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Sandhy

To those couple of people who asked about anyone noticing my weight loss, the answer's no. No-one's noticed apart from my mum lol. Maybe people are too polite to comment!

maman

Sandhy wrote: »

To those couple of people who asked about anyone noticing my weight loss, the answer's no. No-one's noticed apart from my mum lol. Maybe people are too polite to comment!

That's a great loss sandhy.:T I expect you must feel really smug and proud of yourself keeping such an achievement secret. The only person that commented when I started was a nephew. He's a polite young man and started off saying 'I know you're not supposed to comment on a lady's weight but.....'. Then I got the people who were checking that my weightloss was deliberate and I wasn't ill. Then quickly followed by people telling me not to lose any more. Strangely my SIL said to me last week that I looked good now because a few years ago she thought I'd lost too much. That makes no sense at all as I was at target then and I'm at target now!! I suppose we all have a story to tell.


Hope you get back to losing ways very soon candy.:)

Lois_Lane wrote: »

Well the slow cooked pork was ok but not very tender as I'd hoped it would be, there wasn't any fat on it and I'm sure that helps keep it soft. We ate it, and the vegetables were nice.
LL

That's a shame. The JO recipe is delicious but that has the crackling left on usually and then I have to use my amazing willpower;):D to cut it off and throw it in the bin. It probably means fat is soaked into the meat but I don't eat it that often so I ignore it.


Is your onion soup thin like French onion denise? I need to make some soup and don't really want to make lentil as I've got cooked gammon in the freezer (hope that makes sense). Is it a SW recipe?


Thanks for the fishcake idea june. I think I'll experiment on myself at lunchtimes before giving any to DH.


I have huge portions lantanna and my only real snack is the 3.5 syns of chocolate in the evening plus occasional raids on fridge for a beetroot or slice of cooked meat. It's certainly worth a try.


If I see anyone eating wotsits on Children in Need I'll think of you missindependent.

Meal plan and shopping list done so will go off to Aldi later. Today's EE menu:
B: NAS Grapefruit, HEB toast, baked beans, HEA milk for teas
L: not hungry so probably just graze (beetroot, cottage cheese)
BGTY burger, fried onions, tomato, mushroom, peas, SW chips
Syns: squirt of HP sauce, scrape of spread, weekend wine:T

joedenise

maman wrote: »

That's a great loss sandhy.:T I expect you must feel really smug and proud of yourself keeping such an achievement secret. The only person that commented when I started was a nephew. He's a polite young man and started off saying 'I know you're not supposed to comment on a lady's weight but.....'. Then I got the people who were checking that my weightloss was deliberate and I wasn't ill. Then quickly followed by people telling me not to lose any more. Strangely my SIL said to me last week that I looked good now because a few years ago she thought I'd lost too much. That makes no sense at all as I was at target then and I'm at target now!! I suppose we all have a story to tell.

Hope you get back to losing ways very soon candy.:)

That's a shame. The JO recipe is delicious but that has the crackling left on usually and then I have to use my amazing willpower;):D to cut it off and throw it in the bin. It probably means fat is soaked into the meat but I don't eat it that often so I ignore it.


Is your onion soup thin like French onion denise? I need to make some soup and don't really want to make lentil as I've got cooked gammon in the freezer (hope that makes sense). Is it a SW recipe?

Thanks for the fishcake idea june. I think I'll experiment on myself at lunchtimes before giving any to DH.

I have huge portions lantanna and my only real snack is the 3.5 syns of chocolate in the evening plus occasional raids on fridge for a beetroot or slice of cooked meat. It's certainly worth a try.

If I see anyone eating wotsits on Children in Need I'll think of you missindependent.

