Marguerite
Active Member
Kumara - it's a type of sweet potato, the orange kind. We get it a lot, you can use it like either pumpkin or potato. In New Zealand you can get kumara chips as well as potato chips (fries).
With plants, sometimes you just have to grow what is suitable for your area. I'd love to grow raspberries, but we're too warm here.
You mentioned how hard it is to stick to your diet when eating out - I noticed that when I was doing Atkins. For all its faults, that Atkins diet did teach me just how unhealthy even 'healthy' food is, when you're out. I bought a rice paper roll, a chicken, lettuce and sprouts one, only to find it was stuffed full of rice vermicelli. Subway is about the healthiest fast food (other than sushi) and the bread is generous. A lot of it. Even the wraps - too much bread, not enough filling. And the 'roast chicken fillet' filling was like a large chicken nugget, a highly processed and reconstituted lump which was also oily. Even the sushi - not enough vegetables, too much rice (ie carbs again). Not that I'm eliminating carbs or even trying to reduce to Atkins level, but it's just too easy for shops to pad the meals out with carbs (they're cheap calories) and we're all just too used to it. Carbs make great comfort food and they're absolutely everywhere in just about everything. Even chicken kebabs which are just lumps of chicken threaded onto a wooden skewer - they've been rolled in flour and then deep fried. A disaster.
A snack tin of salmon is sold with crackers to go with it. Children's snacks all have added carbs (it's no wonder our children are all getting fat). And when I was searching for a breakfast cereal, I just couldn't find one which didn't have added sugar and often also added salt, in unacceptable quantities.
So I'm sticking with basics.
And today the scales finally admitted that I've now lost FIVE kilos. It's gotta be the pills (plus the diet) making the difference.
Marg
With plants, sometimes you just have to grow what is suitable for your area. I'd love to grow raspberries, but we're too warm here.
You mentioned how hard it is to stick to your diet when eating out - I noticed that when I was doing Atkins. For all its faults, that Atkins diet did teach me just how unhealthy even 'healthy' food is, when you're out. I bought a rice paper roll, a chicken, lettuce and sprouts one, only to find it was stuffed full of rice vermicelli. Subway is about the healthiest fast food (other than sushi) and the bread is generous. A lot of it. Even the wraps - too much bread, not enough filling. And the 'roast chicken fillet' filling was like a large chicken nugget, a highly processed and reconstituted lump which was also oily. Even the sushi - not enough vegetables, too much rice (ie carbs again). Not that I'm eliminating carbs or even trying to reduce to Atkins level, but it's just too easy for shops to pad the meals out with carbs (they're cheap calories) and we're all just too used to it. Carbs make great comfort food and they're absolutely everywhere in just about everything. Even chicken kebabs which are just lumps of chicken threaded onto a wooden skewer - they've been rolled in flour and then deep fried. A disaster.
A snack tin of salmon is sold with crackers to go with it. Children's snacks all have added carbs (it's no wonder our children are all getting fat). And when I was searching for a breakfast cereal, I just couldn't find one which didn't have added sugar and often also added salt, in unacceptable quantities.
So I'm sticking with basics.
And today the scales finally admitted that I've now lost FIVE kilos. It's gotta be the pills (plus the diet) making the difference.
Marg