As Oscar Wilde said, I can resist everything but temptation, fatal for me to make cakes, I have to eat it 😀
When I first acquired OH I once remarked on how quickly the cakes I made were eaten when he was around ... he looked confused and said, ‘Isn’t that what you make them for?’ 😂
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
There was a lot of publicity a week or so back about a programme where "celebrities" ate nothing but junk food for a period of time. The effects on them were pretty scary by all accounts. Although l didn't watch it, l did read a couple of articles about it. Mind you, you'd have to be going some to have a diet like that, l think most people have more sense.
Wayside, sorry, only the mushy peas count on that list, and then only if you eat 80g worth. I did watch the programme, AnniD, I do like Michael Mosely, after eating just one meal loaded with fat, chips, burgers, his BP rocketed, his core temp, and doplar showed his arteries had harded, after just ONE meal! They went into a fast food outlet, chap said he has teens coming in twice a day, so it doesnt seem to be that unusual, unfortunately.You would like to think some people have more sense.Golly, Dove half a cabbage AND carrots, I would blow up and float away!I think we have to be sensible, food isnt really "junk" and these clean eating queens have been responsible for serious health problems, if you want to be evgan you must be careful especially to get enough Vit B12, I have a couple of friends who lived on "junk" fried food in their teens and now have to have vit B 12 injections for life.Funnily enough, in one of yesterdays dailies, it says a portion of tinned spaghetti counts towards your 5, 10 whatever, yet, its carbs, and hardly any tomato sauce. I had my first Mcdonalds lat year, grandkids like them, I thought my grandaughters chicken wrap didnt look too bad so tried one, yes, folks 68 andf my FIRST !
The James Wong article was in yesterdays paper, he said an apple is 2 portions, 6 strawberries, both 80g, I actually weighed them this morning, pretty much bang on, my breakfast smoothy, at this time of the year contains frozen berries, (plus a banana) I weighed the portion I put out to thaw, it WAS 80g, so I am eating more than I imagined in the fruit dept, I find it hard to believe though it says half a tin of spaghetti is a portion, because its carbs, or one tablespoon of tomato sauce. 3 dried apricots, well, I would put 8 on my muslie, plus the other dried fruit. Definietely couldnt eat 80g of cabbage though!
Last night we had cottage pie, tiny bit for me but enormous portions of cabbage and sprouts, I love greens. Unfortunately spoilt by the scones that I’d made with jam and cream, or in Devon, cream and jam.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
The problem with fruit smoothies is the amount of sugar in them. If you ate the individual components, you'd be full, so it wouldn't really happen. You don't benefit from the roughage either. They should contain quite a high proportion of veg to be beneficial. Not quite so appealing for most people though! It comes down to self discipline and common sense in most cases. Sadly, those are often missing in the human race nowadays. Extremes in eating are never a good idea IMO. However, there's always someone ready to come out with a new 'superfood' or 'diet' endorsed by some 'celebrity'. Lots of money to be made by those willing to succumb to the hype.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Unfortunately spoilt by the scones that I’d made with jam and cream, or in Devon, cream and jam.
Not quite so appealing for most people though!
It comes down to self discipline and common sense in most cases. Sadly, those are often missing in the human race nowadays.
Extremes in eating are never a good idea IMO. However, there's always someone ready to come out with a new 'superfood' or 'diet' endorsed by some 'celebrity'. Lots of money to be made by those willing to succumb to the hype.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...