Spring into Spring with Slimming World

TakeItEazy

WI and another .5lb GAIN getting fed up now I know it's mostly to do with my tummy issues as been back to Dr and now on 3 lots of meds

Back to work for the long haul to summer hols tomorrow. It's bad news when I'm looking forward to the next holiday before this ones over . Dreading it so wish me luck .

maman

I think it's meant to be for four people shala but I'm really greedy so mostly cook recipes for four but with less meat. Any LOs are a bonus as I keep them for lunches although never had any of that meal LO. Yours must have been tiny.:(

ScarletMarble wrote: »

Can anyone recommend any quick n easy a few syns meals I can russle up in minutes when I get home from work at 8:45pm? I used to eat things like cheese and crackers, toasted sarnie or breaded chicken with microchips. All are very synful.

I love to batch cook, but my freezer is only the one in a f/f and is fairly full. I do the odd thing like on Friday, I did a chilli con carne and made enough for another meal. I have that in the fridge for Tuesday. I don't freeze meals if i'm having them within 4 days - as I treat it like a fresh ready meal.

I do have time in the morning to make something and then heat up after work.

I'd suggest stir fry or omelette or jacket potato as quick meals. I find sliced, tinned potatoes fry up well as a quick alternative to chips (so with an egg or ham or both) or in your omelette to make it more substantial. Another option is to put something in the slow cooker in the morning ready for when you get home.

TakeItEazy wrote: »

Back to work for the long haul to summer hols tomorrow. It's bad news when I'm looking forward to the next holiday before this ones over . Dreading it so wish me luck .

Good Luck tie. I know that feeling but it generally gets easier when you're there and 'back on the horse' so to speak.

greentiger

Commiserations, TIE.

Sunday’s review
Brunch: hexb porridge made with water, splash hexa milk, banana
Dinner: spinach & rice bake (uses hexa cheese), beetroot, followed by Shape raspberry yogurt (½ syn). (no idea what it’ll be like, but recipe came with our veg box and if I don’t use the spinach right away I’ll put it off , and I’m not fond of spinach anyway.) It filled a hole, is the best I can say, although DH said HP sauce helped; won’t be making it again.
Snacks chosen from:, Special K crisps, sour cream & chives (4 ½ syns), toast & jam(7syns), pear

Total: 12 syns

WI tomorrow, expecting a gain again.

Monday’s Plan
Breakfast: scrambled eggs & smoked salmon
Lunch: out with friend
Dinner: baked potato, filling to be decided, salad stuff
Snacks chosen from:
choc digestive (4 syns)
Special K crisps (4½ syns)
2 Ryvita & hexa cheese, tomatoes (3 syns)

Saver-upper

My menu for today:
Brekky: an apple and a peach

Lunch:wholemeal thin (HEB) with fried bacon,egg,cold tomato
a mandarin

Snack:SW HM chocolate bun/cakey thing(2.5syns)

Tea: Hunters chicken (chicken,bacon,12g cheese:2.5syns),served with brown rice,mange tout,fried onion and red peppers

Haven't used all my milk allowance today.

System

I know I haven't used my milk allowance most days as I buy a 4 pint skimmed milk. Divide 4 pints (2.27l) into 350ml and that is 6.5 days. It lasted me 8 days.

Mamam - I will probably use the slow cooker more. I've got 3 packs of very nice lean lamb leg steaks in the freezer - all have yellow reduced stickers on them (MSE!).I can do a Moroccan lamb with chickpeas and dried apricots (synned of course) with me making up some couscous and a small side salad when I get home. My SC is a small one and can do 2 meals in it so box the other half to eat 3-5 days later.

Today -
B - HEA milk and HEB - shredded wheat bitesize Banana
Brunch - eggs (unsure which method yet) baked beans, tomatoes. Apple
Work break - satsuma, cherries, ML yog
Dinner - jacket potato with tuna, cucumber and quark.

Lois_Lane

Morning all

It's summer - yay! (Pity it's cold and wet... and the shop is so quiet now the children have gone back to school.)

A couple of people have mentioned not using all of their HEa for milk, and I find the same thing - I mainly use it in tea and don't use it all every day, so every few days I have some cheese to make it up.

Greentiger - I've never acquired the taste for spinach either. When I first started school we used to get creamed spinach with school dinners and I was forced to eat it. At that age I had an aversion to anything green, particularly dark green, and it put me off for life. _pale_

Scarletmarble - I'd struggle to eat a big meal so late at night, could you have your main meal during the day? If not, I'd go with Maman's suggestion to prepare something in the slow cooker so it's ready for you when you get home.

Have a good day everyone.

LL

System

Lois_Lane wrote: »

Morning all



Scarletmarble - I'd struggle to eat a big meal so late at night, could you have your main meal during the day? If not, I'd go with Maman's suggestion to prepare something in the slow cooker so it's ready for you when you get home.

Have a good day everyone.

LL

The thing is I only have 30 mins paid break at work and that isn't enough time for me to heat up any food, eat that, eat fruit, go to the loo in that time. In the morning, I do my shopping on Mondays and Tuesday is my cleaning morning so don't feel fully hungry to have a main meal then.

I am used to eating big meals late. Even my ex when he worked til 10pm, he insisted that I ate with him.

I bought a few syn free or low syn friendly store cupboard stuff today. I used the last pack of AH couscous the other day. Even a couple of tins of Sainsburys beef ravioli which is free.

In Asda's reduced, I bought some gammon steaks with pineapple rings - they are free too and pack of roast chicken slices. Great to add to pasta.

joedenise

Well yesterday's meals didn't go to plan! Ended up at a neighbour's house for a drink so more syns than intended but although we didn't have the sausage & bean casserole (we're having it tonight now!) I had some chicken pieces (skin removed); half plate of salad and some new boiled potatoes so at least the food was SW friendly.

She was going to throw the LO potatoes away so I've snaffled those and they're in the fridge.

Problem is I now only have 5 syns a day from today until Wednesday so need to be a bit careful.

Today's planned EE meals are:

B - toast (HEB); butter, marmalade (3 syns)
L - ham, LO potatoes fried up; salad; beetroot; cornichons
D - sausage & bean casserole (0.5 syns) potatoes; brussels

HEA - milk in tea throughout the day.

Denise

maman

I'm the same with HEA. It's only the days that I have cereal or porage (so two days a week on average) that I use all my milk particularly at weekends when I'm having wine in the evenings. I generally ignore it but when I have some parmesan on pasta or a sprinkle of cheese on an omelette I don't bother to count it. BUT I always said that if I hit a plateau with weightloss I would measure/weigh everything. Fortunately that didn't happen.


I think the weather is going to pick up from Wednesday onwards lois so enjoy the peace and quiet while it lasts.


Good idea to use the SC more scarlet marble. I think you said your freezer was quite full. I'd start working on that so you can replace with HM ready meals. I'm also going to nag you about Speed food.:D Bearing in mind that cherries, banana and baked beans don't count yours look a bit thin on the ground today.


I'm having same lunch as you denise, although DH and I were so greedy last night that all potatoes got eaten so I'll open a tin instead. No idea about dinner as DH and I are out at different times this evening so depends how hungry I am.


EE plan:
B: NAS Ribena, scrambled eggs, HEA milk for teas
L: ham, fried veg, pickles
D (if needed): cottage cheese either with apple or JP depending on how hungry I am
Syns: none planned but probably a couple of squares of chocolate

System

Mamam - I had an apple now. Then I have a satsuma at break and after work, strawberries and raspberries.