A slimmer Christmas is a-coming with Slimming World

alisont

I know my friend does not like Frylite so uses some syn free stock to saute onions etc in, think she uses vecon? She has lost 16lb.

I find I do use some convienience meals - but only a few, If tired and in a rush from work I go for pasta or a jacket potato, otherwise I cook. Tend to cook a lot on a Sunday and freeze portions. Or use the slow cooker.

I dont use the artificial sweetners either - have got agarve nectar I use and just add a couple of syns. Do have the odd diet coke but am working on cutting that out.

I'm vegan and find SW fits in well with my lifestyle, easy to adapt to vegan foods:)

radiohelen

Oooh I didn't mean to diss the plan. It's just the class I went to back in the day was all about free foods (and I don't mean apples) and how to get them into your meals. I remember sitting through a demonstration of the most vile looking sausages - morrisons I think were free... she made them into sausage rolls with bread and egg and then everyone fell on them like they were manna from heaven.. There was lots of emphasis on pasta n sauce! I guess it was just the consultant.
I cook a lot from scratch, (I even try and make my own bread if I can) and try and keep it "real". It just takes a bit of adjusting to. Frylight EVOO has emulsifier, alcohol and vitamin E added. It's not bad.. it's just not natural.
I've already had a good look at some recipes and I'm making my shopping list for t'big shop later

nickynoo08

Hey,

I'm wanting to make some dyno rod soup today but i havent got all the ingredients. I've got - baked beans, onions, carrots, red split lentils, chopped toms, stock and peppers. Will that be ok or do i NEED all the ingredients listed?

Vixie_Pixie

G'Morning people!!!

Does any of you lovely people have any ideas for the syns for TGI fridays?? A big group of us are going there for my friend's birthday. I will be using flexi syns but want a rough upper limit to stick to.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

I am not going to have any syns today up until the meal but of course not only will there be food there will be at least 1 cocktail!!

Mags_cat

Home now - thank goodness for weekends...:D

Yesterday was...interesting, food-wise. I was at the hotel for the meeting in Cardiff until 1400 so I had :

Bran Flakes HEB
Berries
Yoghurt - the sourest natural yog I've ever had! Come back my vanilla MLs, all is forgiven! probably some syns - don't know what %ge fat it was
Kipper fillets

The buffet lunch was not SW friendly - the sandwiches weren't wholemeal and they were swimming in mayo, so I had a couple of salmon goujons (6 syns?) and lots of fruit.

On the way home I had more fruit.

I was desperate for chips when I got home (after waiting an HOUR for a bus!) but I managed to not get off at the chip shop but made it home and had SW chips, beans and HP sauce 2 syns. Nomnomnom. Supper was a couple of cheese triangles.

So I think that sort of made it a Green Day (Milk and cheese triangles as HEAs, kippers and salmon as HEBs).

Back in proper control today - need to go shopping for food so I will make a meal plan for next week. I already have a chilli in the SC so may have some of that for dinner tonight.

Today : EE

Bran Flakes Part HEB
Berries
ML
Ryvita rest of HEB + 2 cheese triangles part HEA
Milk in tea rest of HEA

Pasta and sauce (Asda's version - are these the same syns as the branded ones?) 0.5 syns
Two big spoons of HM chilli mixed in - not quite 1/3rd superfree overall, but I had an apple and a banana as snacks mid-morning, so hoping that makes up for it...?

gunsandbanjos

Vixie_Pixie wrote: »

Does any of you lovely people have any ideas for the syns for TGI fridays?? A big group of us are going there for my friend's birthday. I will be using flexi syns but want a rough upper limit to stick to.

I work for TGIs, i would set your upper limit quite high! There is a menu online, have a nosy and see what you want and i'll let you know if it is good/bad. They can do a steak with veg/salad or chicken with veg/salad.

vicki+1

i was tghinking of having a chinese take away tonight .
i have looked on syns online on a green day egg fried rice is 4 syns for 300g and a chicken chowmein is 7 syns for 380g (they say this is an average portion), does anyone know how big that average portion is ? is it a normal chinese container full, or 1/2 a container ? any thoughts greatfully recieved

TakeItEazy

I have a dilema, I love this forum but my new anti virus software keeps finding cookies that collects personal data from this site. The software is set to run a scan every hour, I have tried different things and the 2 sites that throw up are facebook [no suprise there] and this forum. I don't even have to be logged in, just visiting the site and I have a virus. I don't know what to do, as I really need the support from you lovely people or I'll be back to square one . Hubby says if I insist on staying then I shouldn't winge but I'm too scared to buy offline now incase my card gets hacked like my bank account did.

What to do? What to do?

pastatwists

Hi don't know if anyone can help me but I am following the sw diet and it is going quite well I weigh less than I did when I started anyway to cut a long story short my 16 year old son could do with losing a bit of weight but doesn't want to go to class for undstandle reasons, if he was following extra easy does anyone know if he would get extra healthy options. Would love someone to advise.:j

vicki+1

pastatwists wrote: »

Hi don't know if anyone can help me but I am following the sw diet and it is going quite well I weigh less than I did when I started anyway to cut a long story short my 16 year old son could do with losing a bit of weight but doesn't want to go to class for undstandle reasons, if he was following extra easy does anyone know if he would get extra healthy options. Would love someone to advise.:j

are you going to class? if you are there is a bit on the website about food optimising for children. I think they are allowed unlimited healthy extras, but need to limit there consumption of cheese, and one of the other healthy extras (but i can't remember what is was)