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to think these Slimming World recipes are rank?

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JesusTapdancingChrist · 07/09/2017 15:03

Sat outside school googling for healthy recipes and came across this recipe for a sausage and lentil casserole made with coca fucking cola Shock Envy (not envy face).

Also saw a chicken korma recipe last week that used a Mullerlight Confused and then there's their Fanta chicken Hmm.

What's with SW encouraging people to chuck cans of chemical filled fizzy drinks/artificially sweetened desserts into dinner recipes? I just can't imagine anyone in possession of their faculties and the internet choosing to cook such bizarre sounding dishes.

Am I wrong and am missing out on some real treats?!

OP posts:
frankie001 · 07/09/2017 16:54

Ive lost 8 stone on slimming world, I've tried some of the recipes which can be hit hot or miss. But following the whole plan does work. My new body shape says so!!

ShapelyBingoWing · 07/09/2017 16:57

They're not unlimited though... the limits are just replacing a third of them with veg and stopping when you're comfortably full instead of measuring them.

I get that. Bit there are carbs that are 'free' foods and the above doesn't really place any actual limits on how much of those people should be eating. Yet there is a limit on how many calories we can eat before we start to gain weight or fail to lose it. There are a lot people who this approach just wouldn't work for. For example, me replacing 1/3 of my 'usual' portion of carbs with veg would still result in me eating too much. And carbs lead to me getting really hungry. So this diet gets me into a cycle of poor eating.

HaudYerWheeshtBawbag · 07/09/2017 16:57

Have you tried them OP Hmm because frankly you sound about 10 years of age.

Ginger has been used in meals for years, in early 30s and my mum used cans in some of her recipes, including a cakes etc...

Gammon in comes in delicious (star anise, onion and mustard) slow cooked served with coleslaw and homemade tiger bread.

Dr Pepper slow cooked in pork lion and 5 spices with added chillies is frankly food hevan.

Fanta and chicken tastes like sweet and sour we served this with rice and peas.

Don't knock something before you even try it! Not all people on slimming word are addicted to sugar and frankly it's quite offensive and I say that as someone whose slim and not in a diet!

Basecamp21 · 07/09/2017 16:59

I have to say I didn't get on with SW for the reason I felt I was eating an extraordinary amount of artificial sweetener and artificial chemicals in everything. I preferred WW as I could carry on cooking my normal meals and just adjust slightly

tabulahrasa · 07/09/2017 17:12

"For example, me replacing 1/3 of my 'usual' portion of carbs with veg would still result in me eating too much."

You're also supposed to pay attention to when you're actually full though, so you learn what is actually enough without being overfull.

"And carbs lead to me getting really hungry."

Then you'd be told to eat more proteins, it's why those foods are marked with a symbol in the book.

I'm not saying it suits everyone, but, it's not what a lot of people seem to think it is either.

SouthernNorthernGirl · 07/09/2017 17:12

Thanks for the recipe skint

maxthemartian · 07/09/2017 17:12

Syns short for synergy Grin
Funny how they used to be called syns...

My colleagues did this. There were a lot of Muller Lights, Mugshots, Hi Fi bars and weird little slices of bread.
They lost weight then put it all back on again.

maxthemartian · 07/09/2017 17:13

Used to be called sins even...

PeppaPigTastesLikeBacon · 07/09/2017 17:19

It's one of the reasons I left SW. We had a taster evening that we all had to bring a SW friendly dish. I made chocolate brownies (I think it was a long time ago) but the pudding was made with nearly a whole tub of sweetener 🤢 It was rank. All the foods just tasted of it

OverTheHammer · 07/09/2017 17:29

Slimming world is an absolute joke. Every single recipe I've tried of theirs is absolutely rank. I didn't even try the diet cola shit because the thought of it made me feel sick.

Makes me laugh when you see people posting about SW "hacks" which include weetabix flapjacks, spring rolls made with lasagne sheets and other monstrositys. Oh but god forbid you drink a fruit smoothie - made with actual fruit. Stick a muller light in it and it might be ok. Absolute joke. I wish someone would really expose them for what they are.

Happyhappyveggie · 07/09/2017 17:44

This just confirms everything I have ever thought about slimming world. I did it once and did lose a bit of weight but was really fed up of all the shit chocolate bars that they peddle and fat free shit like muller light. All the dietary evidence now points to high fat, good carbs and no sugar/ sweetener - slimming world is then complete opposite if all of this advice.

Eliza9917 · 07/09/2017 18:06

One of their worst recipes has to be corned beef pasties made with a wrap instead of pastry. The wrap part is ok, it's just the corned beef I find disgusting.

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JesusTapdancingChrist · 07/09/2017 18:12

Eliza I saw someone on YouTube saying how she says two of those with chips and veg for her dinner Shock. They're made with an entire wrap each and must be about 500 calories per pasty!

And then she was aghast at having gained a pound at they week's class Hmm Confused.

OP posts:
Gorgosparta · 07/09/2017 18:24

Fruit was bad for you.

I have never heard anyone connected to slimming world say that. Fruit is encouraged.

