Slimming World Support Thread (4)

[calzone]

New thread to post our bling photos on.......:-)

sounbelievablydull we (me, DH, DS4) all tend to eat SW meals - DS a small portion - I eat more veg, and then they tend to eat dessert of some kind which I don't. If DH didn't like what I'd cooked he's always been welcome to make something else 😉 He doesn't like veg except for mushrooms or tomatoes so I tend to pop some of those in the oven for him rather than whatever me and DS are eating but that's all.

Today:
B - sausage (1.5), muller light Greek style (0.5), coffee, satsuma
L - leftover chicken chasseur (2) - contains various speed veg - rice, carrots
D - mustard sausage pasta from family feasts book, I'd imagine a few more syns. Broccoli, roasted squash.

I'll just gnaw on chicken drumsticks and have fruit for snacks, trying to keep syns lower than 10.

Just found out soda bread (brown and wholemeal) can be a HExB - yay!

Oh I forgot I have hifi lights for my HExB (HExA milk in coffee etc) so that's ok

Well done on the losses and NSVs people. loulou what an exceptional first week...well done!

I did post yesterday but it must've disappeared. Anyway, lost 1/2 lb which I'm happy with as it's shark star week and I usually gain up to 2 lbs. Went for a Nandos last night (Butterfly chicken, 1/2 portion chips/rice/peas/coleslaw so probably about 20 syns) and then came home and had sticky toffee pudding and custard (25 syns). It was lovely and I don't care about the syns, and am back on plan this morning.

It's just DH and I and we eat pretty much the same thing. I have "adapted" most of my recipes (which mostly means using frylight rather than oil). We sit down with the new magazine when it comes out and see if there's anything we fancy cooking or eating - this month we've tried the Chicken Goulash and Gehaktballen (Dutch meatballs) which we loved both of. I also get DH to tag those meals in the cookbooks that he'd be interested in (He's Aspie so has issues with food - some foods aren't allowed to touch, some foods are just wrong texturally, he doesn't eat fish, mushrooms or cauliflower - all of which I love) so I know what to make. He also likes Diet Coke Chicken (once the sauce has been thickened up a bit...I do find a lot of SW sauces are runny). We meal plan before going to the supermarket so we know roughly what we're having on what day (so I can get things with a suitable use-by date). He'd be happy with meat/potatoes/peas-or-carrots 5 nights a week (one night roast, one night pie or chili or similar) though.

Not sure what we're having for dinner tonight...it was meant to be leftover cottage pie from Wednesday but I forgot to buy potatoes on Wednesday so we had chili instead and the leftovers are portioned for lunches/snacking in the freezer. Need to stop at the supermarket on the way home and pick something up. I think it'll be pork chops or similar for DH and a piece of fish for me.

B: Breakfast muffins
L: Tuna pasta salad, pear, apple, satsumas
D: Fish (probably), new potatoes, carrots, broccoli
HEA: Milk
HEB: Hifi bars.

Well done em!

Youre - wow you've been busy!! I'm never that organised - wish I was...

Today's plan:

B - natural yoghurt and raspberries

L - tin of HexB soup plus salad

D - KFC style chicken with SW chips, baked beans and coleslaw (just veg, yoghurt and lemon juice)

HexA (I'm just going to have one today, unlike yesterday's cock up) will be a skinny latte. Syns probably in the form of Mikados again...

Well done Emily! You look great in your new coat.

Well done to all the losers as well.
Last night I lost 1lb so pleased with that and next week I would like to loose 2lb so then rid of my Easter gain.

Been reviewing my eating and decided to try and make half of my evening meals speed for as I rarely have the 1/3 for breakfast and lunch varies so should help balance out my day more.

Getting my cook books out and planning my week later. Not sure on any meals yet today!

sounbelievablydull - I cook they eat, if they don't want what's on offer then they can sort themselves out is basically how it works in my house, there's me, DP, DS (20) and DD (16).

I've been a SW member for about 2 1/2 years, so I don't get complaints particularly as they're just meals...DD does sometimes but what she really means is she wants junk food, so I'll make something I like that she doesn't and let her stuck on a pizza or something.

I am new to mumsnet. I just joined slimming world again yesterday for the 100th time!!! Hoping I stick to it this time!

Would love any tips all you wonderful mums have for me...........especially bread, as I think I will miss this the most and crisps!!

I am the heaviest I have ever been 12.5 stone, so depressed.....all I do it eat.........I am hungry all the time!!!! Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Welcome to MN Diddles!

Can someone very helpful provide a list of way to use Quark please? I always have a pot in the fridge but end up not using it because I get bored of it as a pasta sauce and in jacket potatoes.

Hi everyone. No time to catch up so hope you're all doing well.

Have had the week from hell with family ishoos and was +1lb on Tuesday, but was hungry so ate not long before we went to WI and it was pasta bake so hoping it wasn't entirely accurate.

Spent the last two days in London with friends but our BF is a chef and did piri piri chicken with baked wedges & Salad for dinner & cooked breakfast of bacon, eggs, beans, mushrooms and hash browns so not too bad other than wine, a hog roast bap at Borough Market and a few posh chocs on Weds night, but we had walked 5 miles that afternoon so hopefully evens!

