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What are YOUR food vices?

SueR said:
Braeburns are fantastic and thank you for suggestion.

I'll try Jazz and Pink Ladies next..
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Jazz apples are really expensive, but oh my gosh. Once you eat one, every other apple tastes gritty and dry. Even pink ladies don't taste right to me any more. Jazz apples are just the crunchiest, sweetest, juiciest apple I've ever encountered! I don't buy them often because they're like 3 euro here for only 4 apples, but I love slicing them into chunks in a bowl, dump in loads of cinnamon and shake it so it covers the apple pieces :)

We also get a brand here in Holland called Junami apples which are cheap(ish), but I've yet to find those in the UK. :( Oranges are also pretty low sugar, I was surprised to find out that the oranges we buy are only 9-10g carbs per orange. I'm fussy with oranges though, they have to be the type that you can actually peel and pull apart... without seeds. I think one of the worst things for me in the world is biting into an orange/satsuma/mandarin segment and there's a seed. Ugh, I hate it so much!
 
Catsymoo said:
SueR said:
Braeburns are fantastic and thank you for suggestion.

I'll try Jazz and Pink Ladies next..
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Jazz apples are really expensive, but oh my gosh. Once you eat one, every other apple tastes gritty and dry. Even pink ladies don't taste right to me any more. Jazz apples are just the crunchiest, sweetest, juiciest apple I've ever encountered! I don't buy them often because they're like 3 euro here for only 4 apples, but I love slicing them into chunks in a bowl, dump in loads of cinnamon and shake it so it covers the apple pieces :)

We also get a brand here in Holland called Junami apples which are cheap(ish), but I've yet to find those in the UK. :( Oranges are also pretty low sugar, I was surprised to find out that the oranges we buy are only 9-10g carbs per orange. I'm fussy with oranges though, they have to be the type that you can actually peel and pull apart... without seeds. I think one of the worst things for me in the world is biting into an orange/satsuma/mandarin segment and there's a seed. Ugh, I hate it so much!
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I don't eat fruit very often but love the idea of apples coated in cinnamon (I love cinnamon!) I'm going to definitely try that!!
 
I love fruit. The only exceptions are mango which I think is like eating a bar of soap for some reason. Living without fruit is just not on my radar. Ask me to give up sugar, chocolate, sweets, carbs in general, fats, even protein. But don't ask me to not eat fruit. I don't eat loads of it, but I do like at least one piece of fruit every day otherwise I feel deprived. There are certain fruits I like more than others and certain fruits I like but don't feel the need to eat.

In my childhood I ate every fruit imaginable, my mother used to come home from work on Saturdays with two huge bags full of all kinds of fruit and she never ate any herself, except banana. When I was married, fruit was a big part of my family's diet too. It was always there to be eaten between meals. I had bowls of fruit in every room in the house. And an empty fruit bowl was a depressing sight and the signal for me or my husband to go and do some shopping.

In my 40's I ate Braeburn apples every single day but didn't want any other fruit at all. Then in my 50's I started fancying more fruit again but found bananas made my mouth tingle and swell. I could eat Satsumas but oranges felt too acidic. And last year, I ate lots of fresh peaches until they went out of season.

Now I have an orange or a banana or a kiwi a couple of times a week, but I eat strawbs and blueberries probably every day as a snack with a bit of single cream. I never buy apples now, just don't fancy them.
 
I used to crave fruit all the time. I've gotten out of that habit by will power since the diabetes and tried to switch that craving to vegetables. Now I crave carrot and pumpkin a lot.

I love fruit, especially plums, strawberries, apples, and red grapes. I also love blueberries when they are nice and firm. Love bananas but they are not worth the high blood sugar. Can't think of any fruit I don't particularly like except melon and figs... and dates if they count? Ugh. I hate dried fruit too. Raisins should be illegal.

