Weight loss the old style way part 2.

rockie4

Nix143 wrote: »

*scuttles in a little bit shamefaced*

Well done everyone who isn't me, I think I win the prize for most motivational post - because regardless of how bad/good you have been you couldn't possibly have been as bad as me

Oh yes we can !!!!*said in best panto voice*

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boo81

Well at the moment I spend about £25 a week on food and I would like to reduce it to closer to £15. Currently im making bicuits which I believe I can get the ingredients for in bulk seen as I now make them so often. The ingredients are nuts, dried fruit, oats and demerara sugar. The others are such small quantities im not too worried.

The expensive items are grapes (I get organic when I can but believe this is beyond my budget now they are not on offer), yoghurt (buy 2 400g pots of organic variety a week), smoothies (buy innocent ones from asda, works out £2 a week but dont believe making them would save money or I would make the effort).

I do have soup a lot and I do buy it. Mainly this is because ive found soups to be very labour intensive in preparation and the last one I did really killed my back (peeling red peppers!).

Meat doesnt seem to be a huge expense for me as I dont eat much but eating organic fruit and veg is. I sometimes have a riverford box but seen as it has to be ordered at a weekend and I dont always want one week in week out then I always seem to forget!

Im not sure what I can do to cut down the expenses, I dont drink anything but water during the day either. I already have fairly simple cheap evening meals I believe so im not sure where more scrimping can be done. Obviously any guidance you have would be much appreciated though!!

mikeywills

Good morning to you all,

Today is the start of my favourite diet of all time not!!!, the Cabbage soup diet. Now before anyone says you don't want to do that, hear me out. I have my own running machine at home, quite a good one but I haven't used it for about 2 years as its been in storage while we did work on the house. So a couple of nights ago I decided to do a bit of walking on it, but as soon as I got upto a brisk walk the treadmill was stopping under my feet. I naively thought it needed tightening, so purchased some appropriate spanners the following day. This wasn't the fault, I checked the manual and low and behold I'm too fat to get on it, this just can't do.!!!!

So here I am day one of my lovely cabbage soup diet, hoping that I can briskly lose enough so that my running machine doesn't splutter when I try to get on.

Today, 17st 11. this time in 14 days, hopefully 16 st 4.

Nix143

Hey boo, you can save so much by making your own soup - and the effort involved really does pay off. The last batch I made ended up costing 17p per portion and meant I had lunches for the next fortnight.

Buy some soup mix, soak and throw that in as well, it bulks up the soup and is really cheap. I tend to throw whatever veg I have in a pot, sweat down for ten mins then bung in stock, soup mix, cook and blitz with hand blender. I sometimes add a bit of ham or chicken. I've got some gorgeous ham stock from whenever I do a piece of gammon or otherwise its a chicken carcass Leek and potato is incredibly cheap and tastes gorgeous. If I was making it a couple of a portions at a time I really wouldn't bother but cook a big pan, portion and into freezer and it really does make it all worthwhile.

mikeywills

boo81 wrote: »

I do have soup a lot and I do buy it. Mainly this is because ive found soups to be very labour intensive in preparation and the last one I did really killed my back (peeling red peppers!).

Hi Boo81, I make a lot of soups at home and they take no time at all. Try carrot and sweet potato, or potato and leek, both I can do from start to finish inside of 25 mins. I'll pm you the recipes if you like.

boo81

Potato and leek sounds good, most recipes ive found involve lots of butter and cream though!

If you could post the recipe it would be great thanks mikey

BigMummaF

I hope you won't think of me as being callous, but I've decided that I owe it to BIL to make the most of every day & do whatever is needed to bring that elusive feeling of happiness & fulfillment into my life.

So you have my full consent to coax, coerse[sp:eek: ] cadjoul [even wursa sp:eek: ] & chastize me into following a healthier eating plan.....just use synthetic feather dusters for the ritual sadistic torture into submission for a few more weeks tho......I'm allergic to real feathers:o

Today, I'm planning on having a small helping of boiled white rice with a concoction we call chicken casserole I]or rather chikkin cats R soul[/I];) ] made from cooked chicken [[I]surprisingly:rolleyes: [/I warmed thru with a tin of condensed low fat chicken soup & whatever veggies I grab thrown in for good measure. I've found it works better if you add about 2/3 tin of water too. Just had a slice of dry white toasted & a smidge of marmite & 3 cups of tea.

Wish I could eat narnas, but I find the texture doesn't agree with the pallette. Soz if that's TMI:o

Have a good day folks.

jayarr_2

boo-dont know if this will help but if you have an aldi near you they have punntes of grapes for 59p this week and bags of 3 peppers for the same price...

Not feeling good today and this si when i overeat..could just kill for a packet of biscuits right now..have finished the grapes off instead but isnt the same!

newlywed

Morning all. Big hugs to everyone that needs them and all those suffering and in receipt of bad news.

Been to Dr and been poked and prodded about - somewhat too much!!! :eek:

So after that experience I have eaten a flapjack from the shop and a pack of low fat crisps

To be honest though, I'm only 1lb away from the Feb challenge as I've not been well and not been eating much at all - considerably less than the 9 yr old stepson in fact! So am now only 1 lb away from my 2 stone goal and my BMI is now looking a very healthy 23.3

Just hope I don't put it back on when I start to feel 100% better :rolleyes:

Lunch today will be jacket pot with mince (leftover)
Tea will be cumin chicken - if I can find me mum's recipe she gave me :rolleyes:

mikeywills

Potato and leek soup.

Cut potatoes up and blanch for 5 mins to remove some of the starch, drain at set to one side.

In a large pan, add a little olive oil (any oil is fine I use a lot of groundnut too as its cheaper), chop up 1 onion finely, 1 to 2 cloves of garlic, and 2 to three leeks. Put all the ingredients and add a little salt as this draws the moisture out of the onions. top up with a little water, and cover with some foil, allow to sweat down. Once soft and translucent, add the potatoes back in, along with some vegetable stock. I tend to use 1 veg and 1 chicken oxo, enough so that the water just covers the potatoes cook until the pots are soft and blend with a hand blender, adding some skimmed milk to smooth it out a bit. to garnish add a little chopped parley on top and serve. Eat some and freeze the rest, I normally have enough for the three of us for a couple of saturday lunches.

Try the carrot and sweet potato as its so easy, chop up equal quantities of both, and add to a pot cover with stock as in potato and leek, plus a pinch of chilli powder (amount to suit your tastebuds) and cook until tender. then add 1 tin of cocunut milk (aldis is only 30p ish) add a bunch of coriander leaves (I grow mine in the garden, or buy when on offer in supermarkets and freeze, can be used straight from frozen in this recipe)and blend with hand blender. Its so creamy and delish, and great for a diet. Again freeze any surplus.

Sorry I don't do quantities, I judge this by how many I'm feeding at the time or what I have in the cupboard.