Oooooh Noooooo!
This is just TOO cruel!
Just to test your hypothesis even further, does jelly still have this effect if eaten earlier in the day, much like caffeine not being drunk X hours before bedtime ?
Signy
*nods feebly*
Tested several times, to make sure.
I know, I've been wracking my little grey cells too.
You can get 'all natural' water flavourings called Aromhuset from Amazon. And they are actually lovely. Designed to add to fizzy water.
And there's gelatine, of course, but it would look like solid clear water.
Because I'm assuming that food colourings would have a bad effect on a delicate little flower like myself...
And I can't help thinking that colourless jelly, with a couple of drops of fruit flavouring, would somehow be lacking.
I admit... with great reluctance... and a sense of loss... that I may have to... go without jelly.
I know, I know, it's a dreadful thing.
I will adjust... in time. Maybe.
I agree, pale looking jelly sounds really unappealing.
Maybe, as a half way house.... instead of cold turkey ....Scandi's recipe for low carb ice cream ? Or , or, or, how about just whipped cream , with vanilla essence or natural flavouring of some kind? In little pots? Jelly pots ?
(Now, I'm really sounding desperate in the face of such deprivation! )
Signy
Hmm... What is that Italian dessert that is basically whipped cream and alcohol... On the tip of my...
I've found no added sugar custard in tesco and sainsbury too. Yummy. Now about to eat rhubarb and custard mmmmmmm.I never knew jelly was so exciting!
For the record, I like mine mashed up with strawberries and cream. It's called a Tumble Jumble in this house - kids named it and they have custard and sprinkles with theirs.
Sugar free custard?? Asda, here I come....
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Diagnosed prediabetic Easter 2014. Just left to get on with it, no guidance or help from GP. Every day I'm learning something new.
OoohWhat about panna cotta? Cream and jelly, all-in-one
I gave up looking for the Hartleys ones eventually. I now get SF veggie jelly from Amazon. Great flavours and a good wobble. They are not ready made so you can fashion them into any shape you like, pour into trifles, make cheesecakes......one sachet makes 4-5 portions of straight jelly.Thank you, I'd given up on finding vegie SF jelly as all my local supermarkets had stopped selling Weightwatchers one.
Checked the label on the ready to eat pots of Hartleys - they ar vegie yayyyyy!!!
Tesco had them on offer so fridge is nicely stocked
I find mashing it means that more of it can be covered in cream ...
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but.... but..... there is air in your fridge? i mean.... space where air can be? how do you do that? our fridge is precision stuffed at all times, you have to be ready to catch things when you open the door and if you want to get something out you have to remove 12 items first then carefully put them back in the same order to get them back in, we haven't seen the back of our fridge in years, humpf! i want a fridge with air<jealous>
What a wonderful gelatinously sticky mental image!
Can we have a pic of that?!?
Actually, I have a rather sorry, sadly personal jelly tale to tell.
I've been putting off telling you all, because of its depressingly tragic nature...
Remember how, at the beginning of this thread, I said how I've been slurping jelly in regular, larger amounts than ever before?
Well, for the same period, I've been having a spot of insomnia. Actually, more like an acne breakout of insomnia. Every night, trouble going to sleep, eyelids like spring-loaded roller blinds, lying beside the lovely Mr B as he lies there like a starfish-shaped log, snoring like a wharthog (he knows this, we have discussed it, so I'm not talking behind his back).
Anyway, we ran out of jelly.
And that night, I slept like a baby.
With dawning horror, I have tested the hypothesis, and...
(cue violins)
...jelly stops me sleeping.
Ridiculously horrific, isn't it?
It must be the artificial colours, or sweeteners, or just some jolly jape by the heavenly choir, but the evidence is pretty damning.
@zand has one reaction to the additives (addiction), I have developed another (insomnia).
I haven't eaten jelly in a week, and I have slept well, every night.
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