Slimming World - a Christmas countdown!

fitorbust

:wave:Hi - hope everyone is doing OK. Welcome to all the new posters, I recognise a few names from other boards!

Have just made sweet potato fish cakes for dinner and they were gorgeous. I had them while I was away the other weekend and decided to try and have a go.
I used:
1 fillet of smoked haddock
2 pieces of salmon ( the size you would normally hav e per person)
2 boiled eggs
fresh dill chopped, salt and pepper
2 sweet potatoes roasted in the microwave.

I poached the fish in some milk with a bay leaf and a clove in the pan. Lifted it out, skinned the haddock and flaked the fish onto a plate to cool a bit.
Split the sweet potatoes and scoop the flesh out into a bowl, added the chopped dill and salt and pepper.
Cool the boiled eggs, chop and add to the SP mix with the fish flakes and fold together.
If you have time cool in the fridge for an hour, then shape the mix into patties, roll in some beaten egg, and then coat in breadcrumbs which I made myself out of rye bread (or couscous works really well and is extra crunchy), spray with frylight and bake in the oven for about 20 minutes or untill golden brown. Yum
I think the only syns come from the milk, but it is only a cooking medium, and the breadcrumbs - I would guess at 10 syns for the whole lot, and we will probably get 10 medium fishcakes so 1 syn each?
Really nice!
L x

charlies_mum

TakeItEazy wrote: »

The vanilla with dark choc sprinkles is free but the one with cherry layer is syned [2syns I think]

What about the orange with choc sprinkles. Please tell me they are free cos they are gorgeous

teecee46

charlies_mum wrote: »

What about the orange with choc sprinkles. Please tell me they are free cos they are gorgeous

Yes - the Mullerlight Orange Yogurt Sprinkled with Dark chocolate is free!

charlies_mum

teecee46 wrote: »

Yes - the Mullerlight Orange Yogurt Sprinkled with Dark chocolate is free!

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AnnieG

Hello
I've tried EE for the first time today:
banana and satsuma with activia snackpot yog
2 alpen light bars (HEB)
sw quiche with sweetcorn, onion and yellow pepper in it, a tomato and some plain potatoes
2 satsumas
salmon, green beans, peas, carrots and potato
banana
Will eat 3x mini babybel when my dinner's gone down! (HEA)

I know potatoes are free but are they REALLY free? Will all these carbs stop me losing weight? I can't function without carbs, it makes my blood sugar go haywire, but this just seems ridiculous.... can anyone advise??

blackberry-rum

sarymclary wrote: »

I'm taking your advice and Consultant 31's too (:wave: I feel I know you too!), and going to go along next Monday to join. I've also decided to give going to the meetings a go too. I'll find the money somehow, but I see it as investing in me, for a change. If it was a case of finding £5 for the children each week, I would.

I am also going to take along my 12 y/o son, who has gained quite a bit of weight this year, to a point where I'm now worried about it. I want him to learn to take control of his healthy eating when he's away from the home, and hope that if he feels we're 'in it together' he'll feel OK about it. At the moment any mention of weight gets him very tearful and defensive (oh how I remember that feeling at his age, having always been overweight). He has agreed to go, and even read through the SW magazine last night, saying what meals he liked the look of. He seems positively keen!

I had the opportunity to do the big food shop yesterday, which is why I wanted to get started straight away, so the fridge is stocked with fruit & veg, the freezer is full of lean meat. We've made a bowl of sugar-free jelly, and I have lots of muller lites. Are the values for the new Nom fat-free yogurts the same?

I've got to get myself better sorted at planning meals ahead, so that I know what each day will include.

Today I'm planning this:
B - porridge, muller lite & banana
L - bacon omlette with mixed salad
D - chicken, baked potato, with carrots, leeks & peas.
250ml milk for my cups of tea today
Snacks - plums, apple, banana, s/f jelly

Does that sound about right? Am I missing out a fibre?

I love reading what everyone else is eating each day, as it gives me some ideas of what to have.

For anyone who has this month's magazine, the 'inspired' story on P.28 is a friend of mine on facebook (he's more of a friend of my oldest friend), but that's my little claim to SW fame for today!:rotfl:

I am very proud of you (and your son) and I don't even know you yet :T:T:T But do beware of the NOM yogs, they are divine and delicious but they do have a syn or two, they vary according to taste and it's not many so you may think it's worth it. If you are desperate to have some before class let me know which ones and I will look up the syn value for you.

blackberry-rum

puddy wrote: »

sorry i didnt mean that i failed because of sw, i was just saying that it didnt go right for me because i didnt do it properly. i have done sw a few times, one time was about 13 years ago and was very successful, but i was younger then!

oh Puddy I really wasn't getting at you, just trying to force ... erm I mean encourage.... you to try SW again and really really concentrate on it

aliscrapper

charlies_mum wrote: »

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They are rather yummy aren't they!:D

AnnieG

Oops. Forgot to mention the 1.5 syns for milk in tea (and the cake that someone at work brought in).
I hope the cake hasn't ruined things, I think I've done well t his week!

blackberry-rum

TakeItEazy wrote: »

Bl&&dy internet, a bit of wind and it throws a wobbly so couldn't post yesterday. .....

That wasn't wind from Dizzy's efforts was it? :rotfl: cos tbh we could hear the gusts here, nearly in Wales :rotfl: