Slimming World support thread 2

jeaniej52

Today is Extra Easy (I think)

Breakfast - Magic porridge (HEB), banana.

Lunch - Salad with Cottage cheese, 2 mandarins.

Dinner - Meat and tatie hash*, 2 kiwifruit.

Supper - Cheese (HEA), 2 slices wholemeal bread (6 syns)

*Hubby is making the hash for dinner, comprising of braising steak, potatoes, onions, carrots, turnip, celery and peas in onion gravy. The meat and veg are all free foods but I'm not sure how to syn the gravy. He thickens it using Bisto Powder and cornflour so if I count it as 4 syns, will that cover it?

shala_moo

hello lovely lot... i'm back from the depths of work hell..

Lantanna - great news on the size 12's and on the not exposing yourself!! :rotfl:

Jeanie - re: food for thought - unfortunately eating more/less works differently for everyone - i'd say try it for a week and see what happens..

macpep - hope you're having a better day - good idea to go back to the first week, we're always a bit more vigilant then..

HDK - i use MFP too, i think it helps to see if your portion sizes are a bit big even on SW, it also helps know you're getting enough fibre or too much salt/sugar.

Mildredd, brilliant news on your op, lets hope you'll be pain free soon xx

Some brilliant losses today :T

PPB - chip shop curry sauce :drool:... recipe please?

Well yesterday was a complete wash out for me - sweets and cake, chocolate and chinese everywhere I'm failing miserably again but i'm determined not to just chuck in the towel. If i only lose 0.5lb a week then so be it..

So today i've been better behaved.. just banana, rice, chicken and pom bears (4) so far. Not sure what we have for tea as OH has done the meal planner this week and he won't tell me :rotfl: but it will be healthy and i'll add a big salad to it (actually craving a nice salad!)

Hope everyone's fine and dandy.. i love your saying btw MrsChristmas "chins up" :rotfl:

psychopathbabble

Shala... I've not made it yet, but bought fresh ginger the other day so need to make it and freeze it (having beef noodles tonight) hoping it'll be ok if I omit the fromage frais

Suitable for vegetarians
Serves: 4
Prep. time: Ready in 30 minutes
Cook time:
Total time: Less than 30 Minutes
Syns per serving:
Green: FREE
Original: FREE
Extra Easy: FREE
Print recipe
Taken from our Little Book of Sauces recipe book, this chip shop curry sauce is a real comfort food favourite - and this version's full of flavour!

Ingredients

Low calorie oil spray (less than one calorie per spray)
1 onion, peeled and finely chopped
2 garlic cloves, peeled and crushed
1cm piece root ginger, peeled and finely grated
1 tbsp curry powder
400g can chopped tomatoes
60ml vegetable stock
2 tbsp sweetener
50g fat free natural fromage frais
1 tbsp of freshly chopped coriander
1 tbsp of freshly chopped mint
Method

Spray a pan with low calorie oil spray and place over a medium heat. Add the onion and garlic and cook until soft. Add the ginger and cook for 1-2 minutes, then add the curry powder and cook for a further 1-2 minutes.
Add the tomatoes, stock and sweetener and bring to the boil. Reduce the heat and simmer for 12-15 minutes.
Transfer the sauce to a food processor and blend until smooth. Return to the pan, add the fromage frais, coriander and mint and gently heat through before serving (do not boil or the fromage frais will curdle).
Tip: You''ll love this sauce with a mountain of Slimming World chips or wedges. To make them, parboil chips or wedges for 4-5 minutes. Drain well, transfer to a baking sheet and spray with low calorie oil spray. Bake in a preheated oven at 240°C/220°C Fan/Gas 9.

