**Happy New Slimming World Year**

Magnolia

Flat_Eric wrote: »

Breakfast - Alpen Light bar (HEX?) - very poor I know but just not in the zone yet nor had I got me head round it fully.

yes 2 alpen lights are a HEB - Brilliant - I got that right \0/

Why not follow this with some chopped fruit and a mullerlight yogurt or a couple of grapefruit perhaps ? I typically have a hi fi bar for brekkie as I am not a fan of breakfast but a hi fi bar isn't enough for me and if I go to work without my fruit then I find myself falling off the wagon with a visit to the newsagent for something naughty... Planning to have scrambled eggs with mushrooms for breakkie

Lunch - Swede topped cottage pie (lean mince with carrot, onion, peas and swede) 9 syns per portion

how has this worked out at 9 syns a portion ? is it because you are not using extra lean mince ? This is not a recipe I would cook but I am sure there must be a synfree version somewhere ? It is because I am doing a green day - seemed to be dictated by DH's food choice (He wanted jacket potato for dinner). Still got 2 portions left for tomorrow so that will make it a red day

ETA or is it because you are having a green day today ?

Dinner - Jacket potato with baked beans - free

mmmmmmmmm

why not add some salad ? I am putting some salad with it - just forgot to list it. I will have to get into the mode of listing everything!

Snacks will be fruit including grapes and a banana.

try to include fruit that has the little "s" and "ss" symbols against them. These food items are lower in energy density than your grapes / bananas - so fine to eat your grapes and bananas - variety is the key but include the "s" and "ss" items also and you will have to eat less to feel just as full. page 7 in my sw book explains it better ! scrambles for SW book!

If I add cheese to the jacket potato then I could count that as a HEa and still syn free?
If following a green day then you can have two healthy A options which means one can be used for your milk and one to have some cheese on your spud.

and 2 ryvitas with laughing cow light small triangles as
HEb?
You can have two alpen lights for a HEB option or syn per bar at 3 syns so depending on whether you syn the bar you ate at breakfast or enjoy another one today (making it one of your HEB) then you enjoy some ryvita as your other HEB option Gotcha - I think - no more bars but can have a couple of crispbreads

With your laughing cows - you would need to syn this if you have cheese on your spud Cancel cheese on spud and used your other A option for milk or have it as your A option if you don't drink milk. bummer - forgot milk

So just how many syns/HEa's/HEb's? and just how many of the little mad cows (light) can I have

Thanks for your help - 1st day here and nearly banging my head on the keyboard!

*Note to self* watch for the symbols at the side of each fruit!

blackberry-rum

thanks Wootball. I thought I'd tried them all.

Sarymclary: speaking of SW quiche, I made one today using a suggestion from further back in the thread. I took some small "new" potatoes and (depending on individual size) either knifed them or halved them, then quickly cooked them in the microwave. Actually I cooked them in the dish I was planning to use for the quiche. The liquid had just about gone when they were cooked so I then sprinkled a sachet of ButterBuds over and very roughly mashed the potatoes then flattened them to the dish as a base. If you wanted, you could press them up the sides too but it's not necessary.

Then I added the filling (in my case as I remember it was pre-cooked sliced onions, mushrooms, chopped courgettes and some flavouring, then two beaten eggs and and cheese on top. I used Mozarella cos there's more allowed per syn! Then cook.

It was yummy, I had to stop myself eating the whole thing whilst it was still warm from the oven, and would be about 2 syns per quarter. It would do for breakfast, lunch, tea or supper! I think I preferred it to sliced potato as a base; I certainly preferred it to floppy limp pastry as a base

System

samuela66 wrote: »

Do you mean regular or fun size???

Fun size! :eek:

Skintslimmer

sarymclary wrote: »

Skintslimmer - the only way to get into the zone is to put yourself there I find. It is tough when you're got other stuff going on, so I totally sympathise, but then I guess that's life, and a big reason why I decided SW was going to be the support I needed for times like that. The older you get, the more of life's 'stuff' seems to get in the way, so I need to get this eating/life thing balanced out and sorted I reckon, coz I'm sure not getting any younger!

I agree totally - hence why I'm trying not to lose sight of the waggon by posting on here, even if i'm not sitting comfortably

I have done too many sets of revision in my time - GCSEs, A levels, 6 sets of exams for my 1st degree, CIM, 2nd degree... (having sworn after my 1st degree I wouldn't touch another exam paper!) Its quite an engrained habit which I haven't really worried about kicking because I'm not intending to do exams all of my life (even if it might look & feel like it at the moment!). I completely take responsibility for my own eating habits (unlike the dude recently shown on chanel 4 who got to 70 stone, had £1m of NHS support and is now reportedly sueing them because they didn't support him enough :mad: ) ... I'm just finding this habit hard to kick

Lil_Me_2

I'm currently in paddington station and I was starving I was very good though and I got myself a bowl of rice from Yo sushi. Cheap and I hope syn free. I can't think why it wouldn't be.

jazzyjustlaw

I am sure there is a SW recipe somewhere - anyone please let me know where I can find it please.

Thanks

shala_moo

Skintslimmer wrote: »

I completely take responsibility for my own eating habits (unlike the dude recently shown on chanel 4 who got to 70 stone, had £1m of NHS support and is now reportedly sueing them because they didn't support him enough :mad: ) ... I'm just finding this habit hard to kick

I watched this today and i don't know why but I just could not find any sympathy with this chap. I understand that people have addictions to food (i'm definitely one of those people) but he just seemed to have a real "poor me, everyone's done this to me" attitude about it. I hope he received some counselling as well as the operation to help him through it and help him move on from the bitterness he obviously feels.

I am weighing in tomorrow and as i've had a couple of off plan days i'm not expecting a great loss but hopefully any loss will be nice for my first week.:o

MrsM - just had your Chinese pork..mmmmm lovely - i have some to take to work tomorrow for my lunch and then i'll have to have another stir fry for tea as I bought too many veggies! Never thought that would be a sentence i'd utter!!:rotfl:

Well done to everyone for their losses...:T

fitorbust

Hi everyone - am really enjoying everyones take on EE etc. Very enlightening!
I made a SW quiche old style today but used onion and chive VLF cottage cheese and it was yummy!
I dry fried some shallotts, mixed 4 eggs, tub of above and 1/2 tub of quark together, added the onions and chopped ham, sprinkled the top with parmesan cheese and baked in a high oven for 25 minutes. Yum! The extra flavour from the cottage cheese really helps. We have been quite restrained and only eaten a quarter of it between us!
I also made a tuna pasta salad, and added about a 1/3 of the volume in grated carrot, dressed it with balsamic vinegar and a slosh of EVolive oil - yum again. I'm classing at as one syn per portion as the slosh was quite small and the salad is big (about 6 servings).
Also made a bena and veg soup (nearly dynorod but no baked beans as they make it too sweet for me), so all set for next week!
Have agreat week everyone, and big thumbs up to all those who have lost in this first week!
x

shala_moo

jazzyjustlaw wrote: »

I am sure there is a SW recipe somewhere - anyone please let me know where I can find it please.

Thanks

Is it this one for canneloni - i have used this before - it's lovely.

http://www.slimmingworld.com/recipes/baked-cannelloni.aspx

fitorbust

jazzyjustlaw wrote: »

I am sure there is a SW recipe somewhere - anyone please let me know where I can find it please.

Thanks

Found this - it's a cannelloni recipe!
"Its very simple, mash up your ricotta with garlic puree and lots of nutmeg and black pepper and a little salt and stir in fairly finely chopped washed spinach. Stuff this into dry canneloni tubes and layer them in an oblong pyrex baking dish. Cover with a generous layer of my HM pasta sauce and bake on gas 5 for an hour and a bit (how accurate is that!)

This was originally written as a Slimming World recipe so it holds back on all the rich gubbins so you could grate some cheese onto the top or use a bechamel but I tend not too as its too heavy for me "

Hope this helps.
x

Snap! - just read the post above!