Weezl and friends Phase 2 -giving it a whirl for Shirl! Testing meal plan for a month

aless02

1 large portion of rice is 5 Points (they say it's around 225g cooked, which is somewhere around 90ish g dry, I think)
1 large portion of pasta is 5 Points (100g, but for some reason I can eat less pasta and feel fuller?? So I usually have 75g which is 3.5 Points)
1 large portion of potatoes is 2.5 Points (250g)

Okay so I lie about the rice :rotfl:, but it just feels like more points to me, I don't know why!! Arty, that's so tiny! I'm shorter than you and the smallest I've ever been in my life is 9.5 stone. 10 is my very end goal, not sure if it's achievable post-baby. I will make you all jealous with my 31 Points allowance due to breastfeeding and high starting weight. But it's about to reduce down as Finn eats more food . (I had 42 Points today with all the cake, eeeeeeeeeeeek! :eek: :eek:

sorry to derail the thread with WW talk

eta: arty, I use recipe builder. but after a while you start to remember the 0 Point foods like tinned toms so to save time I don't bother plugging them in as there's no point if they don't add points to the recipe.

weezl74

artybear wrote: »

Is that tall? Mr art is 6'2 so I always feel quite little.

Aless how do you work out the points-do you put literally every ingredient into the planner thingy online?
x

it used to be (cals/70) + (sat fat/4), we can test if that's still true if you like, or maybe my figures are wrong

shanks77

weezl74 wrote: »

thank you shankletons

Pleasure m'lady

weezl74

ps looking at aless's figures for rice and potatoes the formula above looks right to me

aless I was going to ask how much extra they allow you for BF?

weezl74

shanks77 wrote: »

Pleasure m'lady

:rotfl:

I miss you shanks!

ARe your jobs ok or are you shattered?

weezl74

artybear wrote: »

I'm having a little cry and glass of wine to celebrate-please join me!!!!

lovely news arty :j:j:j:j

aless02

weezl, not sure if it's a flat quantity or in proportion to your body weight, but i looked ahead that it goes down to 26 once he starts having decent solids and not sure what it would reduce to if not BFing at all.

shanks77

Great news Arty have an extra glass for me

Weezl jobs ok and yes a bit shattered especially when boss put me down to work day shift just after a night shift but never mind i think of the money and its not so bad. Should be around from about lunchtime tomorrow if you need anything. Having the onion tart (planner1) tomorrow so still doing a lot of the things from it. (think the pizza is one of my favs and the chicken pie is exs using my pastry im afraid as i never got to grips with your version)

grannynise

Granny creeps out of the lurkers' corner to fetch her own glass of wine and celebrate Arty's friend's brilliant news.

domesticgoddess789

Have just made the Tangy Bean Pate for the first time ready for tomorrows lunch and on first impressions it looks and tastes good :T OH's only comment so far though was that it is going to be a bit windy in this household tomorrow :eek::eek: