DAILY MENU 5 - PLEASE POST WHAT YOU EAT

[Blondeshavemorefun]

Waves to all

Another new thread

For those who are new, we post our daily sw meals

I find it helps to see what people eat and how they use their a and b and syns

@Plantsandpuddlesuits

For today's brunch we changed it slightly from what I had planned so Instead of Linda McCartney sausages, field mushrooms and poached eggs I did the SW egg wraps and put the sausages in with a bit of brown sauce then wrapped in tinfoil like a burrito so easier to eat. Flipping lovely! Would really recommend for an on plan weekend treat!

This is why I’m now saying what I have the day before

As menus do change

Heres today!

Breakfast....new meal idea I saw on YouTube. Sort of a deconstructed omlette. Ham, mushrooms courgettes and spinach fried off then make a little hole and add 1-2 eggs in the middle. That's it. Saving hex b for lunch

Lunch....tuna crunch toast. Toast topped with tuna with low fat mayonnaise, chopped red onions, sprinkle of cheese I also like jalapenos and gherkins. Grill until cheese has melted. 2 plums for speed.

Dinner....skinny chicken sausages 0.5 syns each. I'm having 3. With roasted butternut squash left over from yesterday, sprouts, synned gravy 1.5 syns per 100ml (from a jar). And a small portion of mash (aunt Bessie's so synned at 2 per 100g so will weigh out how much I have.

Hopefully an options hot chocolate in bed with my book this evening

Sounds yummy

B 2 skinny crunch. Still weird eating chocolate and not toast b

L ommlette ham pepper onion cheese a beans fruit

T spag bol and veg cheese a

S conned. A small biscuit thing. 5. Was a mouthful :( don’t buy !!

Crisps 4 fruit

Joining you in the here's what I actually ate yesterday NOT what I intend to eat:
B: 40g porridge HEB 350ml milk HEA berries and banana and 1 syn for honey
L: speed soup and 30g Parmesan HEA yogurt 1 syn
D: smoked haddock and pea risotto - very yum No syns if using 30g cheese for HEA.
Snacks: mini bag popcorn 3.5 apple and satsuma, 3 crab sticks

@lechatnoir
I find it works better as things plans change

B toast b hand eggs beans fruit

L rice fruit

T sw sausage veg bake

S crisps 3.5 bar 5

I like to plan my meals out in the morning so I feel more organised.

Heres today....

Breakfast...banana

Snack.....Costa latte , small skinny one. Hopefully counting as my hex a as I haven't had any milk with breakfast.

Lunch....tuna crunch toast same as yesterday. Really enjoyed it yesterday. Ready chopped up fruit pot of melon and grape

Dinner....went round the supermarket with my barcode scanner to find the lowest syn Chinese food for Chinese New year. We are having Szechuan chicken fillets they are ready marinaded, rice noodles and stir-fry veg. Comes it at 5 syns I'd I've worked it out right!

I do plan so know what having but sometimes chnage as went out for lunch. Wanted /planned a jacket or salad. Didn’t have any

Or a dh eats mr lunch by accident

I'm only just back online after a huge powercut and loss of signal for days in my town, nightmare for the diet as luckily my hob is gas but had to try and use stuff that was going to spoil first!! We're back up and running now though so back to plan.

L - spicy butternut squash and coconut soup (2 syns coconut milk) with cheese on toast (HEA, HEB)

T - vodka pasta from the PON book (will be about 4 syns per serving I think) and salad

S - strawberries, raspberries, white choc light and free yog (1/2 syn) and a skinny dream bar (4.5)

Oh no @JingleAndTonic that sounds stressful!

That sounds like a lovely days meals, I really like skinny dream bars the toffee crunch one I think it's called. Your snack sounds fab too and do you have the recipe for the soup please?

Heres today...

Breakfast....tea water and banana

Snack....water decaff latte and some hippeas crisps love these only 3 syns

Lunch....same breakfast hash thing as Mon but with addition of left over chicken sausages so 2 chicken sausage 1 syn, butternut squash, mushroom, courgettes, spinach and a egg all free.

Dinner... just popped a free chilli in the slow cooker. Various clubs etc on tonight so we can all get out own whenever. Children and DH having rice with their ones. I'm having cauliflower rice I find the microwave sachets of cauliflower rice so handy. And a sachet of frozen mix veg.

Still got my hex b to have.

Does anyone skip a hex b on a day and have 2 another day so still 7 over a week?

Oh no @JingleAndTonic

I love raw cauliflower. Don’t like cooked or rice

B fruit yog 1 toast b butter 1,5 marmite

L bacon and veg risotto

T chicken salad sc 3 cheese a

S crisps 7 bar 4.5

Talks to self

How are you all, doing

B toast b egg ham beans fruit

L jacket butter 1.5 cheese a beans fruit

T sw med sausage pasta bake 1.5 fir 3 sausages cheese a

S crusts 3.5 bar 4.5

yes the power cut wasn't ideal i suspect a gain is on the cards tomorrow but couldn't really be helped!

