**Happy New Slimming World Year**

consultant31

giggalon wrote: »

Evening!
Hope everyone is having a fab Sunday!

Does anyone know about these fake 'ferrero rochers' that you can make in SW? something like Nutella balls rolled in mashed up scanbran? I was wondering if anyone has tried them and how many syns each one has providing they are roughly the same size as ferrero rocher?
My sweet tooth has been demanding again this weekend and i want to try and find some low syn alternatives!

Here's the recipe although I don't like them - but then I don't like the real thing either. I'm told by those that do, that they're nice

Ferrero Rocher
8 Scan Bran (available from SW classes and Holland and Barrett)
4 level tbsp nutella
1 level tbsp syrup
1 tbsp water

Crumble Scan Bran into a bowl. Add nutella, syrup and water and mix. Divide into little petit four cases and leave to set in fridge.

Makes 30 at a total of 22 syns

maman

blackberry-rum wrote: »

I've never found a feedback place, you could write to the magazine I suppose? Or email the mag. I have no faith in their recipes, they always seem like a hell of a faff for what you end up with. I prefer to tweak my own recipes (from my shelves full of "regular" cookbooks! )

consultant31 wrote: »

Maman, why not write to the magazine and tell then about the recipe you tried? It could be that it was a printing error, but if the recipe doesn't work, I'm sure they'd want to know.

I did email the magazine today. I had to use the editorial address for the letters page:eek: that's all I could find. There is just no way that almost a 1lb of veg was going to cook down into 100g of yogurt and the juice of a lemon!:rotfl:

I tried the dauphinoise potatoes recipe today using quark. I tweaked it considerably, basically using my own recipe but substituting quark for the cheese & creme fraiche I would normally use. It was quite acceptable but next time I would add HEs of mature cheddar to give it a more cheesy taste.

Taliahmai wrote: »

I myself want to lose about 3.9 stone (im 5ft 3 and weigh 13st 9lbs) and my 8 year old son weighs 8st 9lb so i want him to stop gaining anymore weight. I have wrote down loads of recipes and cant wait to get started properly...i especially love the butter chicken one above as its my fave meal!!

oooh im all excited lol

Welcome. Your post rang a bell as that's exactly the weight I was when I started in October. I'm now over 2 stone lighter.:) Good luck to you and your little boy (soon to be even littler).

Magnolia

consultant31 wrote: »

Magnolia isn't it great to be free of that low-carb routine?

Yes and no - we had gammon for tea tonight and I had to cut all that lovely, crispy rind and fat off it - It took me a long while to come to terms with 'guilt free fat' eating and in the beginning it worked very well for me and I lost 9 stones. Slowly over the years - 10 to be exact - I learned all the tricks of food abuse and also the delights of cakes made with ground almonds! and a good portion of the fat has crept back on. Having developed acute osteoarthritis 18 months ago and my mobility greatly restricted even more has crept back on.

Sliming World was a time for a change but I am still very wary of abuse of syns and am very strict with myself so as not to fall into the same trap again.

Low carbs does work when you use it properly

cande

blackberry-rum wrote: »

I make the quiche a lot but I don't use either quark or cottage cheese (yuk) or anything else white and tasteless frankly, just loads of prefried onions, mushrooms, cheese, eggs, flavouring ... I prefer to eat other vegetables separately so I don't get tired of the same thing. I do a potato base but I can't say I've noticed if it discolours, I just nosh it! It won't hurt anyone anyway. Don't use anything you don't want to use, only cheese, onion and egg are vital in a traditional quiche as far as I know.

consultant31 wrote: »

I'm with Blackberry in as much as I don't see the point of eating anything you don't like. The quiche works just as well without cottage cheese so if you don't like it, leave it out of the recipe

My own favourite quiche recipes are these:-

Syn free onion & leek quiche : Chop 1 large onion and 2 leeks and saut! in Frylight till soft and golden. Put them into a flan dish. Whisk 3 large eggs and season to taste. Pour over the onion & leeks and put in the oven till set (again about 30-40 minutes on gas 6).


Syn free potato & onion quiche: Slice cooked new potatoes and red onion in the bottom of a dish. Whisk 3 eggs and pour over the potato & onion. Season with black pepper and cook for about 30 minutes or until set.