Meal plan and shopping list done so will go off to Aldi later. Today's EE menu:
B: NAS Grapefruit, HEB toast, baked beans, HEA milk for teas
L: not hungry so probably just graze (beetroot, cottage cheese)
BGTY burger, fried onions, tomato, mushroom, peas, SW chips
Syns: squirt of HP sauce, scrape of spread, weekend wine:T

The onion soup is a SW one. It's in the Little Book of Lunches. And yes it is a very thin French Onion. Think I'd have been better off doing the French Onion I usually make! There was a bit too much balsamic vinegar in it for my taste but was better once I'd put some more black pepper in it.

Wasn't feeling particular full after it so had some sweetened Quark with raspberries. Will need to buy some more Quark & raspberries tomorrow I think as not much Quark left and no raspberries. DH and I both had the same after dinner last night - think this might become our dessert whenever we want something a bit sweet. Might even get some meringues & crumble them over as well so a bit like an Eton Mess.

Bought a Kg of red onions yesterday and am now making some syn free red onion chutney. Says to cook the onions for about an hour in the vinegar until they're sweet and sticky but definitely taking longer than an hour! Mine have been on for over 1&1/4 hours so far and I think will probably need another half hour yet. But well worth it once it's done. Goes lovely with cold meats & salad.

I've made salmon fishcakes using tinned salmon before but found them very difficult to cook as they are so fragile. They might be better baked in the oven rather than in a frying pan. I froze mine for about 20 minutes before cooking to firm them up and even after that they were still very soft.

I've still got a couple in the freezer but I'll have to eat them as DH absolutely hated them!

LL - I think the pork probably wasn't as soft as you would have liked because of the lack of fat. I usually use shoulder which has a bit of fat running through it and it comes out lovely and soft.

Denise

shala_moo

hi all.. just catching up..

Brilliant losses everyone :T:T Sorry to hear of some of the gains, sure it's a blip and will be off again next week!

Great to hear your mum's on the mend BEG, hope she gets home soon, for her, and so you don't have to keep travelling!

Well done on your shineys elona, B17c and beanie!!:T:T

Daisy - are you veggie? only yesterday's menu could have been a green day and you could have heb'd your toastie (if it was wholemeal) saving you syns.

greentiger wrote: »

I don’t buy Pringles because I’m sure there is a LAW that you have to eat the whole lot at once, mini or standard, whatever you’ve got, and I am a law abiding citizen.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: I like that law...

Ohh Denise, that onion chutney sounds nice... need to finish my other stuff first but will definitely try that after. Let us know how it is, have you used sweetner or synned some sugar? OH goes mad when I cook chutney as the whole house stinks, but I looooove vinegar!

:rotfl: at your SIL maman, suppose she's used to seeing you smaller now so it's normal.

Been to the hairdressers this morning, got them to sort my mop out i'm relatively happy with it now (apart from the grey roots but that's not their fault:rotfl:) will be covering those in the next week or so! CP did you go back and get yours done or are you just having it brighter next time you go?

Also popped into the co-op earlier, they have swede's and carrots at 39p so I picked those up and there's now a stew bubbling away in the slow cooker for tomorrow:drool: Roast chicken dinner tonight, lots of veg.. did buy some mullers too, probably not the cheapest but better to have a yogurt than a chocolate bar..

Seem to be watching what i'm eating again and whilst some days aren't strictly SW I am reducing the amount of treats and mindless nibbling so the scales seem to be going in the right direction :T

So menu for today is/was EE
B - apple
L - 2 linda mc sausages, poached egg, toast (heb)
T - roast chuck, potatoes, carrots, broccoli, Yorkshire pud (syns) dab of gravy (1)
S - satsumas (many), crisps(5) milk in tea & babybel (hea) vanilla muller

june89

With all this talk of milk, look at the non-dairy ones if you're struggling with keeping in allowance. Unsweetened soya is 400ml, unsweetened almond is 1 LITRE per day! :eek:

I used sweetened soya milk (works the best in my coffee machine) and get 300ml a day. 150ml is the perfect amount for the machine, which leaves half my allowance for cheese. I use the value one, pretty much the same price as normal milk.

joedenise wrote: »

How much avocado are you having for 3.5 syns? IIRC it's 14 syns for a whole one! I wouldn't have thought 1/4 of an avacado would be enough! I would want at least half if I was having some.

