Slimming World Support thread

Skint_Catt

Lol, to be honest most of the alcohol will have cooked off anyway I'm guessing. Enjoy - let me know what it's like - I can never get pork to taste of anything in the SC!

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nic2075

i used a Magners Lite, I need to double check but i think they are only 4 1/2 syns a bottle. Ive got the other 3 chilling so me and oh can maybe have one later.
The lemon merangues are looking amazing. There is a mountain of merangue on them. I hope they are nice cold, You normally eat lemon merangue cold dont you? I want to get the kids bathed and ready for bed waiting for their daddy to get here, then chuck em in bed and we can enjoy our dinner.

edit - yep Magners lite is only 4 1/2 syns, woohoo

Skint_Catt

I think you can hae lemon merignue hot or cold. Yes I think Magners lite are only 4.5 syns - in fact I might pick one up on the way home and watch OH drink an entire bottle of wine to himself :rolleyes:

k8te

Help need some quick advice please... making slimming world chicken curry and, well it looks like its curdling(sp) and doesnt look very nice at all, what can i do? Or is it meant to look like this? x x x x x

k8te

And it looks more like water, god the kids are never going to eat this

nic2075

k8te wrote: »

Help need some quick advice please... making slimming world chicken curry and, well it looks like its curdling(sp) and doesnt look very nice at all, what can i do? Or is it meant to look like this? x x x x x

Mine sometimes looks curdled if there is fromage frais in it, sometimes if its boiling too hot it does this. It will still taste ok though. I usually dont put FF or yoghurt in til the end. You could maybe try adding some more tinned toms and cornflour to thicken it. sorry im not much help. It will still taste nice but I know what you mean when you say the kids wont eat it. Maybe as you serve id pop a dollop of yogurt on top and some corriander if you have it hth

Skint_Catt

I've never had that so I guess its because the pan's too hot? It should taste ok though if it's a curry as it will be disgused by the spices. If it's too watery it could have needed reducing before adding the fromage frais/yoghurt as there is a lot of water in tinned toms. Simmer it for a while and it may reduce, failing that as above add some cornflour (already dissolved in a small amount of water (teaspoon of cornflour to tablespoon of water)

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naturally_2

Skint_Catt wrote: »

failing that as above add some cornflour (already dissolved in a small amount of water (teaspoon of cornflour to tablespoon of water)

C xx

Just dont' do what I did for ages and try to dissolve it in hot kettle water - it goes lumpy and doesn't beat out - took me ages to learn where I was going wrong ther e- DOH! 1.5syns a tablespoon.

Skint_Catt

naturally wrote: »

Just dont' do what I did for ages and try to dissolve it in hot kettle water - it goes lumpy and doesn't beat out - took me ages to learn where I was going wrong ther e- DOH! 1.5syns a tablespoon.

Lol, I never knew that!

OH got home before me (a rareity) and he's cooking up a storm of cauli cheese (I don't like it and only cook for him but this looks good!) He's good some spinach, bacon (HEb) and spring onions together and added it to the cheese sauce then poured the whole thing over the steamed cauli! :drool:

The things I do for SW :rolleyes::A

consultant31

penguin83 wrote: »

Hi all, can I ask a quick question please to all you excellent cooks!

Have bought a slow cooker, my first ever one and want to make some sort of beef casserole/stew type thing! Have looked at the recipes on the Slow cooker thread on OS but need to adapt them to be SW friendly and I am not a good cook!

So how do I do it?? I have the stewing steak and will get OH to get veg/potatoes or whatever else goes in it.

Thanks in advance if anyone has an idiot proof recipe x x

There are some SW slow cooker recipes here if you scroll down:
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=1948340&postcount=3

nearly-30 - Food Optimising is a healthy eating plan and not meant to be thought of as a diet so keep following the plan and enjoy!

chuckie79 - to get slimmer of the week, we don't add the 2 weeks together (see Skint-Catt's explanation). If you have lost this week and lost last week, you're in the running

tiamaria - the rice pudding recipe is one I posted and I can confirm it's perfectly ok to eat freely. You can have lots of very yummy food with SW