Help needed for 1st day......

[xmisskx]

my friend is a photographer and has just left her job to try go it alone....a bit risky but good luck to her i say!

i dunno what the choc/honeycomb ones are like but the marshmallow/vanilla are yummy...honestly, it feels so wrong that they're a HEb cos they're sweet compared to what we'd pick unless it's a hifi or something from group!

i'll take a picture and post it so you can see what you're looking out for

this is my 7th week going it alone...i'm chuffed that i've stuck to it - didn't think for a second i'd ditch it but i know it would be easy to have a little extra or more times off plan if i wasn't answering to anyone!

cooked rice earlier and left it sitting out, going to attempt egg fried rice (almost wrote lice there??hehe) and have some onions, pepper and some fajita strips. hope they're nice - it's a first for me trying them! x

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[xmisskx]

Yummy!x

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[sparty]

Ahh they even look tasty! It that plastic wrapping instead of a box? Poundland did you say? I'll have to have a nose for them.

 

[xmisskx]

It was poundworld (we have both shops here) but you could try semi chem too?

Plastic wrapping not a box, yeah.

Just made egg fried rice....ooh it was yummy and I wish I'd had it on it's own! The quorn fajita strips were ok, I cooked them with pepper and onion but to be honest, I'd rather have seasoned them myself (BBQ fajitas would be my choice every time!)

The egg sticks to the wok with the fry light so I might get some oil cos I think it would make the difference when making the rice and I'd love it for my lunch at work one time x

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[sparty]

Ooh that looks lovely mrs!! I'm going to try out making some chicken and egg fried rice in the next week or so I think. Bet it's lovely!

Cottage pie is in the oven and nearly ready which is good as I'm starving lol. Looks like there will be enough for leftovers but I've bought some avocados and think I'll have a nice cheese salad tomorrow with some pickle and maybe an egg for lunch. Cottage pie can go in the fridge for Wednesday

I'm torn between cheesy ham and potato hash for dinner tomorrow off the SW website or making a katsu curry usingy quorn pieces!?

 

[xmisskx]

Hmmm...both sound nice!
I've wanted to try that curry but I'm sure I was always missing an ingredient lol...or something put me off - can't remember which

Not a fan of avocado...so you need to syn it?x

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[sparty]

Yeah it's about 9 syns for a whole normal sized one but the ones I have are teeny baby ones so I'm gonna weigh it and maybe syn it a little less if I can work out how much it would be. I really miss it - it's one of my fav things and im gutted it is syns

Think I'll go for the katsu since I already have some sauce frozen so it's easy peasy. Just hope i dont wreck the quorn like last time hahaha.

My sister had a result tonight with 2lb off after an iffy week! She got her half stone award so hopefully it will spur her on a bit really pleased as she was well down in the dumps earlier when I spoke to her.

 

[xmisskx]

aww good for her...nothing better than a wee loss to put a spring in our step eh!

are your chicken bits frozen? if so, i'd just put them in with your sauce then heat them both gently? and if not...i'd prob do the same anyway lol...avoid the microwave...it sets them up to fail! hehe

i'm gonna google the katsu recipe and see what it was that stopped me making it - does it involve bread crumbs? cos if it asks for that from a slice of bread, it was probably that - i wouldn't syn it or want to use my HEb!
will go look now i think

how was your dinner?x

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[xmisskx]

just looked...FAAAAR too many ingredients in the curry sauce list for me!
stopped looking half way down...so that's the reason why i've not made it lol

looks lovely tho!x

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[sparty]

Lol. I tend to use a lot of spices etc so that's probably why it didn't phase me having so many ingredients

yeah it says you are meant to use breadcrumbs if you are doing a chicken breast (last time I just synned shop bought ones for ease instead of using bread) but i don't see why you couldn't use smash. If I was doing it fresh I would give that a try but as it's frozen quorn I'll just chuck it in the sauce as is and forget about the 'breadcrumbs' this time round.

