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nessie216

macpep1 wrote: »

Hi Nessie :hello:

Welcome back, glad you had a nice time,and just remember you are pregnant so don't beat yourself up about a small gain, glad to hear bean is doing ok, you are nearly halfway there :T

Thanks macpep1

Not beating myself up for having a gain - beating myself up for eating complete c**p & not giving bean the best tastes! :rotfl:

Little annoyed as would like to loose 1/2lb this week to get back into the target i set - there is no reason why i can't loose a little weight whilst pregnant - just need to eat healthy

Not good when a guy at work has just brought in cookies (the ones from the bakery!)

macpep1

Oh ~No, you do realise I am now going to have to add that ^on to this weekends cooking, I was just saying to DH the other day, no batch cooking this weekend as I done 4 weeks worth last weekend :j List so far:-
Minestrone Soup
Mushy Pea Curry
2 x SW Quiches
SW Coleslaw
Creamy Mushroom Sauce (for steak tomorrow)
SW Toffee apple ice Cream
SW Apple Crumble
Fritatas to use up bendy veg :rotfl:

Actually I am going to need more eggs, best stop off at Aldi on the way home

Nessie - Step away from the cookies :eek:

Mountaingirl

macpep1 wrote: »

...snip... I was 7 stone 10 for years & years, could eat what I liked etc until 2nd child was born :rotfl:

Having My third child was what did it for me. I was quite a bit older (7 year gap between 2 and 3) and I just never really got rid of the extra weight. I must be a good stone and a bit heavier than before I had her. They say that your metabolism slows as you get older so maybe I'll never get that thin again, but I'm sure I'll shift some of it.

mich_city

lantanna wrote: »

Has anybody got any recipes for a nice curry sauce? I really love the Curry out of the Chinese - so that sort of taste / consistency?

I am having dangerous curry cravings that I am going to have to tackle soon lol

Btw does anyone know how many syns in a chicken curry from the chinese?

this is 'chip shop curry' from the little book of sauces.. haven't tried it myself yet!

1 onion, peeled + finely chopped
2 garlic cloves, peeled + crushed
1cm piece root ginger, peeled + finely grated
1 tbsp curry powder
400g can chopped tomatoes
60ml veg stock
2 tbsp sweetener
50g f/f nat fromage frais
1 tbsp fresh chopped coriander
1 tbsp fresh chopped mint

(I suppose dried alternatives could be used?)

serves 4
ready in 30 mins

spray pan with frylight, add onion + garlic and cook until soft

add ginger and cook for further 1-2 mins

add curry powder and cook a further 1-2 mins

add tomatoes, stock and sweetener and bring to boil. Reduce the heat and simmer 12-15 mins

blend until smooth (if using blender return to pan) then add fromage frais, coriander and mint and gently heat before serving (do not boil or the fromage frais will curdle)

syn free on all plans

there are also sauces for other curries such as balti, rogan josh, korma, tikka if anyone wants them can add them here.

macpep1

Mountaingirl wrote: »

Having My third child was what did it for me. I was quite a bit older (7 year gap between 2 and 3) and I just never really got rid of the extra weight. I must be a good stone and a bit heavier than before I had her. They say that your metabolism slows as you get older so maybe I'll never get that thin again, but I'm sure I'll shift some of it.

I was 5 1/2 years between mine (not planned that way) I would never want to be that thin again, looking back at old pictures, I didn't look well & back then I thought I was fat (I have always had "issues"):rotfl:. I think SW is the best thing I have done out of all the faddy diets, I tell everyone about it :rotfl:

biscuitmad

macpep1 wrote: »

Oh ~No, you do realise I am now going to have to add that ^on to this weekends cooking, I was just saying to DH the other day, no batch cooking this weekend as I done 4 weeks worth last weekend :j List so far:-
Minestrone Soup
Mushy Pea Curry
2 x SW Quiches
SW Coleslaw
Creamy Mushroom Sauce (for steak tomorrow)
SW Toffee apple ice Cream
SW Apple Crumble
Fritatas to use up bendy veg :rotfl:

Actually I am going to need more eggs, best stop off at Aldi on the way home

Nessie - Step away from the cookies :eek:

Could you give me the recipes for the apple crumble & ice cream please?? They sound yummy.

