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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yorksman" data-source="post: 364419" data-attributes="member: 55568">I started off thinking that I could just cut out sweets, chocolate bars, biscuits etc and was probably partially correct in that assumption, but everything would have taken a lot longer. I knew that I had to watch how much I ate so having cut out the sweet stuff, I ate more simply, so just a beef sandwich for example with nothing fancy. It came as a great shock to me that the white bread was just as bad a shovelling in sugar. So, I moved onto all the unrefined carbs, brown rice, wholegrain bread, in particular rye bread, wholegrain pasta etc. I just adapted recipe's like the Hairy Dieters' Southern Style Chicken and Prawn Jambalaya to use brown rice rather than white rice and I had a satisfying meal which didn't spike me. I make a lot of meals using skirt steak or flank steak if they don't have the skirt. Skirt is very lean and cheap. You get a big chunk for a fiver. I use half for a ragu ala bolognese and half for a chilli. Each is a big meal for two. Sliced across the grain thinly, you let the meaty saucy simmer for 3 or 4 hours and it all falls apart. Skirt also makes great gravy so you really have meaty sauces. I then use wholegrain pasta for the bolognese sauce and brown rice for the chili. I also eat a lot of king prawns. Egg foo yung with king prawns or a thai style king prawn and noodle soup. Most lunchtimes I have a rollmop or bismarck herring with three slices of dark rye bread with sliced cheeses or salamis and hams, plus pickles, olives and chillis. I often have side salads, lettuce, cucumber or tomato and onion, each with an oil and vinegar dressing. Occasionally I will have a meal with potatoes but always three or four smallish new potatos. I find I can cope with that. I'd have those with a barnsley chop, though I avoid the temptation to eat all the fat. I'll have some but have to reluctantly forgo the rest.Chicken is always handy. 1st meal gives nice lean meat. 2nd meal gives nice chunks which can be used in a biryani (brown rice) and then the carcase makes a great stock for a chicken noodle soup. Twice a week I have a chickpea or lentil curry, maybe a spinach curry. I am still trying to learn about different chappatis and nan breads. Some spike some don't. I know I can't trust what it says on the packet. I make all the curries from scratch.But I suspect you are asking how I deal with snacks?I still get the pangs but having had a decent meal, rather than just rabbit food, I am less inclined. However, dark rye ryvita or lidl's sesame crispbreads with sardine paste is one low cal, low carb remedy. Another is a very large glass of ice cold cheap supermarket lemonade, the zero cal zero carb type but with the freshly squeezed juice of a whole lemon in. That will chase away any hunger pangs for a couple of hours. I do eat fresh fruit, small clementines without restriction, large ornages maybe two a day but usually one. Apples and pears, for some reason, are more a meal if you sit down at a table and cut them up with a knife. I also keep large bags of blueberries, raspberries and strawberries in the freezer. They tend to get made into smoothies with low fat yoghurt.Then there are things like boiled eggs, tins of salmon, tins of tuna and big mixed salads which fill you up for a short time.But, most surprising is that by thinking about food, what to buy, where to buy it, what to make with it etc. stops you being hungry a lot of the time. I went down to the fish wholesaler yesterday because they had a special offer on packs of 20 duck breasts. I now have to think of ten different meals for me and my wife. I'll also have to find out how to cook each of those meals and then I have to do it all. But, I am lucky because I work from home and that frees up more than two hours per day from travelling time. I am as sure as sure can be that many dietary problems that exist are due to this mixed up rush rush world that we live in which results in bad food and bad habits. Last book i bought was Prashad Indian Vegetarian Cooking and the next one will be Hairy Bikers' Book of Curry.I still go for a pizza at a proper pizzeria. I still eat out at a chinese or indian, I just avoid the sticky sweet sauces or those with lots of ghee. It will be one of those once per week though. before it would be two or even three times per week on the way back from work plus lunchtime would have been in a pub, pie with chips plus pudding and a pint. And that was after having a bacon and egg around ten am in the office. I have no idea what they put in all that stuff but I know it was not good for me. I make it mostly myself now and I know what's in it.</blockquote>

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