Orange Mousse - 0.5 Syns Each

Apologies for the gap in posting but I've had rough few weeks with unexpected gains and not really made anything new as such. But i'm back! and I have a few new things to post...

Starting with these little Orange Mousses! These work out at 0.5 syns per pot and the flavour can easily be changed. (the recipe I used was for strawberry but silly me didn't realise I had no strawberry jelly crystals!)

Ingredients
1 sugar free Hartleys jelly crystals sachet (1.5 syns)
250g fat free Natural Yoghurt
1 Muller Light

Method
Make up the crystals with 60ml of hot water and stir.
Once mixed add the Natural Yoghurt and the Muller Light and stir thoroughly.
Pour into your pots and pop in the fridge to set

It's that easy!

Obviously I used an Orange Muller because I used orange jelly, but these could easily be changed to suit what you have in!

Slow Cooker Lasagne

So I finally took the plunge and tried this Slow Cooker recipe for Lasagne that can be found here on the Two Chubby Cubs website

I tried a little bit last night and it tastes amazing, I'm excited for tea later. I made it for 4 large portions and it is your A choice (for the Mozzarella) and 1 syn for the extra cheese I sprinkled on top, but if you miss this off then it is just your A choice.
I definitely need to try some more of their recipes because each one I have tried so far I've absolutely loved!

Porky Light Sausage Rolls

So after the success of the sausage rolls I made at Christmas from the Festive Feasts book, I thought I'd play around with the new Porky Lights and make some more low syn SAUSAGE ROLLS!

Ingredients

4 Porky Light Sausages (2 syns)
150g Pork Mince 5%
1 small onion, chopped
100g cooking apple, chopped (1.5 syns)
Sage, Salt & Pepper
1 39g filo pastry sheet (6 syns)
1 egg

Method

Deskin the Porky Lights and put in bowl,
Add all ingredients apart from pastry (save a little egg wash) and then combine thoroughly
Fold out the pastry sheet and then create a sausage along one of the sides (lengthways)
Slowly roll the pastry up and then use the remainder of the egg wash to seal the edge at the other side.
I cut it at this point into three, mainly because the pastry split slightly - I would recommend slicing it up into however many piece you would like at this point to ensure it cooks thoroughly.
Cook in the oven for approx 45 on 160 - I find it cooks better on a lower heat as if it's too high the pastry will just burn.

The total for this recipe is 9.5 syns so please split this into however many you decide to slice your piece into. I got 11 pieces out of mine but chose to count them as 1 syn each purely for ease. The choice is yours.
If you use this recipe could you kindly credit this blog post or just link back to it.
Hope you enjoy! X

Snacking for under 10 syns!

So i've been looking at different ways to use my syns that satisfy my sweet tooth. Here's some really useful infographics that Slimming World have provided to show you don't have to go without!

Need to get back into it properly and i'm really struggling at the moment as I feel like i'm getting bored so hopefully mixing things up will help.

Alcohol Syns

I'm not a massive drinker anyway but here's some handy tips on saving syns!

Fruit Wobble & Chilli

Fruit wobble is basically a hartleys jelly crystals sachet (1.5 syns) made up with hot water and then quark mixed through then set. Used 1/3 of it today so only 0.5 syns.

Had some leftover syn free chilli to use so reheated that for lunch too, feels good to be back on plan!

Mayflower Curry

4 syns for 28g of mayflower powder.

Mixed with cold water then added chicken and onions. 

Well worth the syns. 

Syn free boiled rice. 

Coconut Macaroons

I made a batch of these for our 'look at our new venue' meeting last night as they always go down well at tasters!

here's the recipe for anyone wanting it...

Ingredients:
4 egg whites
198g sugar
71g coconut

Method:
Beat the egg whites until frothy (Make sure no yolk whatsoever has contaminated the egg whites, otherwise you could be whisking for ever!)
Add the sugar and beat until stiff.
Fold in the coconut, put mixture into a piping bag with a star nozzle and pipe 30 macaroons onto a parchment covered baking sheet.
Bake for 30 minutes in a preheated oven (170ºC/150ºC Fan/Gas Mark 3).
Remove from oven, and allow to cool for a few minutes before removing them from the baking sheet.

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Party Food

So we had a little gathering at my house last night, a girly night if you will. There was plenty wine and vodka jelly shots but at least the snacks were Slimming World friendly.

Lemon Loaf, Chocolate Cake, Syn Free Cake and a Syn Free Quiche, also had Shredded BBQ Chicken but I didn't get a photo before it was scoffed!
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Low Syn Treats!

Love getting to late at night and realising I've only had 1.5 syns! Indulged in an Options Caramel (1.5), Jam Hifi Bar (3) and a Goodies Muller Yog (2.5) whilst we watched some Person Of Interest last night ❤️

Lemon Loaf

Lemon Loaf made! 1 Syn per piece and lovely way to stay on plan.

Ingredients
•2 lemons
•5 eggs
•45g granulated sweetener (or just 30g if not having a glaze)
•50g self raising flour

Directions
1.Add 30g of the sweetener and flour in a bowl
2.Squeeze the juice of 1 lemon into the mix
3.Using a hand grater, zest both lemons and add the zest to the mix
4.Separate the egg yolks from the whites. Keep the whites aside, beat the yolks and add to the mixture
5.Whisk the egg whites until they are fluffy and form soft peaks. Fold into the mixture
6.Add to the cake tray
7.Bake for 20-30 minutes on 180C until golden brown, allow to cool a little.
8.Use the rest of the sweetener with a dash of water to make a paste to go on top as a glaze. I don't do this but it is upto you.

