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Recovering Spend: can't you make your own popcorn in the microwave (one tsp of oil in the bottom, popcorn on top, put a lid on (definitely!) and cook on high for a few mins until it stops popping or you smell burning, whichever comes first. Surely that's just about free apart from the oil,........ I'm back, ignore all that, it says it's 5.5 syns "popped without fat" for 28g. Blimey. Not that I've been eating it, but I used to. Well I'll be blowed.

BarmyCow

recovering_spendaholic wrote: »

I have just made a lovely brunch - I made syn free potato cakes to have with instead of bread and they were lovely. You just mix dried onion flakes with boiling water and salt and pepper and then stir in dried potato flakes (I used the sainsburys basics ones which I think are lovely) - you make a nice stiff mash and then let it cool slightly before beating in two egg yolks (I used about a third of a packet of the mash and 3tbs of onion flakes). Then I just shaped it into a round and did it a non-stick frying pan with a spray of frylight. I cooked it over a lowish heat for about 10 minutes and it went lovely and brown and really crunchy. I had syn free sausage, tinned tomatoes, scrambled egg, bacon medallion and beans and it was absolutely lovely and really filling.

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This sounds yummy - do you think buttery smash would work to replace potato flakes ? and approx how much water did you use for the onion flakes - perhaps you could just come round and make it for me ?:rotfl:

BarmyCow

got-it-spend-it wrote: »

Quick Q- when does the online password expire? I was on hols this wednesday so am still using last week's one. Will that stop working tomorrow? If so i'll be asking lots of syn values until this wednesday's WI!

Passwords usually last 2 weeks, so you should be fine until WI on Wednesday (mine always lasts that long - I am quite forgetful !)

TakeItEazy

Not feeling quite so depressed about 2 bad days although friday was within the weekly syns so probably only 1 bad day then hmmmmm.

Today I tried for a syn free but that hasn't worked so will try to keep low instead.

B - weetabix [b + 3.5syns] milk [a] coffee

L - chicken salad, hm coleslaw [tsp xlight mayo, half a syn] new pots, babybel [2syns] boiled egg, fat free dressing. Avoided hubbys hm garlic mayo even though its delish.

T - not sure yet, probably pineapple & muller or more salad as loads left, determined to be good today.

Syns - 6

Was going to have pineapple but someone left it out of the fridge and its gone mouldy, am gutted.

c_l_a_i_r_e

Not feeling too great here today, a little queasy and no real appetite so food has been (Red day, i think):
B: scrambled egg, bacon, mushrooms, tomatoes (couldn't eat it all)
S: Skinny cappuccino (HEA)
L: Fibre Plus Bar (HEB)

OH has cooked a ham for dinner so will try and have that with some vegetables and a little gravy. Will read back later x

Vixie_Pixie

howdy! How is everyone doing this fine bank holiday sunday? Its raining.. which is a bit crap!

EE day today

B- 28g w/g clusters (part of heb) with milk (hea) followed by syn free pancakes and chopped banana.

L - Sticky chilli roast chicken (3 as sauce had a fair few syns!) with spicy rice (1) cauli and carrots. Followed by dessert of white choc ginger cheesecake (5.5!)

D - Jacket pot with chive cottage cheese

S - 2x morning coffee biscuits (2), plum

D - Cup of tea, Dr Pepper zero

still got 1 w/g crackerbread to have to make up the rest of my heb

syns so far = 11.5

greenpixey

Hubby came with me to Asdas and bought loads of junk for him and the kids, they are now scoffing on giant cookies, mini doughnuts, Welsh cakes, Smarties cookies and a large Raspberry trifle :drool:

I'm hiding in the living room with my laptop and a cup of tea ....

pinkpower

Another 2lb off this week, making 7 so far. I'm following EE, and finding it very easy to stick to. I'm not being as inventive as some of you, just finding meals in the magazine or on line. But as its working, I can live with it.
We're having roast pork tonight, I just need to resist the crackling!!

recovering_spendaholic

Barmy Cow- I put the onion in the bowl and then put the measured amount of water needed to make the potato (as per instructions on packet) less a little bit so that the mash was nice and stiff. You can use any kind of instant potato - I found that when I made it with real potatoes then it was too wet and wouldn't crisp up as easily.

Food today has been on plan but have maxed out my syns already!

Brunch - scrambled egg, sf sausage, tomatoes, beans, bacon medallion, sf potato cake, tomato ketchup (1 syn) and 57g wholemeal roll (heb) (to mop up the tomato juices:o)

Snack - fresh pineapple, half a tangerine, a plum and a packet of marmite snack a jacks (5 syns)

Dinner - baked potato, 1tsp butter (2 syns), cottage cheese, prawns, tuna and huge green salad, dressing for prawns was tomato ketchup, extra light mayo, lemon juice and low fat soured cream - was about 9 syns in total and I had a third so (3 syns), 2 leerdammer light cheese slices (hea), Mullerlight vanilla yoghurt with half a sachet of options stirred in (1.5 syns)
12.5 syns so could be worse but I need to make sure that I don't have any more. I am really full at the moment which is good.

Hope you all have a great evening!

Just came back to say Well done Pinkpower:T:T

lynzpower

pinkpower wrote: »

Another 2lb off this week, making 7 so far. I'm following EE, and finding it very easy to stick to. I'm not being as inventive as some of you, just finding meals in the magazine or on line. But as its working, I can live with it.
We're having roast pork tonight, I just need to resist the crackling!!

28g of pork scratchings is only 7.5 syns ( i think?) check the little green handbook- I remember thinking wow scratchings are less syns than a pack of mccoys!