Daily Mail Live Below the Line Article

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Slinky wrote: »

We follow a mainly low carb diet, we often have full fat Greek yogurt for breakfast with cherries, blueberries or strawberries. Have eaten it almost every day for a couple of years now and still not fed up with it!

Good idea, off to strain some yoghurt now.

Have been eating Weetabix / Oatibix once a day instead of sweets all the time (carb load is 200kcal as opposed to the minimum 800kcal/day I was scoffing in the sweet stuff) but it just sits in my tum and makes me feel full for hours. Have been trying to stick with stuff that triggers a low insulin response, but my goodness it is boring...

JIL

JackieO wrote: »

I prefer lambs liver for its milder taste and love a real thick gloopy casserole of veg and streaky bacon with it,a proper winter warmer I find.What I have noticed that its rare to see a pork chop with a kidney in anymore,I used to love those.My late OH also liked to make kidneys on toast .He would cook them gently in a mix of bisto gravy powder and water and render the gravy right down so it was almost syrupy and then have it on hot buttered toast.

Offal is often overlooked in the butchers My DDs brother-in-law makes the most amazing chicken liver pates at Christmas which we usually have as a starter before dinner on New Years eve when we have a big family dinner party.Bless him he always makes a bit extra and I take some home with me.

Pork chops can nolonger be sold with the kidney attached. My mother still talks about it. I think it was down to the EU. In the 90s. I remember her being upset that the best part of the pork chop, the kidney would no longer be allowed to be sold on the chop. She still talks about it to this day.

NewShadow

JIL wrote: »

Pork chops can nolonger be sold with the kidney attached. My mother still talks about it. I think it was down to the EU. In the 90s. I remember her being upset that the best part of the pork chop, the kidney would no longer be allowed to be sold on the chop. She still talks about it to this day.

In case anyone is interested in the detail of the directive or the rational.

Lord Stanley of Alderley asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether the sale of pork chops with the kidney attached poses a risk to health; whether their sale is now prohibited; and, if so, whether this is by United Kingdom or European Community law.

http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1993/jan/25/pigs-kidneys-consumer-safety

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NewShadow wrote: »

In case anyone is interested in the detail of the directive or the rational.

I just had to follow the link

http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1993/jan/25/pigs-kidneys-consumer-safety

<<LORD CARTER
To put it another way, the inspector could take the kidneys out, shake them all about and then return them in a sort of porcine hokey-cokey. >>
I love it that the House of Lords has a sense of humour:rotfl::rotfl:

JackieO xx