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Sandypan

Just catching up again, here's the Jamie Oliver tuna pasta recipe - tweeked to be SW and MSE.
Jool's favourite Saturday afternoon pasta
1 red onion peeled and finely choppped Free
1-2 fresh red chillies peeled and finely chopped (or some chilli powder) Free
A bunch of fresh basil leaves (Love this fresh, buy pot from Aldi and keep it going on windowsill for as long as possible, current batch is regrowing nicely after beening cut) Free
2x 400g tinned tomatoes (Home bargains are doing cherry tomato ones at the moment that are delicious) Free
2x 300g jars of tuna (I use tinned in brine from Aldi) Free
Salt and pepper Free
Pasta - Rigatoni is good but have used penne or spaghetti or whatever you have got. Free
Zest and juice of 2 lemons (Again if not got any lemons in have used bottled lemon juice, the sort that comes in a lemon shape. Free
Grated Parmesan to taste or depending on if you have any HA or syns left.
Splash of Olive oil or Frylite in a pan cook onion, chilli and basil stalks on a low heat for 5 minutes. Turn up the heat and add tomatoes, tuna and salt. Break up the tomatoes and cook on a low heat for 20 minutes.
Meanwhile cook the pasta, when cooked drain, reserving some of the water and mix pasta with the the sauce with roughly torn basil leaves and lemon juice and zest. If needed loosen the pasta with a little of the pasta water and serve with sprinkling of Parmesan.

I think it is a delicious meal and make enough to have for dinner and take some to work for lunch the next day. The only ingredients that need to be counted are the olive oil and the Parmesan cheese - on extra easy.

psychopathbabble

frogga wrote: »

Morning People :j

I'm still managing not to binge so pleased about that

I am missing the fruit though. My friend said that Melon was ok so I'm asking the question to the experts...

I used to eat stacks and stacks of pineapple and red grapes which I was told from one of you are FULL of sugar so not such a great choice. Also I eat punnets of nectarines and peaches which I expect are the same.


So are melons any better? I had a big wedge of watermelon this morning and I could cope with that, it was ok. What about blue berries and raspberries? Are thay very heavy on the sugar? Because I really love them too?

Have a good weekend people.

Melons are a double speed food to so I would think they re ok... I'm not sure about watermelon though, and am at work so can't check my book.

There are a few fruits that are SS so ill try to remember to look at my book for you when I get home.

frogga

psychopathbabble wrote: »

Melons are a double speed food to so I would think they re ok... I'm not sure about watermelon though, and am at work so can't check my book.

There are a few fruits that are SS so ill try to remember to look at my book for you when I get home.

Thankyou matey :j

Someone at work said that grapes were SS as well, but maybe not the amount that I'd been troughing

beanielou

I eat a lot of melon frogga.
Dont cut out all your fruit just cut it down a wee bit at a time & see what happens.

psychopathbabble

Frogga, SS is super-speed foods, s is speed, and the following fruit has the SS or s next to them:

Apples
Apricots
Bilberries
Blackberries (fibre and filling too)
Black currants (fibre too)
Boysenberries
Star fruit
Cashew fruit
Cherries
Clementines
Cranberries (fibre too)
Damsons
Dragon fruit
Elderberries
Feijoa
Figs
Gooseberries
Grapefruit
Greengages
Grenadilla (fibre too)
Guava (fibre too)
Kiwano
Kiwi
Kumquats (fibre too)
Lemons
Limes
Loganberries
Loquats
Mandarins
Medlars
Melon all varieties
Mulberries
Nectarines
Oranges
Honey tangerines
Papaya
Passion fruit
Peaches
Pears
Pineapple
Plums all varieties
Pomelo
Prickly pears
Raspberries
Red currants (fibre too)
Rhubarb
Satsumas
Strawberries
Tamarillos
Tangerines
Tayberries (and fibre)
Ugli fruit
White currants


The following are super free but not speed foods so I would think they have a higher natural sugar level?
Bananas
Blueberries
Cape gooseberries
Custard apples
Grapes
Jambu fruit
Jujube
Lychees
Mammie apple
Mango
Mangosteen
Persimmon Sharon fruit
Pomegranates
Rambutan
Sapodilla


I have no idea what half of these are! If you want to eat less 'sugary' fruit then eat more of the first list.