Denise

It's 9.5 syns for 100g. It was a very small avocado and I had just under half (36g) as a bit of it wasn't ripe enough. But I'm using it more like butter than a topping in itself, so quite a thin layer is more than enough for me.

Today...
Breakfast - Weetabix (HEB + 1/2 HEA) with berries
Lunch - Leftover fishcakes and spinach salad
Dinner - Fish and Mediterranean vegetables
Snacks - Quark, Apple and cheese (1/2 HEA)

Weigh in tomorrow morning, so keeping it quite light! I can't find the veggie pack in syns online but there's only veggies (no oil) in the ingredients so I'm counting it as free. Syns will be for pudding, as usual.

Got the online shopping today, so my fridge is full of quark. Happy days.

CountingPennies

Hey Shala ended up putting more colour in myself. Bought some crazy colour and set myself away.... I think it looks better now than it did before, saved a fortune too!

CP xx

wizkid1

Hello again and so the weekend is upon us I hope none of us weaken because it's the Weekend, this is my Saturday plan....

Breakfast. All bran flakes. A/B Frozen summer fruits

Lunch.. Scrambled egg on Wholemeal toast 6 syns clementine.

Dinner... Loose meat B and potato pie No crust.. Mushy peas beetroot pear.

Supper & Snacks 2 ryvita 3 syns. F f Mullerlight yoghurt. 2 S f digestives 3

A milk A milk B cereal B meat in the pie
12 syns
Water, Hot lemon water.

maman

wizkid1 wrote: »

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Dinner... Loose meat B and potato pie No crust.. Mushy peas beetroot pear.

I've heard of Loose Women wiz, but what on earth is loose meat?:rotfl:


Thanks for the advice on the onion soup denise. I think maybe you're right and it's best adapting a 'normal' recipe. They often work best.


A DIY eton mess is my go to pudding when we have people round. I put out the small meringues ( Sainsbury's 1 syn?), a bowl of raspberries and strawberries and then a choice of cream or 1% Total (know you don't like that) and let everyone help themselves to as much as they want.


I bought one of each milk today: 1% and semi-skimmed. We'll see how it goes through the week and if no adverse comments from DH about the 1% then I think it might be worth it for the extra bit of HEA.


Finished the last of the Bolognese last night (hope you enjoyed yours lantanna) so tomorrow I'm doing a big chilli in the SC. It's good to have HM ready meals available.


Slight change of plan tonight, made patatas bravas instead of SW chips. Yum! Yum!:drool:

joedenise

DH was fine with the 1% until made a cup of tea himself and saw it wasn't our normal SS, LOL! But I'm sticking with it - that extra 50ml makes a lot of difference.

Can't say I like Total 0% but happy with sweetened Quark, as is DH.

Today is another EE day:

B - bacon & mushroom omlette
L - LO onion soup; HEB Thin
D - steak, chips, roasted peppers, onions, mushrooms. May also have a few beans.

HEA - 300ml 1% milk
HEB - Thin

Syns - weekend wine; 1/2 tsp Dijon mustard (0.5)

Have been keeping syns a bit lower so far! Hope to keep it up over the weekend too.

Have a nice weekend everyone.

Denise

elona

I made a SW breakfast of sausages, egg, bacon, tomato and mushrooms.

Had no idea what to make for lunch as I did not have much in but ended up getting quorn mince from the freezer with onions, peppers,courgette, passata and herbs with stock cube and simmering them for an hour then adding pasta. It turned out really tasty and I have enough to freeze in a couple of boxes and freeze for DD to take home.

I found some lime and herb fish for tonight's meal and need to nip out for veg, milk, eggs etc.

Managed to look up melba toast online as I had been happily scoffing them since I thought they were free :eek: They are half a syn each.