Thread: FUNCURLS FOOD DIARY, BLOG and CHIT CHAT!! New target set!!

Week 21- Day 6 (Sun)- Extra Easy

Brekkie- 10am- Dorset cereals apple & raisin porridge with 1 scanbran (HEXb) and topped with chopped apple and kiwi fruit. Skimmed milk 100ml (1.5 syns) Some red seedless grapes and some extra slices of apple

11.30am-snack- 6 Mikados (3 syns) and some Onken vanilla fat free biopot yogurt.

3.30pm-Some beetroot!!

4.30pm- 4 duck & hoisin sauce pancakes!! I roasted 2 duck legs, removed the skin and broke up all the meat, steamed the pancakes (got them in Chinese supermarket), spread a teaspoon of hoisin sauce on each, added strips of cucumber and spring onion then some duck, rolled up and hey presto- my fave meal ever- and I didn't even miss the crispy bits- I let my dh have his with some skin!! (Pancakes=4 syns, hoisin sauce=3 syns as had a couple of extra sneaky teaspoons for the road! Yum yum!)

19.30- Lasagne (homemade) with 28g grated cheddar melted on top (HEXa), served with lots of steamed asparagus.

Total syns 11.5

Originally Posted by wendy in wales

Oh the joys of nightshifts!!! Like you funcurls I have no problem eating in the middle of the night . I have to be prepared thou', or i will go and buy crisps and chocs on the way in.I usually take either a ham salad sandwich or salad, mullerlight, fruit, hard boiled eggs ,cottage cheese .Ususally I don't need to eat until about 4 a.m, then I usually have a piece of fruit before leaving work , just to boost my sugarlevelsand get home safely !!

Yes it's definitely vital to be organised isn't it!! Taking plenty of things in with me really helps and I get ravenous about 5am!! We don't finish til 8 so I have to have something to pick me up a bit- it's scary when you arrive home and don't even remember how you got there!! Where do you work in Wales then?X

Week 21- Day 7 (Mon)- Extra Easy

Brekkie- 10am- 2 egg omlette with herbs and 2 (leftover from yesterday) duck & hoisin sauce pancakes- they were winking at me from the fridge shelf! (3 syns).

Lunch- 2.30pm- Ate out at 'Fairyhill' hotel! Vegetable soup (no cream- I asked, and I skipped the bread!!), hake with a herb crust (?4 syns) with wilted spinach and new potatoes- I scraped away a lot of the sauce but I'm counting 8 syns to be on the safe side)
Skipped pudding and only drank diet coke and water!!

Before WI- 5.30pm-Hifi bar- Mint flavour (HEXb)
After WI-7.45pm-Hifi bar- Choc orange flavour (6 syns)

Tea- 8.30pm- Last of the lasagne with 28g melted cheddar (HEXa) served with salad of green leaves, cherry tomatoes, cucumber and baby beetroot with a little balsamic vinegar.
A pink grapefruit with a little sweetener.

Total syns 21 (estimated)

Hope you enjoyed your meal out, far prefer going for posh nosh as yes the portions are far more SW friendly....as long as there not laden with oil, cream or butter though lol
xx

Hi Claire, Oh I was writing the last entry in advance! The meal is tomorrow, I think I'm going to choose soup of the day (without bread- it's too bloating for me on WI day!!) then the hake (the healthiest, lightest choice I can see and the portion won't be huge) and I'll skip pudding (far too risky!) You can have a nose at the hotel/menu if you google Fairyhill, Gower. When you're in click on 'restaurant' then 'lunch menu'! There's not a lot of choice and tomorrow's menu may be completely different but it's great to be able to have an idea of what you'll have before arriving!! I think I'll have a small omlette for brekkie and that'll free up my HEXs for later in the day!X

Grrrwww! Had WI tonight and STS!! A bit disappointed if I'm honest because I know I fell well below my syn allowance-about 70 in total AND I did lots of walking- 2 four mile walks and 1 6 mile walk!!! Makes it all the more frustrating! But the other side of the story and the positive way of looking at it is that last week I lost 4 1/2 lb so in a way I feel I could afford a STS this week!! If it doesn't show next week there will definitely be tears!!X

Evening
Your meal out sounded lovely and you were so so good....I'm can see the glint of your halo over my side of the country
Makes the whole going out and staying in control so much more enjoyable in the longterm. I know if I've gone over the top half the time I havent even enjoyed the meal and left with that awful feeling of letting myself down.
I try to decide on a starter or pudding now and no alcohol ...... this is in my ideal world when everythings going well lol
Hope you have a great day tomorrow
x

Week 22- Day 1 (Tues)- Extra Easy

Brekkie- 9am- Dorset Cereals super cranberry, cherry & almond muesli 28g (HEXb) with 100ml skimmed milk semi-skimmed milk (part HEXa- OK OK I'm splitting my HEXa today which is against the rules but I don't care!!!) topped with chopped fresh pineapple and 1/2 small banana.

