Susie Adams

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Trouble is, for any unnatural ingredient substitute there are usually health pay-offs. I met an industrial chemist once who had worked in a testing laboratory and she would buy only butter, never margarine after she saw what went into it. We didn't ask.

 

[loveallthingsitalian]

It’s amazing people’s idea of healthy living.

Last week when I was in a car park waiting to go for my vaccine a chap got out of his car in full kit and did 15 mins of a near professional warm up, using the bonnet of his car, all whilst puffing on a cigarette , you could barely see him behind the cloud of smoke and the *** never left his mouth for the entire work out.

 

[candycane]

Trouble is, for any unnatural ingredient substitute there are usually health pay-offs. I met an industrial chemist once who had worked in a testing laboratory and she would buy only butter, never margarine after she saw what went into it. We didn't ask.

Many years ago, and I mean over 20, I met a girl who worked in food science and the conversation got around to diets etc and I said I only used those fat free spreads you used to get (haven't seen for donkeys years). She looked aghast and told me not to eat them as they were made of bad stuff. Since then I've used only butter. Stork maybe in a cake (that Mr CC eats) but I've never touched spreads since.

CC

 

[boffy]

Cant stand Margarine. Only butter for me and my family. I am so old school I still use Lard and butter for pastry! makes it crisp and light

 

[boffy]

I looked it up. Isomalt and malitol.

Isomalt is made from sugar beet hardly sugar free. Still sugar. Cane sugar is sugar too. The good thing is its not saccharine.

 

[loveallthingsitalian]

It’s hard to beat real hard block butter, especially on toast, my problem is that I could use a full block of the stuff in one sitting, a little toast with my butter as my mum used to say.

For a sandwich I use spreadable butter but not a lot - is that as bad as other spreads?

 

[maymorganlondon]

It’s hard to beat real hard block butter, especially on toast, my problem is that I could use a full block of the stuff in one sitting, a little toast with my butter as my mum used to say.

For a sandwich I use spreadable butter but not a lot - is that as bad as other spreads?

I buy M&S softer butter, or Kerrygold softer butter. You can't seem to get a softer butter that isn't salted, so I also have a block of unsalted as well. I don't mess with spreads, margarine or the like. If someone takes it out of the fridge as "butter" I avoid using it where possible.
I don't use any "diet" or "light" products. A good indication you don't want it in your body is the number of ingredients in a simple product.

 

[loveallthingsitalian]

I like salty things (not good I know) and do buy salted butter but last weekend I had some on toast and it was sooo salty I will only use it for cooking and won’t get that particular one again.

 

[Twilight]

Trouble is, for any unnatural ingredient substitute there are usually health pay-offs. I met an industrial chemist once who had worked in a testing laboratory and she would buy only butter, never margarine after she saw what went into it. We didn't ask.

Have you seen commercial ice cream when it's melted? Two distinct layers of awfulness.

 

[stratobuddy]

It is only "NO ADDED SUGAR" which often means it has loads of sugar.

 

[Twilight]

It’s amazing people’s idea of healthy living.

Last week when I was in a car park waiting to go for my vaccine a chap got out of his car in full kit and did 15 mins of a near professional warm up, using the bonnet of his car, all whilst puffing on a cigarette , you could barely see him behind the cloud of smoke and the *** never left his mouth for the entire work out.

"One extra large pizza & a Diet Coke, please" comes to mind.

 

[loveallthingsitalian]

Guilty as charged!

 

[Twilight]

I eat vast amounts of fat free Greek yogurt - breakfast, dips, frozen with fruit instead of ice cream & even in mashed potato. We still have annual health checks from my Mr T's job & I'm now offered a DEXA scan; in 2019 my bone density was the same as a 30 year old's & they put it down to all this yogurt.

 

[loveallthingsitalian]

I take a lot of unsweetened Greek yogurt too but in my heart I know there is no way it eliminates the bad food I also eat. In my defence no added sugar and very little sweet stuff.

 

[Twilight]

Many years ago, and I mean over 20, I met a girl who worked in food science and the conversation got around to diets etc and I said I only used those fat free spreads you used to get (haven't seen for donkeys years). She looked aghast and told me not to eat them as they were made of bad stuff. Since then I've used only butter. Stork maybe in a cake (that Mr CC eats) but I've never touched spreads since.

CC

I only use butter too, my choice is Anchor because I can recycle the tubs & it's often on special offer - saving the planet while being miserly!

 

[stratobuddy]

I eat vast amounts of fat free Greek yogurt - breakfast, dips, frozen with fruit instead of ice cream & even in mashed potato. We still have annual health checks from my Mr T's job & I'm now offered a DEXA scan; in 2019 my bone density was the same as a 30 year old's & they put it down to all this yogurt.

I still make and eat 1 litre of yogurt a day, using about 4g (a teaspoon) of the previous batch to make the new one.

My current batch must be about the 2000th, starting from an Easiyo sachet (and mine tastes much better than that), and costs nothing except for the skimmed UHT milk. I eat it in 3 portions, for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

 

[loveallthingsitalian]

I love it on top of my overnight oats.

 

[China Girl]

I recently tried some Activia fat free, sugar free yoghurts, on offer 4 for a £1
Yuk yuk and yuk! full of sweeteners, the other 3 went in the bin

 

[loveallthingsitalian]

Cant stand runny yoghurt or flavoured - thick and plain for me.

 

[merryone]

Well after all this talk of Turkish Delight, I really fancied some, so I popped into the international supermarket opposite work today and I found that they were selling Turkish Delight in every flavour imaginable and of course traditional rose & lemon. Each pack contained 12 fairly good sized pieces and you could choose between icing sugar coated or coconut coated. I chose a pack of Rose&Lemon, a pack of mango dusted with icing sugar, and a pack of mixed fruit coconut coated, I tried one from each pack and they were all absolutely delicious - Pack price? 99p. So a mere £2.97 I bought the same amount of Turkish Delight as Q were offering, and it's actually manufactured in Turkey, isn't rock hard and won't give me the raging trots!