Slimming World Mag

[missemma]

Just a quick question, I bought the Slimming World magazine yesterday for the first time (I know) and although its fab for the amount of recipes in there I thought it focused a lot on extra easy. Is that how it always is or does it usually have more green/original recipes?

I could work out the way to have some of them as original or green but I was a little disappointed that there weren't many original recipes in it (what I'm currently following).

 

[Rochelle1]

But there is a whole weeks worth of red/green days and recipes too to follow? I thought it was quite good. There was the same last issue aswell. I agree the mag itself does focus a lot on extra easy, I do a lot of green days and it would be nice to see a green feature in it lol

The post above is true, they tend to promote Extra Easy to new members before the other 2 because its less confusing and the green/original does tend to confuse people and scare them off. I was hesitant to join slimming world because I thought red/green would be too hard to follow but then I joined and realised extra easy was easy to follow. Then I experimented with green. So no wonder the mag focuses on extra easy it does help bring new people in as they might have been like me and thought red/green were the only options

 

[missemma]

Where is the page with the red/green week to follow as I can't see it (I'm not usually this stupid).

I've always thought extra easy was complicated but I just haven't read that much into it. I've always followed original/green so I know it inside our mostly xx

 

[wytch]

page 38/39 of the nov/dec issue ( dark cover gold writing and one of your members in a purple dress on the cover)

 

[missemma]

I've got the October issue not the November one
My one has a blue background and a girl in a red dress on it.

 

[PatchworkPuss]

The November issue is not out in the shops until 25/10. They alternate between EE and red/green menu plans so the october one was EE and the new one is red/green

Although the focus is on EE it is incredibly easy to adapt most EE recipes to be good for green so do not let that put you off

 

[missemma]

Ooh fab ill make sure to get the new one & I did look at the recipes for EE and already adapted some of them.

I really do like the magazine god knows why I haven't bought it before, I've been doing SW since 2010!

 

[hollys nan]

Some months there are more original and green recipes, but on the whole it's mainly extra easy. If you look near the back though it does gives a whole index of the recipes in that edition and their syns on red/green/EE, which is handy.

Although red and green still exist, they aren't really promoted to new members now, so I think that's why they aren't in the magazine much.

Yes I think this is a pity though because not everyone can get on with the 1/3rd superfree for every meal. I think the red and green should still be touched on. I knew about them because I did S W years ago. And they are easy to get your head round. The beauty of S W (well one of them) is the fact that there are 3 plans to choose from every day depending how you feel.

 

[RosieKat]

I also find that the magazine is too focused on Extra Easy these days. I do understand why that plan is promoted to new members but I don't find I lose as well on it as I do on red so I hope Slimming World never stops doing the red and green plans altogether.

 

[clairex]

I agree - I can't do the 1/3 superfree so I find green/red day work best. I understand promoting EE but lots of people still do red/green so it would be fair to add a few recipes for all plans.

 

[missemma]

Glad it's not just me, I do like to have a bit of a moan about things so I thought everyone would just see my rant and not reply haha.

I looked in the back of the magazine and it's a shame because all the recipes they featured bar a few sauce recipes and the ice cream were really high in syns on red day. I started doing red days as my Doctor told me I need to eat more red meat as my iron levels are quite low so to try and stay a bit healthier I've nearly done a whole week of red and I was looking forwards to getting a few new recipes, don't get me wrong this forum is amazing for ideas and recipes but I did buy the magazine to find more ideas.

Although saying that I'm deffo going to be making the toffee apple ice cream, sounds lovely.