Quick Questions on ANYTHING part 2. Please read first post for links to other threads

Rikki

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huxley40

thank you very much have saved it to favourites

champys

Sian - that was exactly what I was thinking. But it is difficult for me to tell him to drink less milk, because I don't drink any at all: he believes he is not drinking more than any normal British person.

So I'd like to know what is considered 'normal' milk consumption these days..... just to have a measure. The article doesn't say that either. If a pint a day is an average, I could maybe get him to reduce at least to that (he doesn't quite reach 2 pts, but it's more than 1.5 definitely). And maybe a pint a day is already high! Any idea?

Savvy_Sue

Drinka pinta milka day - or is it just me remembers that advert?

But that was always 'the equivalent' of - you get the good stuff from milk (calcium etc) in cheese, yoghourt etc.

When there are four of us in the house, we get through about 12 pints a week. That's 2 adults having cereal every morning, me drinking it in gallons of tea, and a ravenous teenager having a bowl of cereal or two filled to the brim with milk when he gets in from school.

does he WANT to lose weight?

Would he notice if you switched to skimmed?

rosieben

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champys

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

When there are four of us in the house, we get through about 12 pints a week. That's 2 adults having cereal every morning, me drinking it in gallons of tea, and a ravenous teenager having a bowl of cereal or two filled to the brim with milk when he gets in from school.

does he WANT to lose weight?

Would he notice if you switched to skimmed?

Thanks Sue, that is a useful statistic, and one I can use. If he gets through a good 10 pints on his own against 12 for a family of 4 than that is an impressive contrast.

Yes, he does want to lose weight, but he doesn't want to 'go on a diet'. My cooking has been named as the culprit for his weight gain in the past..... so I thought my cooking could undo the damage. Over the last year or so I have reduced portions, reduced fat to only a drop or a spray of olive oil, moved to eat vegetarian every other day, one day a week the main meal is just HM soup. Initially half a stone came off, but there it stayed! (I'm the one still losing weight, and I shouldn't.)
As he's not eating very much for a bloke right now, and pretty much only healthy things, it occurred to me that maybe it's the milk.

Skimmed is not an option - he buys the milk himself and is very particular about it - but I will have to convince him that his consumption is well above average.

Maybe I will line up the empty bottles every week with the calories in big letters in felt pen written all over them!

morganlefay

A quick question: when you bake a cake in a 'springform' cake tin, they tell you to let it stand for 10 mins, then take it out of tin - but do you prise the bottom bit of tin off the bottom, or leave it there ? If you leave it I suppose it will make the cake soggier (ie 'moist',) but what do other people do please ?

And re MILK: I trained myself to have only skimmed in tea etc some years ago, and it took me 6 months to get used to it, but now if I have a cuppa with semi-skim (let aone full fat) in it it tastes unbearably rich, fatty and cow flavoured, so perhaps he could get used to it with encouragement ! If he really wants to lose weight he needs to realise that even semi-skim milk is full of lovely calories !

PS - skim is still horrible in coffee though !

billieboy_2

morganlefay wrote: »

A quick question: when you bake a cake in a 'springform' cake tin, they tell you to let it stand for 10 mins, then take it out of tin - but do you prise the bottom bit of tin off the bottom, or leave it there ? If you leave it I suppose it will make the cake soggier (ie 'moist',) but what do other people do please ?

If it's a dense fruit cake it's usually quite easy to prise the base off. If it's a sponge type probably best to leave it on until it's cold or you risk breaking it. HTH.

Savvy_Sue

champys wrote: »

As he's not eating very much for a bloke right now, and pretty much only healthy things, it occurred to me that maybe it's the milk.

He might be drinking the milk to fill himself up if he still feels hungry. You might do well to look at one of the specific lose weight threads - there's an Old Style one over here, I believe, and an "I wanna" on the I wanna board, and on the Health board one to suit all tastes.

However, if he doesn't want to go on a diet, has he thought of moving more (aka exercise!)? Eating less and moving more usually work best together.

Wee_Bargain_Hunter

Hi, just about to make cauliflower soup but I have a couple of questions. Can I use a bag of yellow sticker uncooked cauliflower florets that I threw into the freezer the other day as they were starting to turn? Thanks, WBH