Dieting Tools

[The Barbarian]

I bought one of these the other day. Brilliant it is. Just chop up your veg, bit of seasoning, water & away you go 21 mins later on soup done to perfection..Dead right for you lunch.. Well built as well & best of all it has Orange trim :eyebrows:

:thumbsup:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Morphy-Richards-48822-Soupmaker-Black/dp/B00844D5FG

[struth]

or you could just use a pan:eek:

[struth]

actually been toying with getting one of those for a while as i always end up making way too much and giving it away. it may save me money

[PaulStewart]

Andre, is it about soup, which is always good, or is it about dieting? 'Cos one can always put spuds etc., in the soupmaker which kind of negates it as a weight loss tool. :) However, I have been seriously dieting for a year, in the first 6 months I lost 2 stone, I was on a hormone called byetta, this is supposed to fool your brain into thinking you are full. Did not work for me 'cos lifestyle, ie when you had to take it before meals just meant it was agro. Before that, being diabetic I was on to 142 units of insulin a day and of course the more insulin you take the hungrier you feel and the more your body can convert sugars to fat, seriously viscious circle.

Enter the Cambridge diet and the pretty sensational Nutri Bullet. For the past 6 months I have been blending veg into soup, and this has made up the bulk of my meals. The Mrs and I got a Salter kitchen scale that reads out in calories and carbs not just weight, so we can be really accurate with this. The result? I have lost a stone a month for six months (so a total of 8), I have cured my body of it's insulin resistance, I now take just 10 units a day to maintain better blood gloucose than when I was on 142. Blended veg soup is the way to great loss, that and taking control of your health away from the quacks and being in charge yourself.

[Audio Advent]

For dieting, instead of mushing nice vegetables into a soup, eat the vegetable as is! Love a lightly cooked and crunchy broccholi or kale or some roast squash. Celeriac is brilliant in a salad, choped into chip shapes and boiled a bit till soft. Is soup really a way to diet? Big things of nice soup were half price at Tesco at £1.20 the other day, some fancy brand. Very nice it is and is devoid of cream and things, just veg, pulses, spices and water.

I think the best tool for dieting is a fork.... with the prongs removed.

Whilst I sympathise with all sorts of problems with loosing weight, I never understand all the things which stop you being hungry or which make you feel full. Simply learn to feel hungry so that it's no bother (and over time your appetite will shink naturally) and learn not to only use feeling stuffed full as your guide when to stop eating - do people really do that?? For people with normal health (so not including things like diabetes) dieting is just self control and habbit surely? If one really wants to do something then people will do it. Problems arise when they feel they should but deep down don't really want to. In such cases people need to up their motivation, make it a quite deep motivatioin rather than it just being a thought.

I'm off to eat some cheesecake I bought for 39p reduced from £3.50 .. wish I'd bought all 3 that were there!

[The Barbarian]

It's not all about dieting with me it's a lot to do with Speed cooking. I do not have time to be farting about with a pan cooking soup, i certainly wont buy tin soup. Soup is an important part of my diet at lunch time. I can make it up & take it to work.. This tool is a quick way of making perfect DIY soup in 20 mins.These are the points im trying to convey..

[PaulStewart]

Thanks for the attitude Sam, really helpful. Not

[Audio Advent]

:eek: No need to be rude in the third person... is there? Maybe there is? :lol:

No attitude - I simply don't relate to it unless there are medical problems.

Still, I wouldn't see soup as a tool for dieting, getting more veg perhaps, but not loosing weight. As Andre points out he uses it as a great way for making soup quickly and easily - does sound a great kitchen time saver.

Anyway... that cheesecake I mentioned. It's calling.

[Gordon Steadman]

I am one of those dreadful people that can eat like a horse, stuff the cream, chocolate, you name it and remain a stick insect. However, for the last twenty or twenty five years, I have suffered on and off from bad stomach trouble and panic attacks. Back when it first happened, it was suggested by one of the doctors that the blood tests showed that I had a problem with gluten. I couldn't see the sense in such new age stuff back then so continued on my merry way, stuffing cakes and bread as was my wont.

My wife's family seem disposed to diabetes. Her brother is on insulin and the rest are on denial and therefore not exactly slimmer of the year. Ronnie has been having pre diabetic symptoms for some time and, being Ronnie, has researched the subject until she appears to know more than all the specialists we have been to see. They have seen the results of her self treatment and just told her to carry on.!!

One of the things we have cut out is wheat flour. It's a right royal pain in the arse is eating gluten free. Things cost more and nothing cooks right. Eventually we have found ways to make decent bread, cakes and pancakes etc. but they really aren't the same.

However, along with the other stuff she is doing, she has returned to being the same shape she was when I married her - she has never been that large though, just gravity having its way here and there - and I have stopped having any stomach trouble and not a single panic attack except the one time I weakened and had some croissants.

We have a friend here who is diabetic. After seeing her results, he started our diet as well and has lost enough weight to allow the surgeons to fix his hernia and has cut his treatment levels in half.

Yes, we eat well anyway, the garden feeds us and fruit and veg fill the freezer for the winter months. We never eat pre processed food. I still stuff the cheese, eggs and cream but also have loads of nuts and white meat with the occasional steak making it's way onto the plate. We, or rather I, consume one bag of sugar every two or three months. I just have one spoon in coffee.

