Slimming World support thread for 2010

maysmummy

got-it-spend-it wrote: »

Can I use my milk from my HEA in a Skinny Latte?

If you are using only 250ml/350ml (depending on whether is's skim or semi skim) I can't see why not. Personally, I go for white coffee (americano) and it fits in easily.
MM

gingernutbizkit

hi all,

I'm sat here (still) tryig to menu plan for my first proper week and I'm getting seriously stressed. Just wondered, what do you all do? How does SW fit with cheaper living? Do you plan all your meals weekly? Daily? Never? Do the whole family eat with you or do you eat seprately? Do you try new recipes or stick to what you know?

Need confused smilie!
Ging x

TakeItEazy

gingernutbizkit wrote: »

hi all,

I'm sat here (still) tryig to menu plan for my first proper week and I'm getting seriously stressed. Just wondered, what do you all do? How does SW fit with cheaper living? Do you plan all your meals weekly? Daily? Never? Do the whole family eat with you or do you eat seprately? Do you try new recipes or stick to what you know?

Need confused smilie!
Ging x

Hi and welcome

I personally semi plan my meals i.e. when I shop I get loads of veg which will go with most things & then stuff that will make other stuff like mince and meat for curries etc. Mostly I do food just for myself but we do also eat as a family and on EE this is very easy. Mind you most meals can be adapted to SW with just the odd bit for those that dont want SW i.e quorn sausages v ordinary ones or just go for the freebies from morrisons. SW chips are the same if not better than full fat ones and using frylite you can 'fry' anything.

Hope that helps

I'm a jacket spud and beans girl myself :T could live on them lol

TakeItEazy

Food today

B - 3 weetabix [b's] milk [a] coffee

L - pasta, savoury rice, toms, cue, babybel [a] fat free dressing, diet cola

T - Jacket spud, beans, toms & maybe an egg

Syns - 32g bag maccoys [8] may have a layer muller although found them VERY sweet so maynot, hope son likes them :rotfl:

Am wondering if the sachets of powder I have to drink for my IBS is affecting my weight loss hmmmm.

gingernutbizkit

TakeItEazy wrote: »

Hi and welcome

I personally semi plan my meals i.e. when I shop I get loads of veg which will go with most things & then stuff that will make other stuff like mince and meat for curries etc. Mostly I do food just for myself but we do also eat as a family and on EE this is very easy. Mind you most meals can be adapted to SW with just the odd bit for those that dont want SW i.e quorn sausages v ordinary ones or just go for the freebies from morrisons. SW chips are the same if not better than full fat ones and using frylite you can 'fry' anything.

Hope that helps

I'm a jacket spud and beans girl myself :T could live on them lol

Thanks. I think maybe I need to plan my main meals. Mrs Ging has just bought in all our SW recipe books to getus started. I'm very lucky to have her!
Ging x

consultant31

gingernutbizkit wrote: »

hi all,

I'm sat here (still) tryig to menu plan for my first proper week and I'm getting seriously stressed. Just wondered, what do you all do? How does SW fit with cheaper living? Do you plan all your meals weekly? Daily? Never? Do the whole family eat with you or do you eat seprately? Do you try new recipes or stick to what you know?

Need confused smilie!
Ging x

Planning is a major key to success - if you don't plan you will almost certainly find yourself caught out, starving with no low-syn food available.

The Green plan is cheapest IMO, with lots of jacket potatoes, beans, lentils, pasta, rice etc. There are so many different fillings for a jacket potato, you could have one every day for a week and never have the same filling twice - my current favourite is egg mayonnaise yum!! You can make a very quick and tasty syn-free sauce for pasta, using tinned tomatoes, onion and mushrooms (with or without garlic). I use a local farm shop for tinned goods, they're much cheaper than the supermarkets, but Aldi, Netto etc would be cheap for these too.

The idea is that the whole family eat together (the same food) as it's healthy and nutritious, but families tend to be in and out at different times these days, so you have to do what suits you and yours

The recipes in the magazines or from the website aren't too bad for costly ingredients I don't find. Mind you, I pick and choose my meals.....substituting expensive cuts of meat for cheaper ones and often topping up the meat content with lentils, which I like and find very filling.

Most recipes are just a guide - you can swap things, adding or taking out some bits and just generally doing your own thing and end up with something lovely (well, usually lol).

Get stuck in and enjoy!

Vixie_Pixie

consultant31 wrote: »

Planning is a major key to success - if you don't plan you will almost certainly find yourself caught out, starving with no low-syn food available

That is me all over the last week or so, esp today!

The latest free asda mag has a good recipe for moussaka that can be adapted to be SW friendly.

ingredients

2 large aubergines
2 tbsp Olive Oil - easily swapped for Olive Oil Fry Light
2 onions - finely chopped

1kg lamb mince (get extra lean or drain the excess fat when cooking)
For a green day Lamb mince could be swapped for quorn mince

2 garlic cloves - crushed
4 level tsp of flour - used for thickening the sauce so will leave out and let it reduce more when cooking
2 level tsp of ground cinnamon
400g can of chopped toms with herbs
1 lamb stock cube
500g greek yoghurt - will swap for either FF fromage frais or natural yog
2 eggs
100g parmesan - grated (HEA)


1. Preheat oven to gas 5/190C, Spray Aubergine with Olive oil fry light, place on baking tray(s) and cook for 20 mins

2. Brown the onion and mince in the pan, add the garlic, cook for 1min. Add the cinnamon and flour if using, cook, stirring for one minute. Add toms and stock, cover and simmer for 30mins

3. Layer mince and aubergine in 2 ovenproof dishes (based on 1 dish serving 4) beat the yog, eggs and parmesan and spoon on top and then bake for 30 mins.

These ingredients make enough moussaka to make 2x 4 servings. So great if you want to freeze some for another evening. I need enough for 5 servings so will make a smaller one with the rest of the mix for my dinner another night Am making this 2mro so shall let you know how it turns out

melda

had a week and a bit off the plan. Think I'll not go to WI for a couple of weeks as uni is getting busy, and because I've been off plan it wont show any losses. Going to stick to it at home for a little then pay the joining fee again if I feel I need to go back. I think my body is looking forward to getting back on it if that makes sense? I'm feeling kinda sluggish and need all the fruit and veg again, have definitely been having my 5 a day of chocolate over the weekend though :S

Congratulations on those with losses, and sending motivation vibes to the gainers...

melda

Vixie Pixie feta cheese is really tasty in the moussaka topping instead of parmesan and you can have 42g for a heA, I put in 100g when I made a moussaka for 4. So you could increase it to 168g if you wanted to make it up to one heA per portion or of course half it if you wanted to make up the other half with cheese or milk in another meal througout the day.

flower24

Bit of a TMI question here but since I've started SW I have seriously bad wind It stinks of eggs pmsl, I keep blaming it on the kids is this normal!? Any tips to stop it? :eek: