some real comfort food meals in there.
“It is fantastic to see some of my Nan’s favourite dishes being featured!
“My Nan’s recipes were from the Second World War, at a time when people were trying to save money.
“In these current times, with the cost-of-living crisis we have today, it is also good to provide recipes that save people cash.”
Southport Slimming World Consultant Dee Wright stars in this months Slimming World, sharing healthy recipes inspired by her Nan, Dylys (pictured)
Dee has very happy memories of visiting her grandmother’s house.
She said: “Bursting through the back door into Nan’s tiny kitchen, the first thing that hit me was the delicious smell of our tea in the oven. She knew what I liked to eat, and I could tell the moment I walked in that it was my favourite: sausage quiche!
“My Nan, Dylys, was gorgeous – a really special person and an important part of my life growing up, especially after my Grandad died when I was eight. Every Saturday evening, Mum would walk me across the road to stay overnight at Nan’s – it was the highlight of my week. We’d bake fairy and butterfly cakes, then curl up together in front of the television, eating jelly and ice cream and watching Cilla Black’s Blind Date and Ted Rogers on 3-2-1.
Southport Slimming World Consultant Dee Wright stars in this months Slimming World, sharing healthy recipes inspired by her Nan, Dylys
“Nan talked a lot about her life as a newlywed just after the Second World War. She’d show me the ration books and explain how she and Grandad had to be frugal, especially after my Mum, Shelagh, and her brother, Ian, were born.
“Her thing was topping everything with sliced potatoes, and she adored cheese, particularly Red Leicester.
“Now when I use it as my Healthy Extra and see that lovely orangeness, I always think of her.
“Nan’s house was my ‘sanctuary’, especially in my teenage years, when I first started to gain weight and was bullied at school. I’d take refuge there and comfort myself with her home-cooked food.
“It’s a great sadness to me that Nan never got to meet my daughter, Autumn, or to see my slimming success.”
Southport Slimming World Consultant Dee Wright stars in this months Slimming World, sharing healthy recipes inspired by her Nan, Dylys. Dee Wright with her daughter, Autumn. Photo by Kevin Brown Photography
Dee was working overseas for a well-known holiday company when her Nan was diagnosed with cancer in 2005. She immediately flew home to help her Mum with her care.
When she tragically died, Dee’s eating went out of control and her weight rose to 17 stone.
Her diets saw her lose a stone or two before she then put the weight back on. It was a frustrating circle.
Shortly after giving birth to Autumn, Dee split from her partner.
After putting her daughter to bed, her evenings were spent on the sofa tucking into family-sized bags of crisps or tubs of ice cream.
Her doctor became concerned about her weight and offered Dee Slimming World on referral.
Southport Slimming World Consultant Dee Wright stars in this months Slimming World, sharing healthy recipes inspired by her Nan, Dylys. Photo by Kevin Brown Photography
She thrived on the experience so much she later became a Slimming World Consultant, so she could use her experiences and her new-found skills to help others.
Dee said: “As well as new, healthier ways to cook and eat, I learnt to untangle my emotional eating habits.
“I realised eating was my way of taking myself back to happier times – eating jelly and ice cream with my Nan – and that, actually, I didn’t need to eat sweet treats to feel close to her, not when I had these lovely recipes…
“I went on to lose 6 stone, and although I had a blip in lockdown, I plan to be back at target for my 50th birthday.
“I know Nan would be proud of us – I always tell Autumn ‘Your Great Nan would have loved you so much’.
“Many times when we’ve been chatting as I’m cooking in the kitchen I’ll say: ‘Your Great Nan taught me to make this!’”
Dee has used her Slimming World knowledge to adapt her Nan’s recipes. Dylys loved using lots of butter in them which has now gone!
Dee has also food optimised by trimming any fat off the bacon in her potato bake, swapping butter for low-calorie spray in the savoury mince and using fat-free natural cottage cheese in her crustless version of her famous quiche.
