Low fat food, I don't want it but it's all they sell.

nilagin said:
I'll drink semi skimmed at a push if no skimmed is available, but "normal" milk just tastes rank. Like fat it makes me gag. :eek:
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I'd love to see what straight from the cow does to you. I love it, but then again I spent most of my youth in farm communities. However, saying that, I like my milk ice cold.
 
dejongj said:
I'd love to see what straight from the cow does to you. I love it, but then again I spent most of my youth in farm communities. However, saying that, I like my milk ice cold.
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Absolutely. Has to be ice cold.
 
nilagin said:
I'll drink semi skimmed at a push if no skimmed is available, but "normal" milk just tastes rank. Like fat it makes me gag. :eek:
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Same here though I prefer fruit juice, preferably with a tot of rum :rolleyes:

Just thinking, does anyone drink Rum and Black anymore ? :thinking: I remember that's all we drank back in the late 70s
 
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Semi skimmed is like water as well. Ruins a brew.

It's hard work to find non homogenised milk, I've given up now. Even waitrose don't always have it. Milk does not need processing.
 
Nod said:
I sometimes wonder what the criterion is for something to be described as "Low Fat". I would have said that 4% was pretty low fat as it is - maybe the marketing department simply lob the Low Fat label onto the regular stuff and charge a premium for it or am I being too cynical?
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This is from memory so I may have the numbers wrong but....

"low fat" is less than 10% fat
"lower fat / reduced fat" is at least 30% less fat than the average fat content of a standard version

So 4% fat cottage cheese is low fat but not reduced fat, 1% cottage cheese is both but they only tend to label it as reduced fat, 30% fat hard cheese can be reduced fat but not low fat. Full fat milk is a low fat "food".
 
viv1969 said:
Absolutely. Has to be ice cold.
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All my drinks are ice cold, skimmed milk, coconut milk, protein shakes, protein shake smoothies and water. I don't do warm or hot drinks.
 
nilagin said:
All my drinks are ice cold, skimmed milk, coconut milk, protein shakes, protein shake smoothies and water. I don't do warm or hot drinks.
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Colour me shocked ;)
 
POAH said:
why do you drink protein shakes, do you not eat properly?
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I weight train to increase muscle mass, I find it impossible to keep up the high calorie intake necessary by food alone. Sometimes it's just easier to knock back a shake instead. But yes I do eat properly.
 
nilagin said:
I weight train to increase muscle mass, I find it impossible to keep up the high calorie intake necessary by food alone. Sometimes it's just easier to knock back a shake instead. But yes I do eat properly.
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you'll be getting enough amino acids by eating food alone, protein shakes are the worst for calorific intake as protein is the last thing metabolised.
 
Keith W said:
So I ask the ASDA sales person if they could help me find the lamb, they went past all the other meat sections to a section designated just for halal "Here you go sir" she said - I said to her do you not sell any other lamb other than halal? She mumbled that's all they had
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Not this again...
 
My local Tesco only sells reduced fat creme fraiche. Not putting that in my goulash.

Luckily Ocado sell Rachel's Organic full fat creme fraiche and it's lovely.

Hopefully the trend will reverse now the research has revealed sugar (which reduced fat food is often full of) is the problem, not fat.
 
POAH said:
you'll be getting enough amino acids by eating food alone, protein shakes are the worst for calorific intake as protein is the last thing metabolised.
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Just to maintain my body weight, I require 160g of protein. Having just done a quick search that is on average. That amounts to almost 4 chicken breasts, or almost 7 tuna steaks per day. As I said, I find it hard to be able to or find the time to eat that amount. It is much easier to drink a whey protein shake which is more readily absorbed anyway.I've been weight training for 26 years over 36 year period (10yrs off due to an injury and lost interest) I've tried just eating to provide it all or normal protein shakes and it only got me from a 9.5 stone 16 year old to a 13.5 stone 34 year old. Since restarting weight training around 8 years ago I have supplemented my meals with whey protein shakes and I now (bordering on 53) reside at 15 stone and still have a 31" waist, but my body shape is more muscular and stronger than at any point when I was younger.
Llamaman said:
Do what Ranulph Fiennes does - eat butter.
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I detest the taste of butter.
 
Llamaman said:
My local Tesco only sells reduced fat creme fraiche. Not putting that in my goulash.

Luckily Ocado sell Rachel's Organic full fat creme fraiche and it's lovely.

