While I make our bread and kefir, I’ve been buying yoghurt lately. It is a sugar-filled minefield in the yoghurt section of shops! So hard to find good full fat, unsweetened yohurt. I found one yesterday with “no added sugar” on it. Then, reading the fine print in the ingredients (needing good light and glasses 😑), I saw “sweetners” listed! I wonder how many people mistakenly think that is healthier? I finally found a nice pot of plain, unadulterated yogurt and left. Might be back to making it with the lovely, unhomogenised Jersey milk I can buy. P

Funny that. Milk (and cultures) only, as it should be. The fact that they use about 4pt text size and rename the sweetners makes it difficult for less cynical shoppers to make quick, healthy decisions.
My current projects:
Stop people smoking in non smoking zones
Stop people taking shopping trollies home and dumping them in the streets
Spread the word on food labels
P 🙄🙄🙂

Hi Purple

I have three brands of Greek yogurt in the fridge right now and none of them has sweetener or sugar. Tamar Valley is the tastiest, also Coles brand, and Farmers Union.

Just had my post fast day breakfast. Finished up a small salad of tuna, avocado, cold potato, green beans, olive oil, pepper, lemon. So yummy! I lost over a kg yesterday and will be very happy if even half of that stays away through the week.

Happy
Wonderful looking Christmas cake. I make mince pies most Christmas, maybe this year I will add in a cake. You and Amazon and Purple are inspirational cooks. 🍏🍏

Cheers, Bay 🌺🌺

But P, daylight saving means getting up earlier 🙁 It was dark again at 6am today – strangely felt like 5am. At least the blackbirds are singing.

Happy FD, Monday fasters.

Yes Barata, but at least when the sulphur crested cockatoos start screeching at 4:30am, the clock will say 5:30 ☺
HBC, I loved a sign the other day in the city, advertising “gluten free miso and sushi”. It should be naturally gluten free! It’s like writing “fat free and sugar free” on water bottles!
Bombard people enough with signs and your average dude will give up. 😉 Not us though!!
Mowing and weeding done. Now for feeding the plants, but not me 😉😉 P

Hi BB

The Tamar Valley full fat Greek yogurt has 5.2g. of natural sugar. I made a promise to myself to eat foods that are as close as possible to natural food, given health requirements of pasteurisation. So no trim milk or half fat yogurt and no added sugar. Same as I eat full sugar fruit, not dried fruit or sweetened fruit.

Cheers, Bay 🌺🌺

Fully agree that you cant have yogurt without lactose in it. I got the sugar content straight off the Tamar Valley website, unless its out of date? I went up and down the supermarket shelves looking for the highest fat content, in combination with the lowest sugar content. Jalna plain greek was the best I could find. And its gluten free, who would have thunk that??

Hi Fast Trackers and Hello World (You All know Who You ARE) 😉
Monday a top of 14 and a min of 5 and currently 8 deg. I have made a curried pumpkin and chicken soup for dinner am getting my masterchef on 😆
Hope all fasting fast trackers are getting the job done and keep on keeping on.

“It’s is easier to avoid eating than to stop eating once started”
Peace RT

I believe you, P. But as I say, lovely and creamy, and the lowest sugar on the shelf. All this talk of food… 🙂

P,

My butter has 0g of sugar so I don’t have to stop eating at 1.5kg?!

P, it’s minimum 80% butterfat. The label says 0g of sugar!

P, I’ll be honest, I’m not sure what to do with that information!

Morning/evening all,

Lots of lively chat while the NH slept 🙂

Firstly, faith, well done on your successful week, I too was busy talking cake (and thinking about how good it tastes)

Yoghurt,
I make my own as it takes a few minutes to heat the milk and 30 seconds to pour it into the machine which does all the work!. I buy Yeo Valley whole milk (for non UKers it’s an excellent brand of organic additive free dairy produce)and use the last of the previous batch as a starter. If I’ve been away I buy a small pot of YV yoghurt. Once it is made I pour off as much of the whey as I can without resorting to straining it and it is just as I like it with a mild and creamy flavour. If I use another brand of milk I notice the difference in flavour and consistency.
I don’t believe in fat free dairy as removing the fat also removes fat soluble vitamins A and E both of which are essential.

I read every label when food shopping and it is surprising how much added sugar lurks in the most surprising places and the number of names it goes under.

Bay thanks for the compliment, I’ve always loved to cook. My Mum taught me the basics when I was small enough to have to stand on a chair to reach the mixing bowl 🙂 I find it relaxing and when I’m busy in the kitchen I don’t think about anything else.

