Lovely organic porridge! Great price, normally £1.80.
14 comments
Vanderlust
12 Feb 16#1
Nice porridge, then you put milk in it which adds 10 to 15 grams of sugar and wonder why you have so much visceral fat around your distended belly. Some people even add more sugar or jam or honey to it!
But I'm eating healthy!
blue1971 to Vanderlust
12 Feb 16#2
Mmm sounds good,I add sugar,jam and maple syrup.
androo to Vanderlust
12 Feb 16#3
Much better off with a fryup then :wink:
benjammin316 to Vanderlust
12 Feb 161#4
Bit of semi skimmed milk is fine.
robodan918 to Vanderlust
12 Feb 161#6
Or just go soy/coconut/almond milk? Geez this is probably the most healthy breakfast cereal out there! High protein (add nuts and yogurt for more), and it tastes good.
Heat for great price. Would buy a truckload if I was near an asda, as I go through a box a week.
OB1 to Vanderlust
12 Feb 162#7
All sugar isn't equal.....
It's not right to equate naturally occurring sugar in milk with the various sugars found in fizzy drinks.
yrreb88 to Vanderlust
12 Feb 16#10
Yes ignore the 160 kcal of porridge and everything else. It's the 36kcal or 9g or so of lactose that's making you fat? What about people that eat porridge who aren't fat? Funny how some LCHF gurus recommend dairy and others don't, I wonder why it seems so controversial.
What will you be eating for breakfast?
Dodge62
12 Feb 16#5
Skimmed, semi-skinned or full fat milk all has the same amount of sugar - around 55g per pint, or just over half as much as "full fat" Coke. Depends what you mean by a "bit" really. If you make it with all milk, that's quite a lot of calories from sugar. If you make it from 75% water 25% milk, it's not so much. I use all water and just add a bit of cold milk on top afterwards.
Dodge62
12 Feb 16#8
Why not? OK, it's primarily lactose rather than sucrose or fructose, but it's still sugar.
Do you think there's something chemically different about the naturally occurring sucrose in pineapples and the added sucrose in Cocal Cola?
Of course milk and pineapples carry other nutrients which are missing from fizzy drinks, but there's nothing fundamentally different about naturally occurring and added sugar.
Dodge62
12 Feb 16#9
According to My Mate Google:
Cows' milk: 5g / 100ml
Coconut milk: 4g / 100ml
Soy milk: 3.3g / 100ml
Almond milk: 0g / 100ml
So almond milk would be best, just don't go reading up about the carrageenan added to thicken it (for what it's worth, I'm sure it's quite harmless but some of the health nuts shun it).
I agree porridge is very healthy, I'd just encourage people to consider making it with water or part water rather than all-milk. I don't use milk, but I do add salt (bad for you), Splenda (sucralose - possibly bad for you) and fruit and nuts (good for you - at the moment at least) and I think it tastes great.
yrreb88
12 Feb 16#11
Yep sugar is sugar. Lactose and sucrose are disaccharides with lactose made of glucose and galactose.
OB1
12 Feb 16#12
But the effect on the body is fundamentally different, between a pineapple and a coke.....
Dodge62
12 Feb 16#13
Well that's true. A lot less caffeine and a lot more fibre in the pineapple. Perhaps you meant "All sugar-containing foods aren't equal" - I couldn't disagree with that.
yrreb88
12 Feb 16#14
How about a banana and coke? Practically the same GI and GL as each other. :wink:
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But I'm eating healthy!
Heat for great price. Would buy a truckload if I was near an asda, as I go through a box a week.
It's not right to equate naturally occurring sugar in milk with the various sugars found in fizzy drinks.
What will you be eating for breakfast?
Do you think there's something chemically different about the naturally occurring sucrose in pineapples and the added sucrose in Cocal Cola?
Of course milk and pineapples carry other nutrients which are missing from fizzy drinks, but there's nothing fundamentally different about naturally occurring and added sugar.
Cows' milk: 5g / 100ml
Coconut milk: 4g / 100ml
Soy milk: 3.3g / 100ml
Almond milk: 0g / 100ml
So almond milk would be best, just don't go reading up about the carrageenan added to thicken it (for what it's worth, I'm sure it's quite harmless but some of the health nuts shun it).
I agree porridge is very healthy, I'd just encourage people to consider making it with water or part water rather than all-milk. I don't use milk, but I do add salt (bad for you), Splenda (sucralose - possibly bad for you) and fruit and nuts (good for you - at the moment at least) and I think it tastes great.