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Help. Eeeeek. Did I sabotage my husbands diet by mistake??

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tomatopuree · 18/08/2017 17:35

My husband started slimming world. I'm not ready to diet. Too many stresses and can't cope with the pressure. I'm in exams and am comfort eating. Anyway I digress.

I was batch cooking yesterday and using up things in the freezer.

I made a ratatouille type dish. I used a bag of sliced aubergines, 1/2 a bag of courgette sliced and frozen and a third of a bag of mushrooms. All from Tesco freezer section. All £1 a bag. To that I added a jar of dolmio sauce. Family sized and popped it in the oven.

He portioned it up once cool and has it with rice usually. He got 6 portions out of the dish.

Have I made a boo boo by using dolmio. Is it now not a healthy meal? Am I overthinking this?

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TeaBelle · 18/08/2017 17:41

Dolmio sauces are loaded with sugar, so yeah sorry, it's not great.

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Love51 · 18/08/2017 17:46

Surely the beauty of slimming world is he just looks at the dolmio label and can calculate the syns. Tinned Tom's would have been better as 'free', but if he adds it in, it shouldn't sabotage him.
He can only calculate the syns if you've told him tho! Is that the issue?

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tomatopuree · 18/08/2017 18:55

Thanks. Lesson learned. Ok I will use chopped tomatoes next time. Maybe will half the portions too for him.

Thanks

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Groovee · 18/08/2017 19:36

They are high in syns but between 6 portions wouldn't overly bad. I use tomatoes, oregano and garlic.

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blueskyinmarch · 18/08/2017 19:39

I have never done SW but as far as i can see you have a load of veg in a tomato based sauce. It is hardly going to bust his diet is it?

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PuffinNose · 23/08/2017 23:55

The Dolmio won't be great but as long as he knows, he can calculate the syns and adjust the rest of his day appropriately. Not great but not disasterous either.

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PuffinNose · 24/08/2017 00:00

Bluesky - Dolmio is full of sugar so not something anyone should be eating loads of really.
The OP's husband will just need to take the sauce into account when calculating his food and syns for the day

OP - just thought: adding your own tinned tomoatos and onions also adds more speed to his meal.

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MaisyPops · 24/08/2017 00:09

It's not the end of the world honestly. Maybe it's a boo boo on slimming world but for one meal it's veg and a tomatl sauce.

I'm a reasonably healthy eater and I tend to make a massive pan of basic tomato sauce and then freeze it so I can use it on demand for chilli, stews, spag bol etc and then juat add in herbs etc. Much lower in sugar (though I find some canned tomatoes benefit from adding a squirt of ketchup in to take the edge off).

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galison · 12/09/2017 14:01

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