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consultant31

jennyred wrote: »

breakfast
nothing - had long lay in with papers and a cuppa til 12!

dinner
home made brusetta
-chabata bread (small piace) HEB
-tomatoes free
-red onionfree
-olive oilfree

spag bol
-onion free
-peppersfree
-mincefree
-tin tomsfree
-spagetti HEB
-curly wurly 6 syns

tea
hmmmmm not sure yet
feel so full from dinner - prob boiled eggs and toast free and some sins for toast - not sure how many

will have a glass of milk before bed to make sure I get in an A choice.

Bread is around 3½ syns per 28gms (depending on the type)

What I noticed about your menu here, is that you have olive oil down as free when it's actually a HEB, so that, in fact, you've had 3 HEBs today.

Cleosmum

consultant31 wrote: »

Bread is around 3½ syns per 28gms (depending on the type)

What I noticed about your menu here, is that you have olive oil down as free when it's actually a HEB, so that, in fact, you've had 3 HEBs today.

Has this changed? It says in my book that only extra virgin olive oil can be used as a HEB.

northernlass_2

Cleosmum wrote: »

Has this changed? It says in my book that only extra virgin olive oil can be used as a HEB.

hi cleosmum,
i have the new red and green book and it says in there you can only have extra virgin olive oil as a HEB.
it doesnt say anything about chabatta being a HEB. chabatta bread is 28g is 3.5 syns

Snaggles

Sorry to disagree (because I don't really like doing ) but I would say 2.5 litres was really the maximum you should drink, rather than 'at least' that much. You do need plenty of water, particularly if the weather is warm, or you have done a lot of exercise, but drinking too much can actually be dangerous, and can lead to low salt levels and water intoxication - people have even died from it, including one fairly recent case of a woman dying after taking part in a water drinking competition to win a Wii.

The advice to drink 2.5 litres apparently came from an article in the British Medical Journal in to 1940s, but the article was saying this is how much the body needs in total per day, so it includes the water content in all your food, and even coffee, tea and alcohol.

Cleosmum

northernlass wrote: »

hi cleosmum,
i have the new red and green book and it says in there you can only have extra virgin olive oil as a HEB.
it doesnt say anything about chabatta being a HEB. chabatta bread is 28g is 3.5 syns

No chiabatta bread is def syns not a HEB, but really querying the olive oil because Im sure that olive oil is syns, its extra virgin olive oil that can be used as a HEB.

Snaggles

*stares dreamily into space and thinks about ciabatta and olive oil.......:drool:*

northernlass_2

Cleosmum wrote: »

No chiabatta bread is def syns not a HEB, but really querying the olive oil because Im sure that olive oil is syns, its extra virgin olive oil that can be used as a HEB.

yup olive oli is 2 syns per tsp or 6 syns per tbsp

Cleosmum

Snaggles wrote: »

Sorry to disagree (because I don't really like doing ) but I would say 2.5 litres was really the maximum you should drink, rather than 'at least' that much. You do need plenty of water, particularly if the weather is warm, or you have done a lot of exercise, but drinking too much can actually be dangerous, and can lead to low salt levels and water intoxication - people have even died from it, including one fairly recent case of a woman dying after taking part in a water drinking competition to win a Wii.

The advice to drink 2.5 litres apparently came from an article in the British Medical Journal in to 1940s, but the article was saying this is how much the body needs in total per day, so it includes the water content in all your food, and even coffee, tea and alcohol.

General advice now is to have about 2 litres, which can be made up of squash, tea, coffee, fruit teas etc. I agree with drinking more fluid when on a green day otherwise all that pasta can sit, but its really important not to over do it, very dangerous. I find its better to follow your body and its ques, for instance if you are feeling thirsty then your body is already dehydrated, you need to get in with a drink before you feel that thirst. I recently tried a week of drinking at least 2 litres of water and it was awful. I was tired, had headaches and was really nauseous so I cut it back to my normal amount and just had an extra glass of water and was fine, its finding whats right for your body.

If you are on the scan bran then make sure you have plenty of fluid, you do not want that sitting anywhere in your system :eek:

Snaggles

Cleosmum wrote: »

If you are on the scan bran then make sure you have plenty of fluid, you do not want that sitting anywhere in your system :eek:

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Indeed!

ZTD

Cleosmum wrote: »

General advice now is to have about 2 litres, which can be made up of squash, tea, coffee, fruit teas etc.

General advice about water is confused and not really based on a great deal of science.