Hey!
I am back again to check in after 5 weeks of eating only food from Jess’s site. Last week I lost 2lb which was great and puts me even closer to losing my target of 1 stone. If you have been reading, you will know that I am an incredibly fussy eater, lazy chef and far too easily tempted by naughty cheating things. So let’s get straight into how it went this week.
The shop
Once again, my food shopping bill was incredibly cheap. It came in at just £28 for all of the food that I needed this week. Obviously, when I wrote my list, I was able to cross a lot of it off due to already having it in the cupboard / freezer. I really don’t think that £28 for 20 meals is bad at all.
Substitutions
As with every week, I substituted some of the vegetarian options for real meat. I also swapped fried and boiled eggs for scrambled eggs and Muller light yoghurts for Activia peach yoghurts. But none of that will come as any surprise for those of you who have read weeks 1 to 4.
Of course, due to my fussy nature, I am not a huge fan of mushrooms and I also don’t like tomatoes. This meant that when it came to the dippy eggs, my adaptation looked very different to Jess’s.
I also don’t like berries. Even though they look like they will taste amazing, I just don’t like them. So when it came to the frozen doughnuts, I used chopped up bananas in mine. Jess has told me that there is a big debate amongst Slimming World members about syns in bananas when it is mashed. Therefore, I just chopped them into chunks. The yoghurt went surprisingly far. Initially, I thought there was no chance I’d get three out of one yoghurt but I did. I was really looking forward to these. However, when it came to eating them, I was glad that I wasn’t in a hurry. They froze a little too well! I am not sure if it was just the yoghurt I used or the banana. Once they had thawed a little though, they were delicious.
Finally, I decided to use up some of the wraps I had left for the chicken legend meal so used a wrap instead of buying the Promise gluten-free soft white roll. The wrap is not as visually satisfying but it did the job!
The best bits
My absolute favourite this week was one that I had been eating even before starting this plan. It was the chicken nugget curry. I absolutely LOVE the Quorn nuggets. Love the mayflower curry sauce, love rice, love homemade chips, like vegetables. What more could I want? To me, it was absolutely great!
Cheating
I think we have well established by now that I am no saint when it comes to staying on track and cheating this week was a bit more subtle. There was one main event on Monday but other than that, there are just a couple of minor things such as there is slightly less Biscoff spread left in the jar than there should be. And slightly less cheese in the fridge. But in both of these cases, there is still plenty left, it’s not like I went crazy and ate them all.
On Monday, however, I was out with some friends and they had a pub meal. I looked carefully at the menu and decided to avoid a starter then it was just one main meal off plan. I decided to order the vegetable stir fry thinking it can’t be too bad, its just vegetables really.
When it arrived, it was swimming in teriyaki sauce which was absolutely delicious but I suspect may have been more syns than I would have liked.
Pics from the week
As always, I have been snapping pics of my food this week. My photography skills are still not up to Jess’s standards, but I think I take the odd half decent shot!
The weigh in
When it came to the weigh in this week, I didn’t think I had done that badly. I had mostly stuck to the plan, when I had cheated, I had been careful not to go crazy and I am pleased to say that this seemed to reflect well on the scales with another 2lb loss! This takes me up to 12.5lb lost in 5 weeks and only 1.5lb to lose to meet my 1 stone target! As I am heading into the last week, I am really hoping I can pull it out of the bag to lose that last little bit and finish on a high!
