To say Slimming world food is disgusting?

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I joined Slimming world again on Monday. I did it for 4 months around 4 years ago and lost 2 stone.

Im now bigger than i ve ever been so rejoined.

I didnt do any of the recipes last time from the books and found the diet boring which is why i gave it up.

This time i was determined to buy the cookbooks and do a variety of different things to avoid me getting fed up with it.

So far i have cooked 3 meals out the books and all have been disgusting!!

I ve even tried the slimming world meals from iceland, again it was disgusting and i had 2 mouthfuls and that was it.

Im a member of a slimming world group on facebook and people are posting pictures of their tea and saying it was delicious!

Aibu to think the meals are far from delicious?

I will be rejoining SW after my post natal check. I think the problem is so many people use the syns in the wrong way. I don't eat processed food (packet pasta ugh) and I don't make any of the weird foods. I cook everything from scratch, use lean meat and lots of seasoning and healthy cooking methods. For me the effectiveness is the motivation of knowing I'll be weighed.

I make hundreds of different meals, Sunday roasts, stir fries, chillies, curries, baked fish with a variety of sauces, pasta with lots of sauces, pulled pork (I syn sugar etc and make it properly, I couldn't list everything. Tonight we are having crispy chicken (chicken coated in egg, breadcrumbs and seasoning) served with green beans and caramelized sweet potato wedges.

But their meals are, for the most part, just like normal cooking from fresh. Bolognaise last night, made the same way I always had, but with 5percent mince, frylight instead of oil, and a leek

How do you make mash without butter? Surely it's not mash then?

I put butter and full fat milk in mash. I just eat less of it. Which is the point surely?

Shitebag, that is what is so good about sw though- you can eat until you feel full, because the mash or pasta or whatever is syn free! It just helps you make healthy choices for treats

I eat tonnes of food every day, but it is all low fat and low sugar, and I drink a couple of bottles of wine at the weekend and still maintain my bmi of 20 as I am good during the week

To me it is a waste of syns to put them in my main dinner, I save them up for sweet treats. And yes I might have a small amount of haagen dazs or a massive bowl of fat free fromage frais with half a punnet of strawberries, but something works. Either way you are restricting the sugar and fat and upping the fruit and veg, which is the core of it.

How do you make mash without butter?

I have never put butter in mash, just milk and seasoning. That is how my mum used to do it too. Surely butter is an optional extra?

I wouldn't class butter as an optional extra in mash, if anything I'd say the milk was
My mum used to make mash with just butter and no milk, I make it with both but more butter than milk - I like my mash to be yellowy not white
I imagine it'd be very sloppy with just milk

I agree. I had a slimming world recipe book for years and never tried one recipe. They all sounded disgusting. Gave it to a charity shop as it was unused and like new. The way they get money out of people with raffles and collections and goodness knows what else is a scandal.

I've lost 3 stone with slimming world since January and we eat some of that food (the diet coke chicken is nice and one of our favourites) but other than that we tend to eat curries, pasta, fish and Slimming world chips. For me it's teaching me to eat properly again. I'm not that much into processed food so I don't eat it. I have 30g of cheddar a day some wholemeal bread and plenty of steamed vegetables and fruit. and I might have a sneaky kit kat here and there in my syn allowance.
its made me really think about food and what goes into your average meal out.

Have you used the online recipe finder on the sw website? I decide what I want to cook, then look for the sw version recipe. I've now stopped buying jars of pasta, stir fry sauces etc and make my own.

BlueBananas - I just use a splash so it isn't sloppy.

I should Sa that I have never been to a slimming world class but was introduced years ago when it was still red and green days by a friend who gave me the books and I then ordered the food directory. Now with the extra easy it seems , well, extra easy! You just make sure you have a third fruit or veg, which I pretty much did anyway, p

There are 6 seasonings in that chilli

Off the top of my head, I make chilli with chilli flakes, smoked paprika, cumin, salt, pepper (so 5 seasonings already) then a selection from cinnamon, oregano, thyme and fresh coriander, depending on the precise flavours I'm going for.

