Help!

[lazyspoon]

Started following SW on Monday and it's now Saturday and I'm so hungry!

I am a chocoholic through and through and am finding it quite hard to not have anything sweet.

I'm also struggling to find teatime meals that don't require a whole list of fancy ingredients. We shop at Aldi and was hoping to not have to goto numerous shops to get all of our food.

Can you please give me meal suggestions-breakfast lunch and dinner, and would appreciate any sweets treats and their Syns. I just feel like I'm eating the same things.

[OwlinaTree]

Freddo = 5 syns
Curly Wurly = 6.5 syns
Chocolate fingers =1.5 syns
Mini milky bar = 3.5 syns

Easy dinners.
Omlette with a load of veg and lean ham in plus salad
Chicken breast pizza. Hammer flat and top with tomato puree, veg/ham/chicken plus a hex a cheese.
Salmon fillet with veg and spuds
Really easy stir fry, buy a packet of ready chopped veg, fresh noodles, packet of prawns. Small sachet of stir fry sauce is about 3.5 syns.
Steak and a jacket spud
Pasta, veg, make a quick tomato sauce with chief Toms, onion, oregano, basil, Worcester sauce.
Jacket spud with various fillings.

[OwlinaTree]

Chopped Toms not chief!

[Shocksandboooos]

My lunch is usually soup or some kind of salad with pasta, rice, couscous, chicken etc
Beans on toast
Scrambled egg on toast
Chicken wrap (weight watchers wraps are a heB)
On a weekend I have a cooked breakfast late in the morning.
Tea is:
Chicken curry
Jacket potato
Sausage, mash and veg (Linda McCartney rosemary or heck chicken)
Hunters chicken
Stew
Any meat and veg
Chilli
Spaghetti Bolognese
Stir fry
Shepherds pie
Pizza chicken
Pulled pork
Fish and chips (chip shop fish are 0syns if you remove all batter)
Chicken baked with a bit of pesto and some tomatoes
Pesto pasta, roast veg and quorn pieces
Frittata and salad

[Shocksandboooos]

My breakfast is usually either banana on toast, overnight oats with berries or muesli, Greek yogurt and fruit.
If I want to avoid using my hex I have a couple of hard boiled eggs.

[lazyspoon]

Thankyou all for your suggestions! I definitely like the sound of pizza topped chicken and would like to try overnight oats for ease in the mornings! I always struggle with sauces- like when you do a stew/casserole/curry/lasagne I'm unsure what sauces I'm allowed or what to use.

Gonna have to get some Freddos too!

[OwlinaTree]

It's best to avoid jars of sauce as they are high syn. Try to make your own with tinned toms etc.

[Shocksandboooos]

My sauses are always homemade
E.g tinned toms, mushrooms, peppers, onion, oxo cubes, chilli, garlic and tomato purée, herbs and smoked paprika for chilli con carne.
I usually made stew in the slow cooker with a beef stock pot. Tomato purée or adding potato to the stew are good thickeners.

I’ve just made coleslaw using a pack of pre-shredded veg from Morrisons. Mixed with Greek yogurt, a teaspoon of mustard powder, salt and pepper, a bit of fat free French dressing and a little squirt of low fat mayo.
It was really good with sweet potato chips and pork steaks sprinkled with a bit of smoked paprika and salad.

Quite often your favourite recipes can be adapted. What do you like to eat?

[Groovee]

I do a bit of shopping at Iceland as their 5% mince is good. Their chicken breasts are HUGE and they do frozen cooked chicken which you get a huge back and is handy for a lot of different things.

Aldi are good and reasonable for their spices and stock cubes. I find it helps to stock up your store cupboard for cooking.

Meals this week are, gammon with roast potatoes and steamed Veg. Mini turkey meatloaves, cheesy chicken risotto, quorn steak stroganoff, Mexican chicken pasta.

Spaghetti Bolognese, cheeseburger pasta, chicken curry, chunkey beef chilli go down well as I only cook one meal.

Breakfasts, 1 morning is porridge then o have eggs scrambled or as an omelette. Fresh fruit salad.

Lunches vary from soups, salads, cous cous or rice salad, cheese beanos( beans on toast with cheese melted on) lentil Dahl with carrots is a favourite for me.

[lazyspoon]

So I've made my first overnight oats for the morning! Am I right in thinking that fat free natural yogurt is Syn Free?

I've also bought ingredients to make a SW friendly lasagne which is my fave!

Unfortunately I don't have a slow cooker, as most sw meals seems to be made this way!

Keep feeling like I'm failing at this and having to ask for advice but I got weighed today and lost 6lb which I'm quite happy about, just need to mix up my meals more. Thankyou all for your advice!

[Shocksandboooos]

Well done! 6lbs is a great loss.
Hope that your overnight oats are good. Yes the yogurt is free if fat free.
Today I had-
Fat free natural yogurt, cherries (frozen) and Dorset cereals muesli (HeX)
Chicken salad with homemade coleslaw and a yogurt.
Pulled bbq beef with wedges, broccoli and carrots.
Am now having a glass of wine. Other HeX was used on milk.

Tomorrow is a nursery trip so I will be having
Hard boiled eggs for breakfast.
Chicken salad wrap (weight watchers wrap is HeX), yogurt and French fries crisps. (4syns)
Either fish or stir fry for tea.

[lazyspoon]

Thankyou so much! I've got about 4st to lose and know I need to do it this time or I'll be fat forever

The homemade coleslaw and bbq beef both sound great! I think I'm having gammon for dinner tomorrow evening with SW chips and vegetables.

I used porridge oats for my overnight oats, is this okay or do they have to be counted as syns? One last question I promise, I'm using almond unsweetened milk instead of normal milk, is this free?

[Shocksandboooos]

Both the porridge and the almond milk will come out of your healthy extra allowance. The lists are in your books and both will need to be measured.
I am working from old books so I’m not sure of how many of each you are now supposed to have though as I think it changed.

[JessieMcJessie]

lazyspoon have you downloaded the guides to Health Extras and Syns etc from the They look like this. Will tell you all you need to know about Syn value of sweets, low fat yoghurts etc. It’s also all on the food search in the Planner.

[JessieMcJessie]

From the website. member.slimmingworld.co.uk/slimming-world-essentials

[Groovee]

Porridge and almond milk are your Healthy extras.