ENJOY!

Taster Night

Brought my taster food to work with me in case I have to go straight to class because of traffic. Now trying to resist the urge to eat it all :(. 8 syns for allllll the chocolate cake and only 1 Syn per coconut macaroon. Torture!

Salt and Pepper chicken

Better than a Chinese! And only 2 syns for a massive portion!

Recipe is in a previous post but here you go for ease:

This was amazing.

Ingredients 

Chicken breast, cut into chunks 

Plain flour (25g is 4 syns) 

Salt & Pepper 

Garlic granules 

One egg, whisked 

Fry Light 

A pepper, thinly sliced 

An onion, thinly sliced  

Soy sauce 

White wine vinegar 

Sweetener 

Method 

Preheat oven to approx 180 degrees.

 

Combine Four tablespoons of flour in a bowl (25g is 4 syns), with half a teaspoon of salt and half a teaspoon of pepper, along with half a teaspoon of garlic granules. 

In another bowl, whisk your egg and add a splash of soy sauce to season. 

Pop your chicken chunks in the egg and then in the flour mix. 

Once this is all done, arrange on a nonstick baking tray, sprayed with some Fry Light first. 

Then spray the chicken with Fry Light - this will help it to brown. 

If you're using the oven, leave the chicken for 15 minutes, and turn over, and then give it another spray of Fry Light and then give it another 10 minutes, or until golden. 

When the chicken is on the second round of cooking, in a non-stick pan, gently soften your peppers and onion. 

I'd add a splash of soy sauce for extra flavour. 

Once everything is soft add your cooked chicken from the oven. 

Mix together two teaspoons of sweetener with two tablespoons of white wine vinegar and stir until the sugar has dissolved. 

Add this to the pan and stir on a gentle heat. 

This will be quite dry, as Salt & Pepper chicken is, but that vinegar/sugar mixture really makes the dish. 

Taste and add some further salt and pepper if it needs it. 

The only syns are for the flour - I used 25g so 4 syns and 2 of us had it so was only 2 syns each! could easily divide between 4 and make it 1 syn per portion!

Apple Betty

• 1 large eating apple, peeled, cored and sliced
• 4 eggs
• 5 tbsp artificial sweetener
• 2 tsp vanilla essence
• 1 apple strudel muller light yoghurt
• Pinch of cinnamon, to dust
• Fat free natural fromage frais, sweetened to taste, to serve.

method

1. Preheat the oven to 190°C/170°C Fan/Gas 5.
2. Arrange the apple slices in a 20cm flan dish.
   
3. Beat the eggs with the sweetener and vanilla extract, then add the yogurt and beat again.
4. Pour the eggs over the apple and let them sink in the fruit, dust with cinnamon and bake for 30 minutes or until set.
5. Serve warm with fromage frais.

This is the modified recipe I used. The only syns is for the baked apple which was 5 syns for the size of Apple I used. (1.5 syns per 100g) so when you divide it into 6 it works out at less than 1 Syn per portion! Yum! 

Salt & Pepper Chicken

This was amazing.

Ingredients

Chicken breast, cut into chunks
Plain flour (25g is 4 syns)
Salt & Pepper
Garlic granules
One egg, whisked
Fry Light

A pepper, thinly sliced
An onion, thinly sliced
A chilli, thinly sliced
Soy sauce
White wine vinegar
Sweetener

Method

Preheat oven to approx 180 degrees.
Combine Four tablespoons of flour in a bowl (25g is 4 syns), with half a teaspoon of salt and half a teaspoon of pepper, along with half a teaspoon of garlic granules.
In another bowl, whisk your egg and add a splash of soy sauce to season.
Pop your chicken chunks in the egg and then in the flour mix.
Once this is all done, arrange on a nonstick baking tray, sprayed with some Fry Light first.
Then spray the chicken with Fry Light - this will help it to brown.
If you're using the oven, leave the chicken for 15 minutes, and turn over, and then give it another spray of Fry Light and then give it another 10 minutes, or until golden.
When the chicken is on the second round of cooking, in a non-stick pan, gently soften your peppers and onion.
I'd add a splash of soy sauce for extra flavour.
Once everything is soft, toss in your sliced chilli and add your cooked chicken from the oven.
Mix together two teaspoons of sweetener with two tablespoons of white wine vinegar and stir until the sugar has dissolved.
Add this to the pan and stir on a gentle heat.
This will be quite dry, as Salt & Pepper chicken is, but that vinegar/sugar mixture really makes the dish.
Taste and add some further salt and pepper if it needs it.


The only syns are for the flour - I used 25g so 4 syns and 2 of us had it so was only 2 syns each! could easily divide between 4 and make it 1 syn per portion!

Happy Halloween

Was anyone else dreading all the sweets this weekend? I got home and my mum text me to say she'd bought us some Halloween Treats, I panicked thinking i'd have to give them all to my other half and not enjoy any but I was so happy when she gave me these. I have such a sweet tooth at night so glad I've found some good ways to use my syns!