Hoping to nail it over the next few days but feeling really low and stressed so could go either way.

Hi everyone.

Just been training. My trainer made me wear a back back with weights in. The pack weighed half what I have lost. It was so hard with the extra weight.

Couldn't believe it the difference it made. Made me realise how much I have lost.

Really spurred me on to stay on plan over the weekend.

I cook what we used to eat as a family but adapt it to slimming world or the others have extra bits like garlic bread. Usually on Friday night I make a bit more of an effort and we might all have something like steak and chips or sometimes I roast a chicken and have it with chips, salad ,corn on the cob and some caponata I plonk it on the table and everyone helps themselves.
Also I do a curry night which goes down well. If dp doesn't like what I'm making (srirfrys mainly!) he sorts himself out.
I'm going out tonight for dinner with dp and some friends, the last time I went out was the end of January! So I'm planning a night off and I'm going to get right back on it on Saturday.

Quark...

With flavouring and sweetener with fruit - my current favourite is salted caramel flavouring, but vanilla is good too, or with chocolate options mixed through for a couple of syns.

With garlic and parsley for a sour cream replacement.

Carbonara

To make creamy style curries, just bung it in at the end.

In quiche instead of cottage cheese.

In mashed potatoes for things like cottage pie or fish pie (you can add it to just straight mashed potatoes, but in all honesty I think you can taste it then).

Mixed with yoghurt, balsamic and a tiny bit of sweetener it makes a passable dressing for things like pasta or potato salad.

Basically anything where you'd want something creamier than yoghurt.

I just substitute quark for any mention of yoghurt in a recipe. Haven't tried it sweet yet, I'm intrigued though.

It's ace in the topping for pastitsio too.

I'm trying to muster up the enthusiasm to write a meal plan and shopping list for next week. Want to order tonight to get delivered on Sunday. Trouble is that DS doesn't let me do much do even me trying to write a list turns into him drawing all over my paper and a screaming fit if I try to take it away. If I leave it until after bedtime I won't have the energy!

It took me ages to write that post because he wanted my phone! Love him but children are such a pain sometimes!

I did taste it earlier and couldn't taste the difference between it and my fave yoghurt (fage total 0%). Maybe there's no need for both

I am home alone tonight so want to have some sort of pasta bake (as OH and DD hate baked pasta) but no quark or cottage cheese in or would do the pastitsio ... what can I do?

Could do a tomato-based pasta bake, with HexA cheese on top?

Also - does anyone have any great recipes for low syn desserts, please? Tried a scan bran cake earlier this week and it wasn't great...

I love pasta bake, and I must admit I made one with proper cheese sauce on Tuesday and it was worth every last sun (which I didn't bother counting.

I did most of it syn free - chicken, onion, garlic, pepper, tinned tomatoes, herbs & spices, pasta and a few black olives. Then I layered cheese sauce, grated cheese and breadcrumbs on top and baked it. I used low fat cheddar!

DD and I like chocolate quark with strawberries & caramel snack a jacks for dipping, or sliced banana topped with muller light and a few crushed Maltesers.

I'm not a big dessert person- tend to stick with Eton mess using 0% from frais or yoghurt instead of cream.

That said I had full fat profiteroles and a chocolate brownie last weekend which means I was very lucky to only put a pound on

I don't know about things to make but mini twister lollies are only 50kcald, which by my calculations make them 2 syns!

That was meant to say 40 kcals

Thanks all - I've been having Eton mess some of the time, and Asda's good and counted chocolate frozen yoghurt...which works out at just 5syns for 1/4 of the tub! Will have to give the mini twisters a go too, Basin - have a freezer full of mini milks (1.5 each) but getting bored of them!

I miss cake. Proper cake. Bad times :(

DH , DS and DD all eat SW dinners, with extra carbs and less veg than me . They like most of the meals luckily . DH has started taking leftovers for packed lunch to save money, and along with cutting back on wine in the house to support me has lost 9 pounds this year that he didn't need to lose .FFS he's doing better than me!
Messed up a bit today, baked with DD and her little friend, lemon cookies, guessed about 4 syns from size and ate 2, then put ingredients into syn checker and they were 8 each :(
Luckily only had 7 syns yesterday and have learnt my lesson .
B overnight oats with Apple and raspberries. Heb. HeA milk in drinks
Satsuma
L salad, chicken, ham, pasta, avocado 3 syns
Asda healthy banana and toffee bar 3.5 syns, the cookies 16 syns
D chicken katsu curry from mag with rice and green beans .1.5 syns . Total 24 syns

Emily
I have found some chocolate brownies and lemon drizzle cakes for only 4 syns each. I thought if I tarted it up with fruit and squirty cream they would be amazing.

Will post a photo later. They really hit the spot.

Hello - lurked for a while, signing on proper now...weigh in tomorrow, hoping to see a loss of a few pounds x

Ooh thanks calzone!

Let us know how the katsu curry is, maygirl - it's on my "to try" list!

Hi Agent - good luck for tomorrow!