It is easy for us to a degree as we are now retired and have plenty of time to spend on the preparation of our food. However, it is definitely worth taking it seriously, I reckon the worst thing that human's ever did was start to farm wheat, our systems are just not properly adjusted to it, even after all these generations.

[Macca]

I don't think gluten is the bogeyman it is made out to be but no doubt some folk have issues with it.

A collegue of mine had serious stomach issues, had all the tests, was told it was gluten. Cutting it out made zero difference. Turned out it was a bad appendix but she suffered for about 6 months before the thing went critical and she had it out. Now she is back on gluten no issues at all.

[Tim]

Funnily enough André I have a pot of my favourite soup on the hob right now, yellow split pea Dal soup - totally gorgeous and very nutritious. Big soup fan also and have it most days for lunch, but I make it the long way. I do like the look of this gizmo though.

[struth]

Bingo. all this soup talk got my juices going so veg soup is on the hob. tried to make less this time and used a smaller pan...its pretty full doh. sweet pepper mangetu sweet potato onion leek potato herbs carrot seasoning and stock.

and before someone says spuds are fattening.;)
Researchers at the University of Washington examined the nutrients per unit cost of 98 vegetables. While dark green vegetables had the highest nutrient density scores, after accounting for cost, starchy vegetables and beans provided better nutritional value for the money.

One medium-size potato with the peel, in particular, contains just 110 calories, more potassium than a banana, and almost half your daily vitamin C with no fat, sodium, or cholesterol. Beans (a.k.a. legumes) are also powerhouses in potassium, as well as great sources of protein, fiber and calcium

[The Barbarian]

Funnily enough André I have a pot of my favourite soup on the hob right now, yellow split pea Dal soup - totally gorgeous and very nutritious. Big soup fan also and have it most days for lunch, but I make it the long way. I do like the look of this gizmo though.

Ive pointed out on numerous occasions to Marco i just do not have time in my everyday life to be slaving over a hob cooking dinners. This is the perfect tool to make healthy soups in 20 mins, the beauty is you just set it running no need to keep checking see of the soups burning on a hob..There is a built in blender that automatically blends up the veg during it's cooking cycle & you can choose between chunky soup or smooth soup, the alarm rings when the cook is complete ..I love Carrot Soup, this machine makes it to perfection..

[Tim]

That is the only snag with cooking from fresh ingredients, you do need the time to do it. Fortunately it's not too much of an issue for me and I find it quite therapeutic - music playing, glass of wine in hand and off I go :D
I would like to grow stuff in the garden to eat/cook too, but I don't have a garden . . . doh!

Good to use this gizmo rather than opening a tin any day.

[The Barbarian]

Bingo. all this soup talk got my juices going so veg soup is on the hob. tried to make less this time and used a smaller pan...its pretty full doh. sweet pepper mangetu sweet potato onion leek potato herbs carrot seasoning and stock.

and before someone says spuds are fattening.;)
Researchers at the University of Washington examined the nutrients per unit cost of 98 vegetables. While dark green vegetables had the highest nutrient density scores, after accounting for cost, starchy vegetables and beans provided better nutritional value for the money.

One medium-size potato with the peel, in particular, contains just 110 calories, more potassium than a banana, and almost half your daily vitamin C with no fat, sodium, or cholesterol. Beans (a.k.a. legumes) are also powerhouses in potassium, as well as great sources of protein, fiber and calcium

Spuds are cool The suns Photosynthesis provides us with Carbs, Carbs are our fuel if you like, cut this out you will have no energy this is summert dieters fail with.

[struth]

That is the only snag with cooking from fresh ingredients, you do need the time to do it. Fortunately it's not too much of an issue for me and I find it quite therapeutic - music playing, glass of wine in hand and off I go :D
I would like to grow stuff in the garden to eat/cook too, but I don't have a garden . . . doh!

Good to use this gizmo rather than opening a tin any day.

Ive a huge garden but its not really for produce fruit apart. but i grew veg in bags successfully and they were incredible.
my . so off to have it.tastes fantastical.

probably will get one of andres blender cookers though..looks cool

[The Barbarian]

Saving time again for me making Jacket tatters. Stab the tatter all over, cut a deep cross into the tatter on one side with a sharp knife. seven mins in microwave, turn it over same again seven mins. Then pop it in the oven for around 15 mins till the skin browns & crispy, perfect..the tatter will tear apart on the cross cut in it prior to microwaving..

With Carbs i tend to stick to the golden rule of no more than 100 grammes weight tatters, Rice, Pasta etc..

[walpurgis]

Spuds are cool The suns Photosynthesis provides us with Carbs, Carbs are our fuel if you like, cut this out you will have no energy this is summert dieters fail with.

Yup. I love a meal with good chips.

Mmm. Cornish fresh caught cod or haddock in batter springs to mind, wonderful with local peas & a big pile of freshly made crispy chips. Bugger diets. :D

[Gordon Steadman]

Yup. I love a meal with good chips.

Mmm. Cornish fresh caught cod or haddock in batter springs to mind, wonderful with local peas & a big pile of freshly made crispy chips. Bugger diets. :D

Everybody has a diet:)

We eat rather a lot, considering our size. Its all good stuff though and we can feel virtuous as well as fit:cool: