Maw Broon's food diary - new to SW

[Maw Broon]

Day 1

Breakfast:
Chopped banana
0% Activia Raspberry yoghurt
Liquorice & mint tea

Lunch:
Lidl Wholemeal pitta bread (6.5 syns - damn mistake, thought it was free!)
3 slices wafer thin ham and sliced tomatoes
All toasted in sandwich press
Black coffee

Dinner:
Two small potatoes baked
Tin tuna in spring water mixed with 3 tbls natural yoghurt, 1 tbls lighter than light Hellmanns mayo (0.5 syns) and ground pepper
Salad of chopped cucumber, chopped celery and cooked frozen peas
Salad dressing made with natural yoghurt, balsamic vinegar, salt & pepper
0% Activia raspberry yoghurt

Supper:
1 slice wholemeal toast (HEB)
30g cheese (HEA)

Total syns = 7

 

[Maw Broon]

Day 2

Breakfast:
Chopped banana
0% Activia Raspberry yoghurt
Tea with semi skimmed milk (some of HEA)

From here on in, it went pear shaped! Invited to inlaws for New Years dinner. Knew there was no point saying I was trying to eat healthy - everything they eat comes from the freezer or out a packet so would just cause stress! So instead, I thought I'll not have lunch and just try and eat less. By 4pm I was nearly gnawing the table and ended up eating a couple of cheese straws and peanuts they had out.

Then I had:
Steal pie incl half a sausage and gravy with 3" square of pastry
One aunt Bessie's parsnip
One aunt Bessie roastie
Two boiled potatoes
Boiled cabbage (with butter)

Later in evening I had a few handfuls of salted micro popcorn.

I am not even going to try to calculate syns but draw a line under it and start again!

I had no pudding and only drank sparkling water

Total syns = unfathomable!

 

[Maw Broon]

Day 3

Breakfast:
Chopped pear
0% Activia raspberry yogurt
Cup of tea with semi skimmed milk (from HEA)

Lunch:
One slice wholemeal toast from 800g loaf
Topped with Philadelphia extra light (rest of HEA) and cucumber
Apple
Banana

Dinner:
Baked potato
Quorn chilli
Salad

All this was selected from buffet at friend's house so don't know if any oil used to bake potatoes or to make quorn chilli. This will all get easier once all this entertaining stops! Doing a dry Jan means no alcohol syns and plenty fluid being drunk in form of sparkling water!

Snack
1 wholemeal pitta (6.5 syns)
Homemade houmous (6 syns - guess!)
Grapes

Total syns = 12.5 (approx!)

 

[Maw Broon]

Day 4 (Green)

Breakfast:
Frozen blueberries (defrosted night before)
Shape 0% strawberry yoghurt

Snack:
Apple
3 cups of tea with semi skimmed milk (HEA 1)
1 Alpen light bar (1/2 HEB)

Dinner:
Sweet potato, pea and green bean risotto made in oven (yum!)
1tbls red pesto (between 4) - 1 syn max
30g grated Parmesan cheese (HEA 2)
1 Alpen light bar (1/2 HEB)
1 Danio 0% strawberry (1 syn)

Total syns = 2

Plus a walk of 4.6 miles around a reservoir into horizontal freezing rain!
Cooked in prep of back to work tomorrow - huge pot soup, potato frittata and there is risotto left over too

 

[sarah83]

Hi,
Well done on trying to be good over new year - I would have found it impossible! I'm starting back on SW again today so trying to be very organised, plan all my meals and stick to it!

That risotto sounds really nice, I've never made a risotto in the oven before, how did you do it?

Hope you have a good day x

 

[Maw Broon]

It was dead easy:

Fry chopped onion in a oven proof frying pan, add two crushed cloves garlic
Add some frozen peas and some chopped green beans
I peeled large sweet potato and then cooked in micro for 7/8 mins then cubed and added
Add 2 cups of arborio rice
3.5 cups veg stock
1 tbls red pesto
Salt & pepper
Stick lid on and cook in oven at 190c for 20 mins stirring at 10

Add grated Parmesan before eating - yum!

 

[Maw Broon]

Day 3 (Green)

Breakfast:
Slice of potato frittata
1 Danio 0% strawberry (1 syn)

Lunch:
Homemade sweet potato, parsnip & cannellini bean soup
1 slice wholemeal toast from 800g loaf (HEB 1)
30g cheddar (HEA 1)

Snack:
1 apple
Black coffee

Dinner:
Left over over baked veg risotto
30g grated Parmesan (HEA 2)

Snack:
2 slices wholemeal toast from 400g loaf (HEB 2)
Topped with Tesco lighter choices cottage cheese
3 cups of tea with skimmed milk (4 syns)

Total syns = 5

Really desperate to weigh myself but holding off till Thursday!