Sausage on a mission - veggie green days diary

[silly sausage]

Monday 8th August

Breakfast:
porridge made with milk (hexB and hexA),
pineapple

Lunch:
3 krisprolls (hexB)
salad, quorn spam, cottage cheese and chutney (1 syn)
apple

Dinner:
leftover veg and lentil thing on wholewheat spaghetti, lettuce and cheese (hexA)
melon

Snacks:
2 x scan bran carrot cake (3 syns)
grapes

Total syns: 4
Fluids: good
Exercise: none

 

[silly sausage]

Tuesday 9th August

Breakfast:
porridge made with milk (hexB and hexA),
banana and grapes

Lunch:
3 krisprolls (hexB)
topped with leftover lentil and veg stuff (again) and cheese (hexA)

Dinner:
Moroccan slow cooked veg stew
3 x Cauldron sausages (1.5 syns)

Snacks:
2 x scan bran carrot cake (3 syns)
melon

Total syns: 4.5
Fluids: good
Exercise: none


Odd meals, but it was stuff that needed eaten today. Got a few days off so will try to do some exercise.

The Moroccan stew is mommyb's recipe, post #4. Very subtle flavours and couldn't be easier to make.

http://www.minimins.com/sw-winter-warmer-recipes/172224-vegetarian-slow-cooker-recipes.html

 

[hannah28]

Sausage, what are these krisprolls that you're having? x

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[silly sausage]

Pagen krisprolls are wholegrain Swedish toasted bread fingers. Find them in the ryvita aisle. They are very, very crunchy and are 3 for a healthy B.

 

[hannah28]

Pagen krisprolls are wholegrain Swedish toasted bread fingers. Find them in the ryvita aisle. They are very, very crunchy and are 3 for a healthy B.

Ooh thank you! I might give those a try!

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[gwennypenny]

Mmmm... Pagen Krisprolls smothered with an HEA of Light Philly! Love them!

 

[coolkerry]

Hi sausage, just had the cottage pie, OMG absolutely gorgeous !! Had it with mushy peas, mint sauce, broccoli n cabbage. So good I had to go back for seconds !!
Xx

 

[silly sausage]

Good stuff, Coolkerry!

Wednesday 10th August

Breakfast:
bran flakes (hexB)
with Greek yoghurt, strawberries and dried apricots (2 syns)
melon

Lunch:
Moroccan slow cooked veg stew,
mushroom and lentil loaf (hexB for two meals),
lettuce and tomatoes

Dinner:
Exactly the same as lunch!

Snacks:
milk for coffees (hexA)
2 x scan bran carrot cake (3 syns)

Total syns: 5
Fluids: good
Exercise: swimming

 

[blue*smartie]

I have just made your spicy stew Sausage. Well what can I say ...... it went down a storm, even my fussy son (who refuses to touch 'diet' food) enjoyed it. And, my neighbour who popped round smelt the delicious aroma tried a bit, and has left my house with the recipe

 

[silly sausage]

Wahey! Well done Smartie If you can handle stew then you can make cottage pie easy peasy as it is almost the same - veggie red stuff, but with mash and cheese. Hope WI went well for you this week x

 

[blue*smartie]

I gained a pound, but not upset coz I knew I hadnt been a 100% with it being my dad's birthday etc

Fingers crossed you get into the magic 100's for your anniversay Sausage

 

[silly sausage]

That's not bad. You had a fab loss the week before so it all averages out

I am off to make a curry Laters x

 

[ILoveCake]

Sausage, congrats on your 4stone award!!!!!!

 

[silly sausage]

Cheers Cake!

Thursday 11th August

Breakfast:
scrambled eggs, beans,
quorn roast pieces (0.5 syns)
ketchup (0.5 syn)

Lunch:
mushroom and lentil loaf + 21g cheese (hexB)
mushy peas and pickled beetroot,
melon

Dinner:
Thai quorn curry (hexB + 2 syns)
baked potato and lettuce

Snacks:
milk for coffees (hexA)
2 x scan bran carrot cake (3 syns)
grapes, apple

Total syns: 6
Fluids: good
Exercise: none

 

[Kater-tater]

What scan bran carrot cake is it that you have?

 

[silly sausage]

Hi Katie I don't like fakey sugar so make the one with honey.

4 scan bran (softened with boiling water)
1 weetabix
5 oz grated carrot
0.5 tsp mixed spice
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp nutmeg
2 tbsp mincemeat
1 tbsp honey
3 eggs

Mix all together. Bake in loaf tin for 1 hour - cover with tin foil for first half hour. 11 syns for the whole cake. Freezable.

It smells like Christmas cake. I tried to make a ginger version today. Bit of a fail, but it didn't stop me eating half of it! Will update if I manage to make a nice ginger cake without fakey sugar.

 

[gwennypenny]

4 stones! Excellent!

And now down to the nitty gritty. What do you make your thai quorn curry with?

Is it bad that I'm stealing your recipes?

Need to be good for a few weeks given the blowout I had today...

 

[silly sausage]

Friday 12th August

Breakfast:
3 krisprolls (hexB)
beans
cheese (hexA)

Lunch:
mushroom and lentil loaf (3 syns)
beans

Dinner:
Thai quorn curry (hexB + 2 syns)
brown rice

Snacks:
milk for coffees (hexA)
1/2 failed scan bran ginger carrot cake (6.5 syns)
strawberries

Total syns: 11.5
Fluids: good
Exercise: none

Shouldn't have had the rice (and the cake obviously ) as it has made me feel very heavy today. I've made a big fruit salad and will graze on that today and ditch the cake.

 

[silly sausage]

Hi Gwenny

I used the tubes of Gourmet Garden herbs to make the curry. The jury is still out on the syns, so I am counting it as 0.5 syns per tsp. You could make it free by using real ginger, garlic etc. The phili is a 200g tub, but I am calling it 2 x hexBs as it is near enough if I don't use all my syns.

frylight
box of chilled quorn pieces
whole baby button mushrooms
red pepper
fine beans (thirded and cooked separately)

sauce:
1 tbsp chilli
1 tbsp root ginger
1 dsp garlic
1 veg oxo cube
juice of 1 lemon
black pepper
390g carton of passata
200g tub of extra light philadelphia

In a big frying pan, start off the quorn, mushrooms and pepper in frylight. Make a space in the pan to mix together the stuff for the sauce then stir it through the veg. Cover and cook until the mushrooms are juicy but still firm. Near the end, add the cooked fine beans and stir through the phili to make the sauce creamy.

Serves two. 2 syns + 1 hexB per serving (ish)

 

[silly sausage]

Saturday 13th August

Brunch
3 krisprolls (hexB)
beans

Dinner:
fennel gratin (hexB + 1 syn for Cauldron sausages)

Snacks:
milk for coffees (hexA)
loads of fruit salad
loads of melon

Total syns: 1
Fluids: good
Exercise: swimming

I had another attempt at the fennel, cannellini bean and sausage gratin. It was too dry last time so I added a carton of passata and it was still too dry. Maybe it's because neither me nor my neighbour had any bread for the topping. I used bashed up krisprolls with garlic and lemon zest for the topping. Very tasty, but still too dry