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YoYo
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Posted: 5 September 2007 03:34 am |
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I saved up calories all day because I knew I would be eating out this evening on the run. I had 900 calories left of my 1400 calorie per day budget. I had a Hardees Mushroom Swiss burger and medium fries. My burger was 720 calories and the fries were over 500!  WHen I got home and looked that up I was so shocked and depressed  that I ate a Krispy  Kreme which was a scant 200 calories by the way... I cdould have ate like 7 Krispy Kremes for the amount of calories in that dinner. No more fast food!
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Nir
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Posted: 5 September 2007 02:34 pm |
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So if a Krispy Kreme isn't "fast food", I guess you consider it to be more wholesome, perhaps like a fruit? 
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YoYo
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Posted: 5 September 2007 02:42 pm |
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| uh...no. I didn't say I was going to continue eating the Krispy Kremes. I just said that I was suprised that they had so few calories in compaison with a burger. If fruit tasted like Krispy Kremes, I would be the healthiest person ever!!
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Nir
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Posted: 5 September 2007 03:32 pm |
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| I've solved that problem for myself. Most of the fruit I buy goes straight into the freezer and later on features in a fruit smoothie in combination with whey powder. The smoothies taste almost like ice-cream. I don't mean to say that fruit are not nice when eaten naturally, of course (before anyone jumps on me) but I love my fruit ice-creams even more.
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OnceUpon-A-ThinGirl
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Posted: 7 September 2007 02:29 am |
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Nir,
please post the recipe for this yummy fruit smoothie!
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Nir
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Posted: 7 September 2007 03:30 am |
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You need (1) a tub of flavoured whey protein powder (for example, chocolate-flavour (2) fruit that is in a ready to eat state (washed; if it has peel - peeled; if it has stones - stoned) (3) if your fruit is particularly sharp (for example raspberries, rhubarb) you may need some artificial sweetner.
A) put your ready-to-eat fruit in the freezer. I tend to put 300-500 grams in an uncovered rectangular tuppaware plastic box (650ml) in the freezer for a minimum of 24 hours in the freezer.
B) take fruit out of the freezer
C) place in microwave oven on full power for between 60 and 90 seconds. At this point you should be able to separate the fruit from each other and place into the food processor
D) if your fruit needs artificial sweetner, add it at this stage (for raspberries I dissolve 3 tablets of artificial sweetner in a tiny amount of boiling water and add the sweetned water to the fruit)
E) add a small amount of Whey powder. As little as 5 grams (a quarter of a scoop) does the trick but more Whey can be even better.
F) food processes until smooth
G) if after 1-2 minutes it refuses to become smooth it might still be too frozen. In this case I take the entire food processing jug (complete with steel blade) and place in the microwave oven for 30 seconds [ok, I'm lazy] and then return to motor.
Why it works: not entirely sure, but in the same way the you can whip cream, the whey powder whips air into a larger volume than was originally occupied by the frozen fruit on its own...
Enjoy
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OnceUpon-A-ThinGirl
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Posted: 7 September 2007 07:54 am |
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| Thanks Nir, I'll deffinently be trying that in the near future, first I must get whey powder... What kind of sweetner do you use, I notice some taste better than others. Last edited on 7 September 2007 07:56 am by OnceUpon-A-ThinGirl
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Peter
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Posted: 7 September 2007 09:49 am |
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YoYo wrote: When I got home and looked that up I was so shocked and depressed that I ate a Krispy Kreme!
"Nothing in life is so bad that we can't make things worse by eating over it." 
Always got a chuckle of of that.
Peter
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Nir
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Posted: 7 September 2007 10:45 am |
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OnceUpon-A-ThinGirl wrote: What kind of sweetner do you use, I notice some taste better than others.
