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

Tete_en_l'Air

Great news that you're cancer-free Kathryn! Yikes to no tomatoes though, I have no idea what you could substitute them with. I'm like you, they're a huge staple in my diet. Agree with what others have said though, your health is more important than sticking to SW at the moment.

Shala, just realised I didn't highlight my weigh in earlier on - it was a 0.5lb gain.

Have a great weekend everyone x

piglet6

Evening all! :wave:

Happy Birthday, joedenise! :bdaycake:

Hugs, lantana - hope things feel better soon... :grouphug:

Good-ish day, today - stuck to food plan and avoided the heaving biscuit tin at work. :T Should have recorded ½syn for the horseradish in lunchtime's soup (which is totally worth it!), but came home tonight and had wine with dinner...:o Shared a bottle (well, had a glass with dinner, but am sitting watching telly now with a second glass :eek:). At 13%, the WLP tells me that's 17 syns (oops!), but after a stressful day at work, I'm enjoying every mouthful, and its only 17½ syns over 2 days, so I'm totally fine with that. :rotfl:

Tomorrow's menu is:

B: Cheese (HExA) omelette with mushrooms and tomatoes
L: Roasted Mediterranean Vegetable soup
Jacket potato with the other half of tonight's coleslaw (why can you never make a small amount of coleslaw, even when you deliberately try to only use a small amount of ingredients?!!:p) and ham and salad
HExB: hmmm, maybe hi-fi bars... Still TBC!

Have a good weekend - I'm working tomorrow...

P x

esmy

Kathryn I've been thinking about how to replace tomatoes in recipes - I'm not sure what is 'banned' from your diet but could you roast and pulp red peppers, sweet potato or butternut squash? I'm assuming you can use herbs to enhance the flavour. Peppers would give you the colour, too.

I'll think on it a bit more.........

piglet6

Forgot to say, glad to hear that your op was successful, Kathrynha - I'm sure you'll soon sort out a way to Food Optimise around your dietary restrictions where possible.

But, as others have already said, your health is the important thing, so if the scales go a bit "wobbly" for a little while until you get sorted, its a small price to pay in the overall scheme of things...

P x

joedenise

Kathryn - just googled what to substitute for tomatoes in recipes and came across this site http://www.nomato.com/ which is a no tomato sauce. It says it's available mail order but not sure if the site is American so may not be available here.

Denise

esmy

Kathryn found this recipe via Google - of any help??

http://www.food.com/recipe/basic-nomato-sauce-tomato-free-tomato-sauce-359835#activity-feed

beanielou

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wizkid1

Well it's the weekend again and today 31 March was my 55th wedding anniversary DH took me out for a meal so what I put down in my menu plan for today was wrong. I had a lovely meal but there were so much I couldn't eat it all.:D
1st I had a prawn cocktail. ( I couldn't eat it all I had to make room for my main course) 2nd was Hunter's chicken and wedges. There were far too much I had 3 wedges and quarter of my Hunters chicken. I did NOT have a sweet.:T :T Far far far too full came home and just had a ginger tea to settle my stomach It was a great place, great food but too much. once of a day I would have had all three courses lol. :cool:

Anyway this is my Saturday menu plan..

Breakfast.. cereal A/B raspberries strawberries blueberries.

Lunch.. cheese A on toast 6 syns with an egg on top. Beetroot. Melon

Dinner gammon B mixed vegetables. Clementine melon
Extra f f yoghurt, 2 crispbread and butter 5 syns
11 syns...:)

kathrynha

esmy wrote: »

Kathryn I've been thinking about how to replace tomatoes in recipes - I'm not sure what is 'banned' from your diet but could you roast and pulp red peppers, sweet potato or butternut squash? I'm assuming you can use herbs to enhance the flavour. Peppers would give you the colour, too.

I'll think on it a bit more.........

Unfortunately sweet potato and squash are out. Carrot is similar consistency and okay though. And yes fresh herbs and most spices are okay apart from salt.

joedenise wrote: »

Kathryn - just googled what to substitute for tomatoes in recipes and came across this site http://www.nomato.com/ which is a no tomato sauce. It says it's available mail order but not sure if the site is American so may not be available here.

Denise

Unfortunately some stuff on the ingredient list is on my banned list, but only minor ingredients so gives me ideas on how to make something similar myself.

esmy wrote: »

Kathryn found this recipe via Google - of any help??

http://www.food.com/recipe/basic-nomato-sauce-tomato-free-tomato-sauce-359835#activity-feed

4 out of 6 ingredients are okay, but cooking method would need adapting.


Thank you ladies. Think I now have a basis for a sauce I can make to replace tomato based sauces. I think carrots are my new friend. Not a favourite veg of mine but with list being so limited I need to embrace them..

Can't use any of the cooking water from veg, but will just have to cook, drain then add fresh water when blitzing for consistency.

You are absolutely brilliant people because I can now put chilli and bolognese (with a few more adaptions) back on my menu. Thank you so much

joedenise

Wow wiz 55 years wedding anniversary is amazing. I thought I was doing well at 46 years in just over 2 weeks.

Glad you now have some ideas for a no tomato tomato sauce katheryn. Hope it gives a good taste to your chilli, bolognaise etc.

As travelling back home today food not easily planned! So far it's going to be museli for breakfast and will probably make the potato based pizza for dinner when we get home as we didn't need dinner after our huge lunch. Lunch will be on the way home so no idea what yet.

Denise