Weight Loss the Old Style Way! Part 6. Please read posts 1 and 2 before posting.

recovering_spendaholic

Sorry to hear about your friend Moneypooh half a pound is nothing in those circumstances.

Spugz - well done for not overreacting to your Manager's comment - comments like that send me right to the food cupboard and fridge.

Commiserations to Newlywed.

Marion - are you orginally from Canada then? I think that the heart pendant thing is a lovely idea.

Well, it is 12.46 and I have consumed ALL of my alloted calories for today. I missed breakfast and was starving by 11am. Instead of having a brunch I thought I would just have a couple of crackerbread and then wait, but 2 led to 4 led to 6 and then I started with toast - all with margarine! , half a packet of prawn crackers and 5 american hard gum sweets. I have just had my lunch of jacket potato and instead of the low calorie coleslaw I was going to have I had butter in the potato plus creamy coleslaw and half a tin of corned beef.:o I have entered it all into the food diary online and I have 71 calories left for the rest of the day:eek: I think that I feel full enough now to last until tomorrow, but realistically I will make a sugar free jelly and have a bit of low cal soup with it at tea time and see how I go. You can "borrow" calories from another day but I don't really want to IYKWIM. I am hopeless at this losing weight.......

newlywed

rs - that's why I can't buy ritz crackers!! I eat them box at a time then look for more things to eat

moneypooh - just do what you feel for a little while - sometimes weight loss can wait for a little bit.

Off for a walk - if my weight won't reduce then I'll make sure my bum does!!!


Edit: spugz - have you thought of making your soup? cheaper and usually much nicer - plus you can control what fat etc goes in it

spugzbunny

newlywed wrote: »

Edit: spugz - have you thought of making your soup? cheaper and usually much nicer - plus you can control what fat etc goes in it

Well that's the general plan in the long term! I'm trying to convert all my food to HM both for reasons of MSE and health and the fact taht I figure if I'm cooking, I'm not snacking! I'm at work at the mo though so it's out of the question right now! Any nice recipes (that don't involve a blender!) appreciated!

retiredlady

recovering_spendaholic wrote: »

Marion - are you orginally from Canada then? I think that the heart pendant thing is a lovely idea.

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Yes I am Canadian born and bred!:D Although I have lived in England now for 30 years (where did the time go:eek:) Both of my girls were born in Canada, however my husband is English.

The memorial heart with my Mom inside isn't a pendant by the way it is quite a large heavy heart and weighs about 300g. It is about the size of an apple!

taplady

spugz - not a nice comment to get, well done for not reaching for the biscuit tin!:T

RS - sounds horific to me to have run out of calories that you can eat by early afternoon:eek: thats why I like SW - there's always some 'free' food you can eat;)

have eaten 2 nobnobs - 1 cooked and one uncooked:rolleyes:

retiredlady

taplady wrote: »

moneypooh - sorry to hear about your friend, food is usually the last thing on our minds at times like these.

Marion - hope you get a better nights sleep tonight, bit of a suprise getting the ashes in the parcel. How do you make your quorn sausage casserole?

commiserations to newlywed x

1 large onion,
8oz carrots,
1tsp dried mixed herbs,
1/2pt Bovril stock (or an oxo cube @ 1 syn),
12 Quorn sausages
500ml carton passata,
250gm pack chestnut mushrooms,
Salt & freshly ground pepper.

Prepare the vegetables; peel & finely chop the onion & peel and slice the carrots. Place the vegs in a large saucepan with the herbs. Add the stock, bring to boil, reduce heat, cover & simmer for about 5 mins or until vegs are just tender. Remove lid & cook for 2 mins until stock has reduced a little.

Preheat the grill to a hot setting and cook the Quorn sausages as per pack instructions. Remove from grill & cut into chunks.

Transfer the sausages to the vegetable pan and add passata. Bring to the boil, reduce heat, cover & simmer for about 5 mins.
Wipe the mushrooms, cut in half & stir into the casserole along with the salt & pepper to taste. Continue to cook for 5-7 minutes until the mushrooms are tender & cooked through.

Serve immediately on warmed serving plates with green vegs.

newlywed

spugzbunny wrote: »

Well that's the general plan in the long term! I'm trying to convert all my food to HM both for reasons of MSE and health and the fact taht I figure if I'm cooking, I'm not snacking! I'm at work at the mo though so it's out of the question right now! Any nice recipes (that don't involve a blender!) appreciated!

The minestrone soup on this blog is lovely :drool: http://shirleygoode.blogspot.com/2008_10_01_archive.html
I use pasta instead of beans in it though. No blending

taplady

:T Thanks for the sausage casserole recipe Marion and also to newlywed for the soup one.

spugzbunny

Thanks for the recipes! I'll add them to my lists!! I'm making a folder (ah the joys of office stationary...mmm filing!) of all teh recipes I like and I think I can do!

newlywed

Oooh this one's good too - the kids love it:
Chicken stock pot soup (no blending)
http://www.knorr.ie/files/pdf/chickenstockpot.pdf