Using foods to make recipes...

[Sparkswillfly]

Sorry I couldn't think of a more to the point title!

I've been on SW since Thursday and left it pretty simple so far, 3 meals, lots of veg and snacking on fruit. I've been looking at recipes today and there's lots of things like cous cous cake and recipes using smash - Is this ok within the plan? Just seems odd to be using cous cous to make cake!

 

[Rochelle1]

yeah its ok but some people call it "food abuse" lol as long as you dont eat the full thing in one sitting though, it wouldnt be food abuse. theres all sorts of stuff we can make from free foods, like the cake we can make using quark and sweetner its 2 syns for the full thing!

 

[kingleds]

yeah its ok but some people call it "food abuse" lol as long as you dont eat the full thing in one sitting though, it wouldnt be food abuse. theres all sorts of stuff we can make from free foods, like the cake we can make using quark and sweetner its 2 syns for the full thing!

Who told you it was okay if you dont eat the whole thing ?!?!?! Its not 'some people' who call it food abuse - its Slimming World. Who on earth would make something like that up!!

OP - the reason it seems weird to eat a cake made from cous cous is because it IS weird to eat a cake made of cous cous!!! If you eat it, you need to syn it as if you were on a red day - doesn't matter how much you eat of it, its syns. Same goes for roasting chickpeas and eating them instead of nuts, making your crisps out of potatoes & frylight, etc etc.

Smash pizza is a SW recipe. Personally I hate the stuff and wouldn't touch it if you paid me, but you can eat a pizza with a smash base if you really want- just remember you 1/3rd superfree.

 

[Rochelle1]

Who told you it was okay if you dont eat the whole thing ?!?!?! Its not 'some people' who call it food abuse - its Slimming World. Who on earth would make something like that up!!

OP - the reason it seems weird to eat a cake made from cous cous is because it IS weird to eat a cake made of cous cous!!! If you eat it, you need to syn it as if you were on a red day - doesn't matter how much you eat of it, its syns. Same goes for roasting chickpeas and eating them instead of nuts, making your crisps out of potatoes & frylight, etc etc.

Smash pizza is a SW recipe. Personally I hate the stuff and wouldn't touch it if you paid me, but you can eat a pizza with a smash base if you really want- just remember you 1/3rd superfree.

hmmm think someone needs to learn how to correct someone. ive been doing slimming world for 7 weeks, obviously im gonna get things wrong from time to time!! no need to scald people and make them feel 1 inch tall. there is WAYS to tell people they are wrong.

there is nowhere on the sw website that ive read that mentions this "food abuse" im just repeating what ive read on here before. me personally, i dont make things like smash pizzas and cous cous cakes.

 

[PatchworkPuss]

if you look in the artcles secton of the sw website there is one called 'myths and misconceptions' that explains why things like this are not free; and on page 15 of the food optimising.book it says that cous cous if synned when ground or used as a substitute for flour. HTH

 

[Rochelle1]

if you look in the artcles secton of the sw website there is one called 'myths and misconceptions' that explains why things like this are not free; and on page 15 of the food optimising.book it says that cous cous if synned when ground or used as a substitute for flour. HTH

see this is the way to correct someone, not jumping down somebodys throat.

 

[Legomom]

There are actually sweet versions of couscous. Just like there are sweet versions of many savoury ingredients. I have eaten couscous as a breakfast cereal for years.

To the OP.... Use your common sense if ....when you ask yourself honestly ......it feels like this 'food abuse' malarkey then don't do it. It defeats the object of paying £5 a week to be on a plan. I've been on SW for all of five days and I can see the point certain people are trying to make about this. Couscous pasta etc are high calorie foods. We may not CC on SW but if you sit and gorge on a giant couscous cake you will probably get as fat as if you did it with a giant flour cake!! Moderation is the mantra make yourself one for fun. I will be!!! Then have a nice slice and share out the rest. (between us all the slimming world cakes I've tried so far are horrible anyway lol)

 

[jaylou]

It is food abuse and SW say so. They may not call it this but you won't see couscous cake in an SW magazine and there is a reason for that. It isn't real food! I doubt you'd ever see a non dieting person eat such a thing, this is the way I always look at such foods.

On another note, could we please stop correcting people on threads? So quick to jump down throats these days! I know I'm doing the same by chipping in, I try to ignore it but so many helpful threads are heading this way now!!!!!

 

[kingleds]

hmmm think someone needs to learn how to correct someone. ive been doing slimming world for 7 weeks, obviously im gonna get things wrong from time to time!! no need to scald people and make them feel 1 inch tall. there is WAYS to tell people they are wrong.

there is nowhere on the sw website that ive read that mentions this "food abuse" im just repeating what ive read on here before. me personally, i dont make things like smash pizzas and cous cous cakes.

Sorry if it came over as correcting you hun. Was more a frustration with whomever had told you something incorrectly!

 

[Rochelle1]

It is food abuse and SW say so. They may not call it this but you won't see couscous cake in an SW magazine and there is a reason for that. It isn't real food! I doubt you'd ever see a non dieting person eat such a thing, this is the way I always look at such foods.

On another note, could we please stop correcting people on threads? So quick to jump down throats these days! I know I'm doing the same by chipping in, I try to ignore it but so many helpful threads are heading this way now!!!!!

Thanks.

No we don't see things like that in the mag and to be honest I couldn't really fancy it. Its like the pasta n sauce quiche I bet its minging

Sorry if it came over as correcting you hun. Was more a frustration with whomever had told you something incorrectly!

Its alright, just shocked me a bit as sounded very sharp ! Its just what I've read on here before people saying its food abuse as some people would eat the whole cake. So sometimes get the wrong end of the stick when you read different info everywhere lol

 

[kingleds]

Must remember to add smilies to my posts more
You're right about pasta n sauce quiche btw - all sorts of wrong IMO. But then not a massive fan of pasta n sauce in general.

God knows who came up with all these tweaks! Who on earth thought 'I know what i'll do, I'll try & make a cake from cous cous! Yeah, that'll taste really nice I bet!, just like real cake!' it honestly makes me despair sometimes!

 

[Rochelle1]

Lol I was thinking the same when first came across this thread actually, who the hell makes them up.

BUT I am going against these beleifs this week, to make the 2 syn cake that uses quark. I can't see it tasting nice, but gonna have to make it and find out. Waiting for shopping to be delivered on wednesday for quark lol