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bubbs

Welcome canvascamper

Lonewalker hope you are ok? noticed you are MIA

No Maman not a waste we got reduced, salad and chicken breast in asda 

Also my friend does Olio and i requested onions from her, she said how many is too many? i said i use loads of onions, i got a green crate full 🤣🤣 gave a carrier bag full to the refuge and 1 to my sister
Also got bramely apples from her

joedenise

Morning all, change of plan for our holiday as we've decided we're just going to get up early and leaving tomorrow morning instead of going today and hanging around near the port!  So I can at least try to get in one more on plan day (only one small cream cake left to tempt me which I've looked up and can have within syns easily!).

Welcome @canvascamper to the thread, anybody who is healthy eating is welcome.  Good luck with online SW.  As @maman says anyone on here will be happy to help you with anything you need to know.  If you click on Features in the drop down menu you will find features about eating as a Vegan which you might find a good starting point.  You can also download a 7 day Vegan meal plan which will also give you some ideas.  I suspect a lot of what you already eat can be done in a SW way by swapping using loads of oil to a spray oil (normal oils are 6 syns per Tbs so a lot of syns), 1 cal spray oils are Free or you can try the supermarket sprays which are 0.5 syns for 5 sprays.

You did well for the refuge at the Company Shop plus the onions and Bramley's from your Olio friend.  Wish I know someone who did Olio near me - that's the trouble with living miles from anywhere!

Need to go and get the MH filled with gas for our holiday and DH also wants to get some more water biscuits to take with us (at least these are lower syn than the French bread would be!).  Once that's done and we're back home I can get the fridge packed with most of the food we'll be taking.  The only thing to go in before we leave in the morning will be the opened carton of milk and the butter dish.  Any of the bread left will go in the freezer ready for our return.

So today's plan:

B - sausage sandwich - HEB; 5.5
L - lasagne (from freezer) - HEA2; P; S; F 
D - fish pie - P; S; F

HEA1 - milk
HEA2 - cheese
HEB - bread
Syns - sausages 2; butter 3.5; small chocolate eclair 9 (this leaves me with 0.5 syns so could have a couple of 0% G&Ts if I want!)

Have a good day everyone.

ruby_eskimo

Morning all.  

Welcome @canvascamper. As @maman said, people will soon start to notice your weightloss, both in how you look but more importantly in how you feel 😊

Wish we had a company shop nearer to us @bubbs, sounds like some real bargains you got there.  I keep toying with getting a Costco membership but not sure we have the space to store half the things we'd buy 🤣

Hope you're feeling better soon @beanielou

Well done on the losses to you and your son @SingleSue - and congratulations on the new shiny sticker!

Hope you have a lovely holiday when you eventually get away @joedenise!

Dad's MRI went well and apparently he's booked in to have some fluid drained at 4pm on Friday so will be in over the weekend and hopefully home on Monday...?  Who knows!  Anyway, have to take my mother to the bank this afternoon as they're shutting her local (it's not very local) branch and she needs to change her account so she has a debit card (still has a paying in book) and that way can actually use the post office round the corner to do her banking 🙄  If I don't post tomorrow it's because I've had a complete breakdown trying to deal with that situation 🤣

Food wise I'm going to have some shredded wheat and a satsuma in a minute for breakfast, lunch will no doubt be another salad and dinner I have no idea as we'll probably eat at the hospital again.  Star week is due to start tomorrow so it could be chips at this rate!

Hope everyone has a good day.

Jellybaby

Morning everyone!

I'm on a six month countdown to early retirement - and yesterday definitely proved I'm doing the right thing (even though I don't have any doubts 🤣). Despite work I had a great nights sleep, think it's being back on plan. It's amazing how even one day can make you feel so much better.

Welcome to @canvascamper we're a real helpful, friendly bunch   Have a wonderful holiday @joedenise

Fab losses @SingleSue and middle son!

Hope everything goes well for your dad @ruby_eskimo and I hear you on the banking front! I'm dealing with something similar at the moment too and dread to think what my mother has agreed to!

Think I'm giving up on our company shop for the time being @bubbs the bargains for me aren't enough to compensate the travel as it's so far away.  I still quite like a too good to go bag now and then and I'm training DS2 for yellow stickies supermarket sweeps 🤣

Today's plan:
B - 45g bran flakes (HEB), f/f Greek yoghurt, berries and skinny syrup (0.5 syns)
L - tomato and red pepper soup, will have some ham and pickles if still hungry
D - stuffed pork fillet wrapped in bacon, Jersey Royals, broccoli, carrots, tomatoes

Have a good day everyone

strawb_shortcake

Well done @SingleSue and DS, great achievement for you both.

WI for me shortly will come back and update, hoping for another loss, my only not on plan bit the last week was the excess sweets, but hoping my running all over TP car park to find my take away balanced that out :-) 

canvascamper

Thanks for the lovely welcome 😁

I'm just finding my way around the app and website, one thing I'm unsure of, if I make a recipe from scratch, like a vegetable pie, or pancakes for the kids, or cupcakes, how do I work out the values? With calorie counting you can put all the ingredients in then divide by x number of pancakes. 

Sorry if the answer is really obvious! 

joedenise

Just typed up a post and then clicked on something (no idea what!) and it disappeared so trying again!

@canvascamper - unfortunately it's quite long winded to work out the syns of making recipes from scratch.  You need to look up syns for each individual component of the dish you are making.  As an example - pancakes:

100g flour = 18 syns (4.5 syns per 25g)
2 eggs = 0 syns (Free food/protein)
300ml semi skimmed milk = 7.5 syns (2.5 syns per 100ml)

Total syns for mix 25.5 syns.  If you make 8 pancakes from this then each one would be 3.5 syns (25.5/8 = 3.19 rounded up to 3.5) or if you had 2 it would be 6.5 (3.19x2 rounded up to 6.5).

Hope that makes sense.  

When making things from scratch try to use as many Free foods as you can to keep the syns low.  In the above example if you used water to make your batter that would be Free rather than 7.5 syns so your pancakes would then reduce to 2.25 each or 4.5 for 2.  By the way making batter with water really works!  Have you seen the size of the Yorkshire puddings that @bubbs makes?

strawb_shortcake

Just a little 0.5lb off this week, happy with that though.

Coxy11

Hi all from my desk in the office. I still have this sore throat/cough but not bad enough not to work. ILs saw BIL yesterday and said he doesn’t appreciate being told what to do! Well tough, it needed saying. Will see what today’s assessment brings.

I had no syns and no HEB yesterday in an attempt to get back on track. Was a bit tempted by the biscuit barrel when DH made a cuppa, but I resisted!! Felt a bit hungry at bedtime but not bloated like on Tuesday.

Well done @Singlesue and son on your respective losses – excellent stuff!

Not great that you’re poorly @beanielou – get well wishes to you x

Glad your DDad has had his MRI and that there’s a plan in place @ruby_eskimo. Let’s hope he can come home next week.

Some great bargains at Company Shop @bubbs – none near me unfortunately ☹

Welcome @canvascamper – lovely to see you and please feel free to ask any questions. If you’re cooking from scratch you can work out syn values on non-free foods on the app. Then divide by however many portions your dish stretches to. You will hopefully find most ingredients are free or can be used as part of your HEA/HEB allowance.

Happy holidays @joedenise xx

Food today:

B – overnight oats, frozen cherries, mullerlight vanilla – HEB, free, 0.5

L – LO chicken pasta, grapes – free

D – pork Szechuan and noodles – free

HEA – milk

Syns – Bliss crispy mallow bar – 3.5 plus 0.5 so 4 total

canvascamper

Ahhh thanks @joedenise that makes sense. We don't bake all that often but I do cook most meals from scratch so it sounds like a paper and pencil will come in handy! The recipes on the app look good too and that's all worked out for me!