Quark Fish Pie, Courgetti, Carroti and Samphire

Loved this, someong from group posted up a Slimming World fish pie the other day and it looked lovely! Here's my take on it, fish pie mix, prawns and a tuna steak fried in frylight with rainbow pepper with dill, parsely and samphire on courgetti and carroti, courgette spaghetti and carrot spaghetti from Tesco!

Speed Dodger

Oops......there's some nights I just can't be arsed with chopping ...Linda McCartney Red Onion and Rosemary (Syn Free) sausages in a toasted wholemeal (HEXB) thin! Hit the spot!! Sandwich Like YUM!

Slimming World Salt and Lime Pepper Calamari

Decided to try a new recipe tonight using the Lime Pepper I bought from Tesco today. I've never cooked squid before, not unless you count a shop bought bag of frozen ready made calamari! So I ordered some squid from Tesco and got three little ones for just under £2.00. I squidged out the tentacle bits and chopped off the wingy bits, and chopped the main body into rings. I used a tablespoon of flour which is two Syns, but only half (if that) of is stuck so I'm counting one Syn! Then I poked the tentacle bits and decided I couldn't eat them so left them out! Chucked the rings in the bag of flour, salt and lime pepper and shook. Chucked into a very hot pan for about four to five minutes and had with salad and my HEXB wholemeal thin toasted and cut into little triangles.

Slimming World Iceland Singapore Noodles

Making room in the freezer for a few bits coming tomorrow. The Slimming World Iceland ready meals are so huge they take up a lot of room! Very impressed! This was really nice, quite spicy although I needed to add a bit of salt! Best of all completely FREE! Even ate the peas, and I don't like peas much!

Friday Night Burger Lovin' .....with Wine

Still can't quite believe you can eat burgers and lose weight! Happy Friday xx 

Smoked Paprika, Thyme and Garlic DIY roasting bag chicken

I used the Maggi roasting bags a couple of weeks ago which are Synned on Slimming World so in this weeks shopping I ordered some plain roasting bags and added my own spices for a free dinner! Very impressed, the spices were lovely and the chicken just fell apart so much I took it off the bone with tongs!

Saturday Round Up and Chorizo Fest

Up nice and early this morning for double exercise class Urban Rebound and Step. Love getting in two early Saturday morning exercise classes, which means I hit the Green day on my fitbit by half seven this evening! Lunch was a wholemeal thin with rocket and the chorizo I made yesterday the flavour had developed, but not as much as when I had some with salad and cauliflower couscous for dinner this evening! Nice and spicy now! Definitely making this again, free, spicy and delicious!!

Having a nice glass of wine which I just noticed is sat on my Slim For Life book!

Be Prepared

Shopping is here! Lots of lovely on plan food to choose from!

Love these Slimming World friendly Princes Mackerel fillets the Moroccan ones are free, half a Syn for the Mustard ones!

Fruit bowl brimming with apples, clementines a water melon...and trying flat (or doughnut) peaches which.....

....are rather nice, not the same as a normal peach, the flesh is lighter and the taste milder, but they are lovely an SO SO SO much easier to eat!

So now all I have to do is decide what's for dinner?????

Burgertastic Thai Chicken Burger and Salad and a new recipe to try!

Nice and easy Iceland Thai Chicken Burger and salad for dinner tonight. 

Spent quite a while doing a Tesco online food order. I usually shop at Sainsburys till a friend said how much more expensive it was there so thought I'd give Tesco a go. It was slow as I've not shopped there for ages but well worth it! So much cheaper and I get to order lazy ready done cauliflower couscous and Tesco Quark which is the best! 

I've got loads of stuff coming including some ingredients to make this Tupperware Chorizo from the River Cottage website. Going to be a Slimming World version. I couldn't get 5% pork mince from Tesco and so I bought turkey mince instead, I'm thinking about using balsamic vinegar and some sweetner instead of the wine, not that wine would be many syns, but I quite fancy a sweet chorizo taste?? I'll decide when I cook it I think. I'll use frylight instead of oil and hopefully end up with a very low Syn, or Syn free meal! Fingers crossed!

Favourite Salmon

Roast salmon baked with piri piri and honey, salad and cold pasta. Stuffed! No one else eats salmon in our house so I eat both bits! ❤️ Slimming World! I probably use a couple of tablespoons of honey but most of it runs off and burns so I usually count a couple of Syns for that, and three for the mayonnaise.

Uh Oh Danger Food In The House

Been away this weekend, and while food shopping Saturday for a BBQ some coleslaw jumped into my basket! This has meant coleslaw dinner Saturday, coleslaw breakfast this morning and another coleslaw dinner tonight! Thinking the scales are not going to take kindly to this tomorrow!

