Lose weight in '26 with Slimming World & SWIP's.

bubbs

Evening all 😁

Well we are all settled , it's clean but compact. It will do we are only here a month, dunno how i will do orders but will cross that bridge when we come to it!

Got to get used to electric oven again 🤣burnt my yorkies but ate them!

Roast pork, cauli cheese 3 sv, yorkies part fibre choice.

I had at home

sausage in a roll 1 sv, handful crisps out of dh's 3 syns? cherries

Jellybaby

Glad you’re settled @bubbs i have an electric oven and a gas hob but don’t make yorkies! You will manage the orders, you’re very resilient 🥰

Longwalker

@coxy11, fry it off, turn into whatever it is you are planing on - and leave to set overnight. You can scoop the fat off the following morning. Rinsing it, you will rinse out the flavour

I do that will any fatty meat, cook the day before and let the fat rise to the surface and set and then scrape off . Mostly because I dont like anything oily/fatty in my mouth

Great haul btw. Unfortunately because me being so rural, there's hardly anyone signed up to TGTG, - bakeries as the norm and Im not doing a 40 mile round trip for cakes and bread. But as Ive said previously, I make the most of the reductions where I work

@Jellybaby , shame your night out got cancelled , esp if you were really looking forward to it. But as you say - a swips win ;) Always look for the silver lining :)


Im away out on Tuesday , going to see Hamnet with a friend. Going to the 4pm viewing , but leaving @2pm to get lunch out I did suggest to DH that we all of us went for lunch together - carvery and then us girls go to cinema and they could crack on with what they wanted, but nose was turned. Means I then have to cook for him and mum when I get home but Ive already decided - omelettes.

Mum barely picks at food now . Had a lovely roast tonight, and it was lovely. I wasnt even feeling it whilst prepping and cooking it, but it was pure lush and I ate a lot of of what was on my plate , even buddy the dog enjoyed the left over cabbage. For a dog with with an undershot jaw and has to lap his food, he can pick his way through his bowl of food, chucking out bits hes not fussed on, but nope, he lapped it all in. Id like to say it was my cooking, but the wee sod never ate his dinner last night so I think it was more hunger then anything lol


So apart from alcohol I have been 100% on plan today and am stuffed to the gills - a good day :)

Coxy11

Thank you @caronc and @Longwalker for the mince tips - much appreciated. Won’t be using just yet as shopped for the week this morning.

Hope you soon settle in and the oven behaves @bubbs 🤞🏻

Longwalker

@bubbs , shouldn't take you long to work with the electric oven, They have their pluses - even heat . Downside they do take a while to pre heat

My last house I had gas hob and electric hob - so far for me the best ever combo

Now Im induction and electric oven. Although now I use my air fryers rather then the oven, and I am saving money and cooking quicker

We got mains gas to the town about 10 years ago now and all new developments are linked to it so Im looking forward to that when we have to give up this place.

It's not till you go off grid that you realise how easy and cheap it all was.

We have oil heating so are at the mercy of world trade for pricing. We moved here in 2006 and oil was 28p a litre. Just before covid - over a £1 . A thousand litres will last us maybe two months in a cold winter ( like this one ) Then we have to buy coal and if we cant find wood , we need to pay for that as well. Last Januarys storm gave us 4 trees - about 2 years of burning, but because of the exceptionally hot long summer, they are bone dry and are dissapearing up the chimney at the rate of knots

Country living is ruddy expensive , but knowing we are going to have to move towards a town fills me with dread

Im watching Banjo and Ro's Grand Island Hotel on the Iplayer and whilst I live very rural, that's the dream - no matter how impractical it will be getting older.

Coxy11

Morning all. I’ve been awake since 4:30am - busy brain.

I weighed in this morning with a STS - bit disappointed tbh. Might go for a run shortly to clear my head. Not working again today - honestly it’s hard not to feel paranoid. So much I could be doing but boss is a control freak (her words) and won’t let go. I’m seeing DSis later and we’ll go to Rochester so that’s something.

Food today:

B - 2 satsumas, spinach omelette - S, P

L - toasted protein bagel, tinned sardines in tomato sauce, salad leaves, pickles, apple - HEB, free, S

D - chilli beef stir fry with noodles - free

HEA - milk

Syns - skinny bar - 3

Gosh @Longwalker that’s a lot to be spending on fuel. Haven’t see that programme will take a look!

joedenise

Morning all, weather not brilliant but at least it isn't raining. It's a bit grey but keeps trying to brighten up a bit.

That sounds very expensive @Longwalker with having to buy oil, wood and coal. We used to have a dual fuel fire (wood/coal) but it was definitely expensive to run as we had to buy wood and prices started getting silly - the last load we bought cost us £150 which only lasted about 6 weeks. We got rid of it a few years ago and replaced it with an ethanol fire which we use to get heat quickly as the CH takes ages to heat up the rooms!

Today's plan:

B - weetabix, milk, fruit - HEA2; HEB; S

L - jacket potato, tuna mayo, salad - P; S; F; 2

D - sweet and sour chicken, rice - P; S; F

HEA1 and 2 - milk

HEB - Weetabix

Swips - Light mayo 2

Have a good day everyone.

maman

Sorry you didn't get the result you wanted from the scales @Coxy11 . 🤞🏼Better luck this week, just try and keep busy. It's such a shame that your boss won't hand over any of her work.

That was a decent TGTG bag you picked up. As @Longwalker said, sometimes they can be just full of bread so you did well.👍🏼

Shame that you missed out on your night out with your friend @Jellybaby but it was a good outcome for SW.

I haven't cooked on gas since living in a rental years ago @bubbs. I've used electric ever since through various homes and cookers. For the past year it's been an electric oven and an induction hob which I've grown to love.🥰

It's actually not raining here today @joedenise but very grey and miserable. There's a small (25%) chance of rain at any time but fortunately not the deluge that some people have had.

Today's plan-

B- HEB toast, scrambled eggs (P), tomatoes (S), HEA milk for drinks

L- LOs from yesterday's dinner (P,S,F)

D- sausage casserole with penne (P,S,F)

Swips- BGTY sausages 2

bubbs

Afternoon all 😁

Good luck this week Coxy, hopefully will show this week, sorry forgot to say a good bag despite the mince being 20%.

I have always had gas cookers as has Mum, it was ok just a bit well done 🤣🤣 i'll put pic up later.

No ice cream here though, have to make do with yoghurt 🤣

Drizzly and damp here too, heavy rain forecast again this week though 🙄

Today i have had

4 ryvita crackerbread, half fibre, half a calcuim choice cheese spread, ham, tomato and pickled onions. Watermelon.

Tea i am having

BBQ chicken, jd seasoning, free, salad and bns chips. No beetroot as lidl didn't have any 😢my favourite too.

bubbs

Here we go, yesterday's well done yorkies 😂 and today's food