@acsimpson I have the same breakfast other than a banana, although I do add that if I'm cycling further than usual.
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Your lunch. What are you eating?
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Posted 8 years ago #
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apparenbtly bananas don't work on their own anynmore they must be taken with fibre? Like in a banana sandwich. I used to live on banana sandwiches using diggens wholemeal bread and guinness because I was trying to put on weight using the banana and guinness diet. I failed to grasp that I was supposed to eat ususal diet and add banana sandwiches and guinness.
My porridge from M&S with millet as well as oats, cooked with milk and greek yoghurt and honey added could be supplemented with a banana. However, it already makes me feel too good.
Grilled bananas on toast drizzled in maple syrup is another dish from my recipe book entitled Guinness and Bananas (came with a song from The Happy Gang - We want to eat, eat, eat Guinness and Bananas)
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You're bringing back memories of a children's cookbook I once owned:
Baked Bananas
Peel bananas
Place in an oven-proof dish
Cover with golden syrup
Cover the golden syrup with brown sugar
Bake until doneNo guinness sadly but you could experiment.
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Banana sandwiches are a backpackers favourite. Bread & bananas easy and cheap to find anywhere in the world. Contains almost everything you need.
Posted 8 years ago # -
Bought some unsweetened peanut butter last night and tried spreading it on my Weetabix today
Surprisingly nice. Will see if it keeps me any less hungry.
Posted 8 years ago # -
OK cc I will go with your recipe and just add at the end - Eat once it has cooled sufficiently not to burn your mouth and wash down with a small bottle of Guinness Export Strength Porter
@eddie-H I thought bananas on way out as 90% of Fyfe infertile?
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barbequed bananas. Split banana, insert pink and white marshmallows and dark chocolate. Stick on BBQ until it all melts. Wonderful...
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re morning porridge, use the microwave method and I have at least 2 portions of fruit- fresh or dried , could be bananas, pears, blueberries, raisins, cranberries or whatever is available.
Normally have some 2nd breakfast ~10am, either toast and peanut butter or eggs (with or without bacon), soup and an apple or orange for lunch and then fight like mad not to eat rubbish for the rest of the day. I lost that fight spectacularly today...
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@paddyirish with bbq baNANAS i ALWAYs recommend draught guinness from the cans. I like to see people drinking this at barbies straight from the can and dealing with the gas without making big mess or using pint tumbler
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Mr Cow has politely pointed out this article to me after my talk about fat!
IF YOU LOOK AT A BIT OF BUTTER YOU'LL DIE. DIE I TELL YOU.
Some points:-
The charity said promoting low-fat food had had "disastrous health consequences" and should be reversed.
It is difficult to argue with this. Just how positively has the low fat message affected our health? Erm, not at all I would say.
The point also needs to be made that fat is a nutrient and there are all sorts of different kinds that are essential for our bodies to function properly. It is just that in recent years, processed fats have taken over from natural fats and it is very difficult to separate those out from peoples diets. Someone who eats full fat dairy, butter, meat from free-range anmials etc probably has a very different health outcome from someone who eats a lot of processed meat and vegetable oil.
Also, it seems ridiculous to me that although our ancestors have been eating saturated fat and full fat dairy for millenia but now it suddenly kills us?
Where the message could go wrong is exactly where the low fat message has gone wrong too. Namely that the manufacturers of highly processed food-like-substances will find it very easy to pretend their nutritionally devoid junk is somehow healthy because they can stick a label on their vegetable oil soaked offerings that says "low in sugar!" A bit like how breakfast cereal manufacturers can stick a label on something that bears very little resemblance to healthy whole grains saying "a source of healthy wholegrains!"
I have already gone on long enough but the health advice which is widely regarded as being the most sensible comes from Brazil and is basically "Eat more vegetables and stop eating processed food."
Did you know that there is less than 4% fat in full fat milk? By any standards, full fat milk is already low in fat.
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"food-like-substances"
Like!
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These days vegetable oil is 9 times out of 10 likely to be palm oil, the irresponsible mass cultivation of which is directly responsible for the wholesale destruction of the limited rainforest habitat of Orang-utans and gibbons
Just say no
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/palm-oil-in-brtains-top-brands-1677467.html
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These days vegetable oil is 9 times out of 10 likely to be palm oil,
I assume you mean labelled-as in processed foods? Palm oil is solid at room temperature and isn't the yellow stuff you get in bottles (that is food dye by the way, in an attempt to make it look edible). I believe palm oil is technically good for you but there are too many other reasons not to eat it!
Posted 8 years ago # -
In order to test the theory, this morning for breakfast I had a bacon roll (on gf bread...); for elevenses a block of lard washed down with a bottle of sunflower oil; lunch will be some pork crackling; and for dinner the siphoned off tummy tuck of a large chap called Geoff.
I'll let you know how I get on....
;)
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These days to due a combination of lots of cycling and lack of discipline, I munch my lunch between 9 and 10.30am. Today, not being on the bike, I managed to stretch it out to 11am.
Lunch is generally a peanut butter sandwich, a jam sandwich and some fruit.
Tomorrow is a 400km audax, so there will be several breakfasts and lunch, not all will be entirely healthy
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that is food dye by the way, in an attempt to make it look edible
In Canada it is illegal to dye margarine yellow. So all margarine is white - its 'natural' colour.
Sensible Canadians...
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I assume you mean labelled-as in processed foods? Palm oil is solid at room temperature and isn't the yellow stuff you get in bottles
I did mostly mean the processed foodstuffs and chocolates although crude palm oil is liquid form, and there are palm oil derivatives such as palmolein for cooking oil used in take aways etc.
And not forgetting all the sneaky scientific names for palm oil used in most shampoos, conditioners, washing powders and liquids, etc
Posted 8 years ago # -
Blimey Bax, that is some list. "Think you're avoiding palm oil? Haha, suckers!"
WC I'll let you know how I get on....
Just don't add any sugar and you'll be fine! ;-)
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I recall someone recommending brown pasta on a previous hunger thread as a hunger-prevention thing, so as I'd made a surfeit of spicy wholegrain pasta last night and am trying to be mildly more healthy at work I packed as much as would fit into my wide-necked food flask this morning to see how it worked as lunch. I usually pop out for lunch around twoish, but had the pasta stuff at twelve so that it would still be hot. I was hungry again at two so had to pop out for more lunch.
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