Tonight's dinner was leftover tandoori chicken and an Iceland kangaroo burger with laughing cow light blue cheese, and coleslaw! 

With leftover wine! 

How the order you eat your food affects your health......

Interesting article here ......

How the order you eat your food affects your health: Eating protein and veg BEFORE carbs makes you fuller for longer and could help diabetics control their blood sugar.

Now, however, scientists say it's the order in which we eat food that is key, rather than eliminating key food groups.

Starting a meal by eating vegetables and protein, and finishing it with carbohydrates, keeps us fuller than if we ate the same foods in the reverse order. 

This is because protein slows down the release of sugar from carbohydrates into the blood stream, preventing a sugar 'high' and then crash - and hunger pangs.

Read more by clicking the link above.....

Burger With Bacon And Blue Cheese

I love a burger I would eat them every day if I could.......oh hang on I can and that's why I ❤️ Slimming World!

Slimming World Iceland burger with bacon, laughing cow light blue cheese and salad, HEXB thin. With salad, Syns for cheese BBQ sauce and mayonnaise. 

Thai 7 Spice Tuna Sandwich and Salad

Love tuna! I buy the frozen tuna steaks in Iceland and bake them in the oven for about 20 minutes, then rest for 5 minutes or so. My husband also had tuna tonight with chips and garlic vegetables so I made a separate foil compartment for his as he doesn't do spicy! Mine were sprayed with frylight and covered with Schwartz Thai 7 spice, his were plain with spray oil.

Weigh in and Slimming World Burger Fest

Tonight was weigh in, managed to stay the same which is 1lb under target. Plan is to weigh in around 2lb below most of the time giving me 5lb to play up with! I currently weigh 8st 13lb 

Last two evenings dinners have been burgers! I love a burger! Sunday was a Slimming World Iceland quarter pounder with bacon and laughing cow light blue cheese for 1 1/2 syns! These are great in a burger! With salad and cauliflower couscous. As usual a couple of Syns of mayonnaise, wholemeal thin for HEXB!

Tonight was the Thai Chicken burger. Managed to squeeze a bit of speed food in there! Syns for mayonnaise, wholemeal thin for HEXB.

Slimming World Chicken Kebabs

Tonight's dinner was Fajita chicken kebabs mad with Schwartz Fajita seasoning with salad and cauliflower couscous. I baked the cauliflower couscous in the oven as I like a bit of colour on it and seasoned it with parsley chilli and garlic, with a bit of schwartz jerk seasoning.

Leftovers Dinner

Tonight's dinner is brought to you by last nights leftovers. The Maggi So Juicy chicken in a wholemeal roll, HEXB, with a reduced fat cheese single 2 Syns, salad, and Slimming World chips. Usual mayonnaise applied! Last night I had a chicken leg, tonight it was part of the leftover breast meat which was delicious. I still have a leg and a whole breast left so that's done three dinners last night and one tonight, still with plenty to go!

Quick and Easy Recipes

One of my favorites is poached eggs. Quick and easy and I use the silicone molds as they never turn out right just in the pan of water. These are on Linda McCartney Red Onion and Rosemary Sausages, rocket, tomato and just right at the bottom you can see a wholemeal thin which was my HEXB (Healthy Extra B) option for the day. Syn Free deliciousness!



Tuna Steaks. These are from Iceland and are the frozen steaks. They only take about 20 minutes in the oven and I usually have two. Here with one on salad and one in a wholemeal thin. I sprinkle Schwartz Thai 7 Spice on them and spray with Frylight before shoving in the oven.



Tandoori Salmon, salad and Slimming World chips. Another shove in the oven and leave to cook one! Click here for the details on the Tandoori mix!

Dinner

New Slimming World Iceland quarter pounder burgers with mayonnaise, Laughing Cow Light blue cheese and BBQ sauce! Salad and baby jacket potatoes! The burgers were lovely, not as good as kangaroo but still nice and something we would all eat - husband and son won't touch the "bouncing roo burgers" ! Should have just had the one really as I can barely move 😝

Probably over syns today oops! Had 2 x tassimo lattes at 12 syns, the cheese was 1.5 syns and probably 3 syns of mayonnaise!  

I bought some Tesco quark today, which is the best! Also got some blueberries, strawberries and grapes to go with it for pudding and usually add a Bournville Hi-Lights hot chocolate sachet to the quark for 2 syns. Don't think I've got room for it tonight so will have that tomorrow instead! 

Body Pump was fab but I'll feel that tomorrow or Friday! The instructor is great really enthusiastic and fun and chatty all the way through, makes the class a good laugh as well as a brilliant workout.