Hugh's War on Waste

honeythewitch

NewShadow wrote: »

Yes, a reasonable meal is better than chips... but i think the point was eating a meal at 6 and eating the same meal at midnight makes little difference to it's nutritional value.

This study shows that "dinner time" hunger may be more about what time your head thinks it is, rather than the state of your stomach.

Related to the idea of regular meals, is the idea of regular family meals. This study suggests a number of positive social effects related to regular family meals.

And this one that increased frequency of meals (with the same total intake) may reduce cholesterol.

Then a few random quotes regards "don't eat after 6pm"

From WebMD:



From RealSimple.com:



From NetDoctor.co.uk:



From BBC News:


Conclusion: The fact is, what matters is what you eat, and how much, not when you eat it.

(with thanks to the good people at stack exchange that I have shamelessly ripped off)

I think most people who eat late at night have already eaten bits and pieces earlier, so eat more calories in total.

NewShadow

honeythewitch wrote: »

I think most people who eat late at night have already eaten bits and pieces earlier, so eat more calories in total.

Which may well be true. As might that people may tend to make worse meal choices if they don't eat until very hungry, and that people may also make poor food choices when eating mindlessly in front of the tv in the evening.

None of those statements relate to the original fallacy - "You would really think a chef should know better than to eat carbs late..."

meritaten

I have the - 'don't eat a big meal after 6pm' rule too. I found out quite by accident it works for me.
I gave up smoking and piled on the pounds (stones actually). then I got an 'evening' job and missed the evening meal which in my house was 8pm. as that was when OH normally finished his afternoon shift and just before night shift.
so I stoked up at lunchtime and just ate a sandwich or bowl of salad before I started work at 5pm by the time I came home at gone 11.00pm I was too tired to eat so went to bed - within weeks the excess weight was falling off! no matter how much I ate during the day - I was still losing weight. that was back in the late nineties and even now I follow that. eat what you like during the day, but fast after 6.00pm. and my weight hasn't increased in all those years.
oh and by 'eat what you like' - mostly healthy choices but some chips or fried foods would sneak in!

suki1964

Pollycat wrote: »

I agree about Nigel Slatsr.
Anyone else like Simon Hopkibson too?
He has a fab cheese & onion pie recipe.

That is a family favourite in this house.

I used to love a Greggs cheese and onion pasty till I saw this reciepe

Right proper food

Lance_De_Boils

Seems like this thread should be called Hugh's war on waist.

suki1964

missbiggles1 wrote: »

Given the split shifts that chefs work, eating late is something of an occupational hazard.

Just because you know something in theory (I'm sure many of us are overweight but know all about dieting:(), doesn't mean that you put it into practice.

Precisely

I was never overweight until I started cooking for a living

My work days I wouldn't eat enough to keep a sparrow alive ( well you know what I mean )

A shift for me is 10 till 10.

At 10 am we are prepping for lunch, lunch we are flat out.

We might get a bit of a lull before tea time specials around 4 ish so grab a break. Then it's flat out till end of service at 9 then an hour or so scrubbing down

I come home starved and tired so it's cheese and biscuits at 11 pm


I don't eat very much. I struggle to eat the average adult portion, yet I'm over weight because I eat high fat satisfying food late at night

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Having just watched the first programme I am absolutely appalled that a supermarket could reject such a huge amount of perfectly edible and nourishing parsnips just because they don't conform to appearance standards. Do the supermarkets think that their customers are completely stupid and will only buy uniformly shaped and sized veg? How terrible insulting to the british public and how completely wrong their policy is. We grow parsnips on our allotment, we get big ones, small ones, fat ones, thin ones, wiggly ones and perfectly straight ones and they all taste absolutely the same and I use ALL of them, this presumably applies to ALL other vegetables produced for the british market and the wastage must be unimaginable let alone the people who farm the land to grow the crops for us being put out of business by those same supermarkets, it's just not on is it?

tuskel

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Having just watched the first programme I am absolutely appalled that a supermarket could reject such a huge amount of perfectly edible and nourishing parsnips just because they don't conform to appearance standards. Do the supermarkets think that their customers are completely stupid and will only buy uniformly shaped and sized veg? How terrible insulting to the british public and how completely wrong their policy is. We grow parsnips on our allotment, we get big ones, small ones, fat ones, thin ones, wiggly ones and perfectly straight ones and they all taste absolutely the same and I use ALL of them, this presumably applies to ALL other vegetables produced for the british market and the wastage must be unimaginable let alone the people who farm the land to grow the crops for us being put out of business by those same supermarkets, it's just not on is it?

And indeed exactly what the Morrisons customers said in the program! I was really surprised that none of the farmers wanted to talk to him, though, and it seems that even the family that did, only did it because they knew they were going to pack it in anyway, so they could say what they wanted...

Towser

In the programme they didn't really go into detail how they could use up all the stuff that nearly needed throwing out apart from soups and smoothies.

Food has always been one of my biggest spends so I try to cut it down.

When I am using up stuff I have in the house I usually categorise most things into casserol, curry or spaghetti bolognese. Some weird things can end up in them but if I think they go together it's usually alright. As long as there is a protein, carbohydrate and vegetable in it. It should taste good.

If stuff really needs using up you can use a recipe finder and put in the things you have.

Towser

Rather than throwing out all the wonky food. I am sure there must be a whole raft of measures that can be taken.

For example supplying foodbanks, charities, get the prison bill down by supplying this wasted food to their kitchens. Animal feed ect.

Maybe someone should set up a Pound Shop for the fruit and veg world instead of the sweets and toiletries worlds.