Hopefully the trend will reverse now the research has revealed sugar (which reduced fat food is often full of) is the problem, not fat.
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Creme Fraiche in goulash? Creme Fraiche? ??? :eek: ;)
 
nilagin said:
Just to maintain my body weight, I require 160g of protein. Having just done a quick search that is on average. That amounts to almost 4 chicken breasts, or almost 7 tuna steaks per day. As I said, I find it hard to be able to or find the time to eat that amount. It is much easier to drink a whey protein shake which is more readily absorbed anyway.I've been weight training for 26 years over 36 year period (10yrs off due to an injury and lost interest) I've tried just eating to provide it all or normal protein shakes and it only got me from a 9.5 stone 16 year old to a 13.5 stone 34 year old. Since restarting weight training around 8 years ago I have supplemented my meals with whey protein shakes and I now (bordering on 53) reside at 15 stone and still have a 31" waist, but my body shape is more muscular and stronger than at any point when I was younger.
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pics or your muscles never happened lol
 
POAH said:
pics or your muscles never happened lol
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Only photo I have is 4 or 5 yrs old. I was about 14 stone 3lb then.
I reckon the only photos of me will mainly be school photos. :)
 
I'm starting to work on mine at home but I doubt I'll ever need extra protein, just trying build up a bit of definition. Cycling takes care of the legs but arms are pretty scrawny.
 
POAH said:
I'm starting to work on mine at home but I doubt I'll ever need extra protein, just trying build up a bit of definition. Cycling takes care of the legs but arms are pretty scrawny.
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Just don't expect it to happen overnight.
Something I've been using recently is a couple of bits of rubber called Fat Gripz. They fit over the hand grips of dumbells or barbells or even the handles on cable machines. They are designed to work the forearm at the same time but I've found as you have to squeeze them hard to maintain your grip it also improves on the workout you are giving your biceps and triceps.
Although my upper body mass has increased I don't know if my legs have just got left behind or have shrunk. They always look smaller to me than they once were. It's not as if they don't get trained and I have had remarks of having legs like tree trunks (obviously not large mature trees) bu tit's usually from people that don't really work on their legs much, so compared to them they may well look big. I do however, struggle to find jeans that fit my legs that aren't about 3 or 4 sizes to big around my waist.
 
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Llamaman said:
Hopefully the trend will reverse now the research has revealed sugar (which reduced fat food is often full of) is the problem, not fat.
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I doubt it as the message which gains momentum often has little relationship to what is right and right or wrong what's being pushed now is an anti fat message and low fat everything is taking over the shelves.

I'm glad I'm not the only one angered by this.

Now, if only the low fat food fascists would read this thread and change their ways :D
 
Quoi?
 
Keith W said:
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Is there a problem??
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Possibly. Depends on why you don't want to eat the lamb because it has a halal label on it.
There was a lengthy thread on this a while back.
 
Have you got 'Milk & More' round your way? They have full fat yogurt...
 
I noticed the same thing happening with cordial-type drinks, it's getting harder to buy the normal version as they all become "sugar free", our food and drinks seems to be getting more and more bland by the day. I wonder if the artificial substitutes put in our products are actually any safer for us anyway? I have a sweet tooth and nor do I have diabetes and yet I've always remained a constant 12 stones for years no matter what I eat, I'm willing to bet that as our food become fat and sugar free then I start to suffer for it!
 
Aspartame aggravates my asthma so I have to avoid sugar-free products. It tastes rank anyway so no big loss.
 
Llamaman said:
Aspartame aggravates my asthma so I have to avoid sugar-free products. It tastes rank anyway so no big loss.
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Too much Aspartame is bad for you and will have you living on the loo ( I wonder if that accounts for a certain ex-member ;) ). A lot of sugar free products use alternatives now.
 
nilagin said:
Too much Aspartame is bad for you and will have you living on the loo ( I wonder if that accounts for a certain ex-member ;) ). A lot of sugar free products use alternatives now.
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I knew xylitol had a laxative effect but didn't know aspartame did.
I avoid them all anyway as they taste nasty.
 
Daysleeper40 said:
Have you got 'Milk & More' round your way? They have full fat yoguft...
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No, never heard of them.

I tried Tesco today and it was the same as ASDA with lots of no or low fat yogurt but they did have one whole milk one so I bought it. I'm annoyed that it's 65p more than the no fat one though.

This move to stocking mostly low fat stuff annoys me.
 
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I think round my way rather than full fat yogurt they'll need an armed escort.
 
woof woof said:
No, never heard of them.

I tried Tesco today and it was the same as ASDA with lots of no or low fat yogurt but they did have one whole milk one so I bought it. I'm annoyed that it's 65p more than the no fat one though.

This move to stocking mostly low fat stuff annoys me.
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It is a delivery service - old school milkman that also delivers other stuff.


http://www.milkandmore.co.uk/home
 
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