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aliscrapper

bettyB wrote: »

I like it too - it has a nicer taste than diet pepsi/diet coke in my opinion. But apparently it has twice the caffeine as normal diet drinks.
I was awake half the night as a result (well that combined with OH stumbling in at 1am!), so I have ordered caffeine free diet coke from MrT as a replacement.

Today I'm doing EE:
Vanilla couscous with low fat yog (only a spoonful, so about 0.25 syns) and a touch of honey (1.0)
1 pear and 1 plum

Ham, onion and mushroom omelette with 1/2 HEA cheese
Other 1/2 HEA milk in tea

hm tuna pate (i think it it consultant's recipe) on 3 Ryvita (HEB) with cucumber and toms

green thai curry with chicken and mixed veg
Syns - paste (0.5) low fat yog (0.5), 1/4 sachet creamed coconut (4.5) and a few thai crackers (3.0)

total syns = 9.75

Is the green thai curry in any of the receipe books from SW - sounds yummy!:beer:

bettyB_2

great news dizzy! :j

aliscrapper wrote: »

Is the green thai curry in any of the receipe books from SW - sounds yummy!:beer:

There are some thai curry recipes in the World of Flavours book, but they require making the paste from scratch.

I use Bart's Green thai paste, which is only 1 syn for a tbsp, and you only need 1 or 2 tsp cos it is so strong!

I used to use coconut milk but now I cook the chicken in the paste and a splash of water then add yoghurt and half a creamed coconut sachet.

aliscrapper

bettyB wrote: »

great news dizzy! :j


There are some thai curry recipes in the World of Flavours book, but they require making the paste from scratch.

I use Bart's Green thai paste, which is only 1 syn for a tbsp, and you only need 1 or 2 tsp cos it is so strong!

I used to use coconut milk but now I cook the chicken in the paste and a splash of water then add yoghurt and half a creamed coconut sachet.

Thanks Betty.:beer: I'm off to Asda's later - will have a look for the Bart's Green thai paste - sounds yummy!:D

samace83

Morning peeps!
Just a quick question - anyone be able to tell me how many syns in Covent Garden pumpkin soup? 1/2 carton I'm planning to have for lunch but I need to know the syns first
Samantha

troubleonline

bettyB wrote: »

Hi. I'm up lagte coz i didnt realise how much caffiene is in a Pepsi Max! Lol

Just spotted Ryvita Fruit crunch in MrT's - they are like ryvita that you have like biscuits instead of crackers - has there been any sign of them as a HEB or synned on the SW site?? thanks.

You can have 2 as an HEb!

bettyB_2

troubleonline wrote: »

You can have 2 as an HEb!

great, might get some then. looks interesting.

Could someone please tell me the syns in Weight watcher's tikka masala sauce please?

lisa26_2

Dizzy that's great news! I'm not surprised you burst into tears...I could just reading your post!!!

We're going out for a posh meal tonight. WIll be sticking to plan for the rest of the day but having a flexi evening. I think I'll call it EE:

Brekkie - crackerbreads(HEB) and hard boiled eggs, apple
Snack - plums
Lunch - jacket potato, tinned mackeral in tom sauce, cucumber and toms, yogurt, mixed berries, jelly (0.5)
Tea - don't know but I bet it'll be good!!!!

Skintslimmer

Fab news about the hearing aid Dizzy A colleage of mine at work wears one (I don't remember any dalek antenna) and he certainly never misses a beat he has a cochlea implant which press fastens to the side of his head (yes, he is a bionic man!) but won't wear it to work, since we worked out the cost of a pan of soup if it fell out into it while he was making it, and it was over £300! :eek: So he'd rather not wear that one to work. Plus he wasn't impressed when I suggested that if his "ear" fell off into the soup he'd be able to earwig on the customer's conversations, but also on their bowel movements :rotfl:

Good lord I'm just as obsessed with bowels as the rest of you! :eek:

I had a strange but yummy breakfast. I divided up a tin of heinz cream of tomato soup into 4 and froze the portions a while ago, thinking they'd make nice additions to pasta sauces. Re-discovered them when hunting for the frozen minced garlic (which by the way is a life saver, very MSE and every freezer should have a bag of it) and ended up defrosting that in a pan with some garlic (so the moistness helped cook the garlic) and whizzed up with a tin of chickpeas and some seasoning. It was scrumdiddlyumptious and I reckon 3 syns for the whole lot (which, I ate in one go with cue and pepper crudites).

...I have got through 4 tins of chickpeas in 4 days... I may start to resemble one at this rate

I shall try the lentil soup, thank you I *might* cheat with a ham stock cube in the first instance, as I haven't time to boil up a hock etc, but will do it the proper way soon cos it sounds too good to miss out on. However, I will continue to be jet-propelled! :eek:

Was thinking butternut squash and roasted red peppers sounds like a good soup mix. Another one to try soon. I'm amazed I can eat soup at the moment without even thinking about needing some "crunch" from bread or ryvita. :A


Today is looking like this:

B: cue, peppers & houmus (3)
L: green goddess soup (the last of it, its lasted well but only because I prefer the dyno rod one and have made two batches of that in the same time frame )
is undecided. I might just be lazy and have something from the store cuboards - rice and veggies probably. I have a tin of refried beans calling me, but I think the consequences would just be too much for my poor new girl who is starting work tonight :rotfl:

Snacks will be in the evening with a wheat-free hifi type bar (I am going to try cheating and have this as a healthy and fruit at work.

The weekend is looming, and can be a challenge for me since I work and because of wheat free-ness I am struggling for grab and go type food. I am planning on dividing up some nuts etc into B choice portion bags to keep in the car, and need to buy some more fruit as snacks. I have a frozen tupperware of dyno rod soup which I was hoping to keep as an "oh I forgot about that" but may have to come out to play for lunch or dinner saturday or sunday.

Any suggestions that don't involve wheat of things I can buy today to help me through a hectic weekend? I can reheat things if that helps, and will probably be EE.

Skintslimmer

lisa26 wrote: »

We're going out for a posh meal tonight.

I must have been staring at the screen too long and thinking about dyno rod stuff too much. I read that as I went out for a pooh tonight

gunsandbanjos

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