Heading for winter with Slimming World

maman

ammonite wrote: »

Is the WW Danish for your Healthy B's? I might have to try the white one as a HE B, I know there isn't any fibre in it but I can't eat brown bread. If it starts affecting weight loss then I'll change it maybe?

Thanks for the help with the Warbuton's Thins. They are like a roll cut in half and flattened. They look measley but when you start eating them, they don't seem quite as measley and you could make a decent stuffed sandwich from them.

The Brown Danish is my Healthy B. It's not very brown to look at but I suppose it must have something in it that disagrees with you. Unfortunately the white varieties aren't HEBs.

Cooking-mama, this recipe for Butternut Squash and Red pepper soup is on the website:


Serves: 4
Prep time: 10 minutes
Cook time: 45 minutes
Syns per serving:
FREEFREEFREE

ingredients

1 butternut squash
2 red peppers
1 onion
Fry Light
2pts/1.1lt stock made with Vecon
salt and freshly ground black pepper
4 tbsp fat-free natural fromage frais
freshly chopped chives to garnish


method

1. Prepare the soup ingredients: peel, deseed and cut the butternut squash into cubes; halve and deseed the peppers, grill until tender, remove the skin and roughly chop the onion.
2. Heat a large pan sprayed with Fry Light, add the butternut squash, grilled peppers and onion and fry until they begin to soften. Add the stock, bring to the boil, reduce to a simmer, cover and cook until the vegetables are soft and pulpy.
3. Transfer to a food processor, season well and blend until smooth. Serve swirled with a spoonful of fromage frais and garnished with freshly chopped chives.

There may well be more if you google and I've not checked the recipe index linked to post 1 either.

maman

This is my EE menu plan for today.

B: NAS squash, HEB toast, fried egg, mushrooms, tomatoes, bacon, HEA milk for teas
L: probably some bubble& squeak with pickled beetroot
spaghetti bolognese
Snacks: toast? sandwich? to finish off my HEB
Syns: hopefully not

On the subject of HEBs: if you like cereal for breakfast then Puffed Wheat gives a huge portion compared with other cereals. It's a bit bland (if you're used to sugary cereals although you could add sweetener) but I slice a banana on top and it's fine. I try to have cereal only a couple of times a week as I really miss having bread available for sandwiches.

ammonite

Put a huge order in at Tesco.com this morning with my old slimming world books next to me. At the moment Im confident red/green may fit into what I can eat (thanks Saidan re: Nimble white!! ) - whether I lose weight or not is another matter.

Here is my menu for today, slightly strange as I had to rely on what I had in...

Green
B - 28g rice krispies (5.5syns), 130ml skimmed & 120ml semi skimmed (A) - going to mix the amounts and count it as one A for now. I like skimmed on cereal but semi in tea.

S - Ginger biscuit (2)

L - Bowl of mashed potato (free) with 42g low fat cheddar (B) and 15ml salad cream light (1.5syns) (told you it was weird).

D - Heinz Macaroni Cheese (hoping this is free as it used to be?)

Snacks - Advent calendar chocolate (fun sized mars 5 syns), 71g Turkey (B).

Senora_Pie

ammonite wrote: »

D - Heinz Macaroni Cheese (hoping this is free as it used to be?)

Sorry to bear bad news, but a 400g tin is 6 syns on green!

ammonite

Senora_Pie wrote: »

Sorry to bear bad news, but a 400g tin is 6 syns on green!

Boo hiss. I might have to eat it anyway and syn it as I'm struggling for what else to eat! Thanks for bearing the bad news in such a nice way

blackberry-rum

ammonite wrote: »

Thanks for the reply blackberry - ....Now, I can help you with something! Click on User CP at the top of the board, then on the right click 'edit signature' - hope that helps

Thank you, that helped!

maman wrote: »

Cooking-mama, this recipe for Butternut Squash and Red pepper soup is on the website:
Serves: 4
Prep time: 10 minutes
Cook time: 45 minutes
Syns per serving:
FREEFREEFREE

ingredients

1 butternut squash
2 red peppers
1 onion
Fry Light
2pts/1.1lt stock made with Vecon
salt and freshly ground black pepper
4 tbsp fat-free natural fromage frais
freshly chopped chives to garnish

method

1. Prepare the soup ingredients: peel, deseed and cut the butternut squash into cubes; halve and deseed the peppers, grill until tender, remove the skin and roughly chop the onion.
2. Heat a large pan sprayed with Fry Light, add the butternut squash, grilled peppers and onion and fry until they begin to soften. Add the stock, bring to the boil, reduce to a simmer, cover and cook until the vegetables are soft and pulpy.
3. Transfer to a food processor, season well and blend until smooth. Serve swirled with a spoonful of fromage frais and garnished with freshly chopped chives.

There may well be more if you google and I've not checked the recipe index linked to post 1 either.

Just to say, save yourself some time and some roughage, leave the skin on. I was given this tip a couple of years ago and whether making soup, just as a steamed vegetable, or roasting a butternut squash, it really takes no longer to cook with skin on and it goes nice and soft

All that "treating myself well" stuff has added up and I am now 1 lb off 10st (ie only 1 lb under 10 st) naked first thing after a wee. If I was weighed at class I would be OVER 10 st. So I am having to pull myself back. Had visitors today but gave them lots of salad and beans and potatoes with skinny jelly and yog and fresh fruit for pud. Tomorrow off to Birmingham shopping but I shall call into the market and have crab claws for lunch and perhaps buy a bit of fruit whilst I am in there.

saidan

i think i am going to become addicted to curly wurly's

i am very lazy and buy all our veg ready prepared in the little bags - so the butternut squash comes all done. i just bung it in the pot with the onions or whatever and voila - soup. (not very mse though )

i didn't stick to my meal plan today as plans changed. so i've had
red
b: mullerlight
l: haddock - pan fried with frylight & level tsp flora light (1)
d: 2 nimble (heb) sardines, bowl of home-made soup (heb parsnip)
sn: french fries (4), curlywurly (6)

anyone else finding mulerlights watery? not sure if i got some 'bad' ones - opened a cherry one earlier and it was really watery with bits floating in it....chucked it but not sure if it was ok or not (date 10/12).

ammonite - you could make your own mac cheese for less syns if that is something you like - pasta, basic cheese sauce using hea cheese. invest in batchelors pasta n sauces - most are free. and batchelors savorey rice is mosty free too. i always eat those on green days.

does anyone else go to bed thinking of tomorrows food plan? or am i just greedy?

saidan

cyclingyorkie

cooking-mama wrote: »

Well done on losing 5st1.5lbs cyclingyorkie,that is fantastic.. Is the butternut squash soup on Slimming world website?..i now have 3 butternut squashes and realy need to think about using them up.

I don't know if it's on thje website but I can write it out for you if you want - just shout!

I have discovered today that I am now officially no longer obese! My BMI is under 30 and I am now merely overweight!

Thank you Slimmimg World and all my mates on this thread!

gallygirl

cyclingyorkie wrote: »

I have discovered today that I am now officially no longer obese! My BMI is under 30 and I am now merely overweight!

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: That's about how excited I was when it happened to me :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:.

Congratulations

Senora_Pie

Well done cyclingyorkie!

Lost 3 pounds this week, so if I lose 1 next week thats my two stone award. I WILL do it! :j:j:T