Slimming For Summer - Slimming World support thread 2019

maman

joedenise wrote: »

D - chilli (using the batch cooked base I made last week - just need to add chilli & kidney beans to it) with rice; cottage cheese (instead of sour cream - thanks Maman for the tip!; Syn Free pea guacamole (from Slimming Eats website) - this makes a good alternative but obviously isn't the real thing!

Glad you like the cottage cheese. I think it gives a cool, sharp flavour against the hotness of the chilli.

I started looking at the Batch Lady site, just two clips so far. As she lives on a farm she's obviously got way more space than most of us for her freezers. They're like something from a professional kitchen. But the 'flat' freezing is a good idea although I'm happy with my flat boxes at the moment. I definitely agree with having a list of what's in the freezer too.

I realised (from checking one of her recipes) that some of what she's doing isn't batch cooking as such but batch prepping. That's a good idea if you're really busy but I like the idea that I can take something from the freezer at the last minute and ping it. I wouldn't want to do that with an uncooked chicken breast and raw things don't defrost well in the microwave IMO. Anyone else watched any of it?:)

Today's EE plan:
B: NAS grapefruit, HEB toast, 2 fried eggs, HEA milk for drinks
L: LO veg and pickles
baked salmon, SW chips, stir fried veg (cabbage, spring onions, mushrooms, peppers, mange tout, asparagus)
Syns: HP sauce 1

joedenise

I haven't watched any of her videos yet but just had a mooch around the website. I've looked at the batch cooking she does and agree a lot of it is batch prepping but don't think I'd like things like burgers being cooked and then reheated anyway! I only batched less than half her quantities and got 3 x 4 portions from it. So quite happy with that.

Denise

poundsinbucks

beanielou wrote: »

Got the DM yesterday Pib's but havent looked at the pullout yet.
Will try to remember to report back!
Usually they are just a rehash though.

Thanks beanie. Talked to my lovely neighbour who still buys a DM most days, she is in her 80s, and got the one from Sat too from the TV guide, as well as Sundays’s pullout. I do recognise a lot of the recipes, but still nice to collect and read .

Poundsinbucks x

Matron_Midge

Thanks for the info on retaining membership MAMAN, I reckon I've got 3 weeks left but I am going this week. If I don't, I think I may stray off the straight and narrow.

PON honey chilli chicken tonight for tea. I've put halved carrots in the roasting tray with it for a bit of extra speed and I'm serving it up with basmati rice and salad. Rather hoping there will be a bit left for lunch because it smells really good. It's only 1 and 1/2 syns too.

I've been going through some of the old mags and cutting out recipies to try. If I like them, I'm sticking them into a notebook.
So far I've got chicken tikka masala, bacon and butternut risotto, aubergine Parmesan and pork stroganoff. I soon get fed up of the same thing over and over so thought I'd try and shake things up a bit.

joedenise

Midge if you want to mix it up a bit how about trying some of the Jack Monroe recipes. They're easily adapted to SW but mostly vegetarian and her later ones are more vegan but if you don't mind veggie food then she's got some good recipes. I'm planning on doing her aubergine & chickpea curry this week which is really tasty! The other recipe I like is her bean goulash but I just use a tin of mixed beans to make it. Her website is cookingonabootstrap.

I really need to do the same as you as I've got a folder full of recipes which I really need to sort out plus a couple of big piles of SW magazines and books! Really ought to sort them all out as there probably aren't that many recipes that I'm like to use too often!

Denise

maman

I've got a box with recipes from magazines or printed off the Internet. I try them and then if they're keepers I transfer them to a folder.:)

Would you post the stroganoff recipe please midge ? I had mushroom stroganoff a few times on holiday. It's yummy.

bubbs

Evening all
Well 1 1/2 on, i can live with that top end of target now, so need a loss this week.
Tracy a lady that was woman of the year 2017? i think it was went to our group tonight as she cant get to hers on a Tues at the minute, i know her as she did become a consultant for a while and took our group.
Anyhow i was talking to her and said are you still in target? She laughed and said god no, 1st 41/2lb over)because of work she had not been since the beginning of March, she went last week and lost 11lb!! this week she said no chance of a loss as been out too lunch every day although made good choices so only goes an losses 7 1/2lb!!

joedenise

I envy people who can lose big like that! especially when not sticking to plan. It seems so unfair to those of us who can't lose more than lb!

Denise

bubbs

joedenise wrote: »

I envy people who can lose big like that! especially when not sticking to plan. It seems so unfair to those of us who can't lose more than lb!

Denise

She has always been a good looser , she has lost 18 stone!!
She said she did stick to plan loosely even though was out too lunch, she had jp's a couple of times, steak once , one fried egg that she knew of and had sw home cooked meals in the evening

bubbs

Tea and a burnt quiche:rotfl: