Slimming World Support Thread

juzdoid

Hi all

I am new to this forum and thought I would share a couple of my favourite tips I have picked up in groups:

Stir a spoonful of sugar free mint sauce to low fat greek yoghurt
or
Take a HEB portion of strong blue cheese such as roquefort and crumble into low fat greek yoghurt. Leave in the fridge overnight for best flavour.

Both make really good dips for chips/crisps/crudites/wedges etc or use them as dressings. They work really well on pasta salads

thanks for all the other tips everyone

gladysrocker

Hi, another newbie here. Me and my husband are both gonna try the slimming world plan and as the planning and cooking will be up to me I thought I'd pop in and say hello as I'm sure I'll be asking loads of questions in the next few days! In fact, first one coming up!
Can any tell me if I can have the marmite cheese bites instead of Babybel as a healthy extra A?
Any help much appreciated.

Sue.

juzdoid

kellybigboobs wrote: »

Afternoon all,

Hi
Quick questions:

1 - anyone ever tried cooking rice in a slow cooker?Advice/experience appreciated!

2 - interesting ways with quinoa?!Anyone?!:rotfl:

Hi

I use a lot of the grains which are free on green (ie buckwheat, bulgarwheat, quinoa, cous cous, rice) for my lunch box. Cook it cool it and then add loads of salad veg like peppers, carrots, cucumber, tomato, radish, sweetcorn. Anything that's free and crunchy basically. Mix them all together with some balsamic vinegar or other low syn or free dressing. It's really filling and keeps me munching for ages.

nano84

Hey all,

Great to hear about all those of you who are loosing your pounds, I have my weigh in tonight so hopefully I will have some good news to report.

x

Pennylane

Welcome newbies!:T Although I've been doing SW since April I have stayed on Original because it suited me and I felt good on it. This week I have at last tried a few Green days and am enjoying them :j We'll just see if I lose any weight this week.

For my meal tonight I tried the famous SW homemade FREE chips and whole family said they really like them. I made a BIG Salmon & Broccoli SW Free quiche and had that cooled with extra broccoli and the chips. I am trying to use up all the bits in my freezer so for dessert I had a Del Monte Smoothie (Mango flavour) which is 5 syns, while the others ate up some luxury icecream we found lurking there.

Just seen a bit about rice. Haven't had rice for months (but now I'm into Green I might!:p ) but here's how I've done it for years and it's always perfect with no messy saucepans. Probably since microwaves were invented!!:rotfl: :rotfl:

For 4 servings. Put 8 oz rice in a pyrex dish. Add 1 pint of boiling water. Sprinkle in a little salt. I often add in a weeny bit of saffron to make it a lovely soft yellow colour. Stir with fork. Put lid on and place in microwave. Cook on FULL for 4 mins. Stir and cook for further 4 mins. Leave to stand for a little while and then stir with fork.

angie_loves_veg

Hiya!

I am being ultra organised for tomorrow night (weigh in night) as our Consultant has offered a years free magazines for the best 'feed 4 for a fiver the slimming world way meal' - lol being a moneysaver of course, I hope I've done better than that :money:

As I have worked hard on it, I thought I'd share with you lovely peeps (if you are in my group - you can't hand it in as yours!)

Slimming World Spicy Night In for 4 – 2 courses for a fiver

Starter

Spicy Butternut Squash Soup (Free on both) £1.62

Main
Vegetable Biryani with Cucumber Raita (free on green) £2.99+58p
or
Tandoori Chicken, spicy wedges and cucumber raita (free on red + 1 Hb) £2.07+80p+58p

Desert

Lemon Cheese Ice cream (16syns per recipe) 79p

Green – Starter and main £5.19 Main & Desert £4.38
Red – Starter and main £5.07 Main, side & Desert £4.24


Spiced Butternut Squash Soup - Starter – Syn Free on Green or Original- Total £1.62 Tesco (£1.15 Aldi – squash only 69p this month)

1 large butternut 1.18 (69p Aldi)
1 onion 18p
1 clove garlic 3p
2 pints stock made with chicken Bovril 20p
Chilli flakes (or chives for non spicy) 5p

Soften the chopped onion and garlic in a pan. Add the butternut squash and stock. Bring to the boil then cover and simmer for 20 mins. Blend, whiz or push through a sieve. Chilli flakes or chopped chives to serve.

Vegetable Biryani - Main – Syn Free on Green - Total £2.99

600g veg – any! [Cauliflower/brocolli 94p (350g), 3 carrots 20p, 1 loose courgette 38p, 2 value peppers 40p, mushrooms 37p/150g]
250g basmati rice 35p
550ml stock 10p
1.5 tbsp curry powder 5p
1 cinammon stick 5p
4 cardomon pods 5p
1 tsp turmeric 5p
1tsp cumin 5p

Mix all ingredients together in a flameproof dish. Heat on hob until simmering, then cover with a tight fitting lid and cook at 180/gas4 for 40 mins


Tandoori Chicken – Main – Syn free on Original - Total £2.07

Chicken pieces (1kg value chicken drumsticks 1.79)
250ml natural low fat yog 23p
1tsp tandoori powder

Remove the skin from the chicken, and cut slashes into the meat. Mix together the spice and the yogurt, and generously coat the meat. Allow to marinate for 3-4 hours (or more). Roast in a hot oven (220deg) for about 20 mins.

Spicy Wedges – Side Dish – Free on Green, HeB on Original – Total 80p

900g maris piper potatoes 70p
1tsp chilli powder or paprika 5p
½ tsp cumin seeds 5p

Cut the potatoes into wedges (keeping the skin on). Boil for 4 mins, then drain and toss to rough up the edges. Spray with frylight, toss in the spices, season with salt and pepper then cook in the oven 25mins.

Cucumber Raita - Side Dish – Syn free on Green and Original - Total 58p

½ cucumber 34p
250ml natural low fat yog 23p
tbsp mint sauce (or to taste) 1p

Finely chop the cucumber and mix with the other ingredients

Lemon Cheese Ice Cream – Desert – 16 syns per recipe -Total 79p

250ml skimmed milk 17p
100g eat honestly plain smooth cottage cheese (or quark) 32p
85g sugar 10p
Zest and juice 2 lemons 20p

Using a whisk, blender, processor or liquidiser, mix all ingredients well. Pour into a lidded plastic container and freeze. After 1 ½ hours, remove and stir through with a fork to remove any lumps. Return to the freezer for another 1 ½ hours. Fork again. Leave to freeze for a further 8 hours (or overnight). Transfer to the fridge to soften for 30 mins before serving.



By Angie, Sudbury group x

All prices from supermarket.co.uk- nov 08– Tesco – value items where available

judderman62

kellybigboobs wrote: »

Afternoon all,

Hi all newbies:beer: ,and well done whoever it was that lost 9 pounds in their first week - fabulous!

Congrats to Judderman for taken affirmative action on the chocolate front,you should be proud of yourself:D :T

Quick questions:

1 - anyone ever tried cooking rice in a slow cooker?Advice/experience appreciated!

2 - interesting ways with quinoa?!Anyone?!:rotfl:

PS - managed to get my scales to work this morning and seem to have lost a pound:j ,very happy with that,and got the gym later too....;) :j :rotfl:

Thanks KBB - btw is that you in the Avatar ?

right Sirloin Steak for Dinner

scw1

Hiya all,

Well first weekend on the plan and it hasnt been too bad. I did have a glass of wine yesterday but it was syned so all in all doing okay.

I made the beef goulash from the mag yesterday in the slow cooker and have to say I wasnt impressed. I dont know whether its the bovril or me just being awkward but it wasnt for me.

Can you suggest some fillings for jacket pots on both red and green days? I hate beans though and cottage cheese so any other suggestions gratefully recieved.

Cheers Sam and good luck for all WI's and well done on those with the losses

angie_loves_veg

Jacket potato fillings (not beans or cottage cheese!!)

red day
hm bolognese (with or without chilli in it!)
bacon and cheese (A)
bacon and egg mayo (syn the mayo)
tuna and (synned) mayo
prawns and (synned) mayo
grated cheese (A)

green day
sweetcorn
spagetti hoops
tuna (B)
grated cheese (A)

either
garlic mushrooms
egg (syn) mayo
phili (A or B choice)

Chaos_Theory_3

New favourite jacket potato filling is extra light tesco version of philidelphia. Gorgeous and makes a change from cottagebloodycheeseagain.

I attemped to use a macaroni cheese pasta'n'sauce as a topping by cooking it and then blitzing it with a hand blender into a thick cheesy topping. unfortunately it looks like vomit and I couldn't bring myself to eat it so it all went in the bin!

A friend at work has lent me the stricly come dancing exercise video with a warning that it is fast, difficult and frustrating. I might have to sit and watch it first with a cup of tea and a couple of digestives to get a feel for it before trying it out, you understand.....ahem......

Congrats to new people and fabby weight losses...oh and to judders for the great choccy stash declutter. Flylady would be proud lol