Meal planning

This may seem like it's late because I did the last meal plan on a Friday, but we do our grocery shopping every Monday, so Sunday night will be my time to plan meals and write a shopping list. 

I have 2 children so I have to make sure we have things in for them too. If they can join in the Slimming World meal they will, if not I've found an alternative. It's not that any of the meals are unsuitable for children, just that my girls don't like spicy food and I love it. We're also working around after school activities and can't always eat together...but I do love that Slimming World is family friendly. 

 

Today (whilst out shopping) I came across these and couldn't resist buying one of each flavour. Syns online says a chunky kitkat is 13 syns (one of them might be 12.5) so I plan to share them with my husband for 6.5 syns each. I can't wait to try the coconut one. 

 

 Not necessarily a Slimming World friendly recipe but since these homemade tortillas work out at 6 syns each I thought I'd share them anyway. We had these with stew and it just made the meal feel a bit more naughty. Recipe here

 

Recipe: Terriyakiish spicy chicken and rice

1.5 syns

Serves 1

 

Ingredients

Rice (I just use the recommended amount on the packet)
1/2 Chicken fillet
Handful  of chopped mushrooms
Half a sweet red pepper
1/2 medium onion
i Garlic clove
Chopped fresh chilli
1 tbsp Agave Nectar (1.5 syns)
2 tbsp Soy Sauce

Instructions

Mix the Agave Nectar and the soy sauce together in a bowl and soak the chicken in it. I didn't soak it for long, but the longer the better.

Cook the rice to packet instructions...whilst the rice is cooking add Fry Light to a frying pan and fry the garlic, onions and peppers until soft. Add the chicken and all the sauce and cook through. Add the mushrooms and reduce the sauce down until it's a little like gravy...you could reduce it right down to a sticky coating on your chicken if you wanted to too.

Serve with chopped chilli sprinkled on top, or you could cook the chilli into the mix if you wish..or even use dried chilli like I did, although you might want to check if that is free, I had trouble finding it.

As well as trying new recipes/making stuff up. I've been scouring the web for snack ideas and my lovely SW group ladies mentioned these in our facebook page. I just had to try them. 

Maple Popcorn - 4.5 syns for the whole bag

Strawberry nougat bars - 4 syns each

Dominion sugar-free strawberry and cream sweets (from Aldi) - 6 syns for the whole box. It works out at less than 0.5 syn each sweet.