A Slimmer Summer with Slimming World

TakeItEazy

Well done losers & mrsM we are soooo proud of you :A

Had lots of superfrees today including apple with weetabix then salad, beetroot, toms, cue etc with lunch [not mentioning the flatbread, pork pie, quiche, coleslaw & potato salad ]. I think with the chicken, new pots & beans it all balances out portion wise [well thats what I'm telling myself ]. Just had 2 chopped apples with yog so over the day plenty of superfrees.

Been very sleepy today but not actually had a decent sleep just dozed on and off. Feel worse for it, looking forward to my bed tonight. IBS has been playing up today too, my tummy has felt on fire all afternoon . Hope it settles before bed.

Good luck all x

scotrae

One word ... Oops! My syns started to snowball as the day went on. So much for me being very well behaved and not touching the curry and all the trimmings at a party last night! I think in my mind I sometimes 'take the weekend off' then stick to SW much better Monday until weigh in on Thursday lunchtime. It's a dodgy strategy though (two steps forward, one step back) and with another day at home before a manic week with long working days I need to get a grip!

So - superfrees, as TakeitEasy mentions above, and some blinking exercise wouldn't go amiss either if I'm going to be 'in the 12s' when I weigh in this week. (Oh and I can't get to a weigh-in that day because I'm working 9-9. So I don't want to let myself think I can stuff my face and make up for it the following week before I next have my official WI.)

OK - green day Monday, to get me back on track.
Here's to a great week everyone!

Scotrae x

findingmyownway

EE day for me today:

Raspberries, blueberries with ff yog
WM toast and marmite (HEb plus 1 syn)
Tuna salad sandwich, homemade but in granary roll (5 syns for bread?)
Fruit
Stir fry with noodles, carrot, mushrooms, sugar snap peas
HEa was milk in teas

maman

h007 wrote: »

thanks

if i freeze bits of it are there rules on defrosting/cooking it again without poisoning myself?

and how long will it be ok in the fridge for?

sorry i havent been living on my own for long and the rest of my family are vegetarian

You can reheat cooked chicken once so if you make a curry/pasta sauce and throw it in (defrosted) to heat through that's fine. For sandwiches/salads then just defrost (put it in the fridge the night before you want it) and it'll be fine. It should be perfectly OK in the fridge until Tuesday.

rachelww1

Well yestersay I ended up in the pub but was DH's fault . He dropped me off in the village and I took the dog on a long walk to one of the highest points on the south downs. I'd forgotton my phone so he gave me his so I could ring him for a lift when I got back down to the bottom of the hill. 4 miles later I reached the top (and I was knackered) so I sat down and rang him to pick me up (as it was another 3 miles back home from there). So the phone rings 3 times, then ran out of battery :mad: By the time I reached the village I was pooped, so I went to the pub to use someone elses phone, and it would have been rude not to have a couple of pints (Oh yes, then later in the evening we went to a mate to watch the footie and had more beers )

Anyway, I reckon that was my body magic for the week :rotfl:and I can hardly walk today.

Food wise today I've been quite good to make up for it, but I've got the munchies now.

B: Banana
L: roast gammon, sw roast potatoes & parsnips, carrots, green beans, cabage, gravy (1), skinny cow lolly (3.5)
S: satsuma
bacon, halloumi (4), lettuce, red onion, cucumber, tomatoes, ff vinagrette, hi-fi bar (HEB)
S: sw vegetable samosas (1.5), gammon, cucumber tomatoes

HEA milk in teas

The samosas are meant to be for tomorrow nights curry, but I've just finished making them and I couldn't resist

h007

maman wrote: »

You can reheat cooked chicken once so if you make a curry/pasta sauce and throw it in (defrosted) to heat through that's fine. For sandwiches/salads then just defrost (put it in the fridge the night before you want it) and it'll be fine. It should be perfectly OK in the fridge until Tuesday.

thank you maman
- i really should buy some basic cook books, the ones i have do nice recipies but i need one that tells me basic cooking skills i guess.

chicken is in the fridge now and i will portion and put it into the freezer tomorrow

scotrae

Dilemma. Dare I bake some cakes today? Maybe I could muster the willpower to send them to m-i-l and DH's work tomorrow without eating more than one myself today. I already feel as though I've got a couple of extra pounds on me since Thursday's weigh in but my menfolk would love some home-baking and we haven't done much else that's fun this weekend. (I know there's a couscous cake but that's really not going to cut the mustard for my boys so I'm not planning to make that.)

At least we've got cinema tickets booked for this afternoon so I'll be out of the house for three hours without eating!

I've never committed to a meal planner on SW but perhaps it will help my Bank Holiday munchies if I do. Hopefully my food today will look something like this:
beans on toast (HEB);
mixed salads and couscous;
pasta or baked potato with a syn free veg bolognese/chilli/curry and cheddar or feta (HE)

milk in hot drinks as HEA, using any leftover for a latte this evening.

plus lots of fruit and a homebaked cake ... or two.

Have a good day everyone, whatever you're doing. x

flutterbyuk25

Doh I forgot to do my at home WI this morning before I ate breakfast :rotfl: silly bank holiday messing with my brain. I'll just have to do it tomorrow morning instead.

x

blackberry-rum

h007 wrote: »

yummy just done my very 1st roast chicken!!
ate one of the breasts - now who has ideas for what to do with the rest!!!!

woohoo, a chicken lasts me (and the cats) most of the week:

• roast dinner (you've had that)

• chop some of it and add to a bowl of salad

• don't waste the wings tho they are nicest eaten first, straight from the oven, just suck the meat from the little bones yum yum

• lunch for work for 4 days using legs, thighs, breast (I don't like breast much, the cats get that chopped up ), either chopped and tossed in with vegetables over pasta/couscous, or with potatoes and vegetables.

Obviously you have torn off the skin and given it to cats/birds/dogs/offspring?
On the last day I strip off all the remaining meat and shred it, then break down the carcase and put it into a big bowl with some herbs, a bit of onion, some water or the defatted gel left over from the roast, and simmer it down into a nice stock.

You can then use the stock as stock if you like, but imo the best way is to use it to make chinese soup with the shredded chicken, chopped chillies, sliced garlic, lemongrass, spring onions, perhaps chopped baby sweetcorn, some peas, some small bits of broccoli - whatever you like that seems to go with it. That way you are getting loads of superfree (not the peas). I put some noodles in as well and it makes the biggest most delicious dinner of the week Mmmmm I'm already looking forward to friday supper.

Raining here, off out as I have a pair of trousers to exchange that I bought without trying on. I am at that irritating size-stage between 10 and 12. In this case the 10s are tight around the camel-hoof area but stick out a mile around my waist, grrr. The last pair I bought from there (Next) the 10 fitted like a dream.

Can I say at this point that one fact of life is: WHATEVER SIZE YOU ARE, ALL THE SALE CLOTHES IN THAT SIZE HAVE BEEN SNAPPED UP.

I don't usually post my meals here, mostly cos I am too idle and partly because I was at target for so long that it seemed useless, but I will mention that I've just had a luvverly breakfast of defrosted raspberries, half a mango, rhubarb muller light and half a HEB of all bran. I do love the mix of yog, fruit and cereal, can't believe I spent years just putting milk onto cereal.

Righty, kitchen man is here (yup that's right, still not finished; tho in all fairness he is also doing the bathroom and two halls and it is going to look fantastic when done) so I am off when I've read the intervening posts.

P x

blackberry-rum

adding to 007s other queries, I look back to my mum keeping food in the pantry (pre-fridge days) for a good few days and I really don't worry too much about keeping cooked meat in the fridge for 5 days or more; freeze if in doubt. You are young and, I assume, healthy. When heating just make sure it is properly heated rather than just warmed, it is the warming that resuscitates the harmful bacteria, as I understand it. I also understand there's more danger from improperly reheated rice than meat so keep things in proportion.

Is anyone locally offering cookery lessons, 007? They were saying on the radio yesterday that healthy organic fresh food was all very well but also all very upper-middle ... as lots of people are not taught how to cook these days. Might be worth googling, or perhaps even asking at a local college if they do an evening or weekend class in the basics - hmmmm I'm thinking there's a moneymaking opportunity here, I don't mind spending a weekend teaching people how to make basics. I could never get batter to stick to fish but since that's not SW friendly that wouldn't matter! ) Enjoy your chicken x