Green Day thread. ..

[JL2605]

Oh and hexax2 probably cheese sokewhere in there. ..

 

[Barbette]

Good luck x

 

[RUBYROO]

I'm going to join in here as have got a few green days planned for this week

Today...
Breakfast: WW Yogurt, Banana
Lunch: Pasta n Sauce (made with water)
Dinner: SW Chips, 2 Quorn Burgers (1), Salad and 1 tbsp Ketchup (1), Apple
Snack: 2 Rocky Road Hifi Bars

Had forgotten how filling green days can be! x

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How do you get your chips so perfect? Is there a special method? Yours look amazing compared to my pathetic attempt xx

 

[misswolves]

I am a restarter again today.
Moved house, changed job and ill health messed me up last time ( as if I needed an excuse to scoff!)
Strict veggie who leans towards vegan and would like to get there.
Any advice gratefully received.

What fat free yogurts and fromage frais do people use?
How do you work out syn values if you are not a member of SW?

 

[Barbette]

I am a restarter again today.
Moved house, changed job and ill health messed me up last time ( as if I needed an excuse to scoff!)
Strict veggie who leans towards vegan and would like to get there.
Any advice gratefully received.

What fat free yogurts and fromage frais do people use?
How do you work out syn values if you are not a member of SW?

I'm vegan and I use alpro soy yogurt, which works out 7.5 syns for 500 ml or 2 syns for the small pots. If you have internet access try googling the syn values, most of the time you will get the answer or look on at different threads. Just ask someone will help x

 

[misswolves]

Thanks Tace.

I have started off with 2 slices of wholemeal bread ( from the small loaf) HX B
350 mls skimmed milk as a HX A
and 3 morrisons meat free hot dogs (4.5 syns total)

Have you found a very low fat vegan margarine as I have looked for one for ages.

 

[Barbette]

I don't use marg often but when I do I use vitalite. I've not looked at generis sunflower spreads it might be worth a look x

 

[misswolves]

Thank you...I think you are going to get fed up of me!

 

[Barbette]

Thank you...I think you are going to get fed up of me!

Not at all, ask away it's how you learn you can always ask me on my diary, just follow the link on my signature x

 

[RebekahR]

Back to it after a nice evening out

Pineapple (hex b)
Coffee &amp; yoghurt
Red onion sausage (linda m) salad with mushrooms etc (free &amp; super free)

If peckish later will do a nibble board
Eggs, beetroot, peppers and leftover pasta

 

[misswolves]

I don't suppose you have found a nice syn free toffee yogurt?obviously given that Muller choose to use the insulation in cows SMS pigs kneecaps to set their lite range I don't use them!
Also, have you come across the 0% yeo valley vanilla large pot? Do you have a syn value?

 

[RebekahR]

I don't suppose you have found a nice syn free toffee yogurt?obviously given that Muller choose to use the insulation in cows SMS pigs kneecaps to set their lite range I don't use them!
Also, have you come across the 0% yeo valley vanilla large pot? Do you have a syn value?

Its 6 syn per pot hun (450g)

There is a thread on various syn free yog in the syn section.. I will take a look and try to weed out veggie options

I mostly have fat free Greek and add honey if needed 1 syn worth

 

[Barbette]

I'm not a huge yogurt fan, I only use the plain one on my breakfast. The only ones I've seen in supermarkets are the alpro soya but you could try online of Holland & Barrett they do a lot of veggie/vegan food x

 

[Barbette]

My food for today

B- 2 red onion LM sausages, beans, mushrooms, roasted tomato and toast (HEB)
D- roasted marinated(home marinated) tofu, haslett potatoes, sweet corn, carrots & swede and gravy (1)
T- wholemeal pitta (HEB + 1) redwood slices, salad, fresh fruit salad & vegan choc ice cream (2 1/2)
Snacks- packet of french fries (4), banana and 3 pieces of vegan chocolate (3)

 

[MissNix]

How do you get your chips so perfect? Is there a special method? Yours look amazing compared to my pathetic attempt xx

Haha I invested in a chip tray after hearing everyone at group raving about them!! I got mine from Sainsbury's and it was about a fiver - it's an oval-ish shaped tray with little holes in the bottom which ensures the heat gets to them from every angle so they go nice and brown all over.

So now all I have to do is peel my spuds, cut into nice thin chips (I aim for close to McDonalds size), spray the chip tray and the chips with frylight, and then straight into the oven for about 30 mins - give them a good shake up once or twice during cooking, and voila, perfect chips!

Apparently you can get cheaper versions of the chip trays from Poundland that look like mesh trays, and they seem to work just as well

 

[misswolves]

Thanks for this- I did plough through the thread, but it was very long! A lot was out of date, as well.
I have been looking at your online diary- I feel like a stalker
i used to be a District Nurse, so sympathise with your hubby's Diabetic neuropathy. I got held hostage by a patient and retrained, now a trainee solicitor.

 

[RUBYROO]

I don't suppose you have found a nice syn free toffee yogurt?obviously given that Muller choose to use the insulation in cows SMS pigs kneecaps to set their lite range I don't use them!
Also, have you come across the 0% yeo valley vanilla large pot? Do you have a syn value?

Ff Activia are veggie ... And most are syn free
No toffee but they have a banoffe flavour which is 1 syn per pot, which are quite big Dunno why some companies have to use gelatine n others don't? Muller do some amazing flavours but all contain gelatine :0 annoying !!! Xx

 

[RUBYROO]

Haha I invested in a chip tray after hearing everyone at group raving about them!! I got mine from Sainsbury's and it was about a fiver - it's an oval-ish shaped tray with little holes in the bottom which ensures the heat gets to them from every angle so they go nice and brown all over.

So now all I have to do is peel my spuds, cut into nice thin chips (I aim for close to McDonalds size), spray the chip tray and the chips with frylight, and then straight into the oven for about 30 mins - give them a good shake up once or twice during cooking, and voila, perfect chips!

Apparently you can get cheaper versions of the chip trays from Poundland that look like mesh trays, and they seem to work just as well

Aw thanks hun!!! Yours looked amazing .... I always end up with fat misshaped ones hehe! Ile have to invest in one .. Ta xx

 

[Barbette]

Thanks for this- I did plough through the thread, but it was very long! A lot was out of date, as well.
I have been looking at your online diary- I feel like a stalker
i used to be a District Nurse, so sympathise with your hubby's Diabetic neuropathy. I got held hostage by a patient and retrained, now a trainee solicitor.

Yes a lot of thread are old, I tend to look at the more recent ones or ones that are used regularly. Ha ha ha ha it is a bit like that but the way I see it is if you don't want people to see what you've written don't write it lol. And that's some job switch. That sounds really horrible, I hope you weren't hurt. I do feel there is a lot of pressure on nurses and it must be quite risky working alone, traveling about and going in people's home at all sorts of times. I work nights in a hotel, and there's only 2 of us that work during the night so I work alone a lot of the time. We carry radios with us at all times as we deal with people who are drunk or have been drinking most nights.

 

[Ymf]

Brilliant idea, going to be using this thread when I am out of ideas!