Slimming World support thread for 2010

consultant31

Dontknowanymore wrote: »

Wow, thank you so much for that post, I did read it late last night but was far too tired to respond then.

Anwyay, I had a good day, had a nice cooked breakfast, Quorn sausages are well nice!
Ended up having cereals for lunch to use my HE's and tonight i'm having rump steak, new potatoes, with half a plate of baby corn and mange tout, oh and 8tbsps gravy, yum yum!
I discoveverd pink and whites last week so had on earlier and might treat myself to one after dinner.

I realise I've been far too hard on myself, I mean I'm only human!

Well done

Right, now plan for tomorrow, you're on a roll :T

consultant31

Skint-slimmer - you've got the makings of several meals there. Plenty of HEBs for breakfast and dinners with rice, mince, kidney beans & tomatoes, you've got chilli or a bolognese sauce to go with pasta, potatoes or even rice. You could make a big pot of soup with the veg you have left over. Pad out the mince with some grated carrot or lentils if you have them, it will then be enough to do you several meals.

I'm not brilliant at thinking meals up from set ingredients like this, but I can see there are some easy ones. I'll leave the difficult ideas to someone else :rotfl:

BarmyCow

Oh happy day :j- I've finally found my Ryvita wholegrain crackerbread, which was skulking on a bottom shelf in Sainsburys, so I stocked up. :j(It's the little things that make me happy !)

Dontknowanymore - just to add to the comments, please keep on returning for support and advise, you are doing so well and everyone can understand a bad day/s when you wonder what the point is, so you are not alone. Personally, I am very good at the "kick up the bum" approach , although I do supportive as well - but feel free to PM me anytime - that goes for anyone else as well.

Am off to gaze longingly at my Ryvita now - I really need to get out more.:o

Inazuma

Hi SkintSlimmer,

The tuna would make a pasta bake if you used the onions and some passata, I would probably look on sw website for a proper recipe tho' unless you are very creative - and there is a chilli in there, as Consultant says. You could also make lasagne with your milk and some of the tinned tomatoes, either use the mince or the soya for that. Maybe if you could stretch to some low fat cheese triangles they would make things a bit more 'creamy' in the lasagne and pasta stuff.

I would also suggest if you can find some cheap sw-friendly yog that you use your rice to make some of Marion's rice. It's lovely as a pud and very filling as a free in betweenie snack.

Good luck.

blackberry-rum

Skintslimmer, I would just say as you don't have much in the way of fruit or vegetables in your store cupboard, pop into Asda for their "last minute" fresh stuff or they also have things for £1 - cauliflower, broccoli, various fruits.

You can make a lovely "arabiata" sauce from tinned tomatoes and chilli and onion, cook it until it's thickened then pour it over some pasta, one tin will make two meals although it's nice enough to eat all at one go ). And there's onion soup if you really do have loads of onions (basically a stock with caramelised onions in).

bright_side

Sainsburys have extra large pineapples for 94p I have it as my 'evening treat' every night.

I just invested in some measuring spoons as I didn't have a tablespoon and have been guesstimating using a dessert spoon for my salad cream. My God, how small is a tablespoon :eek: I remember them being huge when I was at school doing food tech :rotfl: I'm looking forward to a great big chicken salad for tea with probably not so much salad cream as usual.

Vixie_Pixie

Dontknowanymore wrote: »

Not sure which is the lowest, but my fave is clover lighter, 1syn for 1level tsp, I find it does the trick with new tatties, also seasoned with a bit of salt and pepper, yummers!

I love love love clover lighter!

BarmyCow wrote: »

Oh happy day :j- I've finally found my Ryvita wholegrain crackerbread, which was skulking on a bottom shelf in Sainsburys, so I stocked up. :j(It's the little things that make me happy !)

Am off to gaze longingly at my Ryvita now - I really need to get out more.:o

The crackerbread lurks at the bottom of the shelf in morrisons as well.....

you really are barmy!! lol :rotfl:

Today's food - Red day

B - 28g bitesize honey nut shredded wheat (heb) with milk (hea)

L - ham followed by fruit

S - mini croissant (boss bought them as an easter treat) 6.5 syns and bag of cheese curls 3.5 syns. HiFi bar (heb2)

D - HM lamb koftas with aubergine mushroom onion cheese(hea2) bake thingy i'm goin to "create" later on.