We don't buy much fruit in Holland because it is very, VERY expensive here. The cheapest apples you will find are about 3 euros for a bag and that's the horrible ones. Our supermarket picks like 3 fruits and 3 veggies every week to put on offer. I try to buy the oranges when they are on offer, since 1.99 for 2kg of oranges isn't bad. But I stick to veggies, much cheaper and less sugar. Even the market is expensive. Not like in the UK - it's expensive but if you go to the market at closing time they flog everything at a fraction price.

Saying that, I managed to get a 10kg pumpkin for 10 euros the other day! It took 2 hours for me and my boyfriend to cut up! Yielded about 8 litres of soup with still 2 pan fulls of pumpkin pieces left! :crazy:

I should try eating a banana again, I know it used to make my blood sugar high but that's when I was not on insulin, and I'd eat it WITH cereal because I was just constantly starving when I was new diagnosed.
 
Wow ... I didn't realise fruit was so expensive in Holland. Why is that? What does Holland produce itself in the way of fruit and veg?

Here in UK the berries like strawbs, blueberries, blackberries are very expensive but apples are relatively cheap still. And last summer I was getting a punnet containing 5-6 large juicy peaches or nectarines for just £1 at the local supermarket or 2 punnets for £1.50.
 
I love fruit as well and can easily gorge on more than my allowed portion! Right now, I am absolutely nuts about pineapple - they are readily available where I am in Singapore and are usually juicy and very sweet! The challenge is in STOPPING at one slice, especially when I could eat half a pineapple easily! I also love sweet, crunchy, juicy apples - we get New Zealand Rose apples here and they are gorgeous! :) Fruits are plentiful and quite affordable here - being in the tropics must make them cheaper.

I could go on for ages about my food vices actually - there are so many!! :lol:

Recently, I watched a Japanese animated film called Grave of the Fireflies, about 2 children trying to survive in a war-torn world and in which a central prop was a tin of hard candy drops - I am now fixated on hard candy drops and they are my latest vice! They are pure sugar and I try to limit myself to one a day.
 
Catsymoo
What an excellent idea
I have now developed my quich..ish recipe to make a kind of "Tarte Tatin" with necatarine
It's delicious with "no-added sugar raspberry sauce, which Ialso make.
Hana
 
GraceK said:
Wow ... I didn't realise fruit was so expensive in Holland. Why is that? What does Holland produce itself in the way of fruit and veg?

Here in UK the berries like strawbs, blueberries, blackberries are very expensive but apples are relatively cheap still. And last summer I was getting a punnet containing 5-6 large juicy peaches or nectarines for just £1 at the local supermarket or 2 punnets for £1.50.
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I haven't even SEEN peaches or nectarines here... or plums. I don't even look at the berries/grapes because they're expensive, just like in the UK. The price of grapes and blue/straw/raspberries in the UK makes me sick as it is.

Kiwi fruit are also expensive, I think they were like 2 euro per 500 grams and that was on offer. 500 grams is like 3 kiwis, you can have a whole punnet in the UK for £1.

Holland is a rich country, so things here are just ungodly expensive in comparison. I mean, the UK is expensive, but some things here. Gosh. Although the euro is slightly higher than the pound, which is hard to get used to. I see something like bread for 2 euros and freak out, then realize it's actually about £1.60.
The thing that annoys me most is in the UK, a pack of painkillers is about 20p - 60p. Here the cheapest is about 1.70 euro and that's for 10 rubbish 200mg ones.
Holland has so much spare money, we have blue lights on our garbage shoot downstairs with a fancy mechanism to open it and dump your bin bag in, press the button and poof! It's gone! I mean who seriously has enough disposable state income for that!?

Oh sorry, going off on a tangent! Have you tried peanut butter and cinnamon on toast? Mmm.
 
Mmmmm where do I start........

Milk Chocolate big bar
Bag of Wine Gums
Night out on the beer
Meat feast pizza extra cheese
Orange juice by the gallon
Several packs of bisuits
Cream slices
OMG I could go on forever

Yours now crying

Simon aka Cobra3164
 
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