The thing is, quiches are so forgiving that you can chuck just about anything in and as long as you use enough eggs, it will set. Just put in your favourite combination of goodies

pollysg wrote: »

Hi Emma, I use cottage cheese, (the plain one) and the lumps do go. I found my potato tended to go greyish, even when I precooked it, but it tasted fine. I usually reheat it the next day, it's good with baked beans.

Evening all,

Just wanted to say a huge thank you to everybody that replied about the quiche.
It's not that I don't like cottage cheese as such, I love the pineapple one and could eat it till the cows came home, but it has points in it, so I tried the plain one and added my own pineapple and it just wasn't the same.
The reason that I was asking about the lumps is that I didn't really fancy the idea of a lumpy quiche, not so much for me (I'll eat pretty much anything!) but because I wanted to do it as party food and wanted it to be as much like 'normal' quiche as poss.
I thought about doing the lemon juice thing cos I know it works for fruit but was concerned incase we had lemony quiche! I did put them in the oven for about 10-15mins first too, oh well lemony or grey it shall have to be!!:D

Once again thanks for all your help

cande

dizzyk wrote: »

the info needed to put anything through the syn calculator is:

Kcal per 100g
protein g per 100g
fat g per 100g
carb g per 100g
and the size of the pack/tin


to combat the 'lumpy' cottage cheese you could blend it 1st before adding it to the mix to get rid of the lumps.....Im sure someone else does that on here for the very same reason

Hi Dizzy,
Thank you, I think i might try it with cottage cheese and try blending it.
The info for the ham is:
kcal 150
protein 19.8g
fat 7.0g
sat fat 2.8g
carb 2.0g

pack size 500g

Many thanks for doing this, fingers crossed it will be free cos I tend to nibble on this when I'm making the lunch, but I bet it will have points in it

maman

Magnolia wrote: »

Yes and no - we had gammon for tea tonight and I had to cut all that lovely, crispy rind and fat off it - It took me a long while to come to terms with 'guilt free fat' eating

Reading this reminded me of a story from my SW group this week. One of the ladies said she finds it so hard to not eat the skin off the roast chicken. The only way she has found to handle it, is to carve the chicken with the dog's bowl to hand. So, as she cuts it off, the skin goes straight into the dog's bowl. She misses eating the crispy skin so much that she has to make sure it's a bowl that the dog has already been licking otherwise she can't trust herself not to take it back!!

susiebear_3

Hello all, congrats on all the weight losses, I wish I could lose more, I weighed myself again today, still the same, can't seem to lose anymore, and Im doing nothing different to the first 2 weeks
Food diary today:
NO breakfast as I slept in till 12 :-)
Lunch: HM veg soup, chicken butty HEB, low fat marg 0.5
Tea: Roast chicken boiled potatoes and half a cabbage!! gravy 2.5
Supper: Big bowl of strawberries with FF fromage frais
Cadbury highlights (2) and french fries (4.5)
Milk in tea HEA
Syns 9.5
Half an hour dancing on the wii too, the just dance 2 is good as you can set goals

gizmo111

Hi all, Haven't been around much since xmas, went to one class and was prety pleased with the loss but I am unable to continue as a family I work with has starte going to same class a month ago and it is just too difficult for me to be there, So now relying on my dodgy scales and clothes - my scales say I have lost another 7lb, 20 lb in total and I have dropped another size - 16 now - so all in all SW continues to work , but I so misss the WI.

Best wishes to all of you and keep up the losing xx

pollysg

Thanks for the butter chicken recipe, Tracey, I'm looking forward to trying it. :beer:

Have added it to the recipe thread.

ebayqueen_2

Hi there
never apologise to us for saying how you feel. You are v tender at the moment and I know how you feel. I am just coming out of a period like what you are describing so I am thinking and praying for you. Even the slightest little things all hammer you down and you feel guilty for not being able to cope. So you are not on your own.

Keep going and you are so fortunate to be at target. I am over 4 stone from mine.
I appreciate your posts and all the others here. I feel as I can handle this plan with the help of others on here.

Hope you are feeling a wee bit better today.


Have done really well over the weekend on my plan so I am hoping that weigh in tomorrow night shows a loss.

take care all and we will get there