Thread: Veggie Diary

Ok so I got a lot of ideas from the "show your meal picture's" post so thanks .

Day 1 of SW (Green Day):

Breakfast: 2 Alpen Light Bars (HEB)

Lunch: Jacket Potato with tin of Spaghetti Hoops

Tea: Sweet Potato chips with Smash Pizza base, Mozzarella (HEA), mushrooms, onions and pineapple.

Snacks: NOM yoghurt, Shape Fuller for Longer yoghurt, Satsumas

Syns: 2 double vodka (10 syns) and Pepsi Max (free), 2 tbsp Tomato Puree: 1.5 syns, NOM Yoghurt: 3 syns

Total syns: 14.5

Sara xx

Just in case you haven't realised, you can have 2 HEX a's and 2 HEX b's on a green day. Just think, MORE CHEESE on your pizza!!!!

Also, just checked syns on-line; You might have used 1/2 a syn less!!!

Basic/Non Branded Foods Dressing, Tomato puree 1 level tbsp

Original ½ Syn Green ½ Syn

Originally Posted by Lonestitcher

Just in case you haven't realised, you can have 2 HEX a's and 2 HEX b's on a green day. Just think, MORE CHEESE on your pizza!!!!

Also, just checked syns on-line; You might have used 1/2 a syn less!!!

Basic/Non Branded Foods Dressing, Tomato puree 1 level tbsp

Original ½ Syn Green ½ Syn

Oh thank you lonestitcher! I forgot to add 1.5 syns in for the NOM yoghurt until it is decided whether it is free or not so 12.5 syns for yesterday, eek!!

Ok, so here's my diary for Day 2:

Breakfast: 2 slices of WW Brown toast with 1 Laughing Cow Light triangle

Lunch: 2 Quorn Sausages, Beans, Mushrooms fried in Fry Light, 2 boiled eggs

Tea: Cheese and onion topped Quorn Quarterpounder burger with wholemeal bun (spread with a LCL Triangle) with SW wedges, 1 tbsp Hellmans Extra Light and 1 tbsp Hot Sweet Chilli Sauce.

Snacks: Satsumas, NOM yoghurt.

Drinks: Tea with milk & sweetener, Pepsi Max

HEA= 42g reduced fat cheddar on cheeseburger, 250ml Semi skimmed milk in tea

HEB: 2 slices WW Brown bread, 1 wholemeal roll

Syns: 2 Laughing Cow light triangles= 2 syns
1tbsp Hellmans Extra light= 1 syn
1 tbsp Hot Sweet Chilli Sauce = 1.5 syns
NOM Yogurt = 3 syns
Options Sachet: 2 syns

Total syns = 9.5 syns

Day 3 (green day)

Breakfast: 2 pieces Weight Watchers Brown bread, toasted, with 1 LCL triangle & Vegemite

Lunch: 2 Plain Quorn fillets with Savoury Rice, 2 satsumas

Tea: Quorn chilli made with passata, mushrooms, onions, jalapenos, chilli powder & curry powder, cheese on top and 4 Garlic Doughballs

Snacks: Shape Fuller for Longer yoghurt, 2 Babybel, 2 Alpen Light bars

HEA: 2 Babybel, 42g Reduced Cheddar
HEB: 2 Alpen Light bars, 2 pieces WW bread
Syns: 1 LCL Triangle: 1 syn. 4 Garlic Doughballs: 8 syns.

If anyone has any suggestions what I am doing right/wrong please let me know.

Thanks

Hi,

Yes I usually eat more fruit and veg (especially when I am in work: satsumas, grapefruit, bananas, apples). On SW you can have unlimited fruit & if you are on Green Days unlimited veg, pasta, potatoes and rice

HTH xx

Day 4 (with a poorly baby hence "quick foods")

Breakfast: Sliced banana with NOM vanilla yoghurt

Lunch: 1 slice wholemeal toast (with reduced fat cheddar), beans, 2 boiled eggs, 3 Quorn sausages

Tea: Homemade soup with Sweet Potato, Red Onions, BNS, Veggie Oxo cube, garlic and lentils. Accompanied with a wholemeal roll.

Snacks: 3 Babybel light, Highlights dark chocolate with Anchor light squirty cream, WW Sugar free Raspberry & strawberry jelly, melon, pineapple and pomegranate.

HEA = 42g reduced fat cheddar, 3 babybel light
HEB: 1 slice wholemeal bread, one wholemeal roll
Syns: NOM Yoghurt = 3 syns, WW Jelly: 0.5 syn, Cadburys Highlights Dark hot chocolate = 2 syns, Squirty Cream: 1.5 syns. Total syns = 7 syns

I used my syns more on sweet stuff today as I had a really tough day at home with my 10 month old baby who has a throat infection, I am that worn out I need the sweet treats to keep me boosted otherwise I would have fallen off the wagon

Day 5 and I am really enjoying doing SW, I am finding that I feel happier and that we are eating better, not any convenience foods.

Breakfast: 1 slice wholemeal toast with 1 Laughing Cow Light Triangle and Vegemite and a banana

Lunch: Leftover sweet potato, BNS and Red onion soup from yesterday, 2 apples and 2 satsumas

Tea: A Delicious FREE curry made by my gorgeous hubby: Quorn Pieces, Brocolli, Cauliflower, Potato, Passata and Oxo cube and hot curry powder with Basmati rice.

Snacks: 1 Cadbury's fudge, WW Jelly, Cheese on Toast

Drinks: Cadbury's Highlights Dark with a squirt of Anchor Light, ASDA no added sugar Fruit salad juice, Tea

HEA = SS Milk in tea, 42g reduced Fat cheese

HEB = 2 Slices Wholemeal bread

Syns = Laughing Cow Light Triangle, (1 syn)
Cadbury's Chomp (5.5 syns),
WW Jelly (0.5 syns),
Cadbury's Highlights Dark Hot Chocolate (2 syns),
Squirty Anchor Light Cream (1.5 syns). Total Syns = 9.5

Here's my Day 6 (I am a bit worried as I didn't have as many syns as I should have as I thought the Quorn Bacon bits were going to be syns but they were free)

Breakfast: 1 piece Wholemeal Toast with LCL

Lunch: Leftover curry & rice from yesterday, 2 satsumas

Tea: SW Quiche made with Batchelors Pasta n Sauce (Tomato & Herb), Quorn Bacon Style Pieces, VLF Cottage Cheese, 4 Eggs, Tomatoes, Peppers 2 x RF Cheddar and SW wedges with 1 tbsp Hot sweet chilli sauce

Drinks: Water, Tea

Syns: 2 tbsp semi-skimmed milk 0.5syns, 1 LCL triangle 1 syn, 1 tbsp Hot Sweet Chilli sauce 1.5 syns, Total syns = 3 syns

Day 7:

Breakfast: 1 Slice Wholemeal Toast, 1 LCL, Vegemite

Lunch: Leftover SW quiche & SW wedges with 1tbsp Hot sweet chilli sauce (1.5 syns)

Tea: Quorn Bangers, Brocolli, Cauliflower, Smash with LCL, Bisto reduced salt gravy (2 syns)

Treats: 2 double vodka & diet coke (10 syns)

HEA = LCL triangles, 3 babybel light
HEB = Wholemeal bread, 2 Alpen Light Bars
Syns = Hot Sweet Chilli Sauce (1.5 syns), 2 tsp Bisto Gravy (2 syns), 2 double Vodka & diet coke (10 syns). Total Syns = 13.5 syns

Day 8,

Breakfast: Alpen Light bar & a banana

Lunch: Nothing

Tea: Batchelor's Garlic & Herb Pasta n Sauce (1 syn), Quorn Garlic & Herb fillet (4 syns) with cheese

HEA: Cheese & Babybel
HEB: Alpen Light

Syns: Pasta & Sauce (1 syn), Quorn Garlic & Herb fillet (4 syns), 3 double vodka & cokes (15 syns), total syns = 20 syns

I will bring down my syns for the week to balance off my 2 "falling off the wagon" days!!

I forgot to add that I had my WI day yesterday (I am following SW at home) and I lost 3lb, not too bad for my first week eh?!

Here's my diary for today:

Breakfast: Banana

Lunch: 2 Alpen Light Bars

Tea: Veggie Roast (Quorn Roast, Brocolli, Cauli, Carrot & Turnip, SW Roasties, 3 Mini Yorkshires, Bisto Gravy)

HEA: 3 Babybel light
HEB: 2 Alpen Light Bars
Syns: Mini Yorkshires (3 syns), Bisto Gravy (2 syns)

I have a bad habit on a weekend of not eating much for breakfast or lunch, infact today I had the shakes so I need to sort myself out!!!

Well I've not been well at all today hence the lack of food, I slept from 9pm to 6am and then went back to bed at 7.20am until 2pm!!

Breakfast: None

Lunch: Banana & 1 slice toast with 1 LCL Triangle & Vegemite

Tea: Omelette with Mushrooms, Onion & Peppers with cheese and Sweet Potato mash with LCL triangles and Hot Sweet Chilli Sauce

HEA: Red. Fat Cheddar, Laughing Cow Light
HEB: 1 slice bread (too ill to have another B)

Syns: Hot Sweet Chilli Sauce (1.5 syns), Highlights Dark Hot Chocolate (2 syns), Anchor Light squirty cream (1.5 syns) =
5 syns

Still not well but managed to eat breakfast & lunch and a little bit of my tea!

Breakfast: 1 slice wholemeal Toast with 1 LCL triangle

Lunch: Jacket Potato with Babybel light & Sweet Chilli Meanz Beans, 2 satsumas.

Tea: Homemade stew (carrots, onions, potatoes, leeks, Quorn Pieces, stock cube)

Snacks: Satsuma, Fuller for Longer Shape Yoghurt

HEB: 1 slice wholemeal bread

HEA: Babybel light

Syns: 1 LCL Triangle (1 syn)

I just couldn't eat anything else hence only one A & one B and 1 syn!!

Ok I have missed 3 days out!!

Here I go:

Wednesday:

Breakfast 2 slices Wholemeal bread, 2 LCL triangles, Vegemite

Lunch: Baked potato with Beans & babybel

Tea: A sort of Mushroom Stroganoff made with Rice, Mushrooms, Garlic, Onions and stock cube.

Snacks: Satsumas, Fuller for longer yoghurt, Apple, Banana

HEA: 3 Babybel Light

HEB: 2 slices Wholemeal bread

Syns: None