Thread: Any Germans here

Originally Posted by woodmouse

Judywoody - chocoina hasn't posted enough yet to be able to access her or anyone else's profile. Think she needs to have done 50 posts. There are games on chit chat which will boost her numbers so she can get there quicker! I had a similar problem with someone who wanted to be friends with me and a few others, and hopefully managed to email her from my contact info page on my profile, but I don't know if she got the email because she seems to have dropped off the radar. I was thinking of coming in on this thread last night, although my German is very poor, but I was going to suggest your email would be private to everyone except chocoina if you emailed her from your/her(?) contact info page on your profile. Also, I don't know whether you realise that some Tescos have a section for Polish food? And a friend I was talking to about it says he thinks some Asda stores have a large Polish section. Herrings in sour cream! Mmmmmmmmmmm - memories of my mum and me in Hamburg many years ago!!

Oh I didn't realize...it's just that I access this page from my mobile and when I tried to send her a message I got an error message that she hasn't activated to receive pm's...

Don't think I can leave a message on her profile from my mobile phone. But will do as soon as I can access my pc again...

Yes I know about the polish section. But I think the variety of products you can buy in your local tesco and asda depends on how big the polish community is in that area...we don't have a very large polish community in my area of liverpool hence there isn't a lot of variety. But I managed to work around it so far:-)
You can buy herrings in cream in tesco I think or at least in lidl. Was even able to convince my husband...haha...he isn't a big fan of herring but he liked this:-)

I don't think she can access her profile til she's clocked up 50 posts, so perhaps wouldn't see messages left there (I'm not experienced in all this!) but I believe you can send an email which would be forwarded to her, this is what I did with someone, and you are warned that they will then be aware of your email address, but of course that's what you want her to see anyway, so it's all good

Ahh well, I'll just keep on sending messages until I have reached the 50! Sorry about the German, will write in English again.
It's true about the big Polish sections in big supermarkets, they have the Sauerkraut and other items. In the Polish shops you get some German rye bread, some yummy jellys and something we call Pudding in Germany which is low cal. and is like angel delight. Have never seen them in the big supermarkets.
Will go now and do some body magic (swimming), have my first weigh in on Tuesday.

Have a nice sunday, chocoina

Pudding?low cal?that's new to me;-)

Originally Posted by judywoody

Pudding?low cal?that's new to me;-)

Well, do you know the German diet books called low fat 30?? They showed that you can eat low fat food (including pretzels, wine gums, pudding,....) because they're low fat. There is that formula they use. Take the fat amount of 100g of the desired food, multiply by 9, then multiply the sum by 10. Than divide the sum by the calories and if it's under 30 than you have food that is under 30% fat and that helps you to lose weight. I remember seeing this formula in a book by Susan Powter, she was very successful with that.

Oh yeah I know that one...problem is, it's not compatible with slimming world:-)it might not contain a lot of fat but it contains an awful lot of sugar and starch like in flour so those calories add up!;-)

Hi, sorry this is a bit off topic, not SW related, more germany related. I was on holiday in spain and whilst there i picked up some shampoo called 'elkos Hair Shampoo' it was great for my hair, although it was really cheap. I have done a little research and have figured out that it is german. have anybody herd of it at all? i could be completely wrong. thanks x

Hi guys,
I'm also looking for a few German recipes that are syn free. My husband is German and we moved to Ireland from Heidelberg about a year ago.

Unfortunately, I haven't seen Spaetzle in the Irish Lidls. Boo . But if anyone could help me with Kloese I would be thrilled, as would my husband. He is going to Germany next week, maybe he can bring me a pack of the Pfannle ones.

Sarah

Originally Posted by LornaGrace

Hi, sorry this is a bit off topic, not SW related, more germany related. I was on holiday in spain and whilst there i picked up some shampoo called 'elkos Hair Shampoo' it was great for my hair, although it was really cheap. I have done a little research and have figured out that it is german. have anybody herd of it at all? i could be completely wrong. thanks x

Yes it's a supermarket own brand shampoo...so you are very unlikely to get it here :-(

Originally Posted by sarahfancy

Hi guys,
I'm also looking for a few German recipes that are syn free. My husband is German and we moved to Ireland from Heidelberg about a year ago.

Unfortunately, I haven't seen Spaetzle in the Irish Lidls. Boo . But if anyone could help me with Kloese I would be thrilled, as would my husband. He is going to Germany next week, maybe he can bring me a pack of the Pfannle ones.

Sarah

Hi Sarah - what type of Kloese are you talking about? I have a recipe for potatoe dumplings which are practically syn-free as far as I remember (on a green day)

Lidl and Aldi sometimes have Spaetzle when they have a special week. You can make them yourself, you know? Technically they wouldn't be syn free then but I would just not bother ..haha...all pasta contains flour so seriously I wouldn't count it if you make homemade pasta out of it :-) LEt me know if you want the recipe for both.

Greetings from a fellow German SW "loser" ...

I'm originally from Dresden, East Germany and have been living in Barry, South Wales (Gavin & Stacey town, LOL) since July 2007.

Just thought I'd say hi.

Cheers

Tom

No reply. :-( What a shame...

would any of yous be able to tell me the sauerkraut reciepe? im over here in germany n i love this so nice in a salad is it deffinetly syn free? x

Originally Posted by chocoina

Hello again,

No, don't think it's rude, why not? Don't have bratwurst sw friendly recipes but I do have lovely Gurkensalat mit Joghurt (syn free), Krautsalat (syn free), kassler, but in here in the UK :-(. The Spaetzle you can buy at Lidl are also syn free. What is your favourite low syn or syn free meal??

Hi, would u mind posting the recipes for the krautsalat and the gurkensalat? Danke fro a german slimming in Cyprus x