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GreenManG0

Hello everybody,

This looks like a really friendly group so im going to try and post each day and hopefully get myself back on track with Slimming World. I reached target in ~2006 but in the last year Ive put on half the weight i lost! argh!

I have cut out and kept all the recipes from about 2years worth of SW mags so I dont mind posting any gradually, or if people are after something specific I can have a look though for you.
Is there a thread anywhere which links to all the SW recipes on MSE?

Had a lovely lunch last week which was free on green (aslong as you count the cheese as HE) so here it is incase anybody would like a change for their packed lunch.
Adapted from the 7day meal planner recipe from the recent SW mag.

Mushroom melts
1. Take 1 lagre mushroom, remove the stalk and place in oven for 10mins, leave to cool on tissue paper to absorb juices)
2. Mix together 1 cup cous cous with enough boiling water to cover 1/4" over top of cous cous & crumble in a veg stock cube, season. Place a lid on the cous cous and leave to rest for 10mins.
3. finely chop 1 red onion, slice and dice 1 pepper (could could add any veg you have ie: glated carrot, chopped cucumber, sliced spring onions...)
4. Add onion & pepper to cous cous (could could also add handfull of raisons but not sure on syns???)
5. Spray some fry light into the cous cous and add a dash of balsamic/white wine vinegar and stir with a fork to separate grains. Season to taste.
6. Fill each mushroom with the cous cous mix and compact.
7. Lay light motzerella slices over top of cous cous.
8. Place under a hot grill until cheese bubbles.

Can be eaten hot/cold. delicious as packed lunch, feels like your spoiling yourself! Sounds like alot of steps but I usually prepare when im cooking dinner night before, so the mushrooms can go in oven with dinner to cook, and im alreay chopping up veg, so takes little effort.

There is usually cous cous mix left over, so save this to have the next day. Mix in some chickpeas and have with a pitta bread. Mix up a dressing by mixing 3tbsp of low fat nat yog with 1 tsp mint sauce (syns??)
Im unsure of the syns for this so would be grateful is anybody can help!?

Looking forward to hopefully becoming part of the red/green support group!
Hannah x

consultant31

Burlesque_Babe wrote: »

not sure what to have for lunch. I feel like I'm running to stand still today. I've just got home and have to have a red day because of some meat that I've defrosted for dinner tonight.

I thought about trying a Mix2 Max or whatever it's called. I might go back over the thread to refresh myself how it works.

Mix2Max

STEP 1:

Choose a Green or Original Meal and stick to your choice while enjoying that meal.
Have up to three meals a day.

Step 2:

Focus on Free Food. Enjoy as much Free Food as you like, either Green or Original from the choice that you have made for that meal.

Step 3:

Choose three or four Healthy Extras each day from either the Green or Original choices to have with meals or as snacks.

Step 4:

For other snacks throughout the day, or for starters or desserts, choose Superfree Foods or count them as syns.

Step 5:

Enjoy Five to 15 Syns per day
If your main course contains any syns then count the syn values appropriate to the Green or Original Choice you are following for that meal.

Note:

On a Mix2Max day everything that you eat apart from your main courses, that is not a Super-free food or a Healthy Extra has syns and you must take the highest syn value whether it is green or original.

consultant31

There are loads of recipes (SW, WW and others) here :-

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=1948340&postcount=3

To add to them use this link :-

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=3412194&posted=1#post3412194

Many thanks to the person/people who do all the collating and sorting of the recipes on these threads

northernlass_2

jennyred wrote: »

so am still 15s 2lb.
10k cancer research run is in 6 weeks and counting so I had better get running!!!

So am I, snap, but there is no way i could do a 10k run at my weight, i think you are amazing for doing that. well done jennyred.

Burlesque_Babe

cheers consultant

I went for a red day in the end (I had the defrosted meat as lunch and managed to defrost some more for tonight) but I might do a mix2max tomorrow to give it a go.

I'd love to be fit enough to even think about running a fraction of 10k - I couldn't even walk that far at the moment Well done Jennyred.

consultant31

jennyred wrote: »

weigh in today - no change - which is no surprise (although I have lost the weight I put on last weekend in york!)
so am still 15s 2lb.
10k cancer research run is in 6 weeks and counting so I had better get running!!!

green day

breakfast
bowl crunchy nut cornflakes

dinner
small chicken breast
1 spoon bbq spread and bake
jacket pot

tea
pasta

jenny

Crunchy Nut Cornflakes are 5½ syns for 28gms which is fine since you don't appear to be having any other syns.
The chicken can be counted as a HEB (depending on the weight of course). You haven't mentioned how much milk you use during the day but you're allowed 350mls skimmed or 250mls semi-skimmed.
What about your fruit and veg and the other HEB?

jennyred

consultant31 wrote: »

Crunchy Nut Cornflakes are 5½ syns for 28gms which is fine since you don't appear to be having any other syns.
The chicken can be counted as a HEB (depending on the weight of course). You haven't mentioned how much milk you use during the day but you're allowed 350mls skimmed or 250mls semi-skimmed.
What about your fruit and veg and the other HEB?

am having 3 x quorn sausages, mash made with drop of milk and peas instead of pasta for tea.
didnt realise crunchy nut cornflakes were so many syns!!! - will switch to weetabix from now.
thanks for all your support!!
am working 12 hr shift tomorrow and wednesday. am going to sit down shortly and write a menu for myself

jenny

Cleosmum

GreenManG0 wrote: »

There is usually cous cous mix left over, so save this to have the next day. Mix in some chickpeas and have with a pitta bread. Mix up a dressing by mixing 3tbsp of low fat nat yog with 1 tsp mint sauce (syns??)
Im unsure of the syns for this so would be grateful is anybody can help!?

Virtually fat free natural yogurt is syn free, as is mint sauce as long as you dont add any sugar

spud30

Will you allow me to rejoin you ?

I have had a 2 week break, and been very synful indeed, but I need to get back to it, if you'll have me

Not sure what damage has been done weight wise, I'll check in the morning

supersavershal

Oow I have not been very good this week, TOTM for me and I needed sugar.
I had breakfast of WM nimble (HEB), bacon with fat removed, teaspoon of vitalite 1.5 syns and 28g cheese (HEA).
For lunch I had 5 southern fried chicken dippers, a handful of fries, a bag of quavors and 4 mcvities choc homewheat bisciuts.
Tea was grilled chicken and half packet of chicken and mushroom pasta.
Ive given up today, Il have to write it off.
Im in bed now, im so tired and my stomach is aching.Will try to be better tomorow.