SW, WW and the like work best when you use them to work out how much food you really need to eat, to achieve and maintain a target weight and in providing the self discipline to do that. I've not done SW, but when I did WW, after having the boys, I completely ignored the completely unappetising ready meals and made the food I'd normally eat with my own family work with it. Any meals I cooked from scratch, I could put into the recipe book and work out my points from there. My portion size adjustment has stuck with me. Unfortunately, I've lost my willpower against all the calorific stuff I fill myself with between meals

I think you can often make your own versions of the ready meals and they taste nicer (and are cheaper). The sw meatballs ready meal I thought was disgusting, but my own attempt was lush. I fried sw meatballs (the ones on the bag, gorgeous) in fry light, added onions, mushrooms, chopped tomatoes (tin ) and passata. then added garlic salt, oregano, basil, small bit of parsley, vinegar and pepper. left to simmer and served with cooked spaghetti. Was lovely and much better than the horrible ready meal. Cheaper too.

Something else I did on WW was avoid emulsified spray oil like the plague. Horrible stuff. I used a small amount of olive or rapeseed oil and counted the points. I get very dry skin on a very low fat diet.

I did get hold of an olive oil mister that was great for meat and fish, but it clogged up, after a while and couldn't be rescued.

I don't get all the Quark hate on this thread. I love it!

You do all know it's a natural normal European style of soft cheese made with soured skimmed milk and bacteria culture that has been eaten for centuries, not an invented in a lab over-processed diet frankenfood (which I avoid like the plague).

I had Quark, tomato and spring onion rolls for lunch today. Because I like the slightly sour taste (like I like creme fraish instead of normal cream, and natural yoghurt, both full fat as that's what real creme fraish and real yoghurt is. Quark just is a skimmed milk cheese, always). I've got full on extra strong cheddar for tomorrow.

If you don't like the taste, fair enough, but please don't lump it in with monstrosities like diet coke chicken and diet ready-meal garbage.

Do they still have Scan Bran at SW? What sadist invented that fgs.

Loveareading thank you, thats the description I'm going to give DH tomorrow when he looks slightly sick at the thought of quark when we go shopping

Well said kew

I lost ten stone on SW initially 12/13 years ago and have recently lost the 3 and a half stone i put back on (im carrying just over half a stone of loose skin though) The first time i could eat carbs and lose a stone a month. Turned out fast weight loss wasnt a good idea = gallstones. (two doctors and a surgeon told me it was caused by losing weight too fast)

19 months ago when i went back to SW i had to tweak the plan Too many carbs mean i gain or stay the same and their so called syn free stuff are full of sugar. So like a pp said, i do the full fat stuff like the greek yoghurt but in smaller portions.
Im healthier than ive been in a while and my skin looks good. However the pains in my legs still bother me but that is something hereditary so there is fuck all i can do about that.

Well, for me 'slimming world food' is mostly just my normal food tweaked so it's on plan. So I swap full fat mince for 5% fat, use lean cuts of meat, cook with fry light or a measured amount of oil, eat more fruit and veg, try and make healthier choices as much as possible. I have quite a few SW recipe books though and although I don't like all of the recipes, there are a lot more I like. Sometimes I change them slightly, but I do that with other recipes too.

Although a lot of processed foods are 'free', I don't think they're 'pushed' at all personally. I usually cook from scratch, but it is handy to be able to eat a tin or packet of something if I'm in a rush or haven't been organised.

I don't think low fat versions will ever be as good as full fat, but I don't think that's slimming world's fault.

An air fryer is a wonderful thing too if you like chips, roasties etc :)

I lost loads of weight on slimming world after two pregnancies - second time i made the effort to cook the recipes and tbh loved a lot of of them, found it much easier to keep to diet long term by making proper meals. There's a lovely moroccan lamb recipe with low syns, fab in a slow cooker, and lemon and garlic chicken... ummm lamb and bean casserole, chicken tikka were both great, lamb rogan josh, ratatouille pasta melt, three bean chilli, there was a lovely prawn curry made with low fat yoghurt. A lot of the curries are fab but you do need to buy/invest in a fair few spices to get a good flavour and keep out the processed curry pastes. We pretty much lived on slimming world recipes for a couple of years. I follow fitnaturally instead now which is better for portion control - one of the downsides of sw. Def don't agree that recipes are yuck though, maybe try a few more before writing them all off?!