week 26

Saturday

nice scrambled eggs on toast for breakfast and then a trip to Nandos, love having all the lovely food for a couple of syns.

Dinner was American style trout and salad

Sunday

Lunch was SW root vegetable soup syn free


Dinner was a trusty cottage pie recipe (2 syns)

Monday

Started the day with waffles topped with plums and some very low syn syrup

Lunch was a breakfast bake - bacon and mushrooms topped with beans, an egg and cheese and baked with a few chips to dip in

Cottage pie for dinner again with leftover asparagus


Tuesday

Lunch of soup and then Sri Lankan prawn curry, tamarind, baby corn and pineapple rice for dinner (3 syns)

Wednesday

curry for lunch and then SW Puttanesca sauce for dinner with pasta (2 syns)

Thursday

Out for lunch as early start to Easter

Baked Tarka daal cauliflower, split peas for dinner

Friday

daal for lunch and then ginger shakin' beef for dinner (1.5 syns)

Week 25

Saturday

Started the day with some mushrooms cherry tomatoes and eggs

Lunch was a BLT using rocket and my HEB

Dinner

Aegean Kakavia (fish stew)

Sunday

jam jar salad for lunch (1/2 syns)

Roast beef and the works for dinner!  saved some HEA so the Yorkshire puds only came in at 3.5 syns and homemade horseradish sauce using fresh horseradish all made by the man of the house and washed down with a lovely pinot noir

Monday

left over fish for lunch and aubergine penne arrabbiata for dinner (1.5 syns)

Tuesday

Leftover aubergine for lunch and bloody mary brisket from the freezer with horseradish mash for dinner

Wednesday

Decided to try something new for breakfast - apricot wheats as my HEB.  Cake run at work now comes down to 'something fruity' for me!

SW leek and potato soup for lunch

Dinner of Korean stir-fried rice using leftover beef from the roast (2 syns)

Weigh in today another 1.5lb off

Thursday

decided to try out making cucumber sushi....lovely with a little dip of mayo, soy sauce and chilli sauce

leftover rice for lunch and fiery shrimp cocktail for dinner (7 syns) and then a little chocolate cornflake cake with the kids (3 syns)

Friday

Pesto rice salad for lunch

dinner was duck in hoisin sauce from SW magazine for 1 syn

Week 24

Starting this week off with a concert on Saturday night so time to fill up on lots of free food to save for a meal out and treats

Saturday

Breakfast was scrambled egg on toast with mushrooms and tomatoes

Lunch was left over porcini pork and pasta from the freezer (1 syn)

For afternoon rehearsal I took some fruit and then dinner out of halloumi and falafel salad with grilled chicken, hopefully not too sinful!  after concert hifi bar to give me a chocolate boost for the drive home.

Sunday

Our veg box gave us an ideal lunch - oven roasted ratatouille - 3 syns as I did use oil

Dinner was braised venison again 3 syns which we have had before with roast potatoes and broccoli

Monday

nice grill up for a day with the kids

Repeat of Sunday's food but with mash for dinner

Tuesday

Lunch was spiced red lentil dhal soup form the SW book

Dinner was squid, broad beans and other lovely things all roasted together

Wednesday

Cake run to Greggs at work today.....but I was good!

leftovers for lunch and left over curry made into a biryani (4syns)

Weigh in day and another 1/2lb lost.

Thursday

Soup for lunch and dinner was sausage mash and onion gravy 7 syns

Friday

left over soup for lunch and pesto steak for dinner 4.5 syns

Week 23

So this week has started off very snowy, food planning started with what we had in the cupboard, we were due to get a veg box on Friday but the snow stopped this so it was back to basics and what we had in the freezer and cupboards til we could get out.

Saturday

Breakfast was meant to be pancakes using the mixture for waffles but they failed so turned it into a baked oats with plums!  A lovely late breakfast after snowman building.

Lunch was tuna fishcakes we used shop bought chilli sauce lovely for a couple of syns

Afternoon treat was a homemade cappuccino and dinner a roast loin of pork using the lovely meat from Heartier with roast potatoes and homemade apple sauce (3 syns)

Sunday

A nice grill up to save my syns and HEXs for later

We decided to go out for lunch to Pizza Express, went for one of their leggera pizza's and used my HEA on the cheese, my little one decided to dip his crusts in my salad dressing so had my syns for me!

Dinner was from the SW fakeaway book - Goan fish curry

Monday

After an interrupted night essential Monday morning breakfast

leftover fish curry for lunch and then slow cooked pork ragu from Save with Jamie, syn free too

Tuesday

leftover ragu for lunch and then a precooked meal from the freezer for a quick dinner,  beef stew and syn free

Wednesday

SW tomato, lentil and vegetable soup for lunch

Dinner after weigh in was hoisin pak choi rice (4.5 syns), after losing 1.5lb this week I got to pick up my 2 stone award, getting closer to target now

Thursday

My lovely haul from Devizes market today, lots of lovely fresh fruit for weekday snacks

soup for lunch and then Mexican breakfast for dinner (8 syns), with some slimming world wedges instead of pitta

Friday

lunch of jacket potato, beans and cheese at work as we didn't have anything planned

Gammon, egg and SW chips!