Total syns (so far - eek) 10

Skintslimmer

Thanks so much for the replies and ideas, any more please do keep them coming! :T

Skintslimmer wrote: »

Weetabix - a ton of it
oats so simple - quite a lot of that too...
long life milk carton
tins of tomatoes x 2
red kidney beans
linseed
creamed coconut
passatta
cornflour
risotto rice
1 x tin tuna (edible)
2 x tin tuna (manky cheap stuff but would probably cook okay in something)
sweet & sour mug shot
[STRIKE]plain cous cous - enough for 1 meal[/STRIKE]
dried plain noodles x 2
soya mince (dried)
split peas (dried)
lasagne sheets

Frozen peas
frozen low fat beef mince

potatoes (approx 1lb)
onions - lots
1/2 red cabbage

Lots of condiments and herbs/spices.

Does anyone mind if I keep updating this on here? It would help keep me motivated

Today - oh happy day - the fridge has provided food I didn't think I had Magic Fridge is back! :eek: :rotfl:Magic fridge used to be our spare fridge which was never kept plugged in apart from during alcohol sessions, and always came up trumps providing bottles of this that and the other when we thought they had run out long ago :D:D Sadly the fridge has not provided a fountain of beer, but some quark which goes out of date today and defrosted spinach I have never been so happy to see either of those items

I used 1/2 tub quark with mustard & 1/2 tsp pesto, served with some cous cous, 1/2 veg stock cube, linseed and spinach stirred in. et voila, spinach and (almost) pine nut pesto cous cous

Got up too late for brekkie But will have weetabix mid afternoon. Weigh in day tonight!

After weigh in I will have risotto with the reduced mini bean/pea pod thingumies I forgot to add to the list yesterday. 2/5 a day, hmm... okay add onion for another 1. Will raid morrisons next door to class for reduced (hopefully 9p) veggies :T

I want to use the red cabbage to braise, which is lovely as an accompaniment with a roast. I can see me having roast potatoes and a ton of red cabbage for one of my evening meals!

So meal ideas for the rest of the week go something like:

Tues: red cabbage and roasties (with gravy, and leftover pea thingumies)

split peas, passatta, red kidney beans and mince mix, possibly include soya mince too, because I need it to eek out into...

Wednesday Lasagne (with potato wedges and hopefully I'll have some reduced veggies by then)

Thursday Chilli (with risotto rice :rotfl:)

Friday Bolognaise (suppose I could have it on a jacket pot if I haven't bought pasta by then.)

So just the weekend left to sort out, and lunches if I don't want cereal absolutely EVERY lunch time. And snacks - this is slimming world not starvation world.

...I guess I could do a split pea curry with the creamed coconut, tinned tomatoes & spices?

Forgot to say, new job feeds us, but badly - mostly not SW friendly. I managed to scrounge ham and beef the other day, leaving the bread and curly fries :A so hopefully that will help. I really really don't want to get into the habit of having the "bad" food there, its an addictive habit thats hard to get out of.

Another bit of happy news. I raided all pockets/change stashing places and came up with £2.55 (practically all in coppers :rotfl:) so have allocated that to the food budget this week. Will be keeping an eye on the pavements wherever I go looking for additional pennies to add to it I will spend up to a tenner more if I HAVE to, but would rather have a week of funny eating than spend any more than bare minimum. the change I found is like "free" money so I feel okay about using that.

Soooo... what would be most useful to buy with it? I'd LOVE cheese, but don't "do" cheap cheese, only mature low fat pre-grated (which in my defence is no more expensive than low-fat mature non-grated!) so that'd be the whole lot on cheese. Do I buy pasta, some baked beans, or religiously scan supermarkets reduced sections daily?? I'm very happy without meat, by the way.

thank you all for your support so far, and sorry this is a huge post!

blackberry-rum

Karen, I got measuring spoons and measuring cups, they are sooo useful and it's amazing how tiny a teaspoon of olive oil is for 2 syns but it's worth it for the taste! I also bought (for 70p I think) from Lakeland a tiny measuring jug so I now know that in an average cup of coffee I use a certain amount of milk, making it easy to work out the syns on milk if I need to. (having said all that, I bet I gain this week, sods law)

Skintslimmer, I would still say spend that extra change on vegetables and fruit - lots of last min stuff you can stick in the freezer until you need it.

KathF

i buy frozen veg for around a pound a bag from likes of tesco, morrisons sainsbury etc etc, so for a fiver you can get 5 veg to go with meals and u get a load of meals from the bags xxx