Friday 1st April

I really loved Zumba last night!! I can't wait for next Thursday even though I've no coordination and I suck majorly it was so much fun! :)

Porridge (HEb) with milk (HEa), water and splenda

Banana

Pear

Macintosh apple

Pasta and veg with red pesto sauce = 3 syns

Ferrero rocher = 1 syn
Chunky chilli con carne with rice 
3 x Ferrero rocher = 3 syns
(1/3 bar of polish chocolate) x 2 = rest of syns

Thursday 31st March

So tonight I'm finally going to try Zumba... I bought an outfit specifically for it so wish me luck!!

Scrambled eggs with wholemeal toast (HEb)
Pasta with brocolli, green beans, peas, carrots, cauliflower and mushrooms with red pesto sauce = 2 syns
Pear
Macintosh apple 

Baked Potato with 42g half fat mature cheedar (HEa)
Spicy chicken fillet

Zumba!!

Jack Wills Gillet

Okay..so.. I want this gilet!!!  Its beautiful :) 

I think I will buy it to myself next year when I get to 11.6 ;)

Wednesday 30th March

 

Porridge (HEb) with 125ml semi skimmed milk (1/2 HEa) & Splenda

Banana

Pear

Melon

Savoury Rice

Rotary Dinner = ALL SYNS

Tuesday 29th :)

I want this bikini for my holiday in July! More importantly I'd like to loose a stone or more to fit in it!! <3

Scrambled egg, bacon, mushrooms
Wholemeal toast (HEb)

Banana
Blueberry Oat-so-simple  (80ml milk)= 6.5 syns

Melon

1 ferrero rocher (scan bran) = 1 syns x 4

Walk around Coleraine

Baked potato with 30g reduced fat cheddar (HEa)

SW Pork and apple burger
Broccoli

Cinema!

Pear
Walkers Wholegrain Sunbites = 6.5 syns

Can of Diet Club Orange

Total = 17 syns Oooops

Monday 28th March

Yesterday I did a 5 mile sponsored walk followed by a chinese meal!! Syns didn't count ;)

Today I've made a conscious decision to TRY HARDER!!

2 x Weetabix (HEb)
250ml semi skimmed milk (HEa)
Banana 
Strawberry Tea
1 x Ryvita
Spicy lentil and bacon soup :)
Melon balls

GYM!! Bodyweight and interval

Chicken breast, wrapped in bacon, stuffed with cream cheese (28g = 2.5syns)
Brocolli and peas
Pear
Jelly :)
Walkers Sunbites = 6.5 syns

Saturday 26th :)

Scrambled Eggs with wholemeal toast (HEb)

GYM :)





Pasta with creamy red pesto sauce (brocolli, green beans, peas, carrots, cauliflower & mushroom)
Banana
Melon
Pear
Grapes
Indian at Cheriths :)
 

Friday 25th March

Weetabix with milk and splenda
Banana
Pear
Apple
Grapes
Pasta with veg and red pesto sauce = 2 syns
Singapore Chow Mein = 7 syns
1/2 scoop half fat soft scoop ice cream = 2 syns
Jelly = 0.5 syns
Shot southern comfort
Diet Club Orange x 2 cans

Thursday 24th March

Never be disappointed with loosing a 1lb!

: )








Weetabix (HEb) with milk and sweetner
Banana
Fruit salad: Grapes, mandarin, pear
Pasta with cauliflower, green beans, peas, brocolli, mushrooms, carrots with red pesto and yoghurt sauce = 2 syns
Macintosh Apple
2.5 mile walk
Steak with mushrooms and onions
Small baked potato with 15g cheese (HEa), mixed salad leaves,snap peas, brocolli
Ferrero Rocher x 2 = 2 syns 
1/2 Date =  1 syn
Sugar Free Jelly (Sachet/3) = 0.5 syns 
1/2 Scoop Ice Cream = 3 syns

Total 6.5 syns

Wednesday 23rd March:)

So I've had a very naughty week whilst visiting my boyfriend in England! This included an indian meal with a deliciously sweet peshwari naan, yummy sweet ciders, glasses of my favourite tipple southern comfort and lemonade, many slices of garlicy pizza, chicken with garlic butter, ulster frys cooked in butter and hearty snacks!!! Naughty Naughty!!! 

So as of today.. I am back on it..with limited syns and extra gyming!!! Summer Here I Come!

