Lose Weight 9

MissMoneypenny · 26 January 2007 at 11:07PM

LouBlue wrote:

How much weight have you lost so far Miss MP? Or are you at target? Yeah, WW works for me as I am a lazy cow - they do all the hard work for you.

2 stone lost. Another 1 1/2 stone would be good, but 2 stone would be great.:D

MissMoneypenny · 26 January 2007 at 11:11PM

katiepoppycat wrote:

Ice - pizza <snip> Frozen ones are better but still tough. I wonder if those WW ones are any good - does anyone know?

I didn't like the taste of them, but then I don't like pizza.:D A friend of mine has just started WW and she said that she loves the WW pizzas.

MissMP

samcantcope · 26 January 2007 at 11:19PM

Thanks Tallgirl, for the advice, we are looking at growing our own veg, as we want our kids to understand where it all comes from.
I am just finding it hard some days cooking healthy food, only for my kids to turn there noses up at it AAAARRRRGGGGGHHHH.

MissMoneypenny · 26 January 2007 at 11:50PM

consultant31 wrote:

Tomato Topping
½ Large Tin Chopped Tomatoes
1 Small onion, chopped
Some Passata
Oregano
! Pinch of Sweetener
Salt and Pepper

When I make a pizza sauce for my son to take back to university, I add a carrot, celery stick, garlic plus tomato puree and veg stock. I use a whole tin of tomatoes. When it has cooked and reduced, I use the blender in the saucepan. My son says the sauce is a meal in itself and often eats it without the base. If can be frozen in portions, if there is any left. Sometimes I add chile to the mixture for a sauce with a bite.

On top of the sauce, you can add peppers or tuna before you put the pizza in the oven. No need for cheese then.:D

MissMoneypenny · 27 January 2007 at 12:09AM

samcantcope wrote:

Thanks Tallgirl, for the advice, we are looking at growing our own veg, as we want our kids to understand where it all comes from.
I am just finding it hard some days cooking healthy food, only for my kids to turn there noses up at it AAAARRRRGGGGGHHHH.

Your kids will thank you when they are older and are slim and healthy.:D

I always grow some veg and tomatoes too. How about getting your children to grow some sugar snap peas in a large pot (you will need some canes). They are really easy to grow and your kids might enjoy collecting and eating their harvest? Courgettes are really easy to grow also0 and you can grow yellow and green ones. You can get cress pots too, where you grow the cress as hair, then the children cut the hair and eat it. I always grow my own tomaotes as they are so easy and cheap. As a mature student, I worked for a while in a tomato greenhouse and when I saw what the men did, it put me off buying shop ones. If I do buy them, I wash them well. I grow the tiny ones, supersweet100.

You can buy packs of 'childrens seeds' from the garden centres. Nasturtiums are flowers that are easy to grow and the flower and seeds can be eaten:D I can't wait for spring:j

In the meantime, can you get your children to help you cook (get their hands into things) as mine use to eat it if they made it.

MissMP

Mice_Elf · 27 January 2007 at 1:56AM

Hey all, may I please join your crowd? Have loads to lose, but have managed 4lbs so far (in 2 weeks) so it's a step in the right direction.

Can't afford the weekly sessions so am going it alone...looking for a bit of support to keep me on the straight and healthy!

MissMoneypenny · 27 January 2007 at 2:29AM

Just saw this on the Quick Grabbit while you can forums. Fitness trampoline for £8.99 was £29.99 at Sainburys. Maximum user body weight 90kg (14 stone).
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=360585

MissMP

MissMoneypenny · 27 January 2007 at 2:34AM

Mice_Elf wrote:

Hey all, may I please join your crowd? Have loads to lose, but have managed 4lbs so far (in 2 weeks) so it's a step in the right direction.

Can't afford the weekly sessions so am going it alone...looking for a bit of support to keep me on the straight and healthy!

Welcome to the forum. You will get plenty of support here. Lois Lane runs the lose 2lb a week chart, so if you want to join some of us on that, just ask her nicely on this forum:D

Are you following a club plan or doing your own thing?

MissMP

swizzle_2 · 27 January 2007 at 9:28AM

hi

Can any one help me out?

I am new to slimming world and went shopping yesterday- wanted some quorn mince but they did not have any- so bought morrisons own `meat frre mince` will this be free on a green day?

thanks

katiepoppycat · 27 January 2007 at 11:08AM

lo all, lots of post today. I'm going to Bolton Castle later to enjoy the sunshine. ANyone else doing anything nice this weekend? Petrichor, you made me laugh. I went to a wedding this summer and some of them DID look like deeley boppers. Tastefully understated(like consultants) is probably the best way to go. I think my boss just didn't even think about the slimming thing - we're both real 'foodies' so she saw a big glossy book with lovely foodie stuff in it and got it. Consultant I may try the SW pizza again - i made it once but clearly used far too much water. it took forever to cook in the oven and then the outside crisped slightly whilst the inside stayed gooey. It ended up being a big potatoey tomatoey mush but it was actually very tasty if a little messy. Pixxy-Suu - LL is right about the SW roasties they are really nice. I like to rough them up with a little ground semolina which is 2.5 synsfor 28g I think. You don't need that much! It helps them really crisp up. I'm not sure how this works for you but me and OH have separate finances more or less so I tell him that if he doesn't like what I cook he is perfectly entitled to spend HIS money on getting something else. Sounds like honeygem is making a good start. Keep going with the water - the going to loo all the time is a right pain but my skin is sooooo much better for it. And finally I looked onthe syns online Swizzle and I'm afraid they list the Morrisons frozen vegetarian mince as 5.5 syns for 100g red and green.