Snack- 12.30- Thai Mugshot (0.5 syns)

Walked 4 miles!

Lunch- 2.30pm-Chicken breast stuffed with Laughing Cow deli light blue cheese square wrapped in bacon (no fat) and oven baked with jacket potato and stirfried veg. Plus an additional Laughing Cow deli light (counting the 2 as the other part of the HEXa- tut tut!!)
Activia cherry fat free yogurt with a meringue nest (2.5 syns).

Tea- 7pm-Slow-cooked chicken casserole (chicken thighs skinless, red onion, garlic, courgette, potato, carrot, butternut squash, parsnip, mushrooms, herbs, chicken stock).

Half a small banana

1/2 packet Walkers crisps in local pub after choir practice- (drank diet cokes!) (3.5 syns)

Total syns 6.5

I'm coming to dinner cause it sounds scrummy
I have seen the Dorset cereals and wondered what there like, what portion do you get for 28g?
xx

Week 22- Day 2 (Wed)- Extra Easy

Brekkie- 10.30am (lovely lie-in!!) 3 Joe's pork & apple sausages, 2 egg omlette, baked beans (spiced up with a little Lea & Perrins and a drop of tabasco). 4 satsumas

1pm- 4 Mikados- (2 syns)

Walked 6 miles (2 hours)!!

Didn't really have lunch as such as so full from brekkie......
Snack 4.30pm 3 Scanbran (3/5 HEXb) with vff cottage cheese and Marmite XO. 4 more Mikados- well they're just sooo moreish! (2 syns)

Tea- 7.30pm- Chicken breast stuffed with Laughing Cow deli light blue cheese wrapped in bacon (no fat) served with 1/2 jacket potato and steamed broccoli & asparagus. Sweet chilli sauce (1.5 syns) Fresh pineapple rings- yummm! An extra LC deli light blue cheese square (2=2/5 HEXa)

10pm- An Options Caribbean Coconut hot chocolate sachet (1.5 syns)
Didn't have full HEXa and b allowance today! Tut tut!

Total syns 7

Originally Posted by Loopeylou

I'm coming to dinner cause it sounds scrummy
I have seen the Dorset cereals and wondered what there like, what portion do you get for 28g?
xx

Sorry Claire, I didn't answer your question! I love Dorset cereals as you don't get the 'dust' with them and they're not sweet and sickly like Alpen can be!! You don't get much for 28g I'm afraid so I always put sliced banana and/or other chopped fresh fruit on top and have it with 100ml of skimmed or semiskimmed milk! I love the variety too!X

reading about these is making me hungrey, had them about a fornight ago and tehy were yummy duck & hoisin sauce pancakes

Mmmm they really were yummy- I'll be having these again!!X

Week 22- Day 3 (Thurs)- Extra Easy

Brekkie 9.30am-Dorset Cereals apple & raisin porridge 28g with 1 Scanbran crumbled in (HEXb) with semi skimmed milk (HEXa) topped with chopped apple and 1/2 sliced banana. Also ate the rest of the apple and banana!

Lunch-2pm- Slow-cooked chicken casserole (chicken thighs and lots of veg) with wholegrain rice and steamed broccoli and asparagus. Sweet chilli sauce (1.5 syns).
4 Mikados (2 syns) and an Activia FF mandarin yogurt (small 125g pot).

4.30pm- Feeling really hungry today for some reason!! A Ryvita Thins multiseed flatbread with some marmite on it (1.5 syns) Some rings of fresh pineapple.

5.30pm- A tin of 'Salmon fillet with dill' (from Lidl) with a little Tabasco to liven it up, served with a packet of Waitrose garlic & coriander couscous- (1 syn). 4 clementines.

9.30pm- Went to a fundraising evening and chicken & chips were in the ticket price- ignored the chips completely, took the skin off the chicken and munched away!! Felt very angelic!!

Midnight- On way home in car (peckish)- Weetabix Oatybar- (3.5 syns).

Total syns 9.5

Food diary is fab! Giving me lots of ideas!! Thank u! X