Curried pumpkin and chicken soup sounds delicious and I’m now going to spend my FD thinking about it 😬 😉

Have a good one everybody 😜

I’ll get in before RT, HCB…breast milk already comes in perfect packages and doesn’t need labels 😊

Hi Wee,

You can use semi skimmend milk if you prefer but whole milk makes creamier yoghurt. As for a starter any natural unsweetened yoghurt will do but I wouldn’t use Greek style. I always buy organic but that is a personal choice and I’m sure that your local supermarket own brand yoghurt would be fine. Once you get going you can use the last bit of your own for the next batch 🙂

Hi Team a good bouncy discussion in regards to well in the end breast milk and whilst I openly agree they do look much better on you ladies than some I have seen on us fellas ?? And dear yfee damn near had to go up to the school at recess time to breast feed our 5yo ( A slight stretch of the facts) but you get the idea to me it’s just like chicken and I pride myself a leg and thigh man 😉 with breast way overrated IMO.
Amazon the soup with it’s red thai curry paste base lime juice and chicken thigh one pot wonder a triumph as the boys move out and we have changed gears into good food cooked really well from a feed the masses in between school , sports practice , a casual job , homework , band practice , puberty , girlfriends , mates , gaming etc all done and dusted in ten minutes rather like alice in wonderland im late im late for a very important date in the house of the raising sons.!!! A challenge to get the family fed so we are embracing the opportunity to take control over our health and take ownership and responsibility for it.
‘forty is the old age of youth-fifty is the youth of old age’
Peace RT

Hi Why,

1lb or thereabouts is the average weight loss per week for a woman. You could lose more, or less, in any one week. Indeed Jojo just has lost considerably more. But I think it would be hard to average 2lbs per week over a long time period.

Happy I LOVE my ice cream but I think I will just stick with mint or honeycomb lol xx

Thanks guys . I never had a thermometer so I just used to bring it to the heat where it started to bubble . Then let it cool until it was warm on my finger . I will try it tomorrow and thank you so much again . I eat a lot of it and I would feel so much better knowing what was in it xxxx I used to buy thee easiyo powders a few years ago and I still have the containers and vacuum thingy but would rather do my own 🙂 xx

Hello,

Mrs Wee back home when kids were too many and money was short Mom used to use her fingers to temper the right temperature to add the plain yougurt. It worked fine but as kids we liked the supermarket brands better. All those colorful sweet containers still doing the trick still. Thanks Purple … I honestly will give it a try just to see what happens according to your structions.
Happy for a buck $$$ I believe people can do anything. Even Hillary or Trump’s milk would do the trick lol.
RT I haven’t me the Yfee! I thing you are a nice Dad and a “Okay” better half 👍.
Not much to report here! I did my 30 minutes on tread mill followed by 30 minutes of total body cardio from some old videos, organized the mountain of bills to to be paid and letters from when we were not here (OH refuses to do anything online), sorted out laundry.

Tomorrow is FD aaand cleaning the house to keep me busy and not thinking about some of the food you guys prepare better then I do. Don’t have the menu yet. The weather change and I change as well. I go crazy with soups. Will see 🍲🍲🍲☕️☕️☕️🍵🍵.
Talk to you soon 🍓

Hi Nama,

It sounds like life is just about perfect for you at the moment (except for the rain!). Thank you for sharing and spreading a bit of happiness!

Jo,

Happy Birthday from me too! How did last night’s weigh in and meeting go? Another good result I hope.

HCB,

Donald Trump’s milk?! Now if that thought doesn’t put us all off our food and fasting I don’t know what would!!

On that subject, I will be fasting tomorrow. I’ll be in an office all day, with no temptation, so it should be easy. Although since again this week my weight is nicely within my maintenance range, I’m forced to conclude that in the past it hasn’t been weekends by themselves that have done the damage but weekends + OH. Since I do the cooking, I’m either a feeder trying to fatten him up or I use him as an excuse to overindulge!

Hi everyone,

Happy Birthday Jo 🍏🍎🍑🍒🍓 🍉 😉 🎂 🎁🎉🎆

Enjoy your Indian meal and have a Naan bread. If you can’t allow yourself a treat on your birthday and all that……

I’m just home from the gym. I had a good workout but no time for a swim as I’m going to the Museum of London thi afternoon. Never been before and really looking forward to it 🙂

FD was an absolute disaster yesterday but that’s the way it goes sometimes.
Today will be more successful.

Have a good one everybody 😜

Or compromise and share a naan bread! They’re generally huge and far more than one person should attempt to eat as an accompaniment to a meal. I’m as guilty as the next person, but it occurs to me if they brought me the equivalent amount of normal bread to eat with my curry I’d most certainly refuse it!

Hi Jo,

Pleased to hear you’ve had a nice birthday. My mouth’s watering at the thought of onion bhaji now!

I hope your back gets better quick, it’s depressing and limiting I know! It does sound like you need to give your back a proper rest to let it heal now, so maybe lay off the heavy gardening work for a bit?!