Charleybarley
Gold Member
Ok so the weekend was a little on the "nothing went to plan" side.
Friday night was great, I stuck to my plans and had a kebab and a bottle of wine. My friends new boyfriend (whose place we went to) has two dogs. Now I am allergic to dogs but I was pre-warned and having run out of my usual tablets, I went and got some boots own brand and popped one before we left the house. Fine. We had a lovely evening, although on the way back home I started to feel very woozy - I know I had had a bottle of wine, but I felt much more drunk than I should have, almost like I had been drugged. We got home and checked the packet of tabs and yes, you guessed it, they clearly stated "do not drink alcohol" on the back! I am usually fine with my others. So I told Mick I should stay up a while and drink lots of water - I promptly passed out on the sofa! Thankfully no harm done, although I woke with a monster hangover and also terrible symptoms of my allergy, apparently these tablets stop the allergy at the time but once they begin to wear off, they just bring out the allergies held over from the night before. So not only did I have a hangover, I also had itchy eyes, constant sneezing, itchy throat and a runny nose...oh and period pains! :giveup:Needless to say we never did any decorating on Saturday! We went shopping and I ate the following:
B - Nada
L - Chorizo (3) and Sausage (.5) Pasta with Olives (1.5) - which was delightful - I made enough for two helpings, but decided to eat the lot it was so nice. I have been buying fresh herbs and so I had lots of basil, greek basil and parsley in it.
D - Bacon Cheese Burger and Chips with salad (5) for sauces
Half a bottle of wine (12)
So Saturday was 22 syns - NOT GOOD! :wave_cry:
Sunday I woke up feeling better and decided to walk the 3 mile round trip to Sainsburys. I was making a Bavarian Beef and Ale Stew which I intended to SW-ise and make relatively low syn. The recipe called for large cheesey/thymey/mustardy croutons by way of diagonally sliced baguette - I decided to use WW petit pains - hence the walk to Sainsburys. I got all the way there to find that they don't stock WW petit pains at my Sainsburys! I was slightly annoyed to say the least so instead got a small baguette - really I should have not bothered with the baguette at all, because the croutons totally did not work with the stew, and I left half of the croutons. I ended up not eating much because I got home, got a hot shower (it p!ssed down on the return leg of my Sainsbury's pilgrimage!) and then started preparing Sunday's tea and also today's tea (Christmas Dinner Stew, which required me slow cooking a turkey leg and also boiling up a gammon joint). So food for Sunday:
B&L - Whilst cooking, two cold BGTY sausages (1), some titbits of gammon joint and turkey leg, half a water melon
D - Bavarian Beef and Ale Stew - the syns were a lot higher than anticipated and to be honest, I didn't think it worked at all. I will not be making it again. (10) approximate syns wasted.
The other half bottle of wine (12)
Dessert - Half a tub of 2% greek yog (1) and options white choc (2) and 2 apples.
So Sunday's syns - 26 syns - SOOOO BAD:beam:
So, with the fact that I had on Friday roughly adding up to 44.5 thats a massive 92.5 syns in three days - which in theory leaves me with 12.5 syns for Mon - Thurs!!!!!! :break_diet:
I have the rest of the Bavarian Bolloxing Stew to eat for lunch today as I will not waste food. So minus the gross crouton thats 5 syns! Thats 7.5 syns left - oh buggar!
Friday night was great, I stuck to my plans and had a kebab and a bottle of wine. My friends new boyfriend (whose place we went to) has two dogs. Now I am allergic to dogs but I was pre-warned and having run out of my usual tablets, I went and got some boots own brand and popped one before we left the house. Fine. We had a lovely evening, although on the way back home I started to feel very woozy - I know I had had a bottle of wine, but I felt much more drunk than I should have, almost like I had been drugged. We got home and checked the packet of tabs and yes, you guessed it, they clearly stated "do not drink alcohol" on the back! I am usually fine with my others. So I told Mick I should stay up a while and drink lots of water - I promptly passed out on the sofa! Thankfully no harm done, although I woke with a monster hangover and also terrible symptoms of my allergy, apparently these tablets stop the allergy at the time but once they begin to wear off, they just bring out the allergies held over from the night before. So not only did I have a hangover, I also had itchy eyes, constant sneezing, itchy throat and a runny nose...oh and period pains! :giveup:Needless to say we never did any decorating on Saturday! We went shopping and I ate the following:
B - Nada
L - Chorizo (3) and Sausage (.5) Pasta with Olives (1.5) - which was delightful - I made enough for two helpings, but decided to eat the lot it was so nice. I have been buying fresh herbs and so I had lots of basil, greek basil and parsley in it.
D - Bacon Cheese Burger and Chips with salad (5) for sauces
Half a bottle of wine (12)
So Saturday was 22 syns - NOT GOOD! :wave_cry:
Sunday I woke up feeling better and decided to walk the 3 mile round trip to Sainsburys. I was making a Bavarian Beef and Ale Stew which I intended to SW-ise and make relatively low syn. The recipe called for large cheesey/thymey/mustardy croutons by way of diagonally sliced baguette - I decided to use WW petit pains - hence the walk to Sainsburys. I got all the way there to find that they don't stock WW petit pains at my Sainsburys! I was slightly annoyed to say the least so instead got a small baguette - really I should have not bothered with the baguette at all, because the croutons totally did not work with the stew, and I left half of the croutons. I ended up not eating much because I got home, got a hot shower (it p!ssed down on the return leg of my Sainsbury's pilgrimage!) and then started preparing Sunday's tea and also today's tea (Christmas Dinner Stew, which required me slow cooking a turkey leg and also boiling up a gammon joint). So food for Sunday:
B&L - Whilst cooking, two cold BGTY sausages (1), some titbits of gammon joint and turkey leg, half a water melon
D - Bavarian Beef and Ale Stew - the syns were a lot higher than anticipated and to be honest, I didn't think it worked at all. I will not be making it again. (10) approximate syns wasted.
The other half bottle of wine (12)
Dessert - Half a tub of 2% greek yog (1) and options white choc (2) and 2 apples.
So Sunday's syns - 26 syns - SOOOO BAD:beam:
So, with the fact that I had on Friday roughly adding up to 44.5 thats a massive 92.5 syns in three days - which in theory leaves me with 12.5 syns for Mon - Thurs!!!!!! :break_diet:
I have the rest of the Bavarian Bolloxing Stew to eat for lunch today as I will not waste food. So minus the gross crouton thats 5 syns! Thats 7.5 syns left - oh buggar!
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) with tomatoe and onion salad). Mick's pay day and he wanted to treat me plus we had a free 1/2 chicken on our loyalty (hey big spender!) - so its 2.5 for the spicy rice and I had a couple of tbps of piri piri (1) and lemon & herb and a dressing, so I will call it a 7 syn jobby, not great syn wise, but it was delicious and a nice treat.
