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  • jeaniej52
    jeaniej52 Posts: 56 Forumite
    edited 2 April 2014 at 11:48AM
    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
    shala_moo Posts: 3,272 Forumite
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    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? :D

    Well yesterday was a complete wash out for me - sweets and cake, chocolate and chinese everywhere :o 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:
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  • 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
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  • 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!
    Became Mrs Scotland 16.01.16 :heart:Became homeowners 26.02.16 :heart:Baby girl arrived 27.10.16 :heart:Baby boy arrived 16.09.2018
  • 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
  • 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
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  • macpep1
    macpep1 Posts: 1,749 Forumite
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    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!
    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
    :TGratitude is the best Attitude :T
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  • 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).
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  • 32b3in2013
    32b3in2013 Posts: 2,470 Forumite
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    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 :D

    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 :D

    Good luck everyone

    32b3
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  • LordDuke
    LordDuke Posts: 127 Forumite
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    I made the potato and onion tortilla and it was yum. My first time making it and I will def make it again
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