Heading for winter with Slimming World

maman

copperjar wrote: »

Thank you! Bolognaise sauce sounds lovely.

I always struggle with green days. Any recipes I could do in a slow cooker on those days?

If you go to the first post on this thread and scroll to the bottom you can access the SW recipe index. There's a recipe for bolognese sauce in the pasta dishes and if you make it with Quorn mince it becomes a green recipe!

Well done on getting back on plan ww. I've had a SW breakfast but out for a restaurant lunch. This is likely to be my last 'flexi' meal after that I'm back in control except for the chocs and cheeses still hanging around. I think a few syn free days are a good idea personally (I often eat almost syn free midweek) then I can enjoy a few more treats at weekends. It's not the 'official' way but it's worked for me. I guess I'm a sort of 'need something to look forward to' sort of person.

lbnblbnb

Mediterranean_Mum wrote: »

I'm going shopping this evening and am definitely going to buy ingredients and plan for chachouka next week - what recipe do you use?

I have posted the recipe on the recipe thread:
Chachouka recipe
I don't know how authentic it is, but it was really lovely.
L x

ammonite

Oh goodness, I'm back and hanging my head in shame. The next stone threshold has been crossed, the thing I didn't want to happen has happened and it is all my fault The house is full of sweets, biscuits and chocolates and we've eaten out every lunch or dinner or both.

I am going to plan my meals and cook some lovely SW things to go into the freezer and set out what I am eating on each day. As soon as I stop planning, my whole SW diet falls to pieces.

Can I have a fresh start tomorrow? *sheepish*

lbnblbnb

copperjar wrote: »

Thank you! Bolognaise sauce sounds lovely.

I always struggle with green days. Any recipes I could do in a slow cooker on those days?

I use mine for vegetarian chilli (most recipes are free if you sub frylight for the oil), curries, and for really lovely caramalised onions! I make a lot then use them in different recipes. Vegetarian recipes don't seem to lend themselves to the "put it all in and leave it all day" way of using SC, to me it seems to cook out all the flavour. I would probably leave it on for about 4 to 5 hours. One thing I have done which has helped enormously is:
if I am making veg curry or chilli, I will have a large freezer bag open in a bowl beside me. As I cook, I double all the ingredients and just bung half in the bag. I don't worry about frying the onion first etc, I just put the raw ingredients in (I don't think it makes any difference to the final dish, partly because all the dishes are spicy). Then I freeze it, then I have a meal that I can get out the night before, defrost overnight, then bung in the slow cooker.

Mediterranean_Mum

LB thanks for the recipe - I just discovered the recipe thread so definitely going to surf around on there over the weekend and hopefully get some lovely new ideas but I'm also working my way through my magazines and picking out the ones I like the sound of - tonight we have fish pie from the little booklet that came with this month's mag.

Mediterranean_Mum

lbnblbnb wrote: »

One thing I have done which has helped enormously is:
if I am making veg curry or chilli, I will have a large freezer bag open in a bowl beside me. As I cook, I double all the ingredients and just bung half in the bag. I don't worry about frying the onion first etc, I just put the raw ingredients in (I don't think it makes any difference to the final dish, partly because all the dishes are spicy). Then I freeze it, then I have a meal that I can get out the night before, defrost overnight, then bung in the slow cooker.

Love this idea LB thanks - definitely going to try and adopt it.

copperjar

Thanks guys

Sazdaz

Help weigh in today after xmas, hope its not too horrific. Going to have a look through the receipes as writing my food plan today.

ammonite

For all my good intentions I can't find my green slimming world book It has obviously been thrown in a cupboard pre-Christmas Can't remember A's and B's on red and green days. Keep your fingers crossed it turns up for me!

TakeItEazy

Just back from looking round the rose gardens at the crematorium re resting place for Dad's ashes [had melt down ] back there again tomorrow for Uncle's cremation. I may float my way through to the week end on a sea of tears . I am in such an unhappy place at the moment but I refuse to resort to popping pills again. Will be so glad to see the New Year, fresh start and all that.
Will NOT get upset with WI as KNOW I have gained but back on the wagon next week for sure. Know I can lose it all again, thats if hubby lets me do cooking now and again .