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gizmo111

TakeItEazy wrote: »

Quick question, I want to make a cheesy pasta bake. I will be using quark, HEa grated cheese, onions, tomatoes & herbs. Do I need egg to set it or is the quark enough on its own? Do I need to add anything else i.e ff fromage?
Advice greatly appreciated Thanks in advance.

I never add anything to them.

MRSMCAWBER

Good afternoon all
Got here eventually!!

Its a lovely crisp n sharp day again -so I had a tootle down to the naafi this morning and got myself some magazines to read .. I also grabbed 4 boxes of fibre plus bars -I have opened my last box and even though I don't have them every day -hubby has taken a shine to them now too -so I grab then when they have them as they are hit n miss down there.

OOOHHHH and had a lovely suprise last night -hubby came home for the night :j .... him and his mate had to drive this way to do a repair and by the time hubby had done they had used up their driving hours so couldn't go back -so had to bed down at home *my hubby isn't silly* -not his fault that they had to drive an extra couple of miles to fill up -which took them over their hours ..... anyway twas lovely -he went again at 6am this morning ...and will be back some time tomorrow evening oooohh and bless his little cotton socks he came home armed with some semi milk and a bag of apples as he knows I get through loads and wasn't sure if I would have run out or them and if I would have felt up to nipping out myself (which I had) -but eeeeee I have a good un!!!!




Anyway..... Im having a red day today -which is looking like this:-

• 250 ml semi (A)
• apple
• turkey steak
• cucumber
• beetroot
• gherkin
• apple
• activia intensly (2.5)
• salmon fillet
• 1/4tsp oil (0.5) to roast-
• carrots
• onions
• peppers
• 250ml semi (A)
• 1tsp camp (0.5)
• fibre plus (B)
• activia intensly (2.5)

So thats 2A+1B and 6 syns -so I need to use another B and some more syns if need be..Although now it is dinner time Im really not hungry :eek: and I have only had the turkey n salad and 2 apples ...not sure what thats all about -but no doubt I will at least get my fruit n yogs down my neck later Im STILL trudging through my cookery mags digging out yummy looking recipes to try...which I will share once I have tries them of course;)
Right -I will get off and drink my cuppa, but will pop back later.. keep up the great work all....

TakeitEazy.... so glad your sons kit has arrived.. at least thats one less thing to deal with!!!

alisont

lynzpower wrote: »

If I was going there and wanted something free I would go for the jacket with curried beans and grilled veg and a salad and wouldnt have butter, then it would be free.

Or I would have the eggs or veg in curried sauce with rice and assess, if its oily, add syns for the amount of oil you think is in it- but leave the nan and go for rice.

Or the grilled veg couscous and jsut add on the syns for the dressing Id imagine the rest would be free anyway?

Good choices there I went for the savoury rice stuffed pepper with dressing free salad - very tasty but not that filling, the owner asked me twice if I wanted some vegan choc cake as I'd always had a slice in the past. Will power was strong so said no, stuck to fruit for a snack. Not sure how to work out syns for the pepper meal - the rice was done with vecon as stock so free, pepper was oven baked fat free, so really only the mediteranian dressing - which was tomato and not a lot of it - maybe 3?

Big difference from the Mexican restaurant I use to visit - bet my lunch of refried bean burittos and fries was about 40 syns plus the pint of beer:eek:

Am so hungry now think I fancy a jacket and beans for tea with a pile of the purple sprouting my parents have brought - good job I'm well use to a diet high in beans and veggies having been veggie, then vegan for so many years.

So food today on my usual green day:

B- beans/toms/mushrooms/2 slices veg bacon

L - Rice stuffed pepper, salad

T- jacket/beans/veggies

Snacks - apple and orange so far, will have some rice pud or a soya yoghurt later and try to ignore any wine - have had 1 glass in 3 weeks now - good change from 1 a day usually!

