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Sarah69 said:
Does everyone actually look at all the ingredients before you buy the item?
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I do. I do my shopping online and it's easier to look at the ingredients online - they're often too small on the actual packets for me to read ;)
And you can look up an ingredient if you don't know what it is.
 
Sarah69 said:
Does everyone actually look at all the ingredients before you buy the item?
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You mean you don't?!? :eek:

Mind you, I hardly have to do it nowadays.
I look once, and mentally assign a food a 'good' or 'bad' status, and then just dismiss the bad ones.
Makes it very easy.
 
Sarah69 said:
Does everyone actually look at all the ingredients before you buy the item?
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I always do when looking for a new food. It can cause chaos in the shop, but otherwise how do you know what you are buying? It's better than buying something unsuitable and finding your BS hits the roof after eating it.
 
New foods always. I'm awful as well when visiting mum as she does a lot of home made puddings and I always have to ask what the infredients are.

If friends do dinners they are normally shop bought puds so I ask for the packets.

I don't go without ever with friends or family and don't feel odd for asking either. They always know what I do so normally keep the packets out for me. They never mention anything about diabetes or anything they totally accept the way that I am.
 
DeejayR said:
What good nut oils are there part from coconut?
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No to be pedantic but coconuts aren't nuts in the botanical sense. The distinction is important for people like me who are allergic to tree nuts - coconuts are fine for me to eat but almonds could kill me :)

Edit to add: some people can have coconut and other allergies such as sesame seeds along with or apart from nut allergies and if you are allergic to nuts, talk to your allergist before eating coconut!
 
Brunneria said:
You mean you don't?!? :eek:

Mind you, I hardly have to do it nowadays.
I look once, and mentally assign a food a 'good' or 'bad' status, and then just dismiss the bad ones.
Makes it very easy.
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It becomes automatic doesn't it.
Like you say something gets marked in your head and stays marked.
I did this before I suffered diabetes..
I thought everyone did it nowadays to be honest.
 
I checked labels long before i was diabetic too, and over the years the list of things I checked for grew longer and longer. It started with calories, then fat, what type of fat, salt, hidden sugars, MSG, high fibre, then low fibre when I got IBD, food dyes, hydrogenated veg fat, palm oil, then I went vegetarian for around 10 years and had to check for any animal products like gelatine etc (not veggie anymore), and now it's carbs. And fat once again but now looking for high fat instead of low! :confused:
 
Just chemicals with me.
I never had a weight problem so was never interested in calories carbs fat etc .... meaningless to me.
 
My daughters boyfriend bought a pack of chicken breast sliced and ready for sandwiches. Not reconstituted. Then I looked at the ingredients
Chicken breast, dextrose, corn flour, salt, glucose, sodium triphosphate

How can they add all that junk with just sliced chicken breast
 
Andrew Colvin said:
My daughters boyfriend bought a pack of chicken breast sliced and ready for sandwiches. Not reconstituted. Then I looked at the ingredients
Chicken breast, dextrose, corn flour, salt, glucose, sodium triphosphate

How can they add all that junk with just sliced chicken breast
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They soak the breasts in a slurry of water and chemicals, before cooking.
It is supposed to plump them out, and make them shrink less during cooking.

Lovely, eh?

:confused:
 
Andrew Colvin said:
My daughters boyfriend bought a pack of chicken breast sliced and ready for sandwiches. Not reconstituted. Then I looked at the ingredients
Chicken breast, dextrose, corn flour, salt, glucose, sodium triphosphate

How can they add all that junk with just sliced chicken breast
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Brunneria said:
They soak the breasts in a slurry of water and chemicals, before cooking.
It is supposed to plump them out, and make them shrink less during cooking.

Lovely, eh?

:confused:
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Why are they allowed to do such things, the food industry seem to play a big part in making people unhealthy, yet they are allowed to continue.
There was a time when food was food without all the **** added.
 
If you saw margerines of all types being made you'd throw up on the spot: people just do not realise whats being foisted upon them .if you. Are wise dump all manufactured marg's and eat butter and olive oil.
 
Bluetit1802 said:
Try it out and tell us the results at 1hr, 90 mins, and 2hrs. You would have to add loads of double cream I think
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RESULTS are in for 100g of the ice cream on it's own.
Pre 7.4 which was 2hrs post dinner.
1hr 6.5
90 mins 6.8
2 hrs 6.2
So looks like the 8g of carbs in it had very little affect if any.
 
Clivethedrive said:
If you saw margerines of all types being made you'd throw up on the spot: people just do not realise whats being foisted upon them .if you. Are wise dump all manufactured marg's and eat butter and olive oil.
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& not forgetting coconut oil, I use it for a lot of things & they taste so much better & you only need to use a small amount.
 
I stir a tablespoonful into a bowl of porridge and the porridge has more or less no effect on my BS.
Without the oil I can't tolerate the oats.
I also fry with it occasionally.
 
JACKTHELAD said:
I stir a tablespoonful into a bowl of porridge and the porridge has more or less no effect on my BS.
Without the oil I can't tolerate the oats.
I also fry with it occasionally.
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Was it you who also said that you could have fried bread as the fat counteracts the bread? I don't uderstand all this becasue if that's the case we could have high carbs as long as we have high fat with it?
 
II also use it in my hair ... what hair I have of the grandchildren are staying .... they might have nits.
They little girl often has nits I think because some parents must not keep on top of it.
We clear her head she goes to school she's got them again.
But .... the last few weeks she's been going to sc
rowan said:
Was it you who also said that you could have fried bread as the fat counteracts the bread? I don't uderstand all this becasue if that's the case we could have high carbs as long as we have high fat with it?
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To a degree yes but it doesn't work if you're doing it all the time.
Bread spikes me but fried in olive oil or dripping it just raises me slightly.
Slightly as in acceptable.
I can have one round of toast loaded with butter but not two.
I can have half a round of fried bread but pushing it having a whole one.
The fat slows down the digestive and conversion process..
 
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