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aliscrapper

Skintslimmer wrote: »

Just quoting myself here 'cos I could do with an answer - is it just my star week coinciding with a mahousive chocolate craving, (i.e. an excuse) or do people find their diet goes a bit pear shaped on star weeks?

I have been a tad naughty all week - can't seem to rein myself in from having stupid syns I don't even enjoy :mad: e.g. last night I was house sitting and on the one hand I polished my halo for eating baked beans mixed with spaghetti hoops, (a childhood favourite and just about the only syn free food in this particular house ) on the other I finished the evening with two slices of toast and butter, one with jam on :mad: So I don't expect to be able to get away with it again this week. *sigh*

Don't give yourself a hard time - I find star week makes me permanently hungry.:( and I will eat every bit of chocolate in sight. On the chocolate front I try and eat things like the chocolate and orange Hi Fi's or the Kelloggs Fibre Plus as my b choices in addition to using all my syns for chocolate!:rotfl::rotfl:

aliscrapper

lightisfading wrote: »

I wondered that too, as our local chinese uses quorn. Anybody know how to work it out?

Been craving mexican food but can't 'afford' the astronomical amount of points tortilla wraps cost (i tend to save them for chocolate!) - so I made a lasagne with layers of spicy mexican quorn (chicken) mix (with a bit of FF greek yog stirred in) and pasta, topped with salsa (2 syns) and 56g of proper cheddar (2x A choice) - it was yummy!

I was thinking that quorn being free on all days; if you had it with boiled rice; then it would be only the sauce you needed to syn??

Are those the new spicy quorn chunks you were using and are they syn free?? Also is that a home-made salsa?? thanks.:beer: Sounds like a very yummy lasagne.

Inazuma

blackberry-rum wrote: »

Glad you got 'em back - I'm always a nervous wreck if I park near a drain on a road, I just know that SOMETIME my keys are going to jump out of my hand and down the drain. I shall be calling on your hubby when it happens

Right, due to a complete lack of inspiration what to make for this week's meals, I decided to have a go at Dynorod soup. Obviously, with there only being me, I didnt add everything that's recommended, but the ingredients I used are: garlic, onion (these two fried in a splash of mushroom ketchup to begin); tin of tomatoes, a quarter of a swede, a quarter of a butternut squash, 2 vegetable oxo cubes (these ingredients all cooked until tender-ish); a red pepper, a courgette (these two added to previous and cooked until tender). Then I blitzed all this lot along with the contents of a (yuck) tin of carrots. I then added a drained tin of green lentils and a drained tin of kidney beans.

I set out a small bowlful for me and heated it. Very dreary and I didn't like the lumps of lentil and beans. So I blitzed it all again, and added a handful of small pickled onions (as with p.o. soup, which I do enjoy). To be honest, it's not much better. And I have my BIGGEST BOWL full to the brim of the stuff :eek:. Dammit I think I'm gonna have to take it along to class on Tuesday and let everyone have a share; it's not doing it for me and even if it has the reputed bottom-area result I can't eat meals that don't taste good, it's a waste of a mealtime. Sorry, I sound like a moaner now, but it is DREARY

Blackberry, I think you need a tin of baked beans to give it the Heinz flavour.

Inazuma

aliscrapper wrote: »

How much does the bar weigh in grams??:)

Sorry Ali, it's 60g.

blackberry-rum

Inazuma wrote: »

Blackberry, I think you need a tin of baked beans to give it the Heinz flavour.

Hmm maybe .... but as I haven't eaten tinned soup since I have been cooking for myself (40+ years!) I wouldn't know what Heinz soup tastes like - it's just that my usual home made soups actually HAVE a taste and this one is just a thick liquid

I do use baked beans when I make the pickled onion soup - that has fewer ingredients and tastes like a nice tomato-y soup.

Skintslimmer

i think we're going to need the recipe for the pickled onion soup - sounds intrieguing!

aliscrapper

Inazuma wrote: »

Sorry Ali, it's 60g.

11 syns on all plans!:eek:

lightisfading

aliscrapper wrote: »

I was thinking that quorn being free on all days; if you had it with boiled rice; then it would be only the sauce you needed to syn??

Are those the new spicy quorn chunks you were using and are they syn free?? Also is that a home-made salsa?? thanks.:beer: Sounds like a very yummy lasagne.

God no, i very rarely buy the pre-seasoned quorn as it's SO expensive.

I fried off some onions (in frylight) and added quorn pieces, stirred in lots of mexican seasoning herb mix (i have a pre-mixed blend but it's stuff like chilli, cumin, oregano, garlic), then a can of tomatoes. Simmer down til it thickens. Take off the heat and allow to cool slightly before stirring in a couple of tablespoons of FF yoghurt/fromage frais. Oh, i put some defrosted frozen corn in as well - you could add peppers etc if you fancied too.

Meanwhile cook lasagne sheets (I used 8, in a dish that serves 2-3) in boiling water til just soft - i then drain but keep them in cold water as it helps stop them sticking together.

Layer the dish lasangne - quorn - lasagne - quorn, finishing with lasagne. Top with salsa (you could use homemade to make it free, I just used the stuff out of a jar for 1/2 syn per tablespoon). Top with cheese - I'm on green so had 56g grated cheddar per portion (2xA's). Bake in the oven at 200*c ish til the cheese is all brown and bubbling :drool:

I wouldn't have it with rice as the lasagne gives you carbs already (and i eat way too many carbs and not enough veggies!). I served with sweet potato chunks (nuked to soften, then crisped up in a pan with some cajun style seasoning), grilled mushrooms, broccoli and carrots.

aliscrapper

lightisfading wrote: »

God no, i very rarely buy the pre-seasoned quorn as it's SO expensive.

I fried off some onions (in frylight) and added quorn pieces, stirred in lots of mexican seasoning herb mix (i have a pre-mixed blend but it's stuff like chilli, cumin, oregano, garlic), then a can of tomatoes. Simmer down til it thickens. Take off the heat and allow to cool slightly before stirring in a couple of tablespoons of FF yoghurt/fromage frais. Oh, i put some defrosted frozen corn in as well - you could add peppers etc if you fancied too.

Meanwhile cook lasagne sheets (I used 8, in a dish that serves 2-3) in boiling water til just soft - i then drain but keep them in cold water as it helps stop them sticking together.

Layer the dish lasangne - quorn - lasagne - quorn, finishing with lasagne. Top with salsa (you could use homemade to make it free, I just used the stuff out of a jar for 1/2 syn per tablespoon). Top with cheese - I'm on green so had 56g grated cheddar per portion (2xA's). Bake in the oven at 200*c ish til the cheese is all brown and bubbling :drool:

I wouldn't have it with rice as the lasagne gives you carbs already (and i eat way too many carbs and not enough veggies!). I served with sweet potato chunks (nuked to soften, then crisped up in a pan with some cajun style seasoning), grilled mushrooms, broccoli and carrots.

That sounds amazing! Thank you!:beer:

lightisfading

aliscrapper wrote: »

Don't give yourself a hard time - I find star week makes me permanently hungry.:( and I will eat every bit of chocolate in sight.

Me too. Dreading my first PMT session on SW, my office is FULL of chocolate