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Snaggles

Awww thank you - usually I would just give up at this point and spend the rest of the day eating pringles, but I'm not going to this time. Feel vaguely sick from the combination of stomach cramps and sickly fridgecake, so that will help with the diet....:rotfl:

northernlass_2

Snaggles wrote: »

It was probably more like 3000.......:o

Think I will go with using todays and tomorrows, or maybe allow myself a maximum of 5 for the rest of the week (or maybe 7, so I can have a bag of crisps...:rotfl:).

Oh dear god, I'm going out for a chinese on Friday. :eek:

Oh hang on, that might not be too bad - boiled rice will be free, and I usually have veg in blackbean sauce, so I will only need to count the blackbean sauce there.

Right - chicken in blackbean sauce is 5 syns on a red day, so the chicken bit will be free - so the rest is 5 syns?? Or isn't it that logical?

chicken in blackbean sauce, with boiled rice.
boiled rice free
chicken use as healthy b and reduce sin value by 6 syns the rest of the meal will be whatever syn value is left,:T
go for it,
i usually have chicken with mushrooms and do it the same way, the meal ends up being syn free that way.

Burlesque_Babe

coolmum wrote: »

mullerlights - any flavour - free on red and green days

yes :j

coolmum wrote:

batchelors pasta n sauce - any flavour - free on green days

almost :T - all are free except the cheese/ham/leek one which is 1 syn and carbonara which is 0.5 syns. Remember to use the milk from your a choice.

i've never seen an own brand pasta and sauce which is free. If you look back to yesterday or the day before I did a list of some low syn branded yoghurts -should help

ask away!!

northernlass_2

coolmum wrote: »

hi everyone


right my books have just arrived and omg my head is done on already :rotfl:



i think im gonna be askin a lot of questions to get the hang of this diet as ive never done it before but if anyone gets fed up wiv me please say lol


right just to recap to make sure ive got it right


mullerlights - any flavour - free on red and green days


batchellors pasta in sauce only free if you use water and no butter, or you can use a splash of milk from your allowance if you want to.

batchelors pasta n sauce - any flavour - free on green days


does anyone now about any of the supermarket cheaper brands of pasta n sauce or low fat yogurts are they free too?

as long as the own brand yoghurt is fat free and not just low fat then they are usually free and usually only the tomato based pasta n sauce is free shops own brand, according to my FREE BRANDED FOODS book.

coolmum

thanx Keren


i think what i might have to do is sit down and plan some meals so i dont have to keep looking at the books all the time


this could take a while as it looks like theres quite a bit to get your head round


oh well it'll keep me away from the biccy tin for a while pmsl

Ava_Ricious

Oh Gawd - ok I'm asking for the support of all you lovely peeps! I'm supposed to be starting the SW plan tomorrow, and I'm feeling very de-motivated right now. I've never done SW before so I'm still quite confused by the whole thing (sorry!) and I've got no money til next week when I get paid so will have to do the first week as best as I can with the food I've got in. Argh! Plus I weighed myself this morning - :eek: I know it should motivate me but it kinda just depresses me.....does anyone else get that feeling??
Thanks all, sorry to moan and bring you down!

Ava x

Burlesque_Babe

Snaggles - from the SW site

Hot and sour soup - 5 syns (either day)

Red ideas
4 ribs is 8.5 syns
beef with mushroom - 4.5

Green ideas
chicken chop suey with noodles - 5.5
chicken chow mein - 7
stir fry mixed vegetables 6.5
and yes, boiled rice, free

Fortune cookies are 2.5!

northernlass_2

Hi Ava,
the SW book does look daunting to start with but it is very easy, if you get stuck just fill up on the free foods section and ask advice on the others at least that way you will never go hungry.
If you have to eat what is in your house for the next week dont worry, you can always check the syn values of what you have on the SW website as i will post the password every week so we can all use it.
good luck, after a couple of weeks you will wonder how you got by with out it, LOL

Burlesque_Babe

coolmum - my post with a few yoghurt ideas

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=10330269&postcount=179

northernlass_2

keren29 wrote: »

Snaggles - from the SW site

Hot and sour soup - 5 syns (either day)

Red ideas
4 ribs is 8.5 syns
beef with mushroom - 4.5

Green ideas
chicken chop suey with noodles - 5.5
chicken chow mein - 7
stir fry mixed vegetables 6.5
and yes, boiled rice, free

Fortune cookies are 2.5!

Have the beef and mushrooms with boiled rice on a green day and count the beef as a healthy extra that way FREE:T