Hi Abbie - I'm doing SS+ with the 200 cal food option instead of milk/4 shakes... yeh I canned the soups early on (after only trying the veg one) as ended up chucking half away - couldn't bear it! Here are some of the things I have been trying out on it:
* Chicken - if you like indian... put a tiny bit of olive oil/1 cal spray in a pan and use it to cook off some cumin, coriander, paprika, turmeric, cumin seeds, salt, pepper, garlic and ginger - once spices are burned down or you can smell them strongly: Add in the 80g spring onions or a mix of onion and mushroom and add in chciken sliced/cubed. Cook until its all almost properly cooked and then add in some water to form a bit of a paste/sauce... This was my alternative to curry and a way of spicing it up a bit
* Prawns if you like them - stir fry (ideally king prawns) with some chilli, garlic and fresh coriander plus your portion of veg (green pepper and mushroom nice or I love brocolli stir-fried in this spice/flavour mix too)
* Add fresh herbs to salad for a bit of extra flavour
* Slice chicken breast before cooking and stuff with spring onion, garlic and herbs, add some salt & pepper, wrap in foil and roast in oven until done. If you don't use all your veg allowance on the stuffing, maybe make a small side salad
* Eggs if you eat them (as you're allowed 2) cook them in different ways e.g. one poached with half ur veg allowance of spinach (similar to eggs florentine without the cheese sauce!) and then the other one soft boiled and maybe chopped up in a bowl with the other half of ur allowance of spring onion. Makes you feel like you're eating twice as much!
- Get some of the water flavouring and make yourself some ice lollies. Apparently you can also add these to the shakes for extra flavour e.g. add summer berry to chocolate for a blackforest effect...
- Choc shake - mix in ramekin with about 2 tablespoons water. Put in microwave for about 1-2 minutes (until firm) - hot chocolate pudding but you will need to have it with about 1-1.5 pints of water to ensure you still get the necessary fluids
A lot of it is just about trying to be creative with what you can use/have. Just writing down some of the above is now making me think about what else I have in the cupboard that I can play with.... Hope thats given you some ideas...