Be Fab for Feb - Slimming World support thread 2017

Top_Girl

The consensus with tweaks seems to be that they're okay if they're part of a main meal, when eaten until full and a third speed alongside them. So you're essentially using them as the free food they're intended to be.


I've never found them to hinder my weight loss if I follow the above. There are some things like lasagne crisps and cous cous in anything (can't stand the stuff) that I've never tried. I use smash as a thickener in stews and for KFC chicken as my reasoning is I would use potato in that meal so it's the same difference, I just up my speed accordingly.


I've posted before about the free food/speed food ratios, and there is an meme going round Facebook that has really irritated me.


My bolognese recipe (delicious ) is as follows:


500g 5% mince
175g smoked bacon (asda value pack, fat trimmed off)


500g passata x 2
150g mushrooms
3 carrots (roughly 100g)
1 large chopped onion (roughly 100g)
Plus garlic and four good squirts of tomato puree that I don't take into account.


There, we have 675g free food and 1350g speed.


So, as long as I have less than a kilo of cooked pasta with it (I tend to cook 100g per person, which is just over 200g each cooked, yes I have weighed it! ) then I am more than within my 'limits'. Yet, because there's no salad, people argue that I'm wrong.


Boils my p1ss.


Rant over.

kathrynha

I'm with you on that Top Girl.


My chilli has over 3/4 speed to 1/4 free (5% mince), and I have on my plate 1/2 rice, 1/2 chilli mix, so the rice is 50%, the mince is 12.5% and the speed is at least 37.5% of the plate, so over a third, so why do I need veg on the side too?

lushlifesaver

morning all - doesn't look like today will be a good day. Jar of red cabbage fell out of the cupboard smashing on the floor and breaking my 1litre glass jug on the way down then I cut my finger cleaning that all up then flipping traffic (due to multiple work sites on my route to work as on Monday it was accident central round where we live) so didn't get in earlier like I usually do!


Sticking with it:
breakfast: 2 Weetabix (heb) with milk (from hea) with defrost summer berries mix. tea with milk from remaining hea
lunch: medium jacket potato with beans and all that speedy salad left from yesterday. 2 syns for remaining tbsp. of coleslaw
tea: chicken topped with bacon served with beetroot, pickled onion, lettuce.


changed my tea last night as by the time I was ready to eat I didn't fancy anything! I had a bacon (all fat removed) and mushroom omelette with speedy red cabbage piled on and some beans had my 2 syn hot choc but nothing else in the evening. didn't manage any body magic because had to go out with husband and put some fuel in his car and then had to tidy up the mess him and littlie had made, get them two fed, and then me fed then her to bed! I went to bed at 9 and had freaky dreams then up since husbands alarm at 5.30 things can only get better haha

kathrynha

Hope your day improves Lush.

lantanna

Thanks for all the good luck messages, the interview went well and they rang me in the car on the way home to ask me to come back for a 2nd Interview on Tuesday with the Managing Director.
Fingers crossed!


Have leftover Spag Bol for lunch. Not sure about dinner yet.
Trying to have a more relaxed day than yesterday!

Abbafan1972

Am thinking about buying a soup maker with some birthday money I had.

The reviews for the Morphy Richards 501016 seem really good.

http://www.argos.co.uk/product/5574115

Does anyone else here have one? What are your thoughts please?

Top_Girl

Abbafan1972 wrote: »

Am thinking about buying a soup maker with some birthday money I had.

The reviews for the Morphy Richards 501016 seem really good.

http://www.argos.co.uk/product/5574115

Does anyone else here have one? What are your thoughts please?

I have that one and I love it.


I bought the skinny soup maker book from Amazon too and I make the leek, bacon and potato soup once a week for work at the moment I posted the recipe earlier.

kathrynha

Abbafan1972 wrote: »

Am thinking about buying a soup maker with some birthday money I had.

The reviews for the Morphy Richards 501016 seem really good.

http://www.argos.co.uk/product/5574115

Does anyone else here have one? What are your thoughts please?

Soup makers came up at our meeting a few weeks back. General opinion was they are good if you like lots of soup, but not worth it if you already have a slow cooker and a hand blitzer.

Top_Girl

kathrynha wrote: »

Soup makers came up at our meeting a few weeks back. General opinion was they are good if you like lots of soup, but not worth it if you already have a slow cooker and a hand blitzer.

I agree to a degree, but those are more time consuming and require more washing up I brown my bacon and chop my vegetables as I am making the Sunday roast and my soup is ready in half an hour and cool before bed.

joedenise

Sounding positive Lantanna - good luck for the 2nd interview next week.

LLS - hope today gets better - last night and this morning sound awful.

Abbafan - I've never had a soup maker and can't really see the point of them. I doesn't take more than about half hour to make one in a saucepan. Although, having said that, lots of people at group have them and think they're the best thing since sliced bread!

I ended yesterday on 6.5 syns as decided to have fresh fruit, SF jelly, quark & a mini meringue for pudding so an extra 1.5 syns for a big bowl of loveliness.

Today's plan:

B - boiled eggs; asparagus to dip
L - LO noodles mixed with chopped salady bits and LO roast pork which needs using up
D - steak, SW chips, onions, mushrooms, salad

HEA - milk
HEB - not sure but probably toast or Ryvita this evening so probably some syns for butter

Definitely going to be under the full 105 syns this week for a change! Hoping for a good loss tomorrow and that last week's synful week doesn't catch up with me!

Denise