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aliscrapper

My food diary for today:

Breakfast: Hi Fi (b choice)
Dinner: Mug Shot Tomato & Herb
Snack: 2 X Alpen Light (b choice)
Evening: Quorn Cottage Pie with 2 oz cheese (2 "a" choice) & Muller light yogurt
Snack: Chocolate Scan Bran Cake (4.5 syns) & options hot chocolate (2 syns)

lynzpower

Well I havent done badly today ( so far)

I thought Id take dog for v long walk and up the steps - so chuffed that 28000 steps today. Definately feels really good.

However, all this exertion meant starving hungry. I took my 2 alpen lites out with me ( HEB) and Id had fruit & yog this morning and tea before I left. Managed till about 12 on these but,I was so weak! ( had been walking 3 hours) so managed to find a caff whereupon I had 2 pooached eggs 4 bacon and beans and a diet coke. EASY!

then got home and had mango strawbs and yog.

Ive had some cottage cheese and a pack of those sains soya snacks ( 5 syns) - lime and coriander- wont buy that flavour again lol but I finished them!

Tonights dinner is beef bourginonne from the magazine with roasted snips/carrots/ new pots obv using frylite.

I was considering doing the mini cheesecakes with passion fruit subbing the P fruit for mango or strawbs- they are 5 syns each tho.

can anyone tell me what a Trifle sponge is in syns?
Can anyone confirm what tinned mandarins in "light syrup" is ( bought in error :mad: )
is the choc orange muller 1.5

thanks in advance

rupe34

Evening all - struggling a little this week to keep my syns under 15 - now I realise why - * week;). Never mind I feel a whole lot less bloated and heavy than usual - so thank you green days!

I can't remember who it was earlier today that mentioned Richard Armitage being on Sky1 tonight - but THANK YOU!!I think he is brilliant so will be curling up on the sofa with a cuppa to watch that:)

consultant31

lynzpower wrote: »

I have a thought about making some sorts of crisp like snacks out of pasta shapes, watch this space

You would have to syn them as it would be misuse of free food. There are recipes - or rather there used to be loads out there but I think they will have been removed by now since the powers that be at SW saw what we do when they're not looking :rotfl:

consultant31

MRSMCAWBER wrote: »

Thanks Blackberry-Rum

ooooohhh cheese as a (B) -will have to look into that and see if it counts when doing EE ?

Sadly cheese can only be counted as a HEB on the Green plan

aliscrapper

Lynzpower - can't help you with the trifle sponge - tried to put it under the basic foods in the syns on-line - but unfortunately it didn't recognise it.:( Hopefully someone will be along soon that might know the syn value. The chocolate orange muller lights are syn free and gorgeous!:D

lynzpower

consultant31 wrote: »

You would have to syn them as it would be misuse of free food. There are recipes - or rather there used to be loads out there but I think they will have been removed by now since the powers that be at SW saw what we do when they're not looking :rotfl:

Ah in that case I wont bother lol, if they were free then fine- not worth the effort if they are not syn free!

You think thats random, you should see what they get up to with the Cambridge diet trying to make them into solids :eek:

consultant31

recovering_spendaholic wrote: »

I like to make my own hummus with tinned chickpeas, but is it true that if you mash up the chick peas then they are syns? - I make my hummus with mashed chick peas, lemon juice, salt and pepper, onion and about a tsp of tahini (which I have just looked up and is 2syns) - It is nice with a wholemeal pitta (heb) and carrot sticks.

No you don't have to syn the chickpeas if you're using them in the right way (as you would be with Hummus. It's only if you want to use chickpeas as an alternative to flour (as you would if making a cake) that they are synned. Here is a very simple recipe for hummus if you want one:-

Three tins of chickpeas
Juice and rind of two lemons
Salt
1 or 2 cloves of garlic
Half tub of syn free fromage frais

Simply blend all ingredients together.
Keeps well in the fridge for 3/4 days.

retiredlady

aliscrapper wrote: »

Lynzpower - can't help you with the trifle sponge - tried to put it under the basic foods in the syns on-line - but unfortunately it didn't recognise it.:( Hopefully someone will be along soon that might know the syn value. The chocolate orange muller lights are syn free and gorgeous!:D

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aliscrapper

MRSMCAWBER wrote: »

Hi Aliscrapper -




When I did pasta salad the other day I made a dressing using:-

• 100g fat free fromage frais
• 50g extra low philli type cheese -garlic and herb
• 2tbs low fat yoghurt dressing
• seasoning

You could use the same dressing for potato salad.
It came to 3 Syns for the whole lot (you will have to double check depending what brands you use) and it did 3 good sized portions -I used 250g pasta for 3 (but it was still a bit to much to be honest )
You could add tomato puree/ketchup -if you are having prawns (bit like cocktail sauce), wholegrain mustard, use a different flavour philli cheese (but you will have to alter the syns)

I throw in diced carrots, onion, peppers, celery, frozen peas/corn (just defrosted under a hot tap and cooled ) and ham -but you can throw in tuna (very nice) leftover chicken anything really
Potato salad is lovely if its still slightly warm too -or chilled with crispy cooked bacon in mmmmmmm

The egg fried rice "recipe" I posted the other day is lovely cold as a salad too -it doesn't need any dressing either

As you are at home -could you put out an extra portion of tea the night before so you can have it warmed up sometimes? I do that if its something I particularly like -or if I have cooked to much

Can you tell Im a foody :rotfl:
If Im not eating it, Im thinking about it, reading about it, buying it or cooking it

Was looking at getting the ingredients for you yummy potato salad/pasta salad dressing. What is "philli type cheese -garlic and herb"?? Much appreciated