Bob_Cat_2

Thanks Bexstars,
Yep, I'm feeling more full and satisfied like you said, but so much so, I don't always have all my healthy extras as I'm already full up. I do try and incorprate them into my meals, but on a couple of days this week, I haven't had 4 HEs, just 3. Do we HAVE to have all of them - sometimes I don't have all my sins either, think thats more due to the fact that I've given up booze for 6 weeks tho, so I do envisage that will change after next week weekend!!!
Hope you are all having a good weekend.
Bob Cat x

TakeItEazy

Bob_Cat wrote: »

Thanks Bexstars,
Yep, I'm feeling more full and satisfied like you said, but so much so, I don't always have all my healthy extras as I'm already full up. I do try and incorprate them into my meals, but on a couple of days this week, I haven't had 4 HEs, just 3. Do we HAVE to have all of them - sometimes I don't have all my sins either, think thats more due to the fact that I've given up booze for 6 weeks tho, so I do envisage that will change after next week weekend!!!
Hope you are all having a good weekend.
Bob Cat x

Try to have 2 HEb's as the fibre is the impotant bit, you are ok to have 1 HEa though. SW say 2 b' & 1 or 2 a's. Syns should be at least 5 but up to 15 a day, think most go for 10 though. HTH

oldfogy

Mrsmcawber, your Fryits sound fandabbydosy! Will try them this week, but coated with polenta (free on G) as I can't use breadcrumbs. Have a bit of confidence, as I lost 4 lbs 1st week, so I,ve got the hang of it again, & it still works-I hope. Lost 3.5 stone last time & have stupidly put 2 of them back on.

gizmo111

Bob_Cat wrote: »

Thanks Bexstars,
Yep, I'm feeling more full and satisfied like you said, but so much so, I don't always have all my healthy extras as I'm already full up. I do try and incorprate them into my meals, but on a couple of days this week, I haven't had 4 HEs, just 3. Do we HAVE to have all of them - sometimes I don't have all my sins either, think thats more due to the fact that I've given up booze for 6 weeks tho, so I do envisage that will change after next week weekend!!!
Hope you are all having a good weekend.
Bob Cat x

For the extra A on a red or green day I often use a laughin cow triangle instead of butter in a sandwich its lovely with bacon and mushroom toastie or ham salad. On a green day I tend to chuck some bacon in a pasta bake for work. My girls love the homepride pasta bake sauce for school and college which is 25.5 syns for a jar so I dilute it down with a carton of passata(0) and freeze half it works out about 2 -3 syns per portion and use the HEA for the cheese. I find taking lunch is my biggest headache so I'm taking at least two mornings a week working from home which gives me greater access to cook something. Now its getting colder I'll take soup and a roll (HEB) some days.
I tend to save the majority of my syns for the weekend alcohol as it is all really high in syns - spirits not too bad but wipes out the next day for me! So I'm not only losing lbs on this diet but days as well:p

lynzpower

Big difference from the Mexican restaurant I use to visit - bet my lunch of refried bean burittos and fries was about 40 syns plus the pint of beer

Funily enough I was flicking through the directory and noticed refried beans are free on all plans :j

Havent bought these recently as presumed high syn.

Tonight is mexican (style) peppers, onions mushrooms courgette stirfried with mexican spices and a slip of passata, with black beans, rice and taco shells (2.5 each)

However the rest of the junk Ive been eating has been not so goo but less said about that the better. I think im going to broadly follow (!!) the plan for the next week or so but I have a lot on and no time to cook or shop at all so if I dont have it in the house we arnt eating it. :eek:

gizmo111

Chinese Takeaways - not today but next weekend I usually have prawns in black bean sauce and boiled rice, beef in black bean sauce is showing as 5 on red and EE - would the prawns be the same does anyone think?

Owl

Evenin' all

Well, I had no syns yesterday and today have had one.... but a good thing as DH has just suggested we go to pub:eek: (I've always wanted to use that smiley!!!)

So far today

B - Bacon, eggs, baked beans, Mr M sausages (1)

L - Pasta n Sauce (Tom one) with onion and mushroom

D - HM stew (beef, oxo, leek, onion, potato, parsnip, carrot, swede) with 3 slices of WW danish to dunk (HEB)

HEA has been milk in coffee

After discussion on here I have upped my water/NAS squash drinking too.....

So, a few syns left to enjoy a couple of white wine spritzers (with sparkling water - and my local still sells wine in 125ml which is only 4 syns a go!!:j)

Good luck to everyone else

Owl x