Waitrose, sugar, scones and healthy eating

No food is unhealthy. There are only bad diets.

I have just eaten a slice of DGD delicious birthday cake, full of sugar, fat and white flour. It was psychologically good for me, recalling the happy weekend we have just had together and as part of a day's food intake that included 7 portions of fruit and veg, wholemeal bread and some chicken and cheese was part of varied and healthy day's eating.

crazy-funny food?

I think I just might describe it as something somewhat more Anglo-Saxon.....

Well I could certainly go for the sliced panini stuffed with butter and chocolate. Not very diet friendly or healthy though!

Mary apple your food looks gruesome ! Cauliflower Pizza have a laff

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Now look what you've all done - made me lust for scones with butter and jam- gonna have to have one!!

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Porridge with maple syrup and a handful of grapes, yum!
Made with jumbo oats, half milk / half water in microwave 90 seconds -simples

I put prunes AND figs in DBH's. I had to, otherwise he never got out of the house in the mornings!

I do occasionally have prunes with my porridge, not milk or sugar.

Now that really does keep you going

Yes, it's complicated, even fruit has it's own natural sugars. unless somebody has a weight problem or dietary need, the old word moderation comes into play.
on the porridge thing........ we have this about twice a week, made with semi-skim milk and served with a bit of extra cold milk ( as Soutra says, a moat) and a spoonful of either brown sugar or a good trickle of golden syrup.
if you have a busy morning, it keeps you going for ages.

Yes, there is sugar in a raisin, but in a raisin you get calcium, vitamin C, Iron, Vitamin B6, and magnesium. Plus fibre and protein.

There's an awful lot to this nutrition business and it's all quite complicated, I used to think it was only about the taste and life was so much simpler then - but I got fat.

JBF, exactly the way i like my porridge.

No. I'm just thick.

@jinglebelletc. - "I don't do grams." Prefer doing things the hard way?

Yes, Rosequartz :

tsp = 5g
dsrtsp = 10g
tblsp = 15g

I have a half-teaspoon measure - and then I get a recipe that requires a quarter-teaspoon of something! I just guess...

I have porridge most mornings made with water, topped off with a handful of blueberries and raspberries and a teaspoon of Manuka honey. Yum.

Porridge made with milk? NEVER --- Oats, water & salt (to much for my own good). delicious, just finished mine.

Porridge made with milk?

Pinhead oatmeal, water pinch of salt and cooked in the slow oven overnight produces perfect real porridge. DH has his with a pinch of salt and the milk in a separate mug as befits a man who spent his formative years in the extreme North East of Scotland. A Borderer, I prefer a little soft brown sugar and a moat of milk round my porridge.

with not will

Sassenach porridge.

Actually, I hardly ever eat porridge, usually only what's left when DD makes it for her kids. She never measures the cereal and milk (she makes it will whole milk) so the amounts depend on how steady her hand is in a pre-coffee morning blur). No sugar in that but I might add some raisins.

Can't remember when I last made porridge. Several centuries ago anyhoo.

I don't do grams.

I put very little sugar in scones and I would have thought carrots and dried fruit would add more.

Pumpkin scones are very nice (I have never made them, only eaten them)

I am still having difficulty thinking in grams
Getting old ....

Do 5 grams = a teaspoon?