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angie_loves_veg

recovering_spendaholic wrote: »

I don't get the syns calculator! I just put mullerlight and Aldi optifit into it and they came out with syns and I thought they were free! I was trying to see what the Sainsburys BGTY egg mayo came out at and that came out as syns too

Did you input the 'free food allowance' (egg in the case of the egg mayo, lf yog in the case of the muller etc?)

angie_loves_veg

artyfartybird wrote: »

I just weighed myself and Ive lost another 5lbs WOO, and me and my mate are doing our meausrements once a month and across all of my measurements (including upper and lower arms and legs and knees and things) I have lost a grand total of 46cm across my whole body! wooooooo for extra easy!

though I have to say, I make a lot of homemade sauces and Im really starting to feel sad about how badly onions and garlic fry in the olive oil fry lite! maybe I should sacrifice my bread or cereal and have my olive oil as HE b, I can do that right?

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lots of banana & strawberrys whizzed up with natural yogurt & a bit of sweetner

sunday roast (grilled chicken, slimming world roasties, loads of boiled veg, home made gravy with onions & mushrooms & garlic & 1 knorr chicken stock cube, bit of tomatoe puree)

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anyway have a wonderful day guys and gals XXX

Just checking that you know the 'smoothie' should be synned. Fruit is only free if it is 'whole from the bowl' the minute you blend, puree, mash, blitz or cook it, it counts as syns. Not mega loads, but a few.

stock cube and tom puree also syns

and yes, 1tbsp olive oil is a HB, so if you want to use it instead of cereal / bread or whatever, then you are able to do so.

Sorry to sound so picky, as your weight loss is great!:j But I think it is better to pick these things up as we see them so that none of us get into 'bad' habits

recovering_spendaholic

angie_loves_veg wrote: »

Did you input the 'free food allowance' (egg in the case of the egg mayo, lf yog in the case of the muller etc?)

Yes! Just did it again with a muller light and it came out as 2 syns I know they are free though so I'm not going to count them. It was a normal mullerlight that I syned too - not a layers one which I know is syns.

angie_loves_veg

.. well that's just odd

artyfartybird

Just checking that you know the 'smoothie' should be synned. Fruit is only free if it is 'whole from the bowl' the minute you blend, puree, mash, blitz or cook it, it counts as syns. Not mega loads, but a few.

WHAT REALLY!?? thats totally insane! how come do you know? is it something to do with how quickly they digest you think?

do be picky thats great!! I want to be on the straight and narrow thanks for your input X

rach3

Hi! Hope everyone is doing well, i think i am, can`t wait till my first weigh in on wed! heres my plan for today: RED

HEA 250ml ss milk
HEB wholemeal roll
HEB jkt pot

B: cup of coffee & a banana
L: wholemeal roll with ham & tomato ,4 seafood sticks, mullerlight, was going to have a packet of aldi cheese curls for 3 & half syns but full so will keep for later!
am going to make sw quiche with bacon in prob with jkt pot & salad.

has any one made the tikka masala sauce on the sw website? i`ve just brought all the ingredients so will be making that tommorow! xx

retiredlady

recovering_spendaholic wrote: »

Yes! Just did it again with a muller light and it came out as 2 syns I know they are free though so I'm not going to count them. It was a normal mullerlight that I syned too - not a layers one which I know is syns.

The aldi ones arn't free anymore - at least not the optifit ones with the grains. I used to love those!
Some things slimming world decides are going to be free - because the health benefits outweigh the syn calculation. So if you just enter the numbers from the packet, the computer doesn't know what the product is and just goes by the numbers and gives it a syn value, however if you tell the calculater it is a muller yogurt a little light clicks on and it goes - oh Muller - yes they are free!:D

angie_loves_veg

artyfartybird wrote: »

Just checking that you know the 'smoothie' should be synned. Fruit is only free if it is 'whole from the bowl' the minute you blend, puree, mash, blitz or cook it, it counts as syns. Not mega loads, but a few.

WHAT REALLY!?? thats totally insane! how come do you know? is it something to do with how quickly they digest you think?

do be picky thats great!! I want to be on the straight and narrow thanks for your input X

The reason (that I have been told) is that you are able to eat far more of a fruit if you 'blend, puree, mash, blitz or cook it' than if you eat it raw and whole. I could easily make a smoothie of 2 bananas, large handful of berries, yog etc, and have that in addition to a standard breakfast - but actually each morning I eat berries, yog and one banana and find it satisfies me til late morning.

Its similar to a glass of orange juice. You would have to juice 5 oranges to make a small glass, but would you sit and eat 5 whole oranges? Thats why the juice is synned and the whole fruit is free.

angie_loves_veg

I shall pop by later with todays menu - am doing Easy today, but right now, I am off to my hoola hooping class

<oh, for the right smilie to insert here!>

twinmummy_2

How about this one angie ????????????????