Bf sometimes hates my SW recipes and this one looks a bit like brown mushy peas put through a blender lol but he even said he was impressed with the taste. I would bear in mind for future if you ever stock up your spice cupboard enough. And the good thing is that bf made it last time and there was tons of sauce so I don't even have to make that tomorrow wahoo!! Just took it out the freezer and all I'll have to do is reheat it

Ive made up a yummy salad for lunch and bf was even doubting using up so many syns on avocado (weighed it and it does work out 9.5 for my teeny ones so I'm not cheating!!) lol. But it does look yummy and as I'll be on green I can have double hexs and have hifi bars as a treat to save syns. I can also still fit my 4 syn crisps in win win!!

How was your day hun?

 

[xmisskx]

ooh that's a lot for avocado! just don't syn it...it's super good for you lol

my day's been ok...nothing exciting to report really.

i do have a lot of spices....most if not all that's on the list but i just read it and thought..meh! then clicked off the page lol...hell mend me for missing out on it eh!

did you ever get round to trying the quorn peppered steaks yet?x
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[sparty]

No I haven't tried the peppered steaks yet but I did look for them yesterday in morrisons. They only had plain ones although they were on offer for 99p per bag (frozen ones). I'm a bit unsure of quorn after my last attempt nuked them to death haha but hopefully tonight's will be ok.

Bf said this morning he might not go out with his dad for dinner but when I told him what I was cooking he made a face and turned his nose up haha. He might just go in the end anyway lol. I told him to get something out when he gets home if he wants something different. he wasn't happy at all lol. I told him I always do green when he is out on a Tuesday and he should have said last night if he wasn't going out so I could plan better.

I looked for them honey monster bars as well but they didn't have any so I'll take a walk up to the £1 shop at lunchtime to see if they have any. If not I'll get my sister To go to pound world near where she lives and pick some up for me lol. We only have pound land near where I live and at work.

Seems that there is a shortage of hifi's at the moment so I'm not sure if my sister will be able to get any. Something to do with the supplier moving to a different factory.

What's your plans today?

 

[xmisskx]

i've heard about the shortage....i gave my friend £10 to pick me up 5 boxes the other week...and i've still not got them
still got a few boxes plus these new things will help so not in a panic just yet

the peppered steaks are in the fridge bit, just a pack of two and were half price in morrisons (usually £2.50) but not sure how long for.

grrr to OH's eh...mine fell asleep on the couch last night, i left him for a bit then when i was going to bed, i spoke to him, kissed him etc and went upstairs, he came up in a total grump and made a comment about me not "switching" everything off.
i cracked up!
i left the lamp on in the living room cos he was gonna get up, and hadn't pulled the kitchen blind down...what a terrible person eh! lol. i mean....wtf!
ooh i was mad! our routine is usually both going to bed at the same time, i head up first and he does it all (or just whoever's going up last)...but to be honest, i don't think i could've won cos if he was in that frame of mind, i'd no doubt have been in the wrong if i'd have done it!

i was so angry and he was like oooh why are you getting all crabby!!!!!!!!!! put me in a right mood before i went to sleep and i wanted to say...oh it's not that when i'm doing everything else when you play hobbies after work!
fekin men....grrrr!

cooker's on with my boiled eggs, pudding rice and savoury rice (for my dahl loaf) will sort most of that once teeny is at school but it feels weird doing it today.

our schools are off here next monday/tues so i'm not sure whether to try get next tues off - it'll save me £30 on childcare but use my leave.
not in today cos i'm in on saturday...i booked it off cos my OH was gonna be off too but now he's working overtime so it seems a waste. so if i take the tues off too, it's 2 days used for nothing really.
not sure what to do...hate working a saturday but i could always swap days maybe?x

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[sparty]

my sister said she didnt get the hifi's becuase she got chatting and forgot lol. I have been looking on the SW website and those honey monster bars are listed as syns - not a hexb. The vanilla ones are 3 and the choc/honeycomb are 2.5 according to syns online. Maybe they have researched a bit more and are changing it? My sister said she would email SW and ask so i will let you know but wanted to tell you before you end up having too many just in case. Hoping that its a new change coming - maybe it will be in the next mag which is due out soon.


i would swap days and save myself the money if it was me i think...unless you have someone who can watch him for you? friends or family maybe? working saturdays isnt ideal unless you absolutely have to in my opinion lol