Most people have no idea what slimming world is about and judge it because simeone they know chose to do it in a particular way.

You dont have to eat diet anything at all. If you dont want to make diet coke chicken, you dont have to.

Its entirely possible and easy to do it without that stuff. But they are options that help some people.

tabulahrasa · 07/09/2017 18:35

"They're made with an entire wrap each and must be about 500 calories per pasty!"

If it's the recipe I've seen more like 300... and to have 2, someone would have to have had no bread or cereal that day and have used most of a day's syns.

So while she had 2 wraps filled with lean corn beef, with potatoes and veg for dinner that's got to have replaced the snack foods that people tend to use syns on for that day.

You do realise a lot of the recipes mentioned on this thread aren't actually slimming world ones anyway? They're not produced by slimming world, but by people just cooking things and posting them online...some of them wouldn't even be free where people claim they are (lasagne spring rolls for example)

TheFirstMrsDV · 07/09/2017 18:58

I have never heard anyone connected to slimming world say that
what does that prove? Confused I told you I had. I am not lying. It happened
The woman also told everyone she was massively overweight before SW and showed a photo of herself looking slightly tubby. I mentioned I didn't think she looked terribly overweight and she got angry.
I was about 10st. I am 5 7 and I had a two month old baby at the time.
She asked me what my goal weight was and I said '8st'
She didn't bat an eyelid and wrote it down in my plan.

8st!

People are so defensive of Diets. SW is shite. Its a business designed to make money. They want you to lose weight in an unsustainable way. They are not going to hand you the answer because you wouldn't keep coming back year after year after year.

Groovee · 07/09/2017 19:08

I've lost over 3st with SW. I couldn't take to the Coke Zero chicken.

I make lots of nice recipes without muller lights and diet juices.

But everyone has different tastes. I love Cajun chicken pasta which is quick and easy. I make lots of quick recipes. But I am cooking from scratch again and I have to say I enjoy my cooking. A year ago whatever I cooked tasted awful to me.

oldlaundbooth · 07/09/2017 19:09

Bag of wank.

You're better off lowcarbing

Gorgosparta · 07/09/2017 19:16

People are so defensive of Diets. SW is shite. Its a business designed to make money. They want you to lose weight in an unsustainable way. They are not going to hand you the answer because you wouldn't keep coming back year after year after year.

I am calling you a liar nor am i defensive. You didnt like it. Thats fine. I am saying that fruit is not something slimming world says. That consultant might have said it. But its not true. The book is full of fruit and veg and encourages you to eat it.

The only person sounding defensive or upset is you. You dont like. Thats fine, but its clear you were completely misinformed and the consultant was crap.

DeloresJaneUmbridge · 07/09/2017 19:36

To be fair it's not just SW, all these slimming companies know that 95% of their members will regain all the weight they lose and then some! It's a shocking statistic.

Even more shocking is that the companies keep no data about how successful (or not) their plan is. The reason for that is that they already know the answer....it's not a sustainable way of eating long term.

Go and ask SW how they calculate Syns and WW about Points. Neither will be able to tell you how they calculate it.

The only answer is to look at fitness and to create a caloric deficit through exercise.

Our brain is a hunter gatherer at its core, starving it isn't a great idea as you will inevitably binge because your brain thinks it has had a famine and wants to protect you from the next one....hence you gain even more weight.

Fool it.....increase your activity levels and reduce your intake by no more than 200 calories a day. Your brain won't think it is starving, you won't binge as you don't feel deprived and even better you will actually burn fat rather than lose muscle and fluids as you do with "dieting".

MrsPinkCock · 07/09/2017 19:37

Slimming World recipes are mainly absolutely fucking disgusting.

However the diet itself doesn't have to be. I manage without ever cooking any of their recipes.

I get fabulous inspiration here - www.gousto.co.uk/cookbook/all-recipes

My favourite is the Goan fish curry but it's 9 syns (works for me as I don't use them on snacks, only alcohol!)

Most of the recipes can be adapted to be SW friendly (for example anything using breadcrumbs can come from Wholemeal bread as a HE, ditto for cheese as HE) or made for only a few syns and honestly, the food is amazing because it's all fresh and non processed.

I'd also recommend the smoky fish and masala corn rice (syn free) and the Spanish prawns on spicey rice. (I love seafood)

Tom kerridge also does a lovely pork kebab and cauliflower rice recipe which I have with salad - filling, tons of veg and syn free.

FluffyMcCloud · 07/09/2017 19:38

I put coconut yoghurt in curry

MrsPinkCock · 07/09/2017 19:38

Oh and I've never eaten muller rice, hifi bars, mug shots, etc etc...

ItsAllAboutThePace · 07/09/2017 19:48

Nearly 3 stone down with SW

Never had a muller light, mugshot or hifi bar either!

When you sit in a room Week after week with 30 or so other women and see the group has lost 60 70 or 80 pounds that week alone, between us, it's quite motivating!!

SalamiSandwich · 07/09/2017 19:52

I'm on SW and haven't used any sweetener or eaten mug shots or those bars. I'm eating much better than I did before as I'm using less oil when I cook and eating more fruit and veg and limiting cheese.