an Apple a day...

[Jonsi]

Stupid Question probably but ...

I was never a big fan of eating fresh fruit but I do like a good apple once in a while. DS Nursie told me to increase my fresh fruit intake so I have. I now eat one or two apples a day (previously it might have been one or two apples every couple or 6 months!)

Is this a good thing to eat as a snack between meals? It's usually 6 hours between breakfast and lunch and another 6 between lunch and evening meal [calling it dinner just sounds wrong].

Apart from nuts (which I also eat as a snack but they're still in the shop atm) what else is there that I could manage as a snack at work instead of apples/other fresh fruit?

 

[Owen]

You could dice it into Greek yoghurt, they will slow down any potential spike, also makes the yoghurt sweet

 

[Owen]

Stupid Question probably but ...

I was never a big fan of eating fresh fruit but I do like a good apple once in a while. DS Nursie told me to increase my fresh fruit intake so I have. I now eat one or two apples a day (previously it might have been one or two apples every couple or 6 months!)

Is this a good thing to eat as a snack between meals? It's usually 6 hours between breakfast and lunch and another 6 between lunch and evening meal [calling it dinner just sounds wrong].

Apart from nuts (which I also eat as a snack but they're still in the shop atm) what else is there that I could manage as a snack at work instead of apples/other fresh fruit?

Baby Bells

 

[Marsbartoastie]

Do you have a blender or a smoothie maker? I put fruit in a blender...perhaps an apple and a handful of grapes or some pineapple, frozen spinach and grapes or a small banana, strawberries and a little natural yogurt. A squeeze of lemon juice zings it up a bit. I then add water and blend to a smoothie. Now for the magic ingredient. I add a level teaspoonful of glucomannan powder (available online). It's just fibre so adds no carbs and it absorbs up to 50 times its own weight in moisture. Used in this way it turns a little fruit into about a pint of extremely thick smoothie. I take a bottle of this to work and sip through a thick straw when I feel I need something to eat...thought it's so thick you could actually eat it with a spoon. Because it's so thick it sits in the stomach for a lot longer than fruit alone. The extra fibre also seems to slow the rate at which the carbs in the fruit are absorbed. I based this idea on the fact that thick soup keeps you fuller for longer than the equivalent food eaten in solid form with a drink on the side. I have no idea if my super thick smoothie theory would stand up to scientific scrutiny, but I've taken one to work every day for over a year and my levels are all heading in the right direction.

 

[Jonsi]

Thanks Owen ...but I don't eat Yoghurts (unless they're blended in a Smoothie) and cheese makes me upchuck

Marsbar...I was told that smoothies were a no-no for me these days. In fact only this morning I was looking at it [the smoothie maker] on the worktop thinking I should either sling it or put it away somewhere. Might order some of that there powdered Steve McManaman then.😛

 

[Marsbartoastie]

I think that regular smoothies deliver all of their carb load very quickly and are therefore inadvisable. My cunning plan was to slow this to a nice, manageable steady trickle.

PS: Who the heck is Steve Macmanaman?

 

[Jonsi]

PS: Who the heck is Steve Macmanaman?

Steve McManaman is a retired English footballer who played as a midfielder & winger for Liverpool, Real Madrid and Manchester City.
I think he's now a football pundit for BT Sports and occasionally a thickener for soups and smoothies

 

[Owen]

Thanks Owen ...but I don't eat Yoghurts (unless they're blended in a Smoothie) and cheese makes me upchuck

Marsbar...I was told that smoothies were a no-no for me these days. In fact only this morning I was looking at it [the smoothie maker] on the worktop thinking I should either sling it or put it away somewhere. Might order some of that there powdered Steve McManaman then.😛

You really don't like much, insulin and oggies is the only thing left.