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findingmyownway

I just read this on the SW website and it made me smile knowlingly, so I thought I would share it for all those people who don't have access to the website...


This is the story of Mrs. Ivy Been-So-Good

Ivy was really disappointed this week having maintained after ‘such a good week’. She couldn’t understand - her food diary was perfect! 10 Syns per day… maximum! Take a closer look at a typical Extra Easy day...

Ivy has her normal breakfast of branflakes, milk and a banana. She tips them into the bowl, and then thinks. ‘I’d better just check the weight of them - I want to get a few pounds off this week!’ She puts them on the scales to find they weigh 1½oz. ‘That’s my Healthy Extra ‘b’ choice,’ she thinks, taking out the excess and unconsciously popping them in her mouth.

As she puts the milk away she spots an open carton of orange juice and decides to have a small glass whilst making a boiled egg for her daughter’s breakfast. When clearing up the dishes, Ivy spies two left over soldiers. ‘I can’t remember the last time I had REAL butter!’ she thinks, and into her mouth they go!

After breakfast it’s a trip into town shopping. Armed with a Hi-fi bar, just in case temptation strikes, she sets off.

In WHSmiths, her daughter gets restless in the buggy and Ivy opens her a packet of crisps to keep her quiet. And she ends up testing a couple herself – just for freshness!

Lunchtime comes and the shopping trip is not done yet - there’s still money left on Ivy’s credit card! And as she knows she’ll be a while she decides to grab something from Marks & Spencer’s healthy Count On Us range as ‘it’s bound to be low on Syns!’

Spoilt for choice, Ivy scans the range. She spots a salmon and cucumber sandwich. ‘That’s a great choice… the bread will be my Healthy Extra ‘b’ choice!’ she thinks. She buys it as a meal deal, along with a diet coke and a packet of salt and vinegar crisps - to eat later.

Later on, Starbucks beckons and Ivy stops for a coffee. ‘No cake for me though!’ she say, savouring the skinny latte she’s treated herself to. ('Well, I didn't have much milk on my cereal this morning', she thinks. 'This can be the rest of my Healthy Extra 'a' choice.'). As she takes the weight off her feet she congratulates herself for not needing the ‘emergency Hi-fi’ while out today.

Back at home after shopping, she makes cakes with her daughter. She resists the fairy cakes when they come out of the oven… but CAN’T resist licking the wooden spoon!

She feeds her daughter early – a chicken nugget and two chips remain on the plate – and they don’t go in the bin!

Dinnertime comes – a nice juicy steak, fresh salad and a filling jacket potato topped with quark. A tablespoon of Hellmann’s Light Mayo goes on the salad – ‘only 2½ Syns’! She says, ‘my first today!’

Her hubby prefers mashed potato with his. She wouldn’t dream of eating that it herself, but she does just taste it to check it contains the right amount of butter and milk!

Dessert for Ivy is a Müllerlight yogurt. Hubby has sponge pudding and custard. ‘It just doesn’t bother me,’ Ivy says, licking the spoon she used to stir the custard!

By 9.30pm Ivy fancies a ‘little something else’. Remembering the crisps she picked up with the meal deal, she checks the Syn value and finds they’re only 7 Syns. ‘Only 9½ Syns today’ she thinks, ‘that’s a perfect day!
Or was it...? Ivy actually had 66 Syns!

The breakdown

extra ½ oz of branflakes 2½ Syns
Orange juice 125ml 2½ Syns
Eggy soldiers 4 Syns
Couple of crisps 1 Syn
Sandwich 19 Syns (6 Syns can be deducted if using bread as Healthy Extra 'b'... but Ivy had already had hers at breakfast!)Latte 8½ Syns (Grande from Starbucks - her 'a' choice was all used at breakfast!)
Cake mixture 4 Syns
Mayo 7½ Syns (it was a heaped tablespoon not level!)
Chicken nugget 3 Syns
2 chips 3 Syns
Spoonful of mash 3 Syns
Spoonful of custard 2 Syns
Packet of crisps 7 Syns

Just to put this into perspective, those 66 Syns are the equivalent of an average portion of Chicken Tikka Masala, Pilau rice, 1 naan bread, a pint of beer and two small vegetable samosas! We’d all know if we ate that!

AnnieG

Hello, just a quick one from me, had a rotten day and just want to go to bed. I think I've had an EE day, could some kind soul have a look for me please?
Oats, berries and yog (b)
2 apples, 2 nectarines and a banana
Pasta with tomatoes and basil
Quorn mince with onions, sweetcorn, peas, baked beans and passata with mash
Half a graze box punnet (about 5 but certainly not 10)
Milk in tea
And possibly some melon later

Does that look ok?
Thanks in advance!

flutterbyuk25

Green day for me:

B - oats (HEB), FF yog
L - salad, HB egg
D - SF pasta sauce (toms, onion, garlic, kidney beans, sweetcorn, peppers), olive oil (HEB), spagetti, cheese (2 x HEA)
Snacks - pear, cherries, ice cream (6syns)
Drinks - fruit teas, squash, water, fizzy water

Total syns = 6

x

TakeItEazy

Evening all, been a good girl today. Made a cheesecake with son [his idea but don't know how to put it into practice :cool:] and I didn't even have a taste not even a lick of the spoon, aren't I a :A :rotfl:
Food has been a bit :think:
B - weetabix hot water/milk [.5a] coffee
L - fruit salad, activia
Snack - p/white [2.5]
T - shepherds pie, onion, cauli, g/beans, peas, oxo, 4 tidgy puds [4?]
Syns - 6.5
Are tidgy puds still 1syn each? No idea where to look for them in my book, not sure what they come under.
Was going to have a skinny cow but need to claw back some syns from the weekend.