Southport Slimming World Consultant Dee Wright stars in this months Slimming World, sharing healthy recipes inspired by her Nan, Dylys
Dee said: “Nan once sent me one of her quiches with my Mum, who then had to fly the baking dish home again!
“That quiche dish is still one of my most treasured possessions, and never fails to remind me of my very special Nan.”
- Slimming World Southport with Dee group meets at St Simon and St Jude’s Church Hall in High Park in Southport every Thursday (9.30am, 5.30pm and 7pm) and Friday (9.30am and 11am). For more details call Dee Wright on: 07711566153.
- The November / December Slimming World magazine is available now, priced £3.45.
Do you have a story for Stand Up For Southport? Please message Andrew Brown via Facebook here or email me at: mediaandrewbrown@gmail.com
It is appropriate time to make some plans for the future and it’s time to be happy. I’ve read this submit and if I may I desire to suggest you some fascinating issues or suggestions. Perhaps you can write subsequent articles relating to this article. I wish to learn more things about it!
You are a very intelligent person!
Hiya very cool site!! Guy .. Beautiful .. Amazing .. I will bookmark your blog and take the feeds additionallyKI’m satisfied to seek out a lot of helpful information here within the put up, we’d like develop extra techniques on this regard, thank you for sharing. . . . . .
When I originally commented I clicked the -Notify me when new comments are added- checkbox and now each time a comment is added I get four emails with the same comment. Is there any way you can remove me from that service? Thanks!
Great blog here! Additionally your site lots up very fast! What web host are you the use of? Can I am getting your associate hyperlink on your host? I desire my website loaded up as fast as yours lol
Heya i’m for the first time here. I came across this board and I find It truly useful & it helped me out much. I hope to give something back and aid others like you aided me.
Thank you for another great article. The place else may just anyone get that kind of info in such an ideal manner of writing? I’ve a presentation subsequent week, and I’m on the look for such info.
Scrap metal compaction Scrap metal reclamation handling Iron reclaiming
Ferrous material satisfaction, Iron scrap collection services, Scrap metal recycle
Scrap metal reclamation and recycling facility Ferrous metal collections Iron scraps reclamation center
Ferrous material reliability, Iron scrap drop-off, Scrap metal recovery optimization
Metal scrap repurposing services Ferrous material recycling insurance Iron scrap reclamation process
Ferrous scrap community engagement, Iron scrap yard, Scrap metal reclaiming depot
I precisely wanted to appreciate you again. I am not sure the things I might have implemented without the actual information shared by you over such a field. It became an absolute traumatic crisis for me, nevertheless considering this expert manner you resolved the issue forced me to weep for contentment. I’m happy for the assistance and then believe you realize what a powerful job that you’re carrying out teaching men and women thru your blog. Most probably you haven’t come across any of us.
Metal cutting services Ferrous metal repurposing Iron waste reclamation
Ferrous metal scraps, Iron scrap material recovery, Scrap metal recycling and recovery
Do you have a spam problem on this website; I also am a blogger, and I was wondering your situation; many of us have created some nice methods and we are looking to trade techniques with others, please shoot me an email if interested.
Wow that was strange. I just wrote an incredibly long comment but after I clicked submit my comment didn’t appear. Grrrr… well I’m not writing all that over again. Anyways, just wanted to say fantastic blog!
Emissions control in metal recycling Ferrous material recycling industry analysis Iron scrap collecting
Ferrous metal scrap reclamation, Iron scrap exchange, Industrial scrap recycling
Metal recycling and reclamation center Ferrous metal salvage yard Iron recycling industry
Ferrous material legislation, Iron recycling operations, Metal retrieval
It’s arduous to search out knowledgeable people on this matter, however you sound like you already know what you’re talking about! Thanks
Hi! This is my 1st comment here so I just wanted to give a quick shout out and tell you I truly enjoy reading your articles. Can you recommend any other blogs/websites/forums that go over the same topics? Thank you!