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emma_jane1987

Pengwern16 wrote: »

Thought I'd post my food diaries for this week, so far, and plan for tomorrow:

Monday 5th January (Extra Easy)

HEA: 250ml semi-skimmed milk
HEB: 57g of any wholemeal bread (except pitta bread)
Syns: 18.5

Breakfast – Marmalade (0.5); Butter, all varieties (2)
Lunch – Bread, Wholemeal (3); baked beans in tomato sauce
Supper – chicken; Balti Medium Cooking Sauce (5); rice; potatoes
Snacks – Mullerlight Yogurt, Raspberry & Cranberry; Dairy Milk Bar (8)

Tuesday 6th January (Green)

HEA: 2 Mini Babybel Cheeses
HEB: 2 Alpen Light Cereal Bars; Baxters Healthy Choice Autumn Vegetable Soup
Syns: 16

Breakfast – 2 Alpen Light Cereal Bars (HEB1)
Lunch – Baxters Healthy Choice Autumn Vegetable Soup (HEB2)
Supper – Pasta n Sauce, Bolognese; 2 Mini Babybel Cheeses (HEA)
Snacks – Mullerlight Yoghurt, Banana & Custard; Bread, Wholemeal (3); Butter, full fat (2); Marmalade (0.5); Chocolate, basic, Selection sweets, eg Quality Street/Roses (2.5); Dairy Milk Wholenut (8)

Wednesday 7th January (Green)

HEA: 350ml skimmed milk (used in tea)
HEB: 57g wholemeal bread; Baxters HC Italian Bean & Pasta Soup
Syns: 2.5

Breakfast – Toast (HEB1) Marmalade (0.5); Butter, full fat (2)
Lunch – Baxters HC Italian Bean & Pasta Soup (HEB2)
Supper – Savoury Rice, Golden, dried
Snacks – Mullerlight Yogurt, Rhubarb; Diet Coke

Thursday 8th January

HEA: 28g cheese; 28g cheese
HEB: 2 Alpen Light Cereal Bars; 57g wholemeal bread
Syns: (15)

Breakfast – 2 Alpen Light Cereal Bars (HEB1)
Lunch – 57g wholemeal bread (HEB2); baked beans in tomato sauce
Supper – Pizza base (15); passata; cheese (HEA); onions, tomatoes, peppers
Snacks – Mullerlight Yogurt, Toffee

Any advice or comments more than welcome! I seem to struggle to find easy lunches to bring to work and haven't quite got my head aroung Extra Easy - love my bread!!

I have exactly the same problem with finding lunches for work. I do not like FF with a little bit of mayo either so that takes away having pasta salads, i have ibs so i can not eat too many jacket potatoes it really upsets me, I have toast for breakfast so thats what HEb gone and i save the other for dinner, I find salads boring and i know if i had that for lunch i would find something naughty to snack on in the afternoon. I'm very lucky i have a tescos next door to me at work and i have either a ready meal at lunch from the light choice section the salmon and brocolli pie is 1 syn on a red day really filling and really nice i still don't understand how it can only be that much but never mind, tomato and morzarella pasta bake is 4 syns on a green day and thats delicious especially because i love cheese a lot (too much), or i have a quarter of chicken and take the skin off or have soup.

4li5on

Skint_Catt wrote: »

You can still have 42g then - thats more than enough for me! And on green (IIRC) you can have more cheese as a HEB.

You don't HAVE to do anything except your green if you don't want to, but it gives the rest of us choices. I will probably still do 60/70% green but EE makes going out for dinner/the day easy as you can't weigh the meat they serve!

Syns are there to stop us from feeling deprived and giving up - if this means extra bread, cheese or anything else then thats a personal choice!

Yes, I realise that, but the point I was raising is, if I was to do EE, I would lose my daily FREE cheese. I always have my milk and cheese as my 2 HEA and toast with my breakfast as one of my HEB. It would mean I either had to give up 350ml skimmed or 2 slices of toast for a small piece of cheese or use 6 sins and miss out on something more satisfying or rewarding.

Simple observation and enquiry, not questioning the way anyone else follows the plan!

Skint_Catt

But variation is the key to SW - if you eat the same things then your weight loss will slow (or as mine did stop altogether!)

dlb

My Consultant explained at group that EE isnt for everyone, but encouraged all of us to give it a try even if only for a day or two.

She also said it would be great for meals out ect giving us extra choice, like she said we can still have a green day then a red then a EE, Then back to green, whatever fits in best that day.

They have lauched the EE plan as its sw 40th anniversary this year, and one of its aims are to encourage eating together as a family again, which the plan does make alot easier when you have kids who dont like quorn and pasta!!

I also think that if you get to the evening on a green day and still have an a & b left but dont fancy any, you could then snack on meat, fish and vice virsa on a red day, and still have stuck to the EE plan. If that makes sense.

I always try to save at least 1 B choice for in the evening and normally only have 1 A anyway, so the EE plan just means i can go with my mood if i decide i want something off the other plan at night.

Skint_Catt

Someone mentioned in the old thread about Vibro Plates? Netto has one for £80 http://viewer.zmags.com/showmag.php?mid=wtqsqf#/page0/

C xx

Skint_Catt

Just to let you know, there are a few small changes to your Food Optimising book to keep a note of. This includes the following amendments to the Healthy Extra sections:

Grab & Go cheese –

• Replace 3 x 22.5g Dairylea Light Triangles with 4 x 20g Dairylea Light Triangles
• Replace 3 x 14g Dairylea Original Triangles with 2 x 20g Dairylea Original Triangles

Soups –

• Add 320g serving Baxters Healthy Choice Soup Minestrone with Wholemeal Pasta to the soups list
• Reduce 320g serving Baxters Healthy Choice Soup Italian Bean & Pasta to 208g serving
• Increase 208g serving Baxters Vegetarian Soup, Tomato & Butter Bean to 320g serving
• 300g serving of Baxters Favourites Scotch Vegetable Soup has become 300g serving of Baxters Favourites Scotch Vegetable Soup with Lamb

Grab & Go soups –
Remove 415g can Baxters Healthy Choice Soup Minestrone with Wholemeal Pasta from Grab & Go

• Remove both Heinz soups from Grab & Go
• Add 295g can Weight Watchers Hearty Vegetable Broth to Grab & Go

beachbeth

Sorry if Im being thick buy why eat quark? Is it because it is filling or because its good for you? (or both)

Skint_Catt

Its a syn free version of soft cheese (why use syns if you don't have to!), but can be used for other things as described above.

dlb

beachbeth wrote: »

Sorry if Im being thick buy why eat quark? Is it because it is filling or because its good for you? (or both)

I find it a great alternative to butter/marg, i use it on sandwiches, toast, in mash potatoes,on crackerbreads ect which means i save my syns and dont waste them on butter low fat spreads ect.

Skint_Catt

I KNEW I used something in mash instead of butter! DOH! :rotfl: I had to syn butter last night, but I knew I didn't used to! :rolleyes: