Weight loss the old style way part 3.

Caterina

Goodness, what have I started, with my refusal to eat Aspartame!

Splenda is also not a very nice substance I am afraid, I read a long article in The Ecologist a few months ago, let me see if I can find it and will post the link here.

Here it is, sorry more bad news about sweeteners:

http://www.theecologist.co.uk/archive_detail.asp?content_id=461

Meanwhile, I am stuffing my face with fruit and so avoiding all the sugar products (except for the odd nice and creamy yogurt and counting it in).

Breakfast: toasted oats, chopped banana, 2 dried apricots, 2 prunes, soya milk

Lunch: pasta with garlic mushrooms (frylight) and parmesan, green and tomato salad with a little oil, 1 pear

Snack: 3 tangerines, 1 blood orange, 1 Activia full fat yogurt

Dinner: prob. veg casserole and rice or some other grain, and either another yogurt or more fruit.

Good night all,

Caterina

Caterina

pebbles88 wrote: »

im gutted, just attempted to make some falafels as i really enjoyed the ones i got from Cauldron, so i got recipe from Ainsley harriott, tried it, and they have come out horrid, it needed something to bind it as it would not stick together and i did not want to deep fry them. anyhow i persevered, added a touch of water and sprayed them with frylight, popped them in the oven til golden brown, and as soon as i took the tray out, they all collapsed!!!!!! :mad:

i wont waste them, will just mix em with cous cous but im gutted!!!! will have to look for a different recipe

TTFN

Try to bind them with a little chick pea flour, or a bit of egg white? Or mashed potato? I will follow your progress with interest because I also do not want to fry in oil if I can help it and I love felafel!

Caterina

pebbles88

Caterina wrote: »

Try to bind them with a little chick pea flour, or a bit of egg white? Or mashed potato? I will follow your progress with interest because I also do not want to fry in oil if I can help it and I love felafel!

Caterina

well i have found another recipe, which is v similar (sp) to the one i tried but this one does use flour, i know flour isnt free on slimming world but im going to try it tomorrow, i have put the link below. they do fry again :mad: , but im going to try bake them still. if it works you could perhaps substitute with the chick pea flour??

http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-make-falafel

keep your fingers crossed for me!!!

Caterina

Ahh if you are doing SW, why don't you bind with polenta then instead of flour, polenta is free!

Thanks for the recipe, am looking at it now! LOoks lovely but the amount of oil is SCARY!!! Gotta find a way to do them baked, definitely!

Caterina

pebbles88

Caterina wrote: »

Ahh if you are doing SW, why don't you bind with polenta then instead of flour, polenta is free!

Thanks for the recipe, am looking at it now! LOoks lovely but the amount of oil is SCARY!!! Gotta find a way to do them baked, definitely!

Caterina

i dont do SW, have tried, but the minute i go on it, i cant face any of the foods on it. :rolleyes: same with WW, it just doesnt work for me as i do a lot of walking that i just cant manage it on the amount of 'points' they give you, it worked out i was eating at least 600 cals less a day than recommended for the amount of walking i do combined with the weight i wanted to lose (i use fitbug.com) so i was always starving to the point i felt dizzy

i know what you mean about the oil, its ridiculous! i also read that in the mcdonalds in egypt, you can actually buy a McFalafel!! although i aint sure if thats just a wind up!!!

xx

homealone_2

i have developed a craving for 4 digestive biscuits with 2 spread with dairylea cheese spread and sandwiched together. bit like 2 sandwiches, they taste lovely and am having them for either breakfast or lunch. so easy to transport and not hugely expensive but are they really bad in comparison to what others are having for lunch orbreakfast ie bowl or cereal with juice or ham roll with fruit? am thinking they are a better divertion tactics to my usual scrabble around in biscuit cupboard or even worse a bar of chocolate. but what do you think?

purpleivy

Had granola and yogurt for breakfast, nothing much for lunch...25g dark choc...

dinner was the end of last night's lamb casserole, was like soup really. A rice cake. A small piece of carrot cake

annie123

Whilst I am very please that I have cut our monthly food bill :j and we eat much nicer and healthier meals:j DH DD and even DS ( who has moved into his own flat but I still drop off hm freezer meals:rolleyes: ) and me have all put on weight:eek:

We have all gone up by about 1 clothes size:eek:

The problem is that my cooking skills have improved (thank you everyone) and everything is tastier now that we clear the plates!
and there are always hm ready meals in the freezer thanks to batch cooking...my favorite improvement:D

Or could it be the 6 batches of twinks hobnobs that I've cooked over the last 10 days ?

Has this happened to anyone else? and could all recipe ideas please be low fat/sugar from now on please;)

Rikki

I've always cooked from scratch, but i must admit I have become more adventurous from reading OS.

Less gym time :eek: more mse and cooking time.

MRSMCAWBER

Hi there

Im actually losing weight whilst eating lots of yummy economical foods and NO low fat/diet gunk:j Mind I have enough left to still shift ...oh and have only ever made one batch of twinks hob nobs.....have promised hubbie some - but only if he takes the whole batch and puts them in his drawer at work :rotfl:
I find a lot of OS meal much more filling and satisfying so i eat less of them