Losing in Lockdown - Slimming World Support Thread

maman

Well done on passing the 'clean jeans test' denise. I've been wearing leggings throughout the lockdown. They're brilliantly comfortable but far too forgiving.  

I haven't made lasagne for years just because I've never fancied a SW white sauce mixture. I like lashings of cheese too (in the sauce and on top). I wonder what this one will be like?

Today's EE plan-
B- NAS grapefruit, baked beans (F), bacon, fried egg (P), HEB toast, HEA milk
L- cold meat (P), bubble & squeak, beetroot (F, S) 
D- baked salmon (P), SW chips (F), cauli steak, mushrooms, green stuff (asparagus broccoli, mange tout) (S)
Syns- none

bubbs

Afternoon all
Have you not tried the cheese sauce made from Cauli? i like it, Denise i always use BNS instead of pasta

joedenise

The lasagne was lovely!  The butternut squash is actually in the sauce bubbs not instead of the lasagne sheets!  The recipe is for 4 servings but I think we'll get 6 portions from it which is a bonus.  Haven't actually divided it up yet but I made 2 lasagnes thinking we'd have one today and one for the freezer but we couldn't actually manage a whole one so am going to divide the other one up into 3 portions and use the portion we didn't eat today for the 4th portion to freeze.  I didn't actually weigh the parmesan but I'd say it was probably no more than 1 HEA between us and it was certainly cheesy enough but as it makes 6 portions no reason why you couldn't add far more cheese if you wanted to.  The recipe, for 4 portions, actually only uses 20g of parmasan.

Still got half the butternut squash left so will need to use that in something else in the next few days to use it up.  Will probably use with when I make a veggie curry in a couple of days time.

I haven't tried the white sauce made with cauliflower but to be quite honest cauliflower isn't the cheapest of veg, is it?  

Denise

bubbs

joedenise said:

The lasagne was lovely!  The butternut squash is actually in the sauce bubbs not instead of the lasagne sheets!  The recipe is for 4 servings but I think we'll get 6 portions from it which is a bonus.  Haven't actually divided it up yet but I made 2 lasagnes thinking we'd have one today and one for the freezer but we couldn't actually manage a whole one so am going to divide the other one up into 3 portions and use the portion we didn't eat today for the 4th portion to freeze.  I didn't actually weigh the parmesan but I'd say it was probably no more than 1 HEA between us and it was certainly cheesy enough but as it makes 6 portions no reason why you couldn't add far more cheese if you wanted to.  The recipe, for 4 portions, actually only uses 20g of parmasan.

Still got half the butternut squash left so will need to use that in something else in the next few days to use it up.  Will probably use with when I make a veggie curry in a couple of days time.

I haven't tried the white sauce made with cauliflower but to be quite honest cauliflower isn't the cheapest of veg, is it?  

Denise

Ahhh i see
Cauli is £1 if they are big you only need half

Breakfast was 3 boiled eggs & ham- no speed

Lunch, cold pork, crab sticks and speed

Tea chesse, mushroom and tom omelette , 1/2 heaxa, speed, beans & chips free

joedenise

Don't know where you're located bubbs but here in the South East you'd be lucky to get a small cauliflower for £1!  A large one is likely to be in the region of £2-£2.50!  Wish I could get a large cauliflower for £1 but that's definitely wishful thinking!

Denise

bubbs

joedenise said:

Don't know where you're located bubbs but here in the South East you'd be lucky to get a small cauliflower for £1!  A large one is likely to be in the region of £2-£2.50!  Wish I could get a large cauliflower for £1 but that's definitely wishful thinking!

Denise

Sainsburys, tesco and asda all that price in Northampton

bubbs

Morning all

Lovely morning but was chilly first thing
Breakfast is done and dusted, i have got a busy day today, Denise this is the cauli i got for £1 from Sainsburys yesterday, excuse all the crap in the back ground 🤣🤣cuse 

joedenise

Wow!  That would be at least £2 down here in Kent!

We're getting a delivery of bacon & pork today - it's quite expensive but the meat is absolutely amazing and the dry cure bacon is actually dry cure!  The stuff you get from the SMs even as dry cure has loads of water in it and just steams the bacon!

We've also got a delivery of top soil arriving sometime this morning.  DH is going to have to shovel and wheelbarrow it from front to back garden and then shovel it again from wheelbarrow to garden - can't get the wheelbarrow up to it as it's on a higher level!

Today's plan:

B - Toasted bacon sandwich - HEB; P; 2
L - Crispy bacon & greens carbonara - P; S; F -  recipe from this month's magazine but substituting the broccoli for beans as haven't got any brocolli
D - Slow cooked cottage pie - P; S; F; 0.5 - another recipe from this month's magazine

HEA - milk
HEB - bread
Syns - butter 2; cornflour 0.5

Denise

maman

That's the sort of price cauli is around here too bubbs.  We're in the South but  I thought supermarkets had a fairly standard price nationally? It's shocking that it's so expensive in the 'Garden of England' denise. Aldi cauliflowers have been pretty ropey lately and DD1 failed to find me one in Tesco as well last week. In the end I bought one in our little Coop which is always expensive but I think that was £1.20. As I always do a large range of veg (to deliberately have LOs for my lunches), a decent cauli can last me 3 dinners. This week we had it with Sunday roast, with sausage & mash on Tuesday and then as cauli steaks (which I cut on Sunday) with our fish last night.  

I'm toying with the idea of going back to Friday shopping. At the start of lockdown, I moved my weekly shop from Friday to Thursday to try and avoid big queues but I think it's moving that weekend feeling that's encouraging me to have wine syns on a Thursday.   I'm feeling slim enough at the moment but  those extra syns will catch me up eventually. We can eat today without any need for shopping so I'm thinking seriously about it. Willpower is needed.  

Today's EE plan-
B- NAS grapefruit, skinny syrup, banana (F), HEB porage, HEA1 milk
L- veggie omelette (pepper, courgette, mushroom) omelette (P,S) with beetroot (s) and ham (P)
D- SW Bolognese (P,S) with tagliatelle (F) and HEA2 Parmesan
Syns- tbc

joedenise

Occasionally you can get the big cauliflowers in the farm shop for about £1.50 but it's really hit and miss.  Didn't go in there today as got everything on my list in Morries.  Wasn't too long and list and was mainly fruit and veg; they even had potatoes on a multi buy offer!  Only spent about £20 so not too bad for a week's shopping.  Don't need to go to get eggs this week as got some at the beginning of the week.

The carbonara wasn't too bad but far too much spaghetti for us so if I do it again I'll be following the recipe less as in not as much spaghetti and more bacon & veg!  Also need to up the amount of fromage frais in the sauce half wasn't enough even though I used 2 egg yolks rather than 1.5 which would have been half!

Have to see how the slow cooked cottage pie works out, although I'm just doing a normal potato topping rather than the celeriac & butter bean mash the recipe says as I forgot to look for a celeriac when I went shopping and I'd forgotten to put it on my list!

Denise