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supersavershal

Lucy1982 wrote: »

You have pm!

And I am guessing you mean Skinning Cow and not Laughing cow!!

Yes that is what i meant, LOL.
Cleosmum they are on offer in tesco, £1 for a box.

Lucy1982_2

I like the triple chocolate ones - 5 syns each!!

tigzem

Cleosmum wrote: »

Hi Tigz, drop Snaggles a Pm with your starting weight.

What sort of meals do you currently eat? Maybe you could adapt those to make them SW friendly. SW is great for cooking from scratch, so you should have plenty of menu ideas to choose from :T . On a green day I like a pile of wholewheat pasta with a HM tomato and basil sauce which is totally syn free, on an original day I do a SW cottage pie which is brown extra lean mince beef and onion, drizzle over 2 tsp of bovril from a jar and mix in, then I top with a carrot and swede mash. I add loads of fresh steamed veg. The meal is syn free on original. I have lots of menu ideas, if you post the meals you normally like I can see if there are SW friendly versions about

Hi Cleosmum, thanks for your reply.

The meals I mainly eat are pasta, lasagne, chilli, cottage pie, chicken kievs etc

I don't eat enough veg so have bought some carrots, sugar snap peas, corn on the cobs, baked pots.

My chilli is cooked from scratch and I normally use lean mince but also use Quorn mince too.

I love those fresh pasta sauces, but think they're quite bad aren't they? I love garlic bread... and bread in general!!

Lunches are going to be a problem as I start a new job on Monday and will need to take packed lunches, guess sandwiches are ok and use the bread as a healthy option?

Snaggles

Tigz, if you like the weightwatchers malted danish, you can have 3 slices of that (I know it's much thinner and less dense than normal bread, but psycologically, being able to have 3 slices works for me....lol).

I love Laughing Cow (light) on bread, and the kids are going mad for it too!

jennyred

good evening all - well have gotten up early as I just couldnt sleep!! am going to be knackered by the morning!

well had a weighin today - and lost 2lb!!! woo hoo. am dead chuffed!!!

green day today

2 x wholemeal toast
marmite (mmmmmmm - so thick it burns the top of my mouth!! :rotfl: )

jacket potato
tin of tesco own macoroni cheese

green and red grapes
apple
banana

bowl of start cereal
milk

talk later peeps

superpup

Hi

I'm struggling for inspiration at the moment, and a little bit of 'can't be @rsed' if I'm honest , my meals aren't very exciting...

b'fast
2 x weetabix (HEB), skimmed milk (HEA), raspberries

snack
raspberries

lunch
ryvita minis (5 syns), cottage cheese, banana, mullerlight

dinner (DD1 made this which is why it was just weird!)
wholemeal roll (HEB), 2 x quorn burgers (1 syn), tbsp tomato ketchup (1 syn), 2 x light laughing cow triangles, cucumber and baked beans (see, I told you it was weird :rolleyes: ).

snack
2 jaffa cakes (4 syns)

11 syns in total which is more than I usually have but still okay.

I went spinning after work with my daughter. She's been nagging me to go for ages so I went despite the exercise bike being my least favourite piece of gym equipment.

I did it all and boy did I sweat.

And it was a very useful experience. I have now decided that every night I am going to go for a 45 min power walk with the dog and do press ups, sit ups and squats when I get back (the dog won't do this, he'll be having his dinner at this point). If I don't do this every day, my penance is to go to the spinning class next week. Sorted!

sp x

Cleosmum

tigzem wrote: »

Hi Cleosmum, thanks for your reply.

The meals I mainly eat are pasta, lasagne, chilli, cottage pie, chicken kievs etc

I don't eat enough veg so have bought some carrots, sugar snap peas, corn on the cobs, baked pots.

My chilli is cooked from scratch and I normally use lean mince but also use Quorn mince too.

I love those fresh pasta sauces, but think they're quite bad aren't they? I love garlic bread... and bread in general!!

Lunches are going to be a problem as I start a new job on Monday and will need to take packed lunches, guess sandwiches are ok and use the bread as a healthy option?

I make quorn chilli alot, but have my own cheat version as the SW one was too faffy. I used a bag of quorn, garlic, tin chopped tomatoes and a small tin of refried beans. As quorn is free on both you can have it on green and have a huge pile of rice or on top of a jacket. If you want chilli on red then you can use 500g of extra lean mince beef.

Pasta sauces are normally bad, but if you make them at home then they can be syn free and tastier. I use a tin of chopped toms, garlic, onion and fresh basil. I have wholewheat pasta with it, and add 42g half fat cheddar as a healthy extra.

For lunches you could take sandwiches, or maybe make up some salads, like pasta salad on a green day?

Lucy and Shal.....my local tesco is huge but they now only sell skinny cow in tubs and I wouldnt trust myself to measure it out lol. Will look in sainsbury next time I am passing but a bit out of the way (4 miles I think).

Jenny - well done on the 2lb off!!

Cleosmum

OK! Red day:

2 x weetabix (HEB) & 250ml semi skimmed milk (HEA)

Banana

2 x alpen lights (HEB)

1 can of mackerel in tomato sauce followed by half a melon, half a pineapple. 1 mint viscount (3.5 syns)

3 slices of chicken.

1 mint viscount (3.5 syns)

About to have chicken and veg for dinner.

LouiseJ

Here is my Weekly Update Snaggles I have maintained my weight so no loss but no gain either. I am quite pleased after the 1lb on last week.

Still struggling but the kids are off school and OH is on holiday from work so it seems as though my routine is out of the window.

louise_1981

Hello to all you DFW, new to this part of the site and slimming world in general.

As I am new to this part of the site and there are over 51 pages I am not sure this has been mentioned, but in some parts of the country you can be referred to SW through your doctor. I have been give 3 months of vouchers to attend SW for FREE.

I am not sure how this works, it might just be for areas with high obesity rates or a new trial with the NHS, but if you are finding it difficult then this could be a different way of getting the support.

My consultant is inspirational, even after just one week, every one is praised for their achievements, even on a bad week.

Not sure how I will fair after the vouchers run out, as I have just finished uni and I can not find a job, so money is very tight. I hope the foundations will be there and I can continue through here and the other related forums.

hope this can help someone.

Louise