Hope that helps

miss_independent

Hi All long time no see lol!

I've been back from Florida for two weeks, was in Florida for 3 wks so had nearlya month off SW. Came back and first WI lost 1.5lbs, 2nd WI was gutted to have maintained but its TOTM - I ate what I felt like eating for two days and I am now struggling to get back on track even though I know I want to lose weight. I'm just craving sugar really badly and being a coeliac I don't have many low syn options. And I'm starving probably due to totm!

frogga

psychopathbabble wrote: »

Frogga, SS is super-speed foods, s is speed, and the following fruit has the SS or s next to them:

Apples
Apricots
Bilberries
Blackberries (fibre and filling too)
Black currants (fibre too)
Boysenberries
Star fruit
Cashew fruit
Cherries
Clementines
Cranberries (fibre too)
Damsons
Dragon fruit
Elderberries
Feijoa
Figs
Gooseberries
Grapefruit
Greengages
Grenadilla (fibre too)
Guava (fibre too)
Kiwano
Kiwi
Kumquats (fibre too)
Lemons
Limes
Loganberries
Loquats
Mandarins
Medlars
Melon all varieties
Mulberries
Nectarines
Oranges
Honey tangerines
Papaya
Passion fruit
Peaches
Pears
Pineapple
Plums all varieties
Pomelo
Prickly pears
Raspberries
Red currants (fibre too)
Rhubarb
Satsumas
Strawberries
Tamarillos
Tangerines
Tayberries (and fibre)
Ugli fruit
White currants


The following are super free but not speed foods so I would think they have a higher natural sugar level?
Bananas
Blueberries
Cape gooseberries
Custard apples
Grapes
Jambu fruit
Jujube
Lychees
Mammie apple
Mango
Mangosteen
Persimmon Sharon fruit
Pomegranates
Rambutan
Sapodilla


I have no idea what half of these are! If you want to eat less 'sugary' fruit then eat more of the first list.

Hope that helps

WOW that must have taken ages to type out! Thanks ever so much matey :beer:

I would say there are only about half a dozen that I'd be willing/able to buy due to cost of such weird things I'd eat

Apples
Cherries
Grapefruit (Under duress)
Greengages
Kiwi
Melon all varieties
Nectarines
Oranges
Peaches
Pears
Pineapple
Plums all varieties
Raspberries
Rhubarb
Satsumas
Strawberries

from the first list, and

Bananas
Blueberries
Grapes
Mango

from the second list.

I am guessing that eating a whole punnet of nectarines would be considered too much, but how much fruit is sensible then, if it's a SS but still got sugar in it and that's what we're blaming for my gain? I'm getting worried/confused/paranoid about the whole fruit debate. It's good for me. It's a SS food. It's fruit for flip sake. But I have to be careful how much. So exactly how much is ok? Spell it out for me

frogga

Looking at the list again, it's all four on list 2 that I've OD'd on

Bananas
Blueberries
Grapes
Mango

I was buying a BIG bag of grapes and eating them everyday on the way home from work. Also possible I'd have a tub of pineapple and in Sainsbugs it's 2 for £3 so I'd buy and then eat both. I also have a banana everyday once I get to work.

Hmmmm

CH27

I now limited myself to 2 pieces of fruit per day.
I have a banana every morning & 50g of berries after dinner.

There are 71 calories in a nectarine. If you eat 6 that's 426 calories.

psychopathbabble

frogga wrote: »

Looking at the list again, it's all four on list 2 that I've OD'd on

Bananas
Blueberries
Grapes
Mango

I was buying a BIG bag of grapes and eating them everyday on the way home from work. Also possible I'd have a tub of pineapple and in Sainsbugs it's 2 for £3 so I'd buy and then eat both. I also have a banana everyday once I get to work.

Hmmmm

As beanie suggested, I'd cut down slowly. Eating a lot of grapes is still better than a load of chocolate for example, but when your weight loss starts stalling it might be an idea to look at what fruit and quantities you are eating. I think it's one of those thing s where there is no right answer, it's whatever works for you as an individual.