Red's food diary - advice very gratefully received

julesm said:
MMM- Omelette strips!!! :D
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Somehow that sounds rude!! :p

The Weeto's bars are really nice I actually bought them for my son's lunch box and tried one and they got shifted to my syn tin ;) They are 99 cals and quite chocolately. The dark choc Highlights are really nice too.

Again I can't visit diaries - have to put the boys to bed then make cards until very very late I expect.

This is today's food:

Wednesday 30th March - Red
Breakfast – . nothing – was out
Lunch – . Large salad, roast quorn pieces, feta cheese (HexA), wholemeal pitta bread (HexB) olives (1syn) and Tiger Tiger dressing (1syn) – Pink Lady apple
Tea – .Omelette with laughing cow, tomato salad, spinach leaves, smoked salmon. Strawberries and blackberries 2 small meringues (2syns) Activia fat free yoghurt.
Snacks - .Banana, pagen krisproll (2syns) Dark choc Highlights (1.5syn)
Syns – 7.5
HexA – .Feta, 1 Laughing cow light
HexB - .Wholemeal pitta, Alpen Light
 
Thanks for that info, think I'll get some of those bars... I lurve Weetos!
 
I promise, promise, promise I will visit diaries tomorrow once the last of these bloody Mother's Day cards are done. They should be delivered tomorrow morning and then I have a few of birthday cards but I may actually have some free time since the kids are off to their granny's.

Weigh in was today.

I lost 4lb - yay!

And this is today's food:

Thursday 31st March - Red

Breakfast – . 2 Light choice sausages (1syn), egg, mushrooms, onions and tomatoes.

Lunch – . Pink Lady apple, banana, 2 wholewheat crackerbread (2syns) and a Laughing cow

Tea – . Tesco Light choices chicken in white sauce (1 syn), omelette and large salad. Feta (HexA), wholemeal pitta (HexB) olives (1syn)

Snacks - .Highlights dark choc. Drink (1.5syns)

Syns – 6.5

HexA – .Feta, Laughing cow
HexB - .Wholemeal pitta, Alpen Lights
 
Yay! Wow, 4lb is amazing! Well done you :) xx
 
Thanks Jules and Sausage. There seems to be no pattern whatsoever to my losses, but 1lb or more as long as it goes down is all that matters.

I have a few new cards to do but shoukld be diary visiting soon. I've been so crap this week xxx

Friday 1st April - Green

Breakfast – . banana

Lunch – . Mug shot (2syns), Pink Lady apple. 2 wholewheat crackerbread and 1 Laughing Cow (HexA) – in a hurry and nothing prepared

Tea – . Asda chickpea dahl and rice. Mullerlight yoghurt

Snacks - .Banana, mugshot, wholemeal pitta (HexB) filled with salad and 3 Babybel Lights (HexA)

Syns – 2
HexA – .1 Laughing cow, 3 Babybel Lights
HexB - .wholemeal pitta, wholemeal crackerbread 2



Saturday 2nd April - Red

Brunch – . 3 Light choice sausages (1.5syns), egg, 2 turkey rashers, large portion mushrooms, tomatoes and onion with garlic.

Tea – .Watercress omelette, with salmon – smoked and salmon fillet served with tomato salad, large salad, wholemeal pitta(HexB), olives (1syn) and feta (HexA) 1 tbsp extra light mayo (1 syn) mixed with ff fromage frais and chilli
Strawberries and vanilla Mullerlight yoghurt with 2 crushed mini meringues (2syns)

Snacks - . fresh pineapple, Highlights choc. Drink (2syns)

Syns –6.5

HexA – .Feta,
HexB - .wholemeal pitta, Alpen Lights
 
Bit of a feck-up today ended up having wine and a Chinese takeaway at the inlaws. I did avoid all the fried starters again and prawn crackers etc. Stuck to boiled rice and avoided the dishes in batter but I also had some wine. Worst thing is that next weekend I am having friends round for drinks and a takeaway again. So I expect the next two weeks to have a gain - crap! My syns this week will be kept at 5 or under accordingly.

Sunday 03 April- Extra Easy


Breakfast – . Brunch really – 3 quorn sausages, omelette, mushrooms, tomato and onion and BBQ baked beans


Lunch – .


Tea – . And it all went wrong – Chinese takeaway and about 4 glasses of wine.


Snacks - .fresh pineapple


Syns – off the charts

HexA – .1 Babybel Light
HexB - .
 
You're so good all the time that dome wine and Chinese should be absolutely fine! I bet you'll still have an amazing loss this week! Hope things have calmed down a bit for you! Xx
 
LittleSausage said:
You're so good all the time that dome wine and Chinese should be absolutely fine! I bet you'll still have an amazing loss this week! Hope things have calmed down a bit for you! Xx
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I don't know if I will but it'll be of my own doing anyway. You are always good too - in fact better than me! The worst thing about it is that I have arranged this sleepover thing. We all do it every so often as we live away from each other and it's my turn and it always involves takeaway as we leave our kids behind (mine are going with their Dad to stay at his parent's house). Arrrrrrrgh I feel like I've sabotaged myself.
 
What kind of takeaway do you have? Chinese and Indian places have some pretty low-syn options... I think a lamb Rogan Josh is only 6.5 syns for 360g, Jalfrezi is 8.5 syns, chicken saag (my fave!) is 11 syns - rice is free and a poppadom is 4 syns.
If you're having Chinese, a chicken chow mein is only 7 syns, special fried rice is 9.5, chicken in black bean sauce is only 5!! 2 pieces of prawn sesame toast is 7 syns.
All your rice/noodles are free (if it's plain...)
(All syn values are on EE)
You should be able to have it without going over your syns too much, and, as your syns are usually really low, you should be absolutely fine!!
xx
 
Red Riding Hood said:
Ok then so if we do Chinese at the weekend (not sure what we'll do) I'll have the chicken chowmein - thanks :D The I just have to worry about the vodka right - eek
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Woohoo! Vodka! Bought a bottle on Saturday (although haven't opened it!) as it's low in syns. Also, the low alcohol Czech beer from sainsburys is only 1 syn for the whole 500ml bottle! And it ain't half bad xx
 
Well Sausage after thinking about it all I have contacted my friends and told them I am cooking. I am going to make something - probably a curry and they can have that or a takeaway. I will then only syn the vodka. I can kind of excuse 1 takeaway meal as it isn't regular, knowing I didn't eat the deep fried stuff but I can't quite make peace with myself doing it again the next weekend, especially when I know I'll be drinking. So that's done.

My friends were all very nice about it, one of them is also doing SW and I'm glad I made the decision. It was partly down to you too Sausage so thanks x

Any suggestions for recipes then people??? :D

This is today - mighty low on the syns:

Monday 4th April - Red

Breakfast – . Pineapple, Pink lady apple

Lunch – . Superfree butternut squash soup, salad with roast quorn pieces.

Tea – . Omelette - 1 Laughing cow extra light (HexA), 2 Light choice sausages,(1syn) 2 Turkey rashers mushroom, onion, tomato, 2 slice Nimble toast (HexB) 2 Babybel Light (HexA)

Snacks - .1 Babybel Light (HexA) , Satsuma, Alpen Lights (HexB), Highlights drink (2syns)

Syns – 3
HexA – .Babybel Lights, 1 LC extra light
HexB - .Wholemeal Nimble, Alpen Lights.
 
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Hmmm... Curries are one of the things I love cooking! I have a superb recipe for a traditional chickpea curry from my mum's friend (she's from Mumbai, so it's authentic!) I also have an awesome book by Anjum Anand (of Indian Food Made Easy TV fame). I can tell you tomorrow the curries and pass on any recipes you're interested in? PS. Did you get the email?
X
 
LittleSausage said:
Hmmm... Curries are one of the things I love cooking! I have a superb recipe for a traditional chickpea curry from my mum's friend (she's from Mumbai, so it's authentic!) I also have an awesome book by Anjum Anand (of Indian Food Made Easy TV fame). I can tell you tomorrow the curries and pass on any recipes you're interested in? PS. Did you get the email?
X
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Oh crap! Did I not reply to you?? So sorry, honestly I don 't know what I'm doing at the minute. I will email you back I did get it and I did mean to reply :eek: xxx
 
