Get in the swing for Spring - Slimming World support thread 2017

maman

bubbs wrote: »

Thanks so tikka is free ? no syns:D

It can vary depending on the recipe each brand uses. I'd check first before you buy or worse still eat!

bubbs

maman wrote: »

It can vary depending on the recipe each brand uses. I'd check first before you buy or worse still eat!

Thanks but pixtotts put this so im assuming they are
Which means nom nom nom:T:T:T
And last night I was going to be going to a friends for pizza but her mums in hospital so I had tesco tikka chicken - from the BBQ range - Syn free!! with loads of salad and butternut squash chips, the crinkle cut ones from sainsburys I love so much that they look like frozen chips

bubbs

And this is on the syns list but thought it would be thighs, drumsticks etc?
Tesco Tikka Chicken Steaks, chilled (150g each) FREE

piglet6

Well, yesterday went a little wonky...

Brunch was fine (also had courgette with it - yum yum...and more speed! :j). But went out in the afternoon, and it was so lovely and warm that we didn't fancy beef casserole, so picked up some veggie sushi and had that for dinner (3 syns - OK, that's do-able :cool:). But then got the munchies mid-evening, so had 2 slices of wholemeal toast with cheese triangles and marmite. Thought that would cross off my HExA and HExB... :A Didn't enjoy it that much (I'm really not a wholemeal toast kind of girl...:o), but really didn't enjoy it when I tried to add it into the WLP and discovered that the bread I'd used (although a small wholemeal 400g loaf) showed up as 4½ syns per slice!! :mad: Arrghhhh!!! For something I didn't really enjoy... I could have cried. So I had to add another 9 syns (and eat a Choca Mocha bar to console myself and replace the HExB! ).

Anyway, today is a new day...

Slept in, so missed breakfast. Have just had lunch - the beef casserole that didn't get eaten last night (full of speed and served with more speed - just counted...10 speed veg + parsnips!! :T). Dinner is down to be green salad with smoked salmon and a poached egg, so more speed there. Although I will be going out tonight at about 6.15pm (Book Club) so will see if I'm hungry enough before I go... If not, it may be a late supper!

Have a good afternoon, everyone...

P x

piglet6

Oh, a quick question if I may...

Why are pickles not speed? If I put gherkins, onions & beetroot into the WLP, they are Speed, but the minute I add the word pickled, the S disappears?

I know with cooked/pureed fruit its because you can eat a bigger volume more easily, but pickling these things doesn't change their shape or make it easier to overeat - if anything, I'd have thought that the vinegar element limits the amount you can eat more than non-pickled...?! :think:

Thanks

P x

maman

bubbs wrote: »

And this is on the syns list but thought it would be thighs, drumsticks etc?
Tesco Tikka Chicken Steaks, chilled (150g each) FREE

bubbs wrote: »

Thanks but pixtotts put this so im assuming they are
Which means nom nom nom:T:T:T
And last night I was going to be going to a friends for pizza but her mums in hospital so I had tesco tikka chicken - from the BBQ range - Syn free!! with loads of salad and butternut squash chips, the crinkle cut ones from sainsburys I love so much that they look like frozen chips

Sorry bubbs I didn't explain this very well:o. The chicken tikka that pixtotts had was free. I meant the answer to your question 'Is tikka free' would vary depending on what you bought and where from. Some chicken tikka (like tinned) can be massively synful others (like chilled breast slices) can be free or very low syn. I didn't want you assuming that any chicken tikka would be free.

piglet6 wrote: »

Oh, a quick question if I may...

Why are pickles not speed? If I put gherkins, onions & beetroot into the WLP, they are Speed, but the minute I add the word pickled, the S disappears?

I know with cooked/pureed fruit its because you can eat a bigger volume more easily, but pickling these things doesn't change their shape or make it easier to overeat - if anything, I'd have thought that the vinegar element limits the amount you can eat more than non-pickled...?! :think:

Thanks

P x

Pickles are free and Speed provided they're in brine or vinegar. The only ones that aren't (not technically pickles anyway) are things like peppers and sun dried tomatoes in oil. I think it's a glitch (of which there are many:mad:) with the website. I eat loads of my Speed as pickles especially cornichons, beetroot and pickled cabbage.


I wouldn't be too sure that the bread you toasted isn't a HEB. Not every brand of wholemeal is on the list. Which bread was it?

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joedenise

The the website under Healthy Extra B bread it lists

60g any wholemeal bread which is 2 slices of a 400g loaf so I would say that your toast was OK as HEB. As long as it was definitely wholemeal I would count it as your HEB and syn your hifi bar - are the choca mocha ones light so 3 syns? I've no idea as I've never had them as don't like the flavour at all!

Meant so say when I posted earlier that the ile flottant weren't anything like the real thing! My DD2 thought the custard bit tasted a bit like butterscotch Angel Delight, LOL! Don't think I've had that since the 70s! The poached meringue was OK and if I had some proper creme anglaise (I buy small boxes in France but can't remember how many syns it is) I'd definitely do it again with that. I certainly didn't think it was worth 2.5 syns but the meringue was at least Free.

Denise

piglet6

maman wrote: »

Pickles are free and Speed provided they're in brine or vinegar. The only ones that aren't (not technically pickles anyway) are things like peppers and sun dried tomatoes in oil. I think it's a glitch (of which there are many:mad:) with the website. I eat loads of my Speed as pickles especially cornichons, beetroot and pickled cabbage.

I wouldn't be too sure that the bread you toasted isn't a HEB. Not every brand of wholemeal is on the list. Which bread was it?

Thanks, maman - that's great news. I am getting through jars of gherkins, onions, red cabbage & beetroot, but thought that none of them were speed, when, in fact, they all are! :j

My bread was M&S Super Soft Wholemeal Medium Sliced 400g loaf (yellow stickered down to 45p yesterday afternoon, and felt beautifully soft, so I thought I'd give it a go! ). But I couldn't find it under a HE, and it showed up at 4½ syns a slice. I did wonder whether I could use 6 of the 9 syns as my HExB, and just record 3 syns, but wasn't sure if that was a "tweak" or whether I'd only be cheating myself...? Its not the end of the world - I had the syns available (it took me to 15 yesterday, which is fine), but I am out for dinner tomorrow night, so was trying to be frugal with syns this week, so that I could relax a little tomorrow and still stay on track over the week!

P x

piglet6

joedenise wrote: »

The the website under Healthy Extra B bread it lists

60g any wholemeal bread which is 2 slices of a 400g loaf so I would say that your toast was OK as HEB. As long as it was definitely wholemeal I would count it as your HEB and syn your hifi bar - are the choca mocha ones light so 3 syns? I've no idea as I've never had them as don't like the flavour at all

Denise

Thanks, Denise - yes, that's what I thought when I bought it...that ANY wholemeal bread 400g loaf was fine. I am a bit more careful with bread generally now, because the first time I bought thins, I got the wrong type, which didn't count as a HExB, and given that I don't really like wholemeal bread, its doubly galling to have to syn something that you're not really enjoying! :rotfl:

Yes, the hi-fi bar would be 3 syns...

P x