Slimming World Support Thread

peachyest

peachyest wrote: »

weldone mate,
Well what about 'Herby potato salad'
1lb 120z/ 794 new potatoes
2 apples
6 spring onions
fresh dill
fresh chives
8 tbsp extra hellmanns light mayo
3 tbsp wine vinegar
1 tsp honey
1 tbsp wholegrain mustard
salt & pepper

Cut potatoes in half boil until tender,drain place in bowl.
Core ,chop apples into bite size pieces, then chop spring onion, dill,
chives, add to bowl ,mix with potatoes
Mix mayo, wine vinegar,honey ,mustard together and then pour
over potatoes .


THIS SERVES 4 AND IS 2 SYNS ON GREEN AND 2 SYN ON RED IF
USING POTATOES H/B

YOU COULD CUT THE SYNS BY PUTTING HALF THE MAYO IN A
TUB OF QUARK OVER NIGHT
I WOULD TAKE IN A SIDE SALAD AND CHICKEN BREAST H/B OR
SLIMMING WORLD TUNA POUCH - I THINK YOU CAN STILL HAVE THESE AS A H/B ON GREEN

i love this

peachyest

charlies_mum wrote: »

Morning all :wave:


Got some lean mince out for dinner, but not sure what to do with it - I have a recipe from someone at my meeting, so might try this :-

400g lean mince
1 chopped onion
400g can of baked beans
4 tbsp tomato passata
3 tbsp sweet chilli sauce (3.5 syns)
1 tbsp mixed herbs

Topping

675g peeled and cut potatoes
200g sweetcorn - drained
3 tbps skimmed milk
1 tbsp fresh chopped parsley

Preheat oven to 190 deg
Make topping by boiling potatoes and mashing with sweetcorn, milk & parsley
Fry the mince and onion for 4-6 mins, add beans, passata and chilli sauce. Bring to boil & simmer for 5-7 mins, transfer to ovenproof dish
Top with potato mix & bake for 20 mins

will try and do this

peachyest

16011996 wrote: »

below is a chicken curry recipe from the sw website, which i do with quorn (as i'm not a meat eater) and don't see why it couldn't be done with beef, just bear in mind rice is no longer a HEB, but instead of rice try cauli mushed up, is just as nice

hth

160

Tuck into this creamy curry that’s completely Free! Spice it up with this slimming-friendly favourite that’s full of flavour.
Serves 4
Syns per serving:
Free on Original and Green*
*Add 6 Syns if not enjoying chicken as a Healthy Extra
Cooking time: 30 minutes
Preparation & cooking time: 1 hour 30 minutes plus marinating time

4 x 113g/4oz chicken breasts, skinned and boned
284ml/½ pint very low fat natural yogurt
2 tsp turmeric
3 garlic cloves, crushed
2 large onions, sliced
426ml/¾ pint chicken stock made with Bovril
3 cardamom pods
1 x 2½cm/1in piece cinnamon stick
4 black peppercorns
4 cloves
1 tsp crushed coriander seeds
1 tbsp finely chopped root ginger
1 tsp ground cumin
½ tsp chilli powder
salt and ground black pepper
2 tbsp chopped fresh coriander leaves



1. Slice the chicken and place in a bowl. Mix together the yogurt, turmeric and garlic and pour over the chicken. Cover and leave to marinate in the refrigerator or a cool place for at least 4 hours (or overnight).

2. Put the onion and chicken stock in a large, heavy saucepan. Cover the pan, bring to the boil and then boil for 10 minutes. Reduce the heat, uncover the pan and cook gently for 20 minutes, until the onion is tender, golden and syrupy.

3. Add all the spices to the pan, and cook for 3-4 minutes. Then add the chicken and the yogurt marinade. Cover the pan and simmer very gently over low heat for 45 minutes, until the chicken is cooked.

4. Season to taste with salt and pepper, and serve immediately with boiled rice (Free on Green or 2 Syns per 28g/1oz on Original), and sprinkled with fresh coriander.

weres 160, we miss you

peachyest

rialooney wrote: »

Spinach with Everything (Syn Free so long as you use it on appropriate day)

Ingredients
1 onion chopped finely;
2 large tomatoes or 100gm tin plum tomatoes
2 cloves garlic; minced
half inch ginger; minced
¼ tsp turmeric
2 tsps coriander
2 tsps cumin powder
salt to taste
Spinach chopped finely (fresh) or approx 6 chunks frozen spinach (defrosted)
1/4 tsp Garam Masala

Red day
1 lb boneless chicken breasts, cut into 1inch chunks

Green Day (OMG that is a band)
1lb Potato diced and boiled till soft.

Method
1. Fry light onions and until golden brown
2. Add the tomatoes, garlic and ginger, stir and fry for 5 minutes
3. Add the turmeric and coriander/cumin mixture fry for another 5-7 minutes
4. Add chicken and salt, stir until the chicken is coated with the tomato mix. Add the chopped spinach and mix, cook for about 15 minutes, when the chicken will be almost done.
5. Add the garam masala , stir and serve with rice or chapati.
6. For Saag Aloo just add Potato cubed or for Chicken Saag add the Chicken

thanks little sis

peachyest

[quote=Flat Eric;9349419need to parboil the sweet potatoes first before roasting or simply chop up and chuck in the oven?

Cinnamon Roasted Sweet Potatoes

INGREDIENTS

• 60 ml vegetable oil
• 910 g sweet potatoes, peeled and sliced
• 25 g brown sugar
• 2 g ground cinnamon
• 5 g salt
• 1 g freshly ground pepper
• 15 ml fresh lime juice (optional)

DIRECTIONS

1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Pour the oil into a 9x13 inch baking dish, and place in the oven until hot, about 5 minutes.
2. Add potatoes to the oiled dish, and bake for 20 minutes in the preheated oven, turning after 10 minutes. In a small bowl, mix together the brown sugar, cinnamon, salt, and pepper.
3. After the 20 minutes is up, remove the potatoes from the oven, and sprinkle with the brown sugar mixture. Stir to coat. Return to the oven, and roast for another 10 minutes, or until potatoes are tender and golden brown. Stir potatoes as necessary to allow them to brown evenly.
4. Remove potatoes to paper towels to drain, then transfer to a serving dish, and sprinkle with lime juice.

[/quote]flat eric thanks

peachyest

MelHas wrote: »

I made the Beef bourguigon last night from the SW mag it was lovely. See receipe below.

2 Garlic Cloves
12 Shallots
2 stick celery
4 carrots
8oz/681 extra lean beef fillet
fry light
142g button mushrooms
113ml red wine
511ml stock from bovril
2 level tbsp beef gravy granules
salt pepper
parsley and thym.

Peel and crush garlic, peel shallots chop celery and carrots, cut beef into bite size pieces. Fry beef until sealed, put in casserole dish with other ingredients and cook for 25 mins 200 degres. Add parsley and thyme when serving.

sounds great mate

peachyest

Flat_Eric wrote: »

Hello sorry to hear you have maintained for the second week running. A work colleague who joined slimming world recently. She had a gain the other week of 3.5 pounds so I wrote the attached for her (she only works part time). I am sorry I waffle on for so long but it might be helpful? One thought, what did you wear to WI? If you wear jeans - these themselves can weigh 2 pounds. I have scales at home and I am always amazed at my varying weight depending on what clothes I wear....

Questions you need to ask yourself…..


1. Are you eating enough?

If not then your body will complain and either you wont lose weight as your body will be holding on to everything it can. This seems to be a familiar complaint in our group.

2. Are you having mainly green days?

Another familiar complaint in our group. We have Members who have stuck to the plan 100% but put on or maintain and they often say they have done mainly green. Our consultant says of green days that it takes longer to digest green day food and comments that you will still lose the same amount of weigh over the same period, it will just happen differently?!



3. Are you drinking enough water?

If not and you are having lots of green days then you are not enabling your body to digest the food properly and you will probably feel all bunged up and horrid. I am having more green days now than before as I love my jacket chips and there are more foods that are free that I can have on a green day than a red so on a green day I can help keep my syns down. A typical green day for me would be beans on toast for lunch (beans free and bread HEB) with Jacket chips (potatoes cooked on jacket potato setting in my microwave then sliced up and put on a baking tray, spray with fry light and wait for skins to crisp up). Yum yum yum! I have this with either fried eggs (cooked with frylight) and mushrooms and ham as my other Healthy Extra B – you can get about 4 or 5 slices of ham for 85 g! or those quorn cracked pepper fillets (which are free on both green/red) All of these food items are free or using healthy extras meaning I can have a glass of wine and some sauce with my meals and still stay within 10 – 12 syns

4. Are you having enough variety?

I try to vary my menus each week and try different / new things. I think this is important as if you eat the same all the time (you and your body will get bored!) It is also important to treat yourself and allow yourself naughty things occasionally.

5. Are you weighing your healthy extras?

Another familiar question asked by our consultant and not often answered by the member! I religiously weigh my cheese and other bits and pieces but I think it is common fault to just guess the 28g once you have been doing it a while.

5a Are you consuming hidden syns?

It seems the same product i.e. a Sainsurys packet rice can have more syns or not be free as compared to the same product made by Batcherlors. One of our members put on 4 pounds this week and said one of the reasons for this was that the Crosse and Blackwell Pasta is more syns than the Bathchelors and she hadn’t appreciated this.

For example, I have been devouring those Heinz Mean Beanz but had not appreciated that some of them (the Tikka flavour for example) were syns (I haven’t had any but would have done if I had been able to find them! And I would have thought they were free until I looked). The Italian beans for example are free so it can get very confusing…..

6. Are you having the correct healthy extras?

I think the Nimble bread is disgusting and wont buy it again. It doesn’t even toast well and the nimble I have frozen breaks apart when you try to get a slice so a total disaster!! I really like the Hovis Seed Sensations but this is not on the list in the book or on the website so I have to syn it – 1 slice = 4 or 5 syns. If I was being really ignorant, I could pretend it was my HEB although all I would be doing is cheating myself as I would then be having those extra 5 syns.

The slimming world website gets updated all the time with the new healthy extras both A and B so it is worth keeping an eye on. Also the Slimming World Magazine is a good point of reference for food news including new healthy extras and products which are free or what their syn value is etc.


7. Why not try some Mix to Match

I am really liking Mix to Match because it means I can have a substantial lunch (Beans on toast / jacket potatotes) and a red tea. Each meal (breakfast lunch and tea) you treat as either a green or red meal and you snack on superfree foods (i.e foods that are free on a red or a green day such as Muller light yogurts as your snacks)

8. Superfree fruit / veg

Grapes are not a speed food. The book reads “speed food are foods that are low or extra low in energy density compared to others in the same food group”

So if you ate 100g of grapes and 100g of Mulberries then you would consume less calories eating the mulberries than you would the grapes.

9. Don’t forget ….

Your eating habits are changing for the better and when I have a day when I syn overload I don’t worry about it as I know that overall I am eating much better now than I ever have done.

10. Don’t beat yourself up about it



11. Have what you want ….

As I said it is important to have variety and if that means having one day a week when you don’t follow the plan then so be it. If you go out for roast dinner on a Sunday then have the Yorkshire pudd and the gravy - just say I will have one Yorkshire pud unlike me who would want half a dozen! As I said before xmas, I was synning lots at the weekends and still losing weight. It was only if I was really bad (3 xmas parties in one week) that I would put on. Overall it might take me longer to get to my target weight but I don’t want to be miserable doing it and so I will continue to enjoy my treats and you should too.

Please don’t be dishearted that you have put on so much there may be an innocent reason for it and you may find you have a really good loss next week.

12. Was it your Star week?

This can be a factor and you should let your consultant know when it is your star week so that any pattern can be picked up on. Even if you are not actually having a period you might still get all the symptoms. Isn’t being a woman wonderful?!

13. SAS Log

I am attaching these which I have photocopied on to A4 for you. You need one for each day and I think it should be self-explanatory how they get filled in. These are for you not your consultant. I haven’t done one yet but will let you know how I get on with them.

14. Food diary

I have food diaries at home (I think). I had to do a food diary last week and find that when I am keeping one, If I have to write it down, I don’t eat it!! Although I do slip up occasionally

This is really great just what people need

peachyest

Mollie's_mum wrote: »

Hi folks, thanks very much for your warm welcome, it's much appreciated!!

As promised please find below my recipe for Pesto Pasta.

Fry Light
1 x Large Onion
2 x Garlic Gloves
1 x Red Pepper
6 x Medium Sized Mushrooms
1 x Large Courgette
1 x Tin Chopped Tomatoes
1 tbsp Tomato Puree (half a syn)
2 tbsp Sacla Classic Pesto Sauce (7 syns)
500g Pack of your favourite pasta
Salt, Pepper and Mixed Herbs to taste

2 Syns per serving - serves 4

Method:

Spray a large pan with Fry Light, chop or crush the garlic cloves and onion and place in the bottom of the pan. De-seed the red pepper and chop into regular sized pieces and add these to the pan. Next, wash then finely slice the mushrooms adding these to the pan. Place the pan over a high heat and cover, cook until softened.

Add the tomatoes, tomato puree, salt, pepper, mixed herbs and Sacla Pesto sauce to the pan and allow to simmer for a few minutes while you finely slice the courgette. Add the courgette to the pan laying the slices flat on the surface of the mixture before re-covering and allowing to simmer for 5 minutes to steam the courgette.

Place the pasta in a pan of boiling water and cook according to the instructions on the packet. Stir the courgette into the mixture and allow to simmer gently while the pasta is cooking.

Once the pasta has cooked, drain and add it to the sauce stirring in well to cover evenly before serving.

Nice with a swirl of fat free natural yoghurt on the top!

I'll post chilli recipe when hubby writes it down!! lol:D

Cheers,
Deb x

thanks sounds great

peachyest

feclmum wrote: »

thought i would put my favourite green day recipe on here as im sure some of you may enjoy it and its easy and reheats well next day!!
1 tin baked beans
1 tin butter beans
1 tin kidney beans in chilli sauce(from any supermarket free on green)
1 jar passata
1 sweet potato
2 carrots
1 large parsnip
optional a section of grated cheese
cut all veg into chunks put into lasagne type dish spray with frylite and roast for 30min or until tender
add all beans and passata stir all together put back in oven for 20/30min
melt cheese on top
and there you have a sin free on green day beany bake!!

thanks sounds great

peachyest

feclmum wrote: »

and my fave low sin pudding
trifle
berries
sugar free jelly
2 pots vanilla muller light
fromage frais with added sweetener to taste
make up jelly pour over berries and leave to set
when set add a layer of vanilla mullerlight
next add the sweetened fromage frais and finish off with some berries for decoration
only sins here are from the jelly which from memory are 1 1/2 but check incase im wrong!!

many thanks