Thread: Red Riding Hood diary take two - deliver the picnic basket don't eat it!

Hi Red - just subscribing to your diary. I'll catch up and have a good read when I get home.

Originally Posted by Pommette

Hi Red - just subscribing to your diary. I'll catch up and have a good read when I get home.

Hey Pommette - good to see you, hope you are enjoying your holidays despite the rain.

Today's menu:

Thursday 3/05/12 – Green
Breakfast – .Bowl of fruit (pineapple, apple, grapes)

Lunch – .Bowl superfree tomato and pepper soup, small jacket potato with lentil bolognaise on top – 1 LC light triangle (1.5 syns)

Dinner – .Quorn and mushroom stroganoff (using quorn beef strips) and bulgar wheat. Mullerlight choc cherry layer (1.5syns)

Snack – .4 ryvita dark rye (B) 3 Babybel Light (A) Thai mugshot (0.5), Highlights drin (2syns)

Hex A and B – .ryvita dark rye, Alpen Lights, Babybel Lights, splash semi-skim milk

Syns – .5.5

Looks blimmin lovely Red! XxX

Originally Posted by Red Riding Hood

Hi Donna the chocolate tea is Tesco finest - it's really just tea but with a slightly chocolate taste. I've been drinking it black with a little sweetener. It's quite nice but it's still tea and not chocolate!

I like the cherry bakewell Alpens they are good but summer fruits are still my favourite. I LOVE the Linda McCartney sausages though, they are not remotely sausagey apart form in shape, they are very much veggie and taste a bit like stuffing but since I love stuffing they suit me fine. I tried the morello cherry Greek Mullerlights too but the coconut ones are the BEST.

Weighed in this morning and its a good job I didn't mind if it wasn't a big loss as it wasn't a big loss, but it was still a respectable loss of 3lbs so yay.

I think I'm going to have a green day today.

Fantastic loss red well done x

Hi Red - hope all is ok x

Hi Donna everything is fine. I've just been really busy all day. Had students all evening. I'll have a round of the diaries tomorrow when I am less tired.

This was today's food diary:

Friday 4/05/12 – Red
Breakfast – . banana, pineapple

Lunch – .superfree butternut squash soup, some chicken slices, an apple

Dinner – .large mixed Salad, with salmon pate wraps and sliced boiled eggs, wholewheat pitta (HexB), Feta (HexA) olives (1 syn) lighter than light mayo (1syn) – Mullerlight Greek yoghurt (0.5syns)

Snack – .satsuma, grapes, Alpen Lights, Highlights drink (2syns) , cocopop bar (4syns)

Hex A and B – .wholewheat pitta (B) Alpen Lights (B) Feta (A)

Syns – .8.5

glad you re ok. hope you manage to get some down time for your self over weekend. have u got anythung planned

Hi Donna

I've just been food shopping and making soup and reading to my boys. Hope you are ok too xx

This is today's food:

Saturday 5/05/12 – Red
Breakfast – .Bowl of fruit (pineapple, grapes)
2 LC sausages (2syns) turkey rashers, egg, 1 LM sausage
Lunch – .Chicken breast, boiled egg, pineapple
Dinner – .Garden superfree soup (some youngleaf spinach and broccoli which needed using up), leeks, onions, garlic and fresh herbs – very nice soup!
Warm Salad with slices of spiced chicken (1 chicken breast)
Snack – .apple, ryvita (B) and cheese (A), Alpen Light (B) Highlights drink (2 syns)
Hex A and B – .Babybel Lights (A) Ryvita dark rye (B)

Syns – .4 ... so far

Originally Posted by Red Riding Hood

Hi Donna

I've just been food shopping and making soup and reading to my boys. Hope you are ok too xx

This is today's food:

Saturday 5/05/12 – Red
Breakfast – .Bowl of fruit (pineapple, grapes)
2 LC sausages (2syns) turkey rashers, egg, 1 LM sausage
Lunch – .Chicken breast, boiled egg, pineapple
Dinner – .Garden superfree soup (some youngleaf spinach and broccoli which needed using up), leeks, onions, garlic and fresh herbs – very nice soup!
Warm Salad with slices of spiced chicken (1 chicken breast)
Snack – .apple, ryvita (B) and cheese (A), Alpen Light (B) Highlights drink (2 syns)
Hex A and B – .Babybel Lights (A) Ryvita dark rye (B)

Syns – .4 ... so far

Morning Red

prob really stupid question but what are LC susages? I know LM is Linda McCartney

2 LC sausages (2syns) turkey rashers, egg, 1 LM sausage

Light Choice - Tesco sausages. I've used up the packet now. I was just too lazy to type the whole thing out ;-) I had a packet in my freezer so I've just been using them up on red and EE days - they are the chilled ones I've frozen rather than the higher in syns type from the freezer section.

You may notice I got the syns wrong earlier in my diary but since I hadn't used all my syns on those days I've left it be.

Hey Red,

I found your diary. What a great read so far and well done on the 3lb loss! Great start.

Can I ask - I have always fancied trying the LMc Sausages but have always been wary - I hate hate hate the quorn sausages and I was worried that these will taste like cardboard too. Have you tried all flavours? Whats the best? And are they free?

Also can you please let me have the recipe for lentil bolognese? It is just the same tomato base as a regular spag bol?

Thanks
Charley xxx

Originally Posted by Red Riding Hood

Light Choice - Tesco sausages. I've used up the packet now. I was just too lazy to type the whole thing out ;-) I had a packet in my freezer so I've just been using them up on red and EE days - they are the chilled ones I've frozen rather than the higher in syns type from the freezer section.

You may notice I got the syns wrong earlier in my diary but since I hadn't used all my syns on those days I've left it be.

Oh thanks for that tip - haven't got my head round low syn sausages - although I must admit I (and I think rest of family) are preferring the LM or Quorn ones. But I want to sausage and mash so will grab a packet of Tesco LC

As for syns - my maths is crap - that wouldn't even have registered!!!

Originally Posted by Charleybarley

Hey Red,

I found your diary. What a great read so far and well done on the 3lb loss! Great start.

Can I ask - I have always fancied trying the LMc Sausages but have always been wary - I hate hate hate the quorn sausages and I was worried that these will taste like cardboard too. Have you tried all flavours? Whats the best? And are they free?

Also can you please let me have the recipe for lentil bolognese? It is just the same tomato base as a regular spag bol?

Thanks
Charley xxx

I actually like the Quorn sausages, I love Quorn. Anyway, the LM sausages are really nice - the ones I have been eating are the red onion and rosemary ones - which can be tricky to get hold of but are in the bigger stores and they are free. They don'[t taste like sausages though. They taste kind of like stuffing but I do like them. I haven't had the ordinary LM vggie sausages for a while but I believe they are about 2 syns each anyway.

The lentil bolognaise, I finely chop red and yellow peppers, a large courgette, mushrooms and onions and garlic and fry them in frylight then I add a tin of chopped tomatoes and some passata, add some stock and then red lentils. Cook until the lentils are soft. At the end I add torn basil leaves and oregano if I have it. I usually serve it with wholewheat spaghetti because I like it - although OH doesn't!

That's how I usually make it, I was vegetarian for 15 years (although I haven't been for the last 6) so I made all thee kind of dishes pre SW. On Britmums blog I saw she added some chopped sweet potato to the bolognaise, she says it cuts through the tartness of the tomatoes. Her recipes are excellent so I'm going to try that in mine next time.

I have to say this soup I made which is superfree is fantastic - it was made just to use up the broccoli and spinach that really needed to be used and I just added a (massive) leek - you should have seen the size of it - and and a couple of onions, some garlic herbs and a little grate of nutmeg. Really just a chuck everything in and hope for the best recipe but I'll definately be making it as a superfree soup again. I swear by the superfree soup, it saves me from snacking on other things all the time and handy pre meals to reduce the portions. That way I have a smaller potato or whatever.

This is today's food:

Sunday 6/05/12 – Easy Extra
Breakfast – .Bowl of fruit (satsuma, pineapple, grapes)
Half a Tortilla (with mushrooms, onions, garlic, cottage cheese, leftover bulgar wheat and eggs) 2 turkey rashers, 2 LC sausages (2syns), LC baked beans
Lunch – .Had brunch see above.

Dinner – .Bowl spinach and broccoli soup, large salad, jacket potato and bolognaise (lots of veg in it) – Mullerlight

Snack – .cup SF soup (spinach and broccoli), apple, Highlights drink (2syns), Cocopops bar (4syns)

Hex A and B – Babybel lights, (A) Alpen Light (B)

Syns – .8

Hey Red, thanks for the sausage tip, I don't mind if they don't taste of sausage - I love love love stuffing, I could eat a whole packet of the stuff.

I am defo going to make the lentil bolognese too, I make a mean bolog sauce so I may just do that. I haven't done much lentil cooking - would I treat the lentils as I would mince meat? Ie cook it for an hour or so on low? Would the lentils hold up to long low cooking or dont they need that time? Thanks Red.

Have you tried the Egyptian Lentil Curry made with split lentils? It's the doggies do dahs.

I like wholemeal pasta - I try to keep as low GI as possible as I have PCOS.

Have a good bank holiday Red - do you have any plans?

Xx

Originally Posted by Charleybarley

Hey Red, thanks for the sausage tip, I don't mind if they don't taste of sausage - I love love love stuffing, I could eat a whole packet of the stuff.

I am defo going to make the lentil bolognese too, I make a mean bolog sauce so I may just do that. I haven't done much lentil cooking - would I treat the lentils as I would mince meat? Ie cook it for an hour or so on low? Would the lentils hold up to long low cooking or dont they need that time? Thanks Red.

Have you tried the Egyptian Lentil Curry made with split lentils? It's the doggies do dahs.

I like wholemeal pasta - I try to keep as low GI as possible as I have PCOS.

Have a good bank holiday Red - do you have any plans?

Xx

I still can't get my head around lentils instead of mince - convince me ladies!