Sachet porridge (HEb) with water and milk
Pear
Mandarin
Grapes
Ferrero Rocher 1 syn
Red pepper and lentil soup
2 slices wholemeal seeded bread  6 syns
2 slices x Honey roast ham
1 tsp wholegrain mustard 0.5 syns
Banana
Walk to 2141
Pasta with peas, brocolli, cauliflower, mushrooms and carrot with red pesto sauce 2 syns
Scones made with splenda 3.5 syns
Grapes
Apple

Total of 14 syns

Healthy Donner Kebab

This tastes just as good as the kebab shop version.

Serves 4
1 syn per portion

Kebab

Wholemeal pitta bread (HEb)

1 tsp plain flour

1 tsp dried oregano

1/2  tsp dried Italian herbs

1/2 tsp garlic powder

1/2 tsp onion powder

1/4 tsp cayenne pepper

1 tsp salt

1/2 tsp black pepper

500g Lamb mince

Combine all the ingredients. Work the mixture well with your hands, pounding & kneading until there are no air pockets. It shold be a smooth mixture.

Shape into a loaf shape, and place on a baking tray (preferably on a wire rack) and put in the oven at 180c for 1 hour 20 mins. Turn the loaf over halfway through cooking.

Remove from the oven & wrap in foil. Let it rest for 10 minutes while you warm pitta bread & prepare salad. Unwrap the meat and slice as thinly as possible. 

Garlic Sauce
200g fat free natural yoghurt
3 x garlic cloves, crushed
1 tbsp fresh parsley, chopped

Mix all the ingredients together seasoning as necessary

Sunday 13th March

Sunday
Porridge (HEb) with splash milk
Banana
2 oranges
White chocolate yoghurt
Potatoes, brocolli, carrots, peas and spicy rissol = 1 syn
Apple crumble with ice cream and custard
Pasta with pesto, yoghurt, brocolli and mushrooms


Monday
Porridge with water, splash of milk and sweetner = 5 syns
Banana
Savoury Rice with soy sauce
Pear
Lamb Donar kebab in wholemeal pitta (HEb) 1 syn
Grapes, melon, raspberries, strawberries
Small portion apple crumble with custard = 5 syns
GYM

Tuesday
Omelette with bacon, mushrooms, sweetcorn, tomato and 42g half fat cheese (HEa)
Wholemeal pitta (HEb) with lamb donnar kebab = 1 syn
Pea soup = 3 syns
Fruit salad

Lamb thai curry = 7 syns

3 ferrero rocher = 3 syns

Fruit Juice = syns??

Wednesday

Porridge (HEb) with milk (HEa) and sweetner

Red pepper and lentil soup
Fruit salad - Melon, grape & strawberries
Lamb Thai Curry = 5 syns
Plum
Macintosh apple (mmmm)
Fried rice: rice, mushrooms, soy sauce, frylight, sirloin pieces
Walk to compound
4 ferrero rocher = 4 syns

For Sam xox

Sunday 6th March 2011

DOING WELL!!!!

Sunday
At home exercises
Omelette: eggs, tomato, bacon, mushrooms, cheese (HEa)
Nigella's couscous - 2 syns
Walk with Cherith = 5 miles
Roast turkey, mash, roasties, turnip, carrots + peas

Stuffing + gravy???
Ferroro rocher = 4 syns

 
Monday

Weetabix with milk (HEa) and sweetner
Couscous = 2 syns
Spicy red lentil and bacon soup
Chilli con carne with rice
White chocolate yoghurt
4 Ferrero rocher = 4 syns
GYM (3)

Tuesday
Porridge (HEb) with milk (HEa) and sweetner
Omelette with bacon, mushrooms, tomatoes, cheese
White choc yoghurt = syns??
Grapes
Ryvita
Morrocan Couscous = 2 syns
Spicy red lentil and bacon soup
Yoko Noodle Bar- Vermicelli Singapore Style with Chicken (less oil) ALL MY SYNS?