Thanks in advance
X

lantanna

mich_city wrote: »

this is from the little book of sauces.. haven't tried it myself yet!

1 onion, peeled + finely chopped
2 garlic cloves, peeled + crushed
1cm piece root ginger, peeled + finely grated
1 tbsp curry powder
400g can chopped tomatoes
60ml veg stock
2 tbsp sweetener
50g f/f nat fromage frais
1 tbsp fresh chopped coriander
1 tbsp fresh chopped mint

(I suppose dried alternatives could be used?)

serves 4
ready in 30 mins

spray pan with frylight, add onion + garlic and cook until soft

add ginger and cook for further 1-2 mins

add curry powder and cook a further 1-2 mins

add tomatoes, stock and sweetener and bring to boil. Reduce the heat and simmer 12-15 mins

blend until smooth (if using blender return to pan) then add fromage frais, coriander and mint and gently heat before serving (do not boil or the fromage frais will curdle)

syn free on all plans

there are also sauces for other curries such as balti, rogan josh, korma, tikka if anyone wants them can add them here.

Great thanks for that:T

Think I will give that a blast tomorrow night and see how I get on. Will make it with half and half boiled rice and slimming world chips. Hopefully it will be yum.

Can I take a poll here about who eats syns? Do you or don't you ? If so how many? I'm really confused about how they could help you lose weight!:eek: I've googled this and whilst everybody has different opinions on the matter no one seems to have a definitive answer!

:mad:

mich_city

My take on the minestrone soup.. Its delicious!



didn't have carrots!.. added to the recipe: yellow pepper, courgette, green beans and some red lentils also chilli flakes.. very filling

macpep1

biscuitmad wrote: »

Could you give me the recipes for the apple crumble & ice cream please?? They sound yummy.

Thanks in advance
X

Its on the SW Website, & I have run out of internet time (at work), if you search the recipes for, toffee apple ice cream here is the crumble recipe, I saved that one


Serves: 6

Prep. time: 15 minutes

Cook time: 25 minutes

Total time: 30-60 Minutes



Syns per serving:

Green: 6½

Original: 6½

Extra Easy: 6½

550g cooking apples
1 tsp ground cinnamon
Finely grated zest annd juice of 1 orange
4 tbsp granulated artificial sweetener
110g self raising flour
50g low-fat spread
A few drops of vanilla essence
150g fat free natural fromage frais

Preheat the oven to 190ºC/170°C Fan/Gas 5. Peel, core andchop the apples into chunks. Place in an oven-proof dish and stir in thecinnamon, orange zest and juice and half of the sweetener.

Make the crumble: in a bowl mix together the self-raisingflour with the remaining sweetener. Melt the low-fat spread in a pan, removefrom the heat and stir in the vanilla essence. Pour over the flour mixture andmix with a fork until it resembles breadcrumbs.

Spoon the crumble mixture over the apples and bake for 25minutes until lightly browned. Divide the crumble between 6 serving bowls andserve topped with a little fromage frais.

maman

mich, that soup looks yummy! :drool:

Mountaingirl wrote: »

Having My third child was what did it for me. I was quite a bit older (7 year gap between 2 and 3) and I just never really got rid of the extra weight. I must be a good stone and a bit heavier than before I had her. They say that your metabolism slows as you get older so maybe I'll never get that thin again, but I'm sure I'll shift some of it.

I don't know if that's true. It could be that you get less active as you get older. I know that I'm now back to the weight I've been all my adult life except for the 10 years or so before joining SW. I gradually gained weight due to various lifestyle changes. When I had my DD I didn't gain any weight in myself at all (perpetual sickness:() so I can't blame that. It was great last weekend when we were away with family: my DH was saying 'look at my lovely, slim wife':o and my niece piped up 'But she's always been slim'. I was so delighted that someone remembered me when I wasn't fat.

On the syns poll. I've always allowed myself ALL the syns every week. I work from a bank of 105, eat fairly syn free during the week and have an indulgent weekend. I think the lower syns suggestions (5-10) are to allow for the fact that some people under estimate their syns because they don't measure. I must admit I'm not brilliant at, say, levelling off tablespoons but I resolved that I'd measure carefully if I hit a plateau. Fortunately that never happened. Anyhow most of my syns are easy to measure as I can count them by the bottle!:rotfl: