DOING SW FROM HOME???

Thanks everyone! Pasties turned out lovely! I used Quorn mince, mixed veg and a bit of gravy so it wasn't dry (so not many syns!) but I want to try the Cornish pasty mix that Rosielea mentioned as I was really proud of myself making them! Made up I can upload my creations now thanks guys for the help!

With the egg fried rice I just used soy sauce and mixed veg. I'm not sure if I used the dark soy or light soy but it was very tasty! With the s&p chicken I cheated a bit and used a s&p seasoning from the Chinese supermarket! I think it will be slightly synned but I never used any other syns that day so I'm assuming it wouldn't be anywhere near 15! Then I done a bit of makeway curry on the side which would be synned too but again not much!

Feel really content with my eating habits at the minute and love trying to make new things! Keep the ideas coming everyone!! :) x
 
By the way you can just do a s&p chicken without the seasoning and use a green peppier, fresh chilli's, garlic, salt and black pepper for those who don't wanna cheat! X
 
Wow Tilly! Those pasties look mega - didn't like the idea of using mash for pastry before - though I like it as pizza now! - but after seeing those monsters I might give it a go :p Anyone who was asking after an egg fried rice recipe/chinese meals - have a look here: Syn Free Special Fried Rice | The Ramblings of a Mad Woman (could easily be modified to just be egg fried rice!) and Sweet Chilli Vermicelli Noodles with Prawns | The Ramblings of a Mad Woman (a kind of Chinese dish - rice noodles! Easily my favourite dinner at the moment, need more rice noodles!)

Actually going to have a salad for lunch, I think! Have some avocado left over (roughly 2.5 syns for 25g) and some crabsticks so will be having those with some salady things :)
 
GrannieAnnie said:
Thanks for the lovely messages! We don`t really know our neighbours, it`s a bit of a comuter area. On the odd occasion we do see the woman next door she glares at us as if we`re something nasty she just stepped in. She`s never actually said as much but treats us like we`re scroungers cos we`re on benefits. I feel like putting her straight but it would upset hubby. Not only that, she could complain to our housing association. We don`t want to be evicted. Until he became sick, we both worked full time, had done since the mid-seventies.

I don`t feel guilty for claiming benefits, we paid our taxes for enough years now it`s our turn to claim. We are trying to get moved. We are in a village and all our family are in town. The council have already said they have more than 5,000 people waiting for a 1 bedroom flat on their list. We don`t qualify for anything else. As for renting privately, we have to forget that. We would only get £520 per month housing benefit for private rental and we`d have to pay the rest. Most in our area are £800 a month upwards. Dread to think how much a house would be.

I feel a bit better now! :) Off to have some lunch, the remainder of yesterday`s diet coke chicken
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:-( hugs to you. Keep sharing with us if it makes you feel better love, i find typing my problems out very therapeutic, lol. We have the neighbours from hell, won't go into to much detail but they are real chavs and totally inconsiderate. My OH went round last week and asked politely if they could turn their music down as we couldn't hear our tv or hear ourselves talk and it was even making the windows in the conservatory rattle! The bloke wasn't in so he spoke to the woman. The next morning the bloke came hammering at the door, yelled a load of abuse at my OH and then threatened to "lay him out". I was so upset i cried for ages. This guy is in his early 20's and my OH is 60 this year, i'm so scared he'll attack him. We can't afford to move either until i sell my house in Shropshire then i'm out of here!!!
 
Oh dear, just ended up crying to the receptionist at the doctor's! I rang for an appt and they said 8th feb, I hate our doc's, is blimin ridiculous, can never get an appt. I said I can't wait that long, then just started crying! I am really not like that at all, I ended up getting an appt for tomorrow at 8.30 tho!!

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Awww Jen Hugs

At least you can get yourself sorted now.. 8th February is ridiculus though and obviously there were appointments available if they gave you one so why tell you you have to wait until then?

Our doctors used to be good ring before 11 and get an appointment the same day, then suddenly they took on a load more patients merged with 5 other practices within the area and suddenly you have to wait now days now and you can't book in advance either, so work that one out....grrrr..