@Plantsandpuddlesuits for four (generous) bowls of the soup i always just buy the frozen butternut squash chunks to save cutting my fingers off and if i can get it the same with frozen sweet potato so you need:

• either a whole bag of the bns or half and half with sweet potato
• an onion
• a large carrot
• couple of cloves of garlic
• i use chopped frozen ginger but it's not essential
• 2 tablespoons of tomato puree
• chilli powder to taste depending how spicy you like things
• 1/2 tsp turmeric
• 1/2 can of light coconut milk or 200ml of the coconut milk in the cartons as a cow's milk alternative, they are lower in calorie/syns but they're not as creamy
• chicken stock

peel and chop up everything that needs chopped, fry the onion and garlic for a few mins then fire the rest into a big pot and top it up with stock until all the veg is covered and then boil it for about half an hour or until it's all soft, the carrot is usually the last to soften for me so just double check it's fine before whizzing it up, yum

B: porridge HEB with milk HEA and mixed berries
L: jacket potato and beans with salad with dressing 1 plus alpro yogurt 1
D: Carbonara with bacon (fat removed but giving it 1 syn as some flecks still left) egg and cheese HEB plus salad
Popcorn 4.5 syns

Out for dinner tonight - sushi so going to look up reasonable options.

I must look for bags of peeled bns and sweet potato

I love them both cooked mashed or soup

@lechatnoir I love carbonara. Might make tomorrow

I’m def getting through eggs this week

I find eggs ham beans toast fills me up fir breakup

Fine if I have the time to make it

Yesterday:
B: espresso and green tea

L: Buddha bowl (of roasted chickpeas, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, roasted tomatoes, beetroot, avocado, artichoke hearts, purple cabbage, sweetcorn, low-fat balsamic dressing)
A satsuma
2 choc chip cookies

S: pb on wholewheat toast, espresso, green tea

D: korma (made with cauliflower, soya strips and vegan yogurt), brown rice & steamed spinach

@Blondeshavemorefun what are your thoughts on cheese (either synned or using an a) when doing a family meal? So a 4 person meal I should be able to use 120g with 30g being my share but is that too vague as portions are never precise and I might end up with more than 30g?

I always keep mine separate for sprinkling on top but unsure when it needs mixing altogether.

[quote lechatnoir]@Blondeshavemorefun what are your thoughts on cheese (either synned or using an a) when doing a family meal? So a 4 person meal I should be able to use 120g with 30g being my share but is that too vague as portions are never precise and I might end up with more than 30g?

I always keep mine separate for sprinkling on top but unsure when it needs mixing altogether.[/quote]
I do this and then freeze a portion I’d dh doesn’t want it

Guessing doing fairly equal 4 portions

So I wouldn’t worry

Or sometimes I make and add cheese once on plate

Tho I use low fat so 40g/160

B ff greek yogurt & frozen berries free
L 1 alpen light 1 skinny crunch
HexB
D home made ratatouille, pork chop and sweet pot jacket
Free but will allow 5syns for chop
Milk for tea hexA
Snacks tbc!

Thanks for the soup recipe @JingleAndTonic we have all those ingredients already in so will make over weekend.

@Blondeshavemorefun you can get ready chopped squash and sweet potato in m and s, Waitrose and Asda maybe more they are where I've seen them. The Asda one has chilli aswell it's good.

I'm just back from first weigh. 1.5 off am delighted.

Heres today's meals

Breakfast...egg wrap filled with sauteed mushrooms and spinach all free

Snack decaff latte hex a

Lunch....m and s sushi box 4.5 syns and delicious. Melon / grape / pineapple fruit pot from m and s

Dinner....not had it yet as need to do kids bedtime so will probably eat around 10Pm on SW nights which is a bit annoying but I'm having free chilli I made yesterday and deliberately made more.

Just realized I haven't had my hex b again! I checked with my consultant and she says you can't skip one day and double up the next day. Hmmm

@Blondeshavemorefun joining you on the carbonara tomorrow! I usually use cream so a change to FF yogurt for the sw carbonara might be interesting. We have ours with brocolli on the side and garlic bread for the children

@IDidntKnowItWasAParty your meals sound absolutely delicious!

[quote Plantsandpuddlesuits]@Blondeshavemorefun joining you on the carbonara tomorrow! I usually use cream so a change to FF yogurt for the sw carbonara might be interesting. We have ours with brocolli on the side and garlic bread for the children

@IDidntKnowItWasAParty your meals sound absolutely delicious![/quote]
Honestly @Plantsandpuddlesuits don't bother with the yogurt version - garlic, bacon, eggs, parmesan and lots of black pepper are all you need for carbonara sw or not (only difference is knob of butter & fattier bacon/pancetta but it's still damn good without these)

Well done on loss @Plantsandpuddlesuits

My wi is tomorrow. Hoping for a loss tho did have a curry

Grab some skinny bars 2 for b

Or nuts

I don’t see the harm in having 2 b’s one day if didn’t have day before