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got-it-spend-it

consultant31 wrote: »

Potato salad, pasta salad, coleslaw etc are lovely when they're home made and can be very low syn if you use the extra light mayo.

I use a mandolin slicer for the coleslaw and can very quickly make a huge mixing bowl full from one small white cabbage, one large carrot and an onion so it's cheap as well as being much nicer than shop bought.

Potato salad is also cheap and easy, dice a large potato (or use baby new ones). When cooked, chop a couple of spring onions into the potato - using all the green part too. Mix with extra light mayo or a mixture with the mayo and syn-free fromage frais - this makes it virtually syn-free if sharing with other people.

Ditto with pasta salad - cheaper and nicer when home made and the syn values can be kept to an absolute minimum.

Have you tried the seeded Ryvitas? There's one with pumpkin seeds and it's truely delicious - absolutely no bleurgh factor

I now make my potato salad with half LF mayo and half 0% Greek yogurt and some spring onions. I now think it is nicer than when it's made just with mayo.

I picked up a Sainsbury's Mag today and there is a recipe in there for a fruity couscous breakfast that I'm going to try. I'll report back on what it is like (and give the SW friendly version of the recipe if it's good).

trixietoes

got-it-spend-it, I now make my potato salad the same way as you and I too find it nicer now.. I think my tastes are changing.

Takeiteasy - those couscous frittas sound intriguing, I'll give them a go ... my list of new recipes is getting longer... I really must put some effort in and try them next month... the food budget is currently at 2.00 left until the end of the month LOL... but there is plenty in the house and only a few days to go.

I managed to be better than I usually am at the pub last night whilst watching the football and drank water with just a couple of halves... WI on Thurs and I am going to be extra good until then. OH is away until Thurs night so I have no-one to lead me into temptation.

I've not decided on todays meals so I'll cruise here for inspiration and post later.

Good luck for today everyone xx

kellybigboobs

Right first day back - I'm doing EE - and it's going well so far....

B - tea and toast,heb and 1 syn ( i save my hea for cheese as i don't use much milk)
L - not sure.will be at work ( I'm a chef) so something free!
D - noodles and cheese most likely as on split shifts today and will want something quick,easy and gooey when I get home!

Have a good all,and good luck for all the forthcoming weigh ins

bettyB_2

consultant31 wrote: »

Potato salad, pasta salad, coleslaw etc are lovely when they're home made and can be very low syn if you use the extra light mayo.

I use a mandolin slicer for the coleslaw and can very quickly make a huge mixing bowl full from one small white cabbage, one large carrot and an onion so it's cheap as well as being much nicer than shop bought.

Potato salad is also cheap and easy, dice a large potato (or use baby new ones). When cooked, chop a couple of spring onions into the potato - using all the green part too. Mix with extra light mayo or a mixture with the mayo and syn-free fromage frais - this makes it virtually syn-free if sharing with other people.

Ditto with pasta salad - cheaper and nicer when home made and the syn values can be kept to an absolute minimum.

Have you tried the seeded Ryvitas? There's one with pumpkin seeds and it's truely delicious - absolutely no bleurgh factor

I would have loved to have made my own pasta salad and potato salad but there wasn't enough time. the bought pasta salad was pretty dry and mostly veg, but I synned myself for the oil in the ingrediets list.

I got the multigrain ryvita with sesame seeds - hopefully it'll be yummier than i remember ryvita being in the past!! the pumpkin seed on looked good but was a bit more £ and I am seriously low on money at the mo.

Today I'm having
Breakfast - 28g Raisin wheats and 1/2 HeA milk (some in tea)
snack - 2 Ryvita (1 to complete HeB and 1 for 1.5 syns) and 2 laughing cow light triangles (other 1/2 of HeA)
Lunch- Tuna salad with cucumber, carrot, tomato and spring onion.
Snack - go ahead strawberry bake (6 syns)
Also lots of fresh fruit - cherries, apples and banana
Dinner - chicken curry using the SW recipe (free) with some extra veg shoved in and a tbsp mango chutney on the side (2 syns)
Dessert - toffee Muller light

total syns: 9.5

Lovely day yesterday, hope you're all just as annoyed as I am about having to get back to work today!!!

B.

PS - I bought this new type of oat bake from Go Ahead before I started SW - http://www.ocado.com/webshop/product/Go-Ahead-Mixed-Berry-Oat-Square/55843011
Each one is about 45g - please could someone look up the syns for me (I am expecting it to be high having learnt that go ahead and ww foods are packed with sugar!) thanks

rainbowfizz21

laura2481 wrote: »

Think lime will be same synwise as non-sugar free blackcurrant squash..

I've just bought a NAS lime squash from sainsbury's which I'm counting as free so that might be an idea for future

bettyB_2

rainbowfizz21 wrote: »

I've just bought a NAS lime squash from sainsbury's which I'm counting as free so that might be an idea for future

I found a no added sugar lime cordial in tescos - tastes the same! I have always bought Roses as I bought a different on once that was horrible, but i guess they've made improvements since then. Lovely with Soda water

MRSMCAWBER

Good afternoon all -and what a glorious sunny day it is too....



My Red meal plan for today is:-

• 250ml semi (A)
• 28g porrige oats (B)
• mixed berries
• banana
• melon
• pineapple
• 1 seedy ryvita (other part of
• 42g low fat cheddar (A)
• lettuce
• cucumber
• tomato
• celery
• peppers
• carrot
• kholrabi
• gherkin
• peach
• grapes
• tuscan chicken (1.5)
• 198g steamed potatoes (B)
• broccoli
• carrots
• cabbage
• 150g peach n maracua quark (4)

So that will be my A+Bs and 5.5syns -I even increased the amount of fruit quark so I would be over 5 syns .

I have just fettled the bathroom, done the upstairs windows inside n out and sorted out and listed the contents of the freezer... lets just say its a good thing Im doing RED days
So I should have burnt some wobble doing that little lot

Hopefully we will get a walk this evening -once it is cool enough for the dawg....
This afternoon Im going to get a few weeks meal plans drawn up -trying to use what I have in..
Have a great day everyone

rainbowfizz21

Right back on plan after a bad weekend as it was my birthday :j

However weigh in this morning and I'm down just over a lb :T

I'm now at the stage where i'm feeling like I want to be healthy so I'm having really good meals and stivking to plan. The only trouble is that my mum bought me a tub of rose turkish delight and my boyfriends parents bought me a MASSIVE box of thorntons chocolates which somehow got opened so resisting them could be tricky. But if I limit myself to one of each each day as my syns that should be ok

So today is shaping up like this on EE:

HEA: 250 ml ss milk
HEB: Fibre plus bar

Breakfast: Fibre plus bar
Lunch: Tuna and sweetcorn pasta with extra light salad cream and salad
Dinner: Bacon and mushroom omlette

Hope you all have a lovely week

susan6780

trixietoes wrote: »

I've not decided on todays meals so I'll cruise here for inspiration and post later.

Good luck for today everyone xx

today i have had

B-scrambled eggs on toast HEB i don't like spread on my bread unless its full fat with salt butter,spread an inch thick,so now i do without,its ok! <skinny jeans skinny jeans skinny jeans>
L-will be yesterdays new potatoes bashed about sprayed with Frylite and sprinkled with paprika and salt,chicken breast and veg
D-good old Jacket Potatoes with Cheese HEA and salad

syns and snacks,i've made a HUGE rice pudding for 9 syns and i shall nibble on that with fruit in it mmmm yummy

manicdeb

hi can anyone tell me how many syns are in Morrisons chilled Sweet and Sour Chicken in batter please? Its the one on its own without the rice - many thanks