Easy lunch ideas?

[theclaud]

This is going to haunt me more than global warming!

You can give up butter and live!!

I was too fat (and too lazy to exercise more) and did not want to go on a fad diet. All I did was cut out most fat and sugar.
So that is skimmed milk on cerial, no milk in drinks, not much dairy but what i have is low fat. No butter or spread at all. Give it a few weeks and you find you really dont like fatty foods.
All sorts of things now taste too fatty (fish fingers, crisps, pate, fried food) and I dont ever fancy eating them.

But is it a life worth living, Hillers? Ask yourself that.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

But is it a life worth living, Hillers? Ask yourself that.

No butter, crisps or fried food - that's 3 of your main food groups gone.

 

[Monsieur Remings]

Avocado split in half with cottage cheese, salt, pepper and touch of olive oil.

Pasta and assorted olives, anti-pasti from supermarket.

 

[theclaud]

[QUOTE 2179899, member: 259"]If you don't want to eat more finny denizens for your Omega-3, hemp's very good. Erm. Man.[/quote]

I love oily fish, but now that you mention it I haven't eaten much of it since DZ's pilchard ice-cream. What do you do with your hemp, Mort? Sprout seeds and put them in salads and stuff?

 

[User169]

For the last two days, I've had pickled cabbage and cold sausage. Not a big fan of saus, but there are certainly easy.

 

[theclaud]

[QUOTE 2179921, member: 259"]

I use hemp oil in salads and bread, and yes, I've sprouted it but I can't be arsed nowadays. I actually like the taste of hemp oil - I must be the only person who does.[/quote]

I suppose I ought to clarify that DZ's pilchard ice-cream is a figment of my imagination, but it's no less upsetting for that. He did once make me drink Welsh wine, though.

I can't remember whether I've tried hemp oil. I might give it a go. Does anyone use the uber-trendy extra-virgin rapeseed stuff that HFW bangs on about.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Does anyone use the uber-trendy extra-virgin rapeseed stuff that HFW bangs on about.

I bought a bottle once, load of nonsense if you ask me.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

unlike

 

[longers]

I think the recommendation is to eat 2 portions, rather than to eat only 2 portions. The rationale being that people don't get enough Omega-3s otherwise. If you eat a lot more you will just end up brainier - like Jeeves.

Ah, thanks. I think I was thinking that it might have to keep the mercury and heavy metal consumption to a minimum.

 

[theclaud]

Ah, thanks. I think I was thinking that it might have to keep the mercury and heavy metal consumption to a minimum.

The mercury thing is more about tuna, IIRC. Although it's a relative thing - eat no shark, go a bit easy on the tuna, and make merry with the mackerel...

 

[Hitchington]

Pot Noodle. They come in 7 different flavours. One for each day of the week! You'll never get bored.

 

[Cycling Naturalist]

I suppose I ought to clarify that DZ's pilchard ice-cream is a figment of my imagination, but it's no less upsetting for that. He did once make me drink Welsh wine, though.

Manacled to a bench? Tube? Funnel at a great height?

Do you not know the lengths that people go to in order to produce Chateau Blaenau Festiniog? The painstaking selection from the council food waste bins? The pruning of the feathers off the chicken carcasses. The careful maturation of the banana skins in hand selected oil drums. The tastings on the park bench in front of the benefits office starting at 9 every morning.

 

[theclaud]

Manacled to a bench? Tube? Funnel at a great height?

Do you not know the lengths that people go to in order to produce Chateau Blaenau Festiniog? The painstaking selection from the council food waste bins? The pruning of the feathers off the chicken carcasses. The careful maturation of the banana skins in hand selected oil drums. The tastings on the park bench in front of the benefits office starting at 9 every morning.

When I say "drink" - three glasses were poured, three glasses were raised, three sips were taken. It was far too rough to go in the cooking.

 

[Over The Hill]

But is it a life worth living, Hillers? Ask yourself that.

It is no less good in my opinion.
Actually i find that if you eat less fat and sugar generally you get a taste for good quality basic food (say a good malted loaf rather than white bread or a home made fruit loaf instead of from a shop) and things actually taste so much nicer.
I dont eat fish fingers but will eat baked salmon instead. I dont eat crisps but eat fresh bread instead. Part of it is breaking out of the usual mindset and steering away from cheap processed junk.
If you want to stick with Mr Kipling then find but I think I have found better.

 

[theclaud]

It is no less good in my opinion.
Actually i find that if you eat less fat and sugar generally you get a taste for good quality basic food (say a good malted loaf rather than white bread or a home made fruit loaf instead of from a shop) and things actually taste so much nicer.
I dont eat fish fingers but will eat baked salmon instead. I dont eat crisps but eat fresh bread instead. Part of it is breaking out of the usual mindset and steering away from cheap processed junk.
If you want to stick with Mr Kipling then find but I think I have found better.

Mr Kipling is a butter producer? What on earth makes you think I would have anything to do with Mr Kipling in the first place? If I'm going to eat cakes, I will get them from Kristie's of Sketty, where their sensational pineapple cream carts are made with all-butter pastry and the custard slices are arguably the best in the country. Believe it or not, I was ribbing you in a friendly fashion, but you've gone all shirty and Linfy on me and spoiled it. I eat very little refined sugar, I don't eat fish fingers, and I don't eat farmed salmon. I occasionally eat crisps in the pub, but certainly not in place of fresh bread (which is usually stoneground wholemeal or sourdough). But there's a serious point to all this, which is that butter is "good quality basic food". Indeed it's one of the simplest good things one can buy. If you want to cut down fat by not eating butter then that's your call, but don't attempt to make a nutritional principle or a virtue out of it.