- See more at: http://group.slimmingworld.com/recipes/chip-shop-curry-sauce.aspx#sthash.a6iRACvf.dpuf

psychopathbabble

I need to get motivated to stick to plan when I'm not at work. So far today I've had granola (b), yoghurt (0.5), peanut hifi bar (6), velvet crunch (4), alpen light (2.5)... so getting syn heavy. I'm just so much better at work when I've got all my food prepared and in the bag ready to eat!

bookworm_nat123

hey all,

some fab losses going on
the chip shop curry sauce sounds yummy

Todays plan:

B: ryvita (hexb) and slices of ham
l: jacket with beans, tomatoes, 1/2 my hexa of cheese, rocket salad, mushrooms
d: bacon and fennel pasta with the other 1/2 of my hexa cheese
p: "eton mess" with 1 merginue (3syns) and greek yoghurt


I have ME which is a pain in so many ways! but in particular some nights i come home from work and am barely coherent let alone able to cook. Usually I have a heres 1 I made earlier style from the freezer but thats not always possible. So my rambling question is what ready meals are low syns that I grab from a supermarket?

thanks
xx

psychopathbabble

bookworm_nat123 wrote: »

So my rambling question is what ready meals are low syns that I grab from a supermarket?

thanks
xx

tesco healthy living chicken in tomato and basil sauce is 1 syn per half pack
sainsburys be good to yourself veg lasagne is 3.5 I think
weight watchers ocean pie is 3.5

macpep1

Daisy2014 wrote: »

Very quiet on here today, feel like I've scared you all off!!!

Macpep in regards to what your consultant said, and looking at your menu, I think it is a bit light. I hope you don't mind me saying. I think I would be ravenous by the time I got to the pasta bake at dinner and ready to murder someone!!! For example, today I've had slice of wholemeal toast with beans for breakfast, jacket potato with beans and salad for lunch, fruit and yog and I'm hungry now but trying to put my dinner off!! I know not everyone is the same, but do you think you would maybe benefit from having more jacket potatoes / rice / pasta with your meals to bulk them out a little?

PS no-one come near me after the amount of beans I have eaten today :rotfl:

I dont mind you saying at all, looking at my first week there was a lot more rice/pasta etc, so I will get more of them in the week, thank you. I will try anything to get back on track again!

please-let-me-be-lucky wrote: »

discountmummy, they have 50g pot Morrisons raspberry ripple mousse on the app for 3.5syns, or Tesco 49g pots for 4 syns. Hope that helps Xx

Shala can you put me down for 3lbs off this week please! Thrilled to be back on track. Just shows, changing up your HEBs works a treat!

Fab loss, mising them up never worked for me at all .

EE Menu today:-

B - Berries, melon FF Natural yoghurt, 1 x alpen light (1/2 HEB)
L - Speed soup, banana, toffee muller, strawberries, melon, blueberries, pineapple
Snack - strawberries, melon, blueberries, pineapple.
D - Mrs Shah's curry, rice & side of salad/veg
Snack - Alpen light(1/2 HEB), cheese, pickles, beetroot

Syns so far - 2 for milk in coffee, will be having a wee options later so another 2
Water 1.2l so far. I plan to do 30 mins on cross trainer as well

please-let-me-be-lucky

Sorry to hear changing up your HEB's didn't work macpep. I usually have wholemeal bread and was wondering if that was the problem. Last week I used;

sultana bran
Porridge oats
Weetabix
Alpenlights
Honey Monster Vanilla and Marshmallow stixs (these are gorgeous!)
Ryvita fruit crunch
Cheese (HEB on Green Days).

32b3in2013

Hiya

Could I join you all?

I have gone back to SW after a couple of months break (during which I put on 5.5lb at WW!!)

I lost 2 stone with SW up to the end of January this year, so I am still 1 stone 8.5lb lighter than when I first joined SW . I need to lose another 2 stone 4.5lb.

Today I have had

B - Mango, Grapes and Strawberries
L - home made Mushroom Risotto (2 syns for oil)

For dinner tonight I am having KFC style chicken with mini babybel (HEA), sweet potato wedges, rocket salad, beetroot and sweetcorn and for dessert I will have the rest of the fruit left from breakfast as it reaches its best by date today.

Not sure what to spend my other syns on today, I don't think I could fit in much more food

Tonight I will be making the onion and potato tortilla from the SW website to have for lunch tomorrow and will have SW chilli for dinner tomorrow night with savoury rice. Breakfast will probably be porridge (HEA + HEB) with raspberries tomorrow.

I am training for a 5k charity run, so I am getting a bit of body magic but after the run (10 May), I won't be doing any running ever again, because I hate it!! so I will need to find some other exercise to do.

Hope its OK to join in

Good luck everyone

32b3

LordDuke

I made the potato and onion tortilla and it was yum. My first time making it and I will def make it again