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czerniacha wrote: »

I remember someone mentioned Free pinapple ice lollies, what was the brand please?

Fruitini - pineapple only though.


another half pound down, lots of ladies questioning the scales tonight - all of us have been super good and it's been piffling bits off.
Hubby had SW egg fried rice and salad waiting for me when I got back from group ...yummy!

blackberry-rum

fluff1987 wrote: »

i take it as long as you dont fry it in oil or batter, you can cook it any way and its still superspeed. like roasting or grilling etc..

when i get near a target weight that i want (i havent set it yet, i will do when i get to 12st though) i am gonna make a stonking fish pie i loooooove fish, esp fish pie, but it has everything that is naughty which is probably why i love it lol

I often make fish pie, the fish is free, you can do a potato topping that is free, either make a sauce for inside with synned flour/butterbuds or don't bother with a saucy inside (I don't, just make sure there are some nice squishy onions and mushrooms in with the fish, or some tomatoes or something, and loads of parsley, get some Lakeland Butterbuds for the buttery taste and it is DIVINE!

gunsandbanjos wrote: »

Seeing as we're talking targets. My end goal is to fit comfortably into a size 8.
Would need to be around 8 or 8 and a half stone to do that I think. I'm only 5ft 1 so am a short !!!! I'm very bottom heavy, 6 years of playing rugby have left me with massive thighs and calves, even when I was a size 8 I couldn't get knee high boots over my calves!!!!

I remember Wotsit and Susanna saying if you have sturdy calves and find a pair of boots that fits over them, but 'em right away. So I do.

Minnie-the-Minx wrote: »

I have tried making chicken soup in the past but when I boil/simmer the carcass, the resultant stock is really greasy.

What am I doing wrong? Or maybe this is OK and I should let the fat set in the fridge overnight then skim it off before making the soup? I'm not sure actually but maybe I added some of the skin to the pot...

Many thanks for any advice - I love chicken and a chicken/veg/noodle soup would be a lovely way to use up leftovers..

Yes you have to be very firm and only add the bones with bits of meat on, throw away all the skin (wild birds, tame cats and dogs all love the skin!), if it's still greasy stick it into the freezer for an hour so the fat rises to the top & skim it off.

fluff1987

since we're talking weights: when i started i was 14st 10.5lb and was a '15' - not quite a 16 but by no means a 14... now that im about 13st i find im a 14 but only in some things :S (im 5'9 btw) i have a slim waist but i have a butt and thighs. the only thing is, ive noticed around my knees getting slimmer, so im hoping it'll work its way up from there

ohh frozen curly wurlys are my weakness! CZ you can get them in the land of ice, (5 pack for £1 i believe) or pretty much any supermarket.

i tried the muller light mint yoghurt the other day - BLEURGH! it tastes soooooooo sour!:(

Blackberry-rum: are butterbuds free? if they are then hey ho!! ill be havin me some of them for my baked potatoes

psychopathbabble

fluff1987 wrote: »

ohh frozen curly wurlys are my weakness! CZ you can get them in the land of ice, (5 pack for £1 i believe) or pretty much any supermarket.

If they are a quid, then that's a great price i think i pay about £1.20-£1.30 in other shops.

Mint ypoghurts weren't nice frozen either!

blackberry-rum

lalamb wrote: »

Thanks.
I'm thinking of having a really light day tomorrow before WI.....last week on my first WI I had nothing to eat all day but it would be silly to do that now I'm establishing a routine with eating reg meals. However, I think it also makes sense to replicate last Thurs to get a true WI.

I will stick with a couple of mullerlights and fruit I think.

BTW does anyone know if I can substitute sour cream and chive with fromage frais and chive? We need it with our chilli but don't want the syns.

I just eat as usual on weigh in day (ie, a lot!) but I don't have my supper/tea until later that evening after I've been weighed. I do have a coffee when I get home from work, then go to the loo to get rid of it before they weight me! Why not use plain yog on chilli, I've always done that long before slimming world.

kandfs_mam wrote: »

I'm sure stock cubes are free now.

yes they are, they've been free for a couple of years I think

Annie6 wrote: »

Boy -- it's busy here today and gives great reading but need to move my butt now and make shepherds pies. I do individual small ones. I top OHs with potatoes and mine with carrots and turnip etc.

Hi Annie, why do you do that, don't you like potatoes? On extra easy you can just have a regular shepherds pie with potato on top, saves faffing about. My friend was a die hard red & green fan, but she's eaten at mine a couple of times & we've also eaten out and I've shown her what she can eat and she's happier with EE now.

Oh by the way, has anyone else tried the Hi Fi lite bars, it's 2 for a HE? I bought a pack at class, caramel & chocolate, and very nice they are. I ate 2 as a HE after weigh in, but Ive stuck the rest in the freezer - out of sight out of mind.

fluff1987

Blackberry-rum: yeah theyre a really good price, the bottom of my fridge is filled with them lol

i loooooove those hi-fi lite bars... though i found the lemon hi-fi bars really salty :S i had to throw it out the other day mid bite

i might try this fish for a week thing, see if i can shift anything - after slogging all day and coming home looking like i was trailed through a bush backward, ive only lost maaaaaayyyyyybe a lb?

gettingthere54

Hi everyone,
Had a wonderful surprise tonight at WI, I lost 5 pounds!
And won slimmer of the week too!:rotfl:
So 5 stone 4.5 down, by my reckoning I hit my target in 9.5 pounds time!
It's do able, cos off to Florida is 6 weeks time and I would like to reach target before I go.

Well done to everyone on their losses and STS and for the strugglers, keep on in there, believe in yourself and you will get there

cande

Good evening all, hope everyone is having a super slimming day!!

I wanted to reply to some of the posts on here, but still cannot work out the multi quote, so I will try to remember everything I wanted to say.

Firstly to Piglet and others who have responded regarding the Orlistat, when I was on it before I was doing a eat very little diet, but was probably having more fat than I am now, so hopefully if I went back on it I hopefully wouldn't have the same urgentness as before :rotfl:

Czerniacha - I tried the SW KFC about 2 days ago, not exactly like KFC but still very good in its own right and would definitely make it again. I did it with SW chips, beans and corn on the cob. I also made some coleslaw to go with it, so I really was like having KFC, hope you enjoy it.

I didn't like the mint Mullers either, they tasted better from the fridge rather than frozen.

I thought I'd let you all know that I have a new favourite snack in the evenings - Velvet Crunch crisps, they are lovely, I got them from poundland for a pack of 6 and they are only 4 syns a bag :j

Today I went into a new 99p store in our town and they had Alpen light bars - a woohooo! I have one of these in the evening as half of my HEB and 2 Ryvita as the other half with 2 Tesco half fat cheese triangles as hal of my HEA with a coffee with milk in for the other half of my HEA - nom nom!

lalamb

Good evening

So.......still really worried about tomorrow 1st WI and even more so since talking to someone earlier about SW. She told me I should be really limiting my potato intake, she said she basically eats no potatoes in her diet For the last week I've eaten more potato than I have all year. Not a massive amount but more than I usually would, I'm a rice or pasta person usually. Not had pasta since I started SW last week but had rice a few times.

Please someone.reassure me, tell me it's ok to eat potato......as far as I can see it's a free food and you should be able to eat as much as you like?

lalamb

gettingthere54 wrote: »

Hi everyone,
Had a wonderful surprise tonight at WI, I lost 5 pounds!
And won slimmer of the week too!:rotfl:
So 5 stone 4.5 down, by my reckoning I hit my target in 9.5 pounds time!
It's do able, cos off to Florida is 6 weeks time and I would like to reach target before I go.

Well done to everyone on their losses and STS and for the strugglers, keep on in there, believe in yourself and you will get there

Wow well done you! :T

We're off to Florida in November :j my target is 4 stone off before I go.