First I should point out that the reason I use a sweetner that needs dissolving in hot water is just because it is a lot $cheaper than a ready-to-use powdered sweetner. The kind I use apparently has, per tablet:
40mg Sodium Cyclamate + 4mg Sodium Saccharin; brand name is 'Cologran'
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Ohm
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Posted: 8 September 2007 01:31 pm |
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A propos of nothing much:
Sham Harga had run a successful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and realizing that most of his customers wanted meals properly balanced between the four food groups: sugar, starch, grease and burnt crunchy bits.
homepage.eircom.net/%257Eodyssey/Quotes/Popular/SciFi/Terry_Pratchett.html
Any other Pratchett nuts?
This idea of nutrition seems to be well and truly endorsed by most fast food and junk food purveyors.
Mind you, not all fast food has to be junk food. I offer the humble banana, apple and grapes as exhibits 1,2 and 3.Last edited on 8 September 2007 11:18 pm by
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NevD
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Posted: 9 September 2007 03:38 am |
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Are these smoothies always wholesome, Nir - or should they ever feature in your (soon to be serialised) Diary of Shame?
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Nir
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Posted: 9 September 2007 07:35 am |
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These days I do a food breakdown. The last two lines of the breakdown are Animals and Rubbish. At the end of each day I work out the percentage of calories I got from Animals+Rubbish combined and hope that it is 10% or less (but it usually comes closer to 20%).
Animals is for any 'lean' proteins from animal sources (including things like chicken breast - but also low fat dairy) - so things I don't have a moral problem eating but that Dr Fuhrman would like to see me limiting for health reasons. Rubbish is for things I shamefully eat despite knowing they have little nutrition merit (like the chewing gum I'm chewing rigt now) and these sometimes include non-vegan or non-vegeterian products if they are not lean (for example I would put a sausage in this category because, in addition to being an 'animal', it is also 'rubbish').
So, as my smoothies these days are made up of fruit and whey powder, the whey powder (being a low-fat dairy product) makes it to the 'Animals' line). Whey Powder isn't the healthiest thing I buy (and it certainly isn't the cheapest) but it is a concession I'm willing to make because it makes my smoothies so tasty 
Last edited on 9 September 2007 07:36 am by Nir
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OnceUpon-A-ThinGirl
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Posted: 9 September 2007 12:00 pm |
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| yeah but chewing gum is pretty low on the indulgence list, if you're going to indulge it might as well be gum instead of icecream
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Nir
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Posted: 9 September 2007 02:04 pm |
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| True. I can get 'a lot of mileage' out of 2.6 calorie piece of chewing gum. I've been chewing this particular peace for almost 5 hours. Does anybody else chew gum whilst they are asleep?
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OnceUpon-A-ThinGirl
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Posted: 10 September 2007 02:15 am |
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| I don't know that I've actually ever chewed the gum while I was asleep, but I have woken up to find that I've fallen asleep with a peice still in my mouth. I always give thanks that I didn't inhale it on a snore and choke to death in my sleep.
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Scribbler
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Posted: 10 September 2007 07:58 am |
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Becci Aryal wrote: A propos of nothing much:
... meals properly balanced between the four food groups: sugar, starch, grease and burnt crunchy bits.
I remember that in the documentary "Supersize Me" they made the point that fast food joints provoke a reaction similar to (maybe actually is, I can't remember how far they took it) addiction by feeding their customers carbs, cheese, sugar, and grease (again, if I remember correctly). So I would have to say that Pratchett is, as usual, right on target with his social satire. :) [I've read all of Discworld ;)]
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Ohm
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Posted: 10 September 2007 02:01 pm |
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Hiya Hyacinth, I never did manage to see "Supersize Me", although I have read a lot about the programme.
Along with the info you gave, I think a lot of us overdose (or used to overdose) on fast food because it requires so little chewing. We hav ereceptors in our jaw which are activated when we chew on hard food. If we live on a diet of processed food, which requires little or no chewing, our brain does not register the fact that we have eaten, so we consume more. So, we end up eating more than we should of a very high calorie food type - hence we are overweight. Well that's my potted theory, anyway.
The problem is that like Chrysoprase, a lot of people don't give a coprolith.
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