Homemade taboulé (Syn free)

It has been a very hot day today, reminding me how I miss a good taboulé. In France, it's one of the most popular salad in summer.

So tonight, I decided to try to come with a recipe which would be as close as possible.

 

Taboulé recipe:

400gr couscous

500ml boilingwater

300gr tomato passata 

1/3 of a jar of syn free Colemans concentrated mint sauce 

Cherry tomatoes cut in quarters

Orange pepper bell

Weight your couscous in a plastic container, add your water, cover. Once ready fluff the couscous with a fork. Add the rest of the ingredients in the couscous and mix well. Refrigerate for a few hours. Taboulé is served very chilled.

If the taboulé is too dry for you, more passata and mint sauce can be added.

Tangtastic sweet Syn free

Tangtastic dandelion & burdock sweet

Syn free

 

Ingredients:

3 cup dandelion & burdock soda no added sugar

1/2 cup gelatine powder

2Tbsp Sukrin:1

3 tsp citric acid (I like my sweets to be very tart, if you want them to be less measure less acid)

1/ Pour the soda in a stainless steel pan and let it go flat.

2/ Add the gelatine powder and mix until the gelatine is dissolved.

3/Put pan on low heat and stir until the mix is at 60 degres Celsius.

4/ Take pan off the heat and let it cool down slightly.

5/ Once cooled, pour mixture in mold (I used two silicone round molds)

6/ Set in fridge, it took 1 hour for my two moods to be set properly.

7/ Cut sweets in the shape you want. In a plastic tub, mix the sweetener and the citric acid. add the cut sweets to it and shake until all the sweets are covered.

8/ keep in fridge up to a week.

Butternut squash and Bacon Soup

 

Butternut Squash and Bacon Soup

Syn free

Ingredients:

1 Medium Butternut Squash diced

1 Red onion diced

2 Garlic gloves crushed

2 carrots diced

1 Pak Choi diced

2 Chicken Stock Pot

1 litre of water

4 Smoked Bacon Medallions diced

Salt and pepper to taste

Add all the ingredients together, bring to the boil. Once boiling, reduce the heat and simmer for 30 minutes. Don't forget to stir time to time, and check the water level, if needed add a bit more water.

Take off the heat and blend until the soup is smooth. 

Serve a a swirl of fat free Greek yogurt or fromage blanc.

This soup is ideal for SP days and can be reheated.

Ohso Good Chocolate

They honestly should have called it Oh My Good it's so lush chocolate and I can't believe it's only 3 syns for a 13.5 gr but I can see that name might have been too long.

The Ohso Good bar with no added sugar comes in 3 different flavours: lemon, raspberry and original.

 

I bought the three flavours but at £3.99, they are a bit of an investment. Now are they worth it? No question about it...Yes 

 

I tried the lemon one as soon as they arrived. I'm not too keen on dark chocolate as it reminds me the bitter chocolate (85%) that my mum used to give us as kids (Hell it could put hair on your chest). But I was pleasantly surprised by the little bar of lemon chocolate, to me it tasted just like chocolate and lemon curd, which I love. Did I had to go and check the wrapper again to make sure it was only 3 syns? Yes, I did... because honestly something that good can't be just 3 syns. It did curb my chocolate craving.

3 Syns/Bar

 

Ohso Good have a promotion at the moment buy 4 packs and get free delivery. If you use the code slimming25 you get 25% off.

http://ohso.com/shop/

P.s:

It's also worth noting that the normal chocolate and orange bar is only 3.5 syns/bar.

Porky lights part 2 🐷

Received my Porky parcel today. I was very excited to open it and see my packs of sausages.

 

 

Even went through the house to show them to the builders (and yes.... they now all agree that I'm mad as s box of frogs, think they were just going for weird before this).

As it was lunch time, I decided to cook 3 and have a sausage sandwich with a dash of ketchup. 

I followed the instructions and cut them in half lengthways, my first thought was I don't think I cooked them long enough they are still juicy, put them back for another 5 minutes in the oven, but still juicy. I tried one and they were cooked. 

I throughly enjoyed my sandwich and the sausages were as I said before juicy and felt like a proper butchers sausage when biting them.

Double sausage egg fake Mcmuffin

Really fancied a Mcmuffin today, but at more than 20 syns it's a big no no.

So I did one myself for 3 syns.

I used:

a Kingsmill whole meal roll (they are 68gr so used my healthy B and added 2 syns)

2 slices of Dairylea light

2 Quorn sausage patties (1 Syns for both)

2 eggs (I used egg mold to fry the eggs in shape)

1 sliver of ketchup (not synning this)

 

I'm not going to lie and say that it tasted exactly like a Mcmuffin because it did not. But saying that I loved it and i felt a bit fuller than after I ate a real Mcmuffin.

Thank you Mcvities

So today I got to Tesco to buy the new thins. At work the girls and I had the Oreo thins. We were all surprised than such a small, or more like thin, could pack the same taste as a whole regular size biscuit. At 1.5 syns each they are well worth it. Each packet contains 2 packs which could also limit the damage. Except for the digestive which are coming in one pack....Oh dear, will power required!!

Tesco as a promotion on the Oreo thins at the moment only 54p, the others are sadly a bit more pricey at £1.59.

 

Loaded pizza

Did not feel like cooking today, so I did a loaded pizza.

I used my healthy B and A which means that it was syn free.

Yummy

1 Bfree Foods whole grain wrap healthy extra b

40gr of reduced fat cheddar healthy extra a

1x Yellow pepper

Half an onion

1Tbspoon sweet corn

A few mushroom sliced

Tomato purée for the base

And some ham

I cooked it in the oven at 180 between 5-10 minutes

My life saver this week

My diet saving food this week is definitely Kingsmill whole meal no crust bread. 3 slices for healthy b!!!!

I usually use two, toasted, for a sandwich and the third one for a sweet toast, used it with PB2 chocolate peanut powder and banana.

 

Yummy toad

Pinch of Nom has a very nice recipe for toad in the hole. It was my first time ever cooking it.

I'm proud of how it turned out and it tasted lovely. Served 3 for 3 Syns per person

http://pinchofnom.com/recipes/low-syn-toad-in-the-hole-slimming-world/

Dragibus

4.5 Syns per bag

It reminds me of my childhood as I used to eat them when I was a child. They are still nice and I was pleasantly surprised to know realise that a packet was only 4.5 Syns.

Fond Veal or Poultry

1 Syn per teaspoon

It's a magic French product that I will use in sauces, it is almost like a Demi glace.

Suchard Chocolate

2.5 Syns per individual chocolate

They are yummy and one can be enough to stop a craving. My favourite is the orange one (coeur croustillant lait).

Aldi Sugar Free Biscuit

1.5 Syns per Biscuit

Bisto Cauliflower Cheese

1.5 Syns per 375g pack

New MullerLight Alert

Syn Free

The new Müllerlight looks absolutely yummy. Can't wait for it to be on sale, apparently it is supposed to come out in January. So keep your eyes out for it.

Dominion Sugar Free Sweet (Aldi)

0.5 Syns Each

My favourite ones are the strawberry.

Ambrosia Custard Pots

2.5 Syns for a Mini Pot (55g)

6.5 Syns for a Pot (125g)

Choc shot Liquid Chocolate

1.5 Syns/Teaspoon

There are 3 different chocolate varieties: regular, coconut and orange spice.

Warburtons Bagel Thins, Cinnamon & Raisin 50g each

6.5 Syns

Toasted they are delicious.