When someone starts off their slimming world journey and the discussion on how many syns you are allowed (a member gets 15 syns a day to use on treats like chocolate or other naughty treats while I normally use syns on my post-workout musclepharm combat protein shakes or a quest protein bar but have the occasional bar of chocolate or a bag of buffalo flavoured hunky dorys), when it comes to meeting friends for lunch or having a weekend takeaway you are normally limited unless you are willing to overload your syns and that could end up messing up your weight loss but thanks to the power of social media there is help, slimming world members tend to go for the safe option of getting chicken/beef in black bean sauce, boiled rice and a side salad and that would only use up 5 syns but my usual takeaway from the Chinese would use up a possible 2-3 days syns (salt and chilli prawns with chips at 40 syns) so I make my own fakeaway instead, recently Slimming World brought out a cookbook called Fakeaways and you can eat your favourite takeaways made from home and still stay on plan. This was a masterstroke by Slimming World and me and Jennifer has enjoyed some cracking meals from it.
Another problem while keeping to plan is eating out during the day and in the evening and now cafe owners in Ireland have took the initiative and started doing a slimming world friendly menu, I can name 3 cafes right now that do this as the head chefs/owners are members of slimming world, not only it's a good business move for them but it also gives members peace of mind when ordering food knowing they are still on plan and there is more cafes doing this now.
Finishing off with a pic of 2 meals me and Jennifer had this lunchtime courtesy of the Good Food Cafe in Newbridge owned by a girl who attends my own Slimming World class in Athy and has a huge range of Slimming World friendly meals on offer
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