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Post by cowgirl on Sept 20, 2016 12:56:08 GMT
Hi
do you have your family on a low or no sugar diet ?
I do not think mine have that many sweets. It is the hidden sugars that I think are a concern in our family.
I try my best not to use Dolmio prepared sauces and store bought pizza etc
We are trying to do scrambled eggs, omelettes or baked beans rather than cereal in the mornings.
Orange juice - my kids literally would each drink a litre each day. I think i read once it contains as much sugar as coke ? is that correct.
Only Greek yogurt bought and no Muller yogurt etc
I am not buying biscuits, cakes, OJ and switching to low sugar baked beans.
Any other suggestions ?
Got to be better for my increasing waist line !
Kids drink loads of squash - anything to replace this ?
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Post by serrakunda on Sept 20, 2016 14:41:07 GMT
I've switched from cereal to eggs for breakfast, porridge if I have time, though Simba still has Weetabix or cornflakes. He also has fruit juice in the morning though he usually dilutes it with water. Yes it has huge amounts of sugar in it. Would they drink juices made from vegetables - carrot etc, of maybe flavour water with some slices of apple/orange or lemon/lime ?
I think its very difficult now to avoid sugar completely, unless you are cooking everything from scratch, because of all the hidden sugars.
In the winter I do have a lot of soup but always make my own. I use passata, or just tinned tomatoes, instead of Dolmio type sauces and add my own herbs
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Post by elderberry on Sept 20, 2016 17:29:17 GMT
Sadly this is not the world I live in. DD won't eat anything I make from scratch, so all our sauces are full of sugar. But to be honest, given the amount of cake, biscuits, sweets, cereal and ice cream she eats, and even boxes of icing sugar spirited to her bedroom and eaten off a spoon, the amount of sugar in processed food is very far down my list of concerns.
(Second day of my diet today!)
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Post by cowgirl on Sept 20, 2016 17:52:34 GMT
Well Elderberry I talk a good talk ! Serra - for years I've heard about over night oats but only just got my act together. Im amazed how sweet it is when just add dried fruit, milk & oats They are fine but initially I thought yuk. One recipe I read had 4 days prepared & only used fresh fuit for day 1. Yhis has made me eat breakfast as I run out of time for porridge www.skinnytaste.com/skinny-overnight-oats-in-jar/ |
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Post by sooz on Sept 20, 2016 20:55:31 GMT
I've been trying to follow a 1 ingredient rule. Snooz seems to understand this.
So, for example, I showed him a cereal bar and said 'what do you think is in this' . He tried to read the ingredients but obviously some of the stuff I can't even pronounce, then I asked him what it was (neither of us had any idea). I asked him to tell me how much sugar was in it, how much salt....etc... We then tried to calculate how much that would look like on a teaspoon.... It was all done in a 'wow isn't that interesting' way.
Then I showed him a cucumber, I asked him what ingredients he thought was in that......
I'm waffling, but basically it made him think about what he was eating, and that if he has something with 1 ingredient he knows exactly what he is eating. It puts a bit more responsibility on him rather than me only. I said we could still have the odd thing that wasn't just 1 ingredient.
Maybe if you could show them how much sugar is in stuff? Like a science experiment?
Snooz was putting on weight even so, I was getting concerned, but having recently reduced his meds he seems to be losing it, so I've probably gone overboard on reducing sugar and fat! (We still have the odd burger and fries)
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Post by mudlark on Sept 21, 2016 