Hope you feel better soon Chick xx
 
It's ridiculous. You can ring at 8am and book routine appts but whenever you ring, you're always 10 in the queue and the only appt left are emergency. I should probably just lie and say it's an emergency but I don't like to! Ah well, got one now. Might ring mil to have the boys cos they won't like waiting at the docs!

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sounds like our docs
 
OMG just tried one of those werthers with the chocolate in... they're gorgeous I'm definately not buying them I won't be able to help myself ;)
 
Think a lot of docs are like that. We`re told to ring at 8am but it`s always engaged. If you don`t get an appt you can come & wait. You could be there a couple of hours in the queue. Daft thing is, if you want an appt today you have to phone, you can`t drop in. Don`t get it. If you a medication review for repeat prescriptions or you have a condition that means you have to visit regularly, that`s seperate. Appt a month or more away. Hubby`s medication review is 18th Feb, couldn`t get one earlier!
 
Aw Jen! Lots of hugs sent your way, seems like you need them :( Glad they sorted you out properly though!! Never be afraid to ask for more when you're not given all you need! I think most doctors surgeries are stupid about appointments - I think you should always be able to get appointments the day you ask (I know this wouldn't work, really, but it would be good...) as some people put off doctors until they're really ill anyway, and if they had some infection they could easily get really ill very quickly while waiting for an appointment the next week! Not good... Luckily our doctor's secretaries know our name by now and know that each time we go in we really do need the appointments so we usually get them the same day!

Seen somewhere that someone has a recipe for 1.5 syn carrot cake! Definitely chasing down that recipe...! Had my salad for lunch though it made me feel quite sick haha, really don't think I'm a salad kind of girl!
 
Thank you girls. Taken me 6 months to actually book an appt mind!!

Laura, how does a salad make you feel sick?! What's everyone having for tea? I can't decide! Going for a red week I think, need to at least maintain whilst I'm too wimpy to run in the snow lol no syns so far today :)

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Haha, I don't think it was the fact it was a salad - perhaps my choice of ingredients? Avocado, crab sticks, beetroot, lettuce, spring onion, cucumber etc :p Tbh, I feel sick constantly, all this did was ramp it up a little bit haha! It doesn't take much :)

Dinner for me will be the rest of the noodles and vegetable stir fry I had last night maybe with a chicken wing or 4 :p 1 syn each, so not bad! Going to roll them in a mix of salt, chinese 5 spice, black pepper and a tiny bit of sweetener and then roast them to see if I can get the effect of the salt and pepper fried chicken wings from the Chinese!
 
Tilly those pasties look unreal!!! Yum!

We make salt and pepper chicken with crispy kale a lot, all I use it a few ground up Sichuan peppercorns, salt and a little 5 or 7 spice and it tastes lush! X
 
Dinner bf is making SW fish and chips, yum! I've been having loads of food that's not like diet food this week to try and get me back into SW mindset as if it doesn't feel like I'm dieting I won't cheat (that's my theory!) we've had massive bacon cheeseburgers, thai curries, big casseroles and pulled pork, def doesn't feel like a diet! X
 
I've just taken some pork chops out of the freezer for tomorrow. Want to do something a bit different with them, thoughts anyone? Maybe a nice cider sauce or something? Charl, am sure you'll have something in mind, you are the cooking queen ;) will pop to the shops tomorrow.

Having roasted peppers, onions and tomatoes with mushroom and garlic chicken tonight. Will give hubby chips. Nearly managed day 2 being 100%!! :)

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I'm having oven baked salmon with garlic & herb phili on top (hexA). Having it with loads of steamed veg - yum!
Had 2 syns today, a cadburys highlights - totally worth it. Bf came home with the new Cadbury egg and spoon things for Easter - 10 syns per egg! Not sure I'll resist one of those tonight :/ still only 12 syns it'll take me up to though so it can be done :)

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Just made pasta with light Philly, stock and veg for kids and I (saw something similar in a Philadelphia ad on tv!) Was quite yum and my portion only came to 4 syns. I'm quite enjoying using the odd syns in meals rather than always wine or choc :)
 
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