 

[xmisskx]

I saw the bars on Stevie's thread...think she said her C had checked? They're 60 cals I think and have 1.7g fibre so more than 3g (for both-which is what the HE needs to have) so I hope they do turn out to be ok...cos I won't syn 35 bars lol

I'll see if I can maybe build some time on fri and take the tues as flexi leave?
I've got enough leave to be honest but don't really have anyone to watch him so just need to decide

I'm freezing today...can't get a heat in my at all

Spent hrs listing stuff on eBay this morning...such a hassle but done now so hopefully some stuff goes (oversized stuff of mine and some boys clothes too) x

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[sparty]

Hope your eBay stuff sells. The only other suggestion I would have is to find a local selling page on Facebook. You don't have to muck about with postage then so if no luck with eBay you could give it a go!?

Ahh I trust Stevie to have checked this out lol. Yay! I can't find any but yay anyway for there being another option for us. I've looked in morrisons, poundland and a tesco express but I'll keep trying

Got to make a cake tonight for work tomorrow (it's my turn) and it will work out as 4 or 8 syns for a slice if I have some which isn't too bad as I know the cake is nice and chocolatey (haven't decided if I am doing one layer of sponge or two!? Recipe calls for two but I could halve the mixture!?)

 

[xmisskx]

mmm i've not had proper cake for ages.
i've ordered one to be made for my son's bday next month. usually just do the shop bought ones but this year i've decided to get one made....aint no way i'm missing out on a slab of that lol.

think stevie said on her thread that they were in some book...but not online as it hadn't been updated yet...i'll go with that for now

not eaten much today at all so far - just rice pudding with fruit at lunchtime so patiently waiting on quorn burger to have on a wm roll with lettuce, tomato and cheese and some sw chips. i'm surprisingly not hungry but i'm sure it'll be one of those times that when i do eat my belly will be like "where have you been...bring it on!" hehe

it's snowing here just now - eurgh! i really thought we were going to get away with having none despite what the forecast was! hope it's only a flutter and disappears by morning!

how has your day been?x

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[sparty]

My day went ok actually. Stuck to plan although I had a little taste of the butter icing (I'm terrible at judging the butter to icing cream ratio) but I didn't eat any cake itself and only a mouthful of icing.

Tomorrow is a red day. I've got a sandwich for lunch and I'm halving my other hexb so I get some potatoes for chips with dinner and a hifi for brekkie. I'm making hunters chicken tomorrow so hopefully that will be tasty

Snow!?! Well it's been pretty cold down here but more raining than anything else. We have loads if floods nearby but luckily my area seems to be ok at the mo. This is a pic of a pub just on the outskirts of town;




Scary when you think about it!!

 

[xmisskx]

oh god...it is scary! i saw some stuff on the news earlier - i never watch the news but it was on as i flicked through

you're sooo good not having any cake...i don't think i could've done that!

it's gotten really windy here now, so the snow falling looks worse cos it's blowing everywhere...i can imagine my hair will be a right state for work tomorrow if this keeps up hehe

heading to bed soon...my OH is currently sleeping on the couch...so i will be turning EVERYTHING off on my way up, he can bloody stay there til he wakes up freezing and hell mend him if he hasn't set his alarm to get up at 4! grrr!
(i'm so stubborn pmsl!)

i made him hunter's chicken tonight (out a pack) but i do like it.
i bought some BBQ sauce recently so i could probably do that and just syn a spoonful? saves the faffing about and will still be tasty?x

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[sparty]

Yeah I don't see why you couldn't syn a spoonful or two. I found a recipe to make it out of passata and using a bit if balsamic and Worcester sauce so I'm thinking I might make up a bigger batch and freeze some for next time!? It worked out a treat doing that for tonight's dinner.

And I didn't cremate the quorn hurrah!! It was really tasty so def on my list to try again.

My bf is asleep on the sofa too. I went to bed and got up 10 mins later as I KNEW he was going to be out like a light. And he was lol. I might core him up though because it's freezing out there and he hasn't p'd me off hahaha!