Extra Easy Online - attempting to maintain!

I need to stop going on MiniMins late at night - it makes me so hungry! I'm craving fried eggs now I've been looking at all of those Nasi Goreng recipes :drool:
 
Just realised I've only got 5 more days left of my current SW membership that I'm not planning to renew! The next 5 days will be spent searching through the syns online database and making a record of the syns values I regularly need. Plus noting down any recipes I've bookmarked and yet to try. After that I'll be relying on minimins a hell of a lot more! :)

Just to warn you our consultant has been on about a new pack that will be coming out in the new year so some of the syns and such might change! :) x
 
Just to warn you our consultant has been on about a new pack that will be coming out in the new year so some of the syns and such might change! :) x

Thanks for that. Hopefully as I'm trying to maintain and not lose I should be ok with my current knowledge. I'll still be on here and buying the mag so hopefully I can keep up to date that way x
 
I tried out my Mayflower sauce mix tonight and it was a good substitute to the real deal of a takeaway chinese chicken curry. I used 28g of the sauce mix to 110ml water which was too little sauce, so I added more water so it still looked thick but tasted watery (does that make sense haha). Basically next time I'll make more sauce :D! I also had my smoked mackerel pate for breakfast on toast and it was absolutely delicious, and 110g of it has only 50g philadelphia in so I had enough of my HEXa for the milk in my tea throughout the day.

Food Diary...

Breakfast - Smoked Mackerel Pate (HEXa) on 2 small wholemeal toast (HEXb), 1 carrot

Lunch - frylight fried egg and new potatoes, peas, sweetcorn, carrots, green beans, 1 tsp ketchup (0.5 syns)

Snack - activia 0% w/ blueberries, half a pack of food doctor soya crisp things (2.5 syns)

Dinner - Homemade Chinese Chicken Curry (4 syns), Beansprout Chow Mein (beansprouts, mangetout, broccoli, babycorn, garlic, veg stock), boiled rice

Snacks - 2 Just Brazils (5 syns), half a treatsize timeout (2 syns), mouthful of stepdad's homemade carrot cake (3 syns?), 4 squares of choc (4 syns)

Small red wine (
4 syns)
3 tea w/ skimmed milk (HEXa)

Sparkling water

Total syns = 25


Breakfast...
Recipe - http://myslimlinerecipebook.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/smoked-mackerel-pate.html
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Lunch...

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Dinner...
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My parents had some takeaway containers in the cupboard so I thought I'd put them in there for some authenticity! They also kept the dishes warm whilst I was cooking my rice!
:p

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Just to warn you our consultant has been on about a new pack that will be coming out in the new year so some of the syns and such might change! :) x

I'll be getting a new pack soon so I'll let you know if there are any significant changes. :)

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I tried out my Mayflower sauce mix tonight and it was a good substitute to the real deal of a takeaway chinese chicken curry. I used 28g of the sauce mix to 110ml water which was too little sauce, so I added more water so it still looked thick but tasted watery (does that make sense haha). Basically next time I'll make more sauce :D! I also had my smoked mackerel pate for breakfast on toast and it was absolutely delicious, and 110g of it has only 50g philadelphia in so I had enough of my HEXa for the milk in my tea throughout the day.

Food Diary...

Breakfast - Smoked Mackerel Pate (HEXa) on 2 small wholemeal toast (HEXb), 1 carrot

Lunch - frylight fried egg and new potatoes, peas, sweetcorn, carrots, green beans, 1 tsp ketchup (0.5 syns)

Snack - activia 0% w/ blueberries, half a pack of food doctor soya crisp things (2.5 syns)

Dinner - Homemade Chinese Chicken Curry (4 syns), Beansprout Chow Mein (beansprouts, mangetout, broccoli, babycorn, garlic, veg stock), boiled rice

Snacks - 2 Just Brazils (5 syns), half a treatsize timeout (2 syns), mouthful of stepdad's homemade carrot cake (3 syns?), 4 squares of choc (4 syns)

Small red wine (4 syns)
3 tea w/ skimmed milk (HEXa)
Sparkling water

Total syns = 25

Breakfast...
Recipe - http://myslimlinerecipebook.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/smoked-mackerel-pate.html


Lunch...




Dinner...


My parents had some takeaway containers in the cupboard so I thought I'd put them in there for some authenticity! They also kept the dishes warm whilst I was cooking my rice! :p

Love the idea of putting the curry in the proper tins. Brilliant!
 
I love nasi goreng, really yummy.


Re: wagamama and syn values. I think the problem is the syns calculator when working out syns, only looks at the main free food in it, and it can't calculate a green day and a red day food together. So for instance if it was a veggies noodles dish with no meat, it would give a lower syn value than a noodle dish with meat in it, because the noodles would get a free food allowance, but the chicken wouldn't. Hope that makes sense.
 
I love nasi goreng, really yummy.


Re: wagamama and syn values. I think the problem is the syns calculator when working out syns, only looks at the main free food in it, and it can't calculate a green day and a red day food together. So for instance if it was a veggies noodles dish with no meat, it would give a lower syn value than a noodle dish with meat in it, because the noodles would get a free food allowance, but the chicken wouldn't. Hope that makes sense.


