therower
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Wish I could afford to live near a Waitrose.Wish I could afford to shop at Waitrose.....
Wish I could afford to live near a Waitrose.Wish I could afford to shop at Waitrose.....
That however is not what I said. Changing would increase wastage as most will always refuse healthy options. I sat in a pub recently and must have heard 99% of people refuse salad & go for chips. Using these corporations in anyway is supporting those who make people sick in the first place. A local café will adapt to local demands eg sugar free cakes etc.The corporations don't have to change much just add a few options and cater to all of their customers. If you don't complain and just accept what they are offering then of course they won't change.
That however is not what I said. Changing would increase wastage as most will always refuse healthy options. I sat in a pub recently and must have heard 99% of people refuse salad & go for chips. Using these corporations in anyway is supporting those who make people sick in the first place. A local café will adapt to local demands eg sugar free cakes etc.
But keep writing your letters if that flots your boat.
OK if what floats your boat is just passive acceptance, but to me that is a defeatist attitude and if we all just followed that course we would be eating of the well plate, not testing and probably have prosthetic limbs and white canes.I will continue to complain write letters send emails and do what ever it takes in my own small way to bring about change.That however is not what I said. Changing would increase wastage as most will always refuse healthy options. I sat in a pub recently and must have heard 99% of people refuse salad & go for chips. Using these corporations in anyway is supporting those who make people sick in the first place. A local café will adapt to local demands eg sugar free cakes etc.
But keep writing your letters if that flots your boat.
That however is not what I said. Changing would increase wastage as most will always refuse healthy options. I sat in a pub recently and must have heard 99% of people refuse salad & go for chips. Using these corporations in anyway is supporting those who make people sick in the first place. A local café will adapt to local demands eg sugar free cakes etc.
But keep writing your letters if that flots your boat.
In many countries milk is usually only drunk with coffee before noon. After it's espresso.Here in lovely Galicia, Spain if you ask for coffee that is all you get. You have to make a point of asking for it with milk.
Hear hear. What a lovely well-balanced approach!if a friend cooks a meal with root veg or something you would not normally eat say thanks regard it as a treat and get back to your diet in your space.
because its low fat and high sugar and one drinks it thinking its healthy - it certainly played a big part in my diabetes - given that my diet was low fat everything and skimmed milk formed a big part of my daily diet before I was diagnosed - it doesn't now !How does skimmed or semi skimmed milk contribute to the incidence of diabetes?
because its low fat and high sugar and one drinks it thinking its healthy - it certainly played a big part in my diabetes - given that my diet was low fat everything and skimmed milk formed a big part of my daily diet before I was diagnosed - it doesn't now !
The carb content of semi skimmed milk is hardly any higher than that of full fat milk - 4.7g per 100ml for whole milk versus 4.8g per 100ml for semi skimmed
And, of course, most people would have a very small amount in a coffee.
if a friend cooks a meal with root veg or something you would not normally eat say thanks regard it as a treat and get back to your diet in your space.
whilst this is of course true, that is why my first choice was cream , and actually I would probably have refused the full fat had it been available as well.
I appreciate completely that skimmed milk looks "fine " on surface, but for me its not -
when I drink a coffee with cream, I know its a satisfying treat to drink occasionally when I drink tea with skimmed milk , I just want more and more of it. On a " low fat diet " I would allocate calories to a pint of skimmed milk per day and drink tea if ever I felt hungry. I did it in the certain knowledge I could drink freely because there were hardly any calories in it. This I ended up pretty addicted to tea with skimmed milk. It took months on my LCHF diet to stop the incessant craving for it.
Practically ALL of my current low carbs today was already coming from the skimmed milk before I even started to eat. the other 800 calories of mainly carbs I allowed myself on my LFHC diet. Of course no individual item causes the damage, cumulatively its a disaster . Hence for me the last thing I need is to reawaken my craving for skimmed milk when I go in a coffee shop.
Wish I could afford to shop at Waitrose.....
Skimmed milk has lost most of its vitamins.
How much milk do you put in a coffee, if you really need to consider it as one of your five a day??
Me, it's just a teaspoonful or so.
Not in most coffee shops where lattes and cappuccinos are the order of the day... a starbucks grande latte has 19g of carbs..And, of course, most people would have a very small amount in a coffee.