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Diabetes Support Forum, Advent Calendar 2015

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Yum!!
 
I love cheese and onion pasties. :D

I'm not surprised we have health issues in this country looking at some of the sh**e, er I mean occasional treats as part of a healthy balanced diet so far in the advent calendar.
 
Matt Cycle said:
I love cheese and onion pasties. :D

I'm not surprised we have health issues in this country looking at some of the sh**e, er I mean occasional treats as part of a healthy balanced diet so far in the advent calendar.
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That is the tragedy isn't it? All these things are freely available, and some families live solely on this kind of stuff. At one time I would have thought it was obvious how bad it was for your health, but various tv shows and documentaries over the years have shown that people really are oblivious to the harm such a diet can cause :( A complete failure by successive governments to ensure kids are brought up knowing about good nutrition and how to cook :(
 
I have to resolutely walk past Greggs every time we go into or come out of Tescos. And now, one of the grand-daughters works there - but fortunately she lives in Hinckley so I don't have that excuse to pop in! Do love their sausage rolls .....
 
Northerner said:
That is the tragedy isn't it? All these things are freely available, and some families live solely on this kind of stuff. At one time I would have thought it was obvious how bad it was for your health, but various tv shows and documentaries over the years have shown that people really are oblivious to the harm such a diet can cause :( A complete failure by successive governments to ensure kids are brought up knowing about good nutrition and how to cook :(
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I agree Alan and I also think todays sedentary lifestyles have a lot to do with it. Growing up in the 70's and 80's I had my fair share of eating rubbish, probably not as much and as often as todays kids, but crucially we were far more active. I know someone now who lives almost within sight of the local chip shop, which would be at most a 5 minute walk to get there yet he chooses to drive there to purchase artery clogging delicacies!! :(
 
Northerner said:
At one time I would have thought it was obvious how bad it was for your health, but various tv shows and documentaries over the years have shown that people really are oblivious to the harm such a diet can cause :( A complete failure by successive governments to ensure kids are brought up knowing about good nutrition and how to cook :(
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I think most people know it's bad for health - just not for theirs! Everyone thinks "it'll never happen to me".
And it wasnt the losing weight was a problem for me (pre cancer and diabetes) though it wasn't easy, but maintaining the weight loss. I lost weight 'cos I didn't want to be T2 like my brother - I obviously went wrong somewhere or I wouldn't be on this forum!

The national curriculum certainly used to mean children spent too much time designing food packaging rather than preparing and cooking food. The little dears might cut themselves/ be allergic to/give others germs...
I found those fussy eaters always tucked in when they had cooked it themselves.

Those of us brought up in the 50s and 60s definitely had a much more energetic and healthy eating lifestyle than the children of the early 21st century. A Milky Way was a treat for me

Grumpy old woman speaking!
 
I think some of the responsibility of teaching youngsters about nutrition and how to cook should fall to the parents or carers. One of my girls does and enjoys it, the other doesn't but found a man who does.
 
My mum taught all her children (2 girls and 4 boys) how to cook. It's a basic survival skill, all kids should learn it. 😱🙄
 
December 7th - I know you've been eagerly awaiting this one! Tasty Tripe and Onions! :D

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And for the veggies (would you believe it? 😱) Veggie Tripe! :D

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*Puke*
I remember giving my old dog Rosco tripe as a treat, I was the only one who could stomach dishing it up for him.
 
Stitch147 said:
*Puke*
I remember giving my old dog Rosco tripe as a treat, I was the only one who could stomach dishing it up for him.
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It's thoroughly disgusting 😱 My Dad once gave me and my sister tripe as kids - I tried one bite and that was enough! Yuk!!! 😱 I used to have a friend who worked in a butcher's and he was addicted to raw tripe - couldn't stop eating it! 😱
 
I was brought up in the days when you ate everything put before you, no fuss. But my mother used to cook tripe for my father, who liked it, and it was the one thing she didn't make my sister and me eat. It used to remind me of those crepe soles on a Clarks sandal.
 
The DF and I couldn't bear to look 😱
 
I had tripe soup in Poland and it was very good. Mind you the tripe in gelatine did require the assistance of a shot or several of vodka.
 
My dad (whom my mother used to cook it for, we all had something else) used to call it 'stewed knitting' - cos in a piece it does closely resemble garter stitch that's been in the wash!

Pete used to give his Lurchers 'green' tripe - looked like cowshit, smelled like cowshit apparently, dogs used to love it, ate a pound of it in under 10 seconds. (However NB you shouldn't feed it to any dog regularly - scours their own stomach linings.)

You know sometimes, I am really pleased that I wasn't his first wife .....
 
Talking of tripe I hope I'm not pre-empting one of your advent doors Alan but my Dad used to go on about when he was a child having 'chitterling and bag' from the butchers - chitterling was the pigs intestine (and you can just imagine what has been through that) and the bag is another part of the pigs innards either the stomach or the bladder! 😱 Disgusting to even think about it, never mind eat it. Absolutely offal. 🙄 I'm glad I'm a veggie. 🙂
 
In France, gesiers are an absolute delicacy .........
 
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