Thanks BritMum - these values are on syns online for Extra Easy so they have been worked out by Slimming World. It's suprising how high they are! Be better off getting a McDonalds haha.
 
Thanks BritMum - these values are on syns online for Extra Easy so they have been worked out by Slimming World. It's suprising how high they are! Be better off getting a McDonalds haha.

Yeah, it will still be the same case when worked out by slimming world though, as all they do is enter the nutritional information as provided by the food companys into the syns calculator. So if a meal has red and green food in it, only one of the foods will get a free food allowance, whereas if you made the food at home yourself with the exact same ingredients, all the free foods you used would be free. Hope I am making sense. It is hard to explain. Lol
 

Thanks BritMum - these values are on syns online for Extra Easy so they have been worked out by Slimming World. It's suprising how high they are! Be better off getting a McDonalds haha.

I just love love love the idea of putting your stir fry in the tin foil packs, genius! LOL! Iswear I saw on the SW website that wagamama broth soups were all free except for a couple which were pretty low syns. I actually read this myself on SW online so I don't know how they've now decided they're super high in syns! I'll dig through my diary for my post talking about this. Be right back!
 
You're right it's completely disappeared! It's pretty confusing. I suppose if you think about it it must be counting the noodles and meat as syns but they really should have separate values for EE, green and red. Really crap of SW and that's going to freak a lot of people out. I might send them an email and see what they say?
 
They do have separate values for EE, green and red!? I give up it's far too confusing!
 
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Okay just calculated the syns for chilli chicken ramen and if you calculate based on the 100g values and then put in the portion weight it comes to 14.5 syns on EE which is better than 23.5 but still mad! I think the new nutritional info on the wagamama website is throwing things off... Mind you had no idea there was as much as 16.2g of fat in the chilli chicken ramen!
 
I got my new manual scales and weighed myself (and half my family) about 10 times on a wooden floor to make sure they're reliable and accurate. They passed and guess what !? I weighed in at 10st!!! I'm still not very trusting that this is completely accurate but who cares right? 10 frickin stone!

I sill can't help but be a little paranoid that every set of scales I step on are completely wrong and I'm actually half a stone heavier... but I should probably get over that right? (that's probably why I've returned the last 2 sets!)
 
Okay just calculated the syns for chilli chicken ramen and if you calculate based on the 100g values and then put in the portion weight it comes to 14.5 syns on EE which is better than 23.5 but still mad! I think the new nutritional info on the wagamama website is throwing things off... Mind you had no idea there was as much as 16.2g of fat in the chilli chicken ramen!

I think I'll just go for the dry noodle or rice dishes if I eat there as it seems the syns are mainly in the broth? It's just crazy that something you'd think would be healthy is actually not much better than a burger or bag of chips?
 
Christmas wrapping done! Just 2 more to wrap and 1 more to buy and it's all done. I've been so organised this year! But I've managed to spend a bloomin' fortune!

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I've not been working today so I've been experimenting a bit in the kitchen. Me and the OH made a pizza for him using a Warbutons Squarish wrap, as recommended by a few people on here and Instagram, and it was a very good pizza substitute as it tasted just like a thin crust pizza! I don't fancy the idea of smash and chicken pizza's much so this worked out great. I also tried out the Nasi Goreng recipe that I linked to a few posts back. It was ok but I didn't use much rice so the sauces were a bit overpowering - I'm not sure that I would bother making it again. I'll definitely do the pizza's again but tweak them as a HEXb. Seeing as I'm trying to maintain I don't mind doing this but they are about 190 cals each so not really the equivalent of 2 slices small wholemeal. However, the brown one's do contain more fibre than 2 slices of wholemeal bread and only weigh just over 60g so they aren't an outrageous tweak! For those who are interested, the brown ones are 9.5 syns, the white ones are 8 syns, and the seeded ones are 9 syns.

Food Diary...

Breakfast - banana, mixed berries, activia 0%, 20g Jordans Natural Muesli (HEXb)

Lunch - Nasi Goreng (spring onion, red pepper), w/ frylight fried egg (see previous post for recipe) (1 syn for ketchup and 0.5 syns for crispy onions)

Dinner - Lamb Tagine (tinned tomatoes, red onion, red pepper) (1.5 syns for 2 semi-dried apricots & 0.5 syns for almonds) w/ ainsley harriot chilli couscous (1.5 syns)

Snack - chocolate brazil nut (3.5 syns), truffle (2.5 syns), 1 small wholemeal (HEXb) w/ smoked mackerel pate (HEXa) - you have to try the pate it is gorgeous!!!
(Recipe - http://myslimlinerecipebook.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/smoked-mackerel-pate.html)

2 tea w/ skimmed milk (HEXa)
1 herbal tea
Sparkling water

Total syns = 11


Lunch...
Nasi Goreng dome pre egg and post egg!


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OH's pizza...
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Dinner...
Recipe -
My Slimline Recipe Book: Lamb Tagine
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