Wednesday
Porridge (HEb) with milk (HEa) and sweetner
Banana
Pear, orange, grapes
Spicy red lentil and bacon soup
Couscous
2 fererro rocher = 2 syns
Rice with lamb balti curry
Ryvita

Friday
Scrambled egg, bacon, wholemeal toast
Fruit Salad - strawberries, grapes, apple, melon, blackberries, blueberries
Pasta, pesto, mushrooms, brocolli, fat free total = 3.5 syns
3 ferrero rocher = 3 syns

Nigella's Couscous

Serves 6
SYNS PER SERVING: 2 

Ingredients
330g couscous
50g golden sultanas = 7 syns
4 semi dried apricots = 2 syns
less than ¼ tsp ground cinnamon
heaped ¼ tsp paprika
heaped ¼ tsp ground cumin
heaped ¼ tsp ground coriander
1¼ tsp salt
½ litre freshly boiled water
1 veg stock cube in 40 ml water
½ tbsp olive oil/butter = 3 syns
1 pomegranate / 1 mandarin
handful fresh coriander, chopped
salt and freshly ground black pepper

Method
1. Place the couscous, sultanas, spices and salt into a and mix well.

2. Add apricots and the freshly boiled water to the bowl and then cover the bowl . Leave the mixture to sit for 10-15 minutes, until the water has been absorbed by the couscous.

3. Stir the couscous with a fork to separate the grains.

4. Add the vegetable stock and the butter or olive oil to the couscous.
Stir the mixture again and season to taste with salt and freshly ground black pepper.
place in a warm oven to heat through. Transfer the couscous to a serving dish.

5. Slice the pomegranate in half and extract about a quarter of the seeds by hitting the outer shell of the fruit with a rolling pin, OR, add the mandarin sliced up

6. Sprinkle over the couscous, add chopped coriander and serve

Chickpea Cake

1.5 syns for whole cake
OR
0.5 syns if no orange juice

INGREDIENTS

• tin chickpeas, rinsed & drained
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 57g splenda
• 3 eggs.
• juice & grated rind of 1 lemon & 1 orange, OR
• grated carrot, nutmeg & cinnamon
• TOPPING: quark, vanilla, splenda

METHOD

1. Line with greaseproof paper and frylight a loaf tin or small cake tin
2. Preheat oven to 180º /gas mark
3. Blend the drained chick peas until smooth.
4. Add baking powder, lemon & orange rind, canderel and eggs, then blend until mixture is smooth and looks like cake mix. (trust me it will)
5. Transfer mixture to tin and cook at 180º for approx 40 minutes
6. Turn out cake onto cooling rack and drizzle with lemon & orange juice and allow to cool

Slimming World Falafel

Serves: 6
Syns per serving: Free on Extra Easy

Ingredients
227g/8oz dried chick peas/ can of chickpeas
1 onion, finely chopped
2 garlic cloves, crushed
1 level tsp ground cumin
1 level tsp ground coriander
1 small red chilli, deseeded and finely chopped
1 tbsp chopped fresh coriander
2 tbsp chopped parsley
½ tsp baking powder
salt and freshly ground black pepper
Fry Light, for spraying

Method
1. Put the chick peas in a bowl, cover them with plenty of cold water and leave to soak for at least 48 hours. Drain the chick peas and then rinse well under cold running water in a colander.

2. Put the drained chick peas in a food processor with the onion, garlic, cumin, coriander, chilli and herbs. Process to a thick, smooth puree. Add the baking powder and seasoning and stir well. Transfer to a bowl and chill in the refrigerator for 1 hour.

3. Take small pieces of the pureed chick pea mixture and form into little balls between your hands, then flatten them out slightly. Arrange the falafel balls on a baking tray that has been sprayed with Fry Light.

4. Cook the falafel in a preheated hot oven at 220ºC/Gas Mark 7 for about 12-15 minutes, until crisp and golden. Serve immediately. A bowl of very low fat natural yogurt flavoured with fresh mint and chopped chilli makes a good dip for the falafel.

Food Diary 3/3/11

Thursday
Porridge (HEb) with milk (HEa) & splenda
Pear, kiwi, grapes
No syns quiche
Red Lentil and root vegetable soup
GYM (1)
Pasta Carbonara, extra peas with some cheese
White chocolate total = 0.5 syns
2 ferrero rocher = 2 syns
Total = 2.5 syns

Friday
At home exercises
Omelette with bacon, mushroom, tomato, red and orange pepper
Savoury Rice
3 Ferroro Rocher = 3 syns
Pear, kiwi, orange, apple, grapes
Rice with chicken jalafrezi = 2 syns
Lower fat ferrero rocher (2 for 1 syn) = 2 syn
Total = 7 syns

Saturday

Porridge with milk and water
GYM - AM (2)
Ferrero Rocher = 3 syns
Syn-free quiche
Lamb thai butternut squash lime curry with rice = 7 syns
Chickpea Cake
Grapes with scoop of ice cream = 3 syns
Fruit tea
Total = 11 syns