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maman

That's an amazing loss for you both @SingleSue! You obviously made lots of good choices and helped yourself by getting straight back on plan. 👏👏👏 How much have you lost so far? 🤔

My savoury mince is quite a concoction @joedenise, very much stretched as you suggest. The basic recipe is mince, onion, garlic, tomato puree, mushrooms, diced carrot and Oxo cubes. Yesterday I used 250g of beef mince and 100g of pork and also added a handful of lentils and frozen leeks and a lump of frozen spinach. I also keep a bag of diced broccoli stalks (from the soft inside of the stem) in the freezer, so a handful of that went in as well. 😁

I do my brown rice on the hob. My largest saucepan takes a big mug of rice (340g). I rinse the rice first and then simmer in about 3 litres of water for 30 minutes, drain then leave for 20 minutes or so before portioning it up. I get at least 4 x 250g bags of cooked rice from that which I microwave for about 2 minutes when needed. I should try the slow cooker or microwave but my recipe hails back to before using the hob cost an arm and a leg!☹️

SingleSue

11lbs for me and 20lbs for middle son.

joedenise

@maman - thanks for the savoury mince recipe - I really must write it somewhere!  I've never tried doing a mix of beef and pork but will give that a go.- it will probably reduce the cost a bit!

I've checked online about cooking brown rice and wild rice mix in the pressure cooker and quite honestly there's no point as it takes just as long as doing it according to the pack instructions!  Can also be done in the slow cooker - cook for about 3 hours on high so definitely worth a try.

Have done my menu plan for the next couple of weeks but no doubt it will be subject to change depending on what I buy tomorrow when I go shopping - planing on Lidl and Sainsbury tomorrow but there are a couple of things from Tesco so will need to pop down into town early next week, by which time I'll probably need a few other things as well!

maman

I had the original recipe from Topcat when she used to post @joedenise . I have her exact quantities if you want them. Hers was for 500g of mince IIRC. I have 100g packs of pork mince frozen for using with burgers mainly as @bubbs suggested mixing them to make the burgers juicier. I think Aldi sell pork and beef mince together in packs. In my recipe, the lentils make up the extra protein and thicken it and I add extra Speed to absolutely everything! 🤣

joedenise

Thanks @maman but I'll just do what I usually do which is pretty similar to you but I'll try with pork mince added this time.  It's definitely a bit cheaper that beef mince!

I've given up making my own burgers as DH prefers the butcher's low fat ones which are only half syn each so don't break the syn bank!  I've only got enough for 2 meals this month without going to the butchers which I want to avoid and DH always spots stuff that he fancies and it just ends up in the freezer for me to do something with either later in the month or the following one!

bubbs

Evening all

Well done Sue & son 👏👏

Denise hopefully you will soon shift that .

I only mix beef and pork for burgers, i mix 2 packs in the whizzer then make a batch of burgers and freeze them.

I have been really worried today..........well still am as have not heard anything .

Dad was  having a procedure , poor buggas were in a right mess yesterday, even dad who hates hospital said i should be in hospital doing this not at home.

He is having a camera in his hole in his stomach but having to take laxatives every hr, for us we know when we are going he doesn't  couldn't put a bag on as was just pouring from him, he was standing there with a plastic tub catching it all 😥😥

Mum said she wasn't giving him anymore although he should have had more.

Nothing to eat from 2pm yesterday and all he could have was poached eggs on toast, he said he was starving 😥

I Rang earlier and left a message , guessing they wasn't home, but Mum has not rang back, i will try and ring in a bit , because they will be having tea if they are home. But i thought they would be home by lunchtime. 

Poor Mum spent most of the day in tears yesterday.

Mum also has to go back about her heart tomorrow 🙄

Food today
Also had soft pitta with tea

beanielou

Your poor dad bubbs 

joedenise

That sounds awful @bubbs.  Do hope you hear from your mum soon and everything is OK.  Must be very worrying.

Vegastare

Oh Bubbs that is horrible your poor dad and mum seeing him.  Hope you got though and hope Mum gets on alright tomorrow.
Great WL Single Sue.

I'm off to the community hospital tomorrow for blood test.  Don't mind the blood test it's the darn parking around hospital - nightmare. 

B porridge with blues and rasps and FF yog.
L  Jacket pot with prawns and side salad ( ate out so not sure sauce cals)plus tbsp coleslaw.
D  Grilled cod green beans and mushy peas,

HEA Milk 
HEB  Porridge
Syns  6 marie rose sauce (guess) coleslaw 6 syns (guess)

Coxy11

Hope you hear from your folks soon @bubbs - how awful for your DDad xx

Sorry to confuse - long day yesterday to AbingTon!! Even longer today - AbingTon to Moffat - 20 miles 😱 We have a lovely BnB run by Bradley and Ron who made us builders tea and gave us homemade cherry cake when we arrived. Bliss ❤️