Hope everyone is doing ok.

consultant31

Voyager0001 wrote: »

What's the recipe please? Think I will give it a try!

Here you go, this really does make a huuuge pan full (even 2 pans full). It uses all speed foods so can be eaten as often as you like. If there's a veg you absolutely hate, feel free to swap for something else from the speed or superfree lists.

Speed food Soup (syn free on Green and EE)

1 can mixed bean salad
1 can green lentils (or handful of dried)
2 cans chopped tomatoes
1 can baked beans
Handful of split lentils
2 large leeks
1 large onion
4 medium carrots
2 parsnips
1 each green, red and yellow peppers
2 vegetable stock cubes
Salt pepper
Mixed herbs
Water (enough to cover all ingredients)

Chop all vegetables into even sized chunks.
Put them and everything else into a large pan, cover with water, bring to boil and simmer until vegetables are soft (about 30 mins).
Once cooked, the soup can be left chunky or blended until smooth.
Freezes well

Flat_Eric

Can anyone offer any tips for someone who has only ever known red or green and has never been able to get on with Extra Easy since it was introduced ?

and does anyone know if we can still do Mix to Match ?

blackberry-rum

gien wrote: »

Sounds like the state of my life right now!
I've had an OK day diet wise - ended up missing lunch and had a load of fruit and a bretzel instead on the trot. Dinner was mashed potatoes (done in the micro to perfection!) salad and a sausage (any idea of the syns?). Also had a lot of fruit for pudding, yum.

So my plans for tomorow are:
B: fruit yog and honey (1 syn)
L: BLT sandwich, fruit (HEB)
I want some pasta if I can work out how to microwave it!

Same as the potatoes, Gien, but with much more water! Wholemeal pasta takes longer to cook than regular pasta. Sometimes once it's boiled I cover it completely and leave it to "cook" outside the micro whilst I make the sauce. MSE-type cooking.

AnnieG wrote: »

Hello, just a quick one from me, had a rotten day and just want to go to bed. I think I've had an EE day, could some kind soul have a look for me please?
Oats, berries and yog (b)
2 apples, 2 nectarines and a banana
Pasta with tomatoes and basil
Quorn mince with onions, sweetcorn, peas, baked beans and passata with mash
Half a graze box punnet (about 5 but certainly not 10)
Milk in tea
And possibly some melon later

Does that look ok?
Thanks in advance!

Annie, what IS a graze box, I keep meaning to ask. And don't forget peas, baked beans and sweetcorn are not superfree - would the onions and the graze box contents equal one third of that meal? Just trying to help

Flat_Eric wrote: »

Can anyone offer any tips for someone who has only ever known red or green and has never been able to get on with Extra Easy since it was introduced ?

and does anyone know if we can still do Mix to Match ?

Hi Flat Eric I remember you! I would say if you (personally) can do Mix to Match you can do EE because that's just about what it is except not separated into different meals!

Maman, you can go back and edit your own posts you know! But I am going to start a fresh post for my good news

blackberry-rum

3 lbs off this week! Now how on earth does that happen after 3 weeks of sneaking it all on? I am now as light as I have been since doing SW (not lighter, just as light as). Consultant chatted to me tonight about calling target; we've decided we will see where I am when my countdown finishes and perhaps call target then as setting it lower has just made me really fed up and "anti". Thanks for putting up with me and my moaning the last few weeks!

gunsandbanjos

AnnieG wrote: »

Hello, just a quick one from me, had a rotten day and just want to go to bed. I think I've had an EE day, could some kind soul have a look for me please?
Oats, berries and yog (b)
2 apples, 2 nectarines and a banana
Pasta with tomatoes and basil
Quorn mince with onions, sweetcorn, peas, baked beans and passata with mash
Half a graze box punnet (about 5 but certainly not 10)
Milk in tea
And possibly some melon later

Does that look ok?
Thanks in advance!

Looks kinda green to me?? Unless you snuck some meat in when i wasnt looking:p So you can have another A and B choice. Do you not need a ryvita or scan bran with your oats? I dont eat porridge but im sure i read that somewhere.

lynzpower

Well I have dismally failed today I think I shall have to try again when I return from my weekend away. I think its having these temptations in the house its not good at all.

Ho hum .Hope everyone has a more positive few days and I will be back to start again next monday