Hiya Red, just to let you know I gained 4lb which wasn't as bad as I'd anticipated!! I had estimated between 5 and 10lb so I'm winning!! And hopefully 4lb is the sort of number that is quickly reversed (I hope!!!) Love H X
 
Hi Red, just been looking back in my diary. I've hunted out the recipe for the curry I made for my friends. It is really yummy but it's quite a sweet curry. It's nice with turmeric rice and greek yogurt mixed with mint sauce.

Here is a post with a pic:
http://www.minimins.com/slimming-wo...do-i-lose-weight-keep-off-44.html#post3389995

Here is a post with the recipe:
http://www.minimins.com/slimming-wo...do-i-lose-weight-keep-off-44.html#post3390023

The onion bhaji recipe I use is on my blog here:

Onion Bhajis

However, I don't really make them like that anymore - I now don't use the chickpeas and I use sweet potato instead. If you can get it, the white flesh sweet potato works best on them.

Also if you really want to impress, I've made these flatbreads before and they are ACE. They are reeeeeeallly super easy to make too.

Flatbread: Recipes: Good Food Channel

I haven't made them since on SW so don't know about syns etc. If you do syn them could you let me know?!! :)
 
funcurls said:
Hiya Red, just to let you know I gained 4lb which wasn't as bad as I'd anticipated!! I had estimated between 5 and 10lb so I'm winning!! And hopefully 4lb is the sort of number that is quickly reversed (I hope!!!) Love H X
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I hope it is quckly reversed lovely. I know you are super determined when you need to be. So I'm cheering you on x

julesm said:
Hi Red, just been looking back in my diary. I've hunted out the recipe for the curry I made for my friends. It is really yummy but it's quite a sweet curry. It's nice with turmeric rice and greek yogurt mixed with mint sauce.

Here is a post with a pic:
http://www.minimins.com/slimming-wo...do-i-lose-weight-keep-off-44.html#post3389995

Here is a post with the recipe:
http://www.minimins.com/slimming-wo...do-i-lose-weight-keep-off-44.html#post3390023

The onion bhaji recipe I use is on my blog here:

Onion Bhajis

However, I don't really make them like that anymore - I now don't use the chickpeas and I use sweet potato instead. If you can get it, the white flesh sweet potato works best on them.

Also if you really want to impress, I've made these flatbreads before and they are ACE. They are reeeeeeallly super easy to make too.

Flatbread: Recipes: Good Food Channel

I haven't made them since on SW so don't know about syns etc. If you do syn them could you let me know?!! :)
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Thanks so much Jules you're a star. I'm not sure I have time to be impressive with the flatbread but you never know ;) I might give it a go.

Now, I know my diary has been a bit samey recently ity's mostly been working flat out through the day then tutoring at night and no time to cook so lots of omelettes and easy stuff. However, once tomorrow night is out f the way I can relax a bit until next week so I plan to make the carrot, corriander and butterbean burgers from this months SW mag and a few of the recipes Lovely-Little-Sausage kindly sent me and perk my diary up once more so you don't all nod off in omelette induced hypnosis. For today, however, I bring another ... omelette *yawn* roll on Thursday ;)

Tuesday 5th April - Red

Breakfast – . Pineapple and Pink Lady apple

Lunch – . Some sliced chicken breast, superfree butternut squash soup. 2 mini Babybel Lights (HexA), half a Pink Lady apple.

Tea – .Omelette, smoked salmon, tomato salad, salad and feta (HexA) olives (1syn) and wholemeal pitta (HexB), strawberries and Mullerlight yoghurt.

Snacks - .1 Babybel light (HexA), banana, cup superfree soup. , Highlights drink dark choc (1.5syn), Alpen Lights

Syns –2.5

HexA – .Babybel Light , feta
HexB - .Wholemeal pitta, Alpen Lights
 
Omelettes are awesome! Such a good way of using bits up, too. Xx
 
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