So, this healthy diet stuff

[SilentAssassin1642]

okays

so, being as how i have a new pump, I want a newer healtheir diet (to stop the dreaded weight gain 😱)

so, I'm gonna try and cut out the chocolate

on the shopping list this week we've got tracker bars as a snack - they seem ok. I've also got some brazil nuts too - low carb and less fatty than alot of the others.

Any other ideas? Gonna go pick myself up some healthy snackage from the supermarked tomorrow, lots of fruit and salad.

Any other ideas? I want to completely turn my diet around and just have chocolate as a treat 🙂

 

[aymes]

I've been trying to cut down on the chocolate recently. My replacement snack has been dried fruit, particular favourites are dried pineapple and dried pink lady apple. It's the ones that are usually near the fruit and veg, not the crystalised stuff near the cake ingredients. You've still got the carbs, but not as much as the chocolate, and far fewer calories. I'm absolutely hooked on them, could munch away all night!
For those times when only chocolate will do I've stocked up on 'fun' sized bars, then at least when I indulge it's only a little bit!

 

[AlisonM]

Blueberries, I love blueberries, and raspberries, and brambles (blackberries). I occassionally buy some Eat Natural bars, they're a bit like Trackers, they're tasty and don't seem to drive up my numbers. I sometimes have some dried apple from the health food shop but that's really the only dried fruit I have as most of them contain far too much sugar. I can't eat too many nuts as I have react badly if I do. We have peas and beans growing in the garden and I keep snacking on them, they're great straight out of the pod.

 

[Copepod]

I know you said you wanted to buy things from supermarket, but, agreeing with Alison, somethings are better when you pick them yourself eg wild blackberries / brambles (hedgerow ones not ready yet); strawberries (over now), raspberries (different varieties ready at different times), blackcurrants, tomatoes, peas (raw or cooked), beans, sweetcorn (needs cooking) from garden / pots / growbags. We're half way through a reduced price (about 35p) coconut I bought last week, as an unusual treat.

 

[xejrl]

I've been buying sugar snap peas, avocado's (gorgeous on their own with a splash of balsamic vinegar) almonds and dried apricots as snacks. although you have to be careful with portion size with the dried fruit as it's concentrated and very high in natural sugars. I have maybe 3 or 4 apricots at the most, and only if I have a sweet tooth. I've found the apricots especially useful when trying to stay clear of the chocolate.. it's worked well so far 😛 Good luck and happy shopping.

 

[novorapidboi26]

Your all so good..........well done

 

[am64]

olives ....walnuts ...cant have the dried friut cos of sugar content but when cooking and chopping veg i eat bits raw...including the stems of the cauliflower we had last night which were very yummy ... celery is good for that