Slimming World Support thread

Pennylane

Another EE day for me.

B/fast 1oz cereal (B HE)
Banana FREE
350 ml Skimmed Milk (A HE)

Lunch Delicious Salmon cooked in foil in oven FREE
Jacket Potato, Spinach, carrots, few peas FREE

Now the bad bit:o
Xmas Pudding & 30% fat Fromage Frais (figured that was better than
double cream) but have not calculated it.

Went for brisk 3 mile walk to hopefully shift the pud;)

Nescafe Skinny Cappuccino 3 syns

Haven't had anything for evening ... yet!

Skint_Catt

Sounds like we've all had a bit too much everything today :rotfl: Plenty more weeks of the year though!

Finally booked our summer holiday in hilly Sorrento!! :j Can't wait - all that gorgeous food and wine :rotfl: Only 5 stone to lose by then - I said to OH it might be the first time in my life I wear a bikini! We're doing the 26mile marathon walk five days before we fly so I'll be super fit (knackered???) by then I hope!

23 weeks to go! :eek: That's a minimum of 3lbs a week - every week :eek: :eek:

sw_mina

blackberry-rum wrote: »

(damn I just wrote loads and lost it so I will just say thanks to kandipandi and milliemonster but I still believe toms are just as sweet as apples and as long as I lose a little each week it is cheaper to buy puree from Netto than Passata from Asda or Tesco) *smiley*

Your average tomato is 21 Kcal. Per 100g there is 2.6g of sugar. By comparison, your average apple is 80Kcal and in 100g of apples there is 10.6g of sugar. So apples are 'sweeter', pound for pound.

A 200g tube of puree has about 40g of sugar, compared to 20g of sugar in a 500g pack of passatta, so obviously it is sweeter, but you're probably(!!!) going to use less of it. I think the really puzzling thing for me about the tomato puree thing is that tomato puree has no salt, whereas most passatta is packed full of it, and with SW including a low salt philosophy, the puree seems a better choice if what you're after is an intense tomato taste....

So the moral of the story is... well, I don't know. Personally, I never syn puree, and I've lost 5 stone so far on this diet so I'm not about to start synning it now BUT I don't over-use it - my own rule of thumb being that if I was going to use a pack of passatta, I don't use more than a quarter of a tube of puree, which is usually much more than I need.

Phew... I'll stop now! I'm sounding kinda geeky...

JemmaBe

Breakfast: Apple
Lunch: Jacket potato, cottage cheese, cherry tomatoes.
Snack: 2x weetbix (HEb) and Milk (HEa)
Dinner: Teensy bit of roast chincken, dry roasted potatoes, mixed veg

I was going to do an EE day, but there is no way I ate 100g chicken to make it worth my while, so that is like 1/2 HEb or something.

No syns so far. Might eat some quality street later.

I am leaving home again tomorrow to go back to uni I'm worried about this, and it's making me stressed I have several times thought to myself that I should just give up. I will go shopping either tomorrow or tuesday and stock up on good food, and then tomorrow I am going to MAKE myself cook chicken casserole, whether I feel like it at 7pm or not, I can't get into the habit again of not being hungry until 10pm, then putting a pizza in the oven.

redmel1621

NOSONDDU wrote: »

take the fat off, retie the beef if you want (but I never bother), put it in foil and add water inside the foil and close the foil. The water will keep the meat moist and it won't shrink so much.

I spent ages last night looking at all the posts and going through my EE booklet. Am I correct in thinking I can only have one HEB and one HEA but could have a full cooked dinner with meat, pots, peas, and as many other veg as I want and only have to syn the gravy? Salmon with jacket potato and salad? Sorry to be thick but at my age new ideas take a while to sink in (my medications don't help either!).

Somone asked for cheap and easy recipes. Think many months ago did give this one but there are so many new people here so here it is again.

Chilli con (for green day)

25 g minced steak or H/E (it's only 2 syns and I don't like quorn)
Chopped onion
Tin value red kidney beans (rinsed well and drained)
tin value chopped toms
tin value baked beans
chilli powder to taste

fry mince and onion together (I do it on a very low heat, stirring often, and never add fry light or any other fat). Once it has cooked through add all the beans, tomatoes and chilli and stir well. Don't cover but leave to simmer on lowest possible heat. If I'm having rice I put it to boil now and by the time it is cooked the chilli is ready. By the way you obviously have to keep stirring the chilli whilst simmering. I find this makes plenty for two generous helpings and is great in a jacket potato or with SW chips. If used over two days it's only 1 syn per day on green days but if I've understood this new eating plan it is free on EE days. Anyone confirm?

Thanks everyone for all the info in your posts.

Yep....Your chilli in a jp or with rice or sw chips would be free on EE:D

Thanks for pm.

Mel x

JemmaBe

sw_mina wrote: »

with SW including a low salt philosophy, the puree seems a better choice if what you're after is an intense tomato taste....

Really? I always thought SW were really bad with salty foods, namely super-noodle, pasta n sauce, savoury rice etc. I was going to eat a sweet chilli super noodle pot one day because they were free and I thought it sounded really tasty.. it had something like 3.5g salt in it :eek:

Liz3yy

Does anyone know how many syns are in small yorkshire puddings? I made them using skimmed milk in the batter. I've made 6 of them for 2 of us! lol

Skint_Catt

JemmaBe - please don't drop out of Uni - I did and I regret it immensly. Do also try and make yourself cook something - when you an smell it you will want to eat it and so will feel hungrier earlier. You'er doing well so far, stick with it! Here - have a dodgy hug! :grouphug:

Anyone seen Judds this weekend???

Lauri254

Just discovered this thread....
Apologies in advance because I am sure that it has been explained numerous times but, could someone kindly either explain the new Extra Easy plan or link me to a post that explains it?

I have read back quite a few pages but cannot find it explained.
I intend to restart SW at home tomorrow as the class I went to earlier last yesr has now moved, and would like to see what the changes are to the plan.

This is a fantastic thread and I'm sure over the next few days I will get through the posts on it.

Many thanks in advance for all the recipes and tips that I'm sure I will discover once i read through the whole thread.

TIA

Skint_Catt

Liz3yy wrote: »

Does anyone know how many syns are in small yorkshire puddings? I made them using skimmed milk in the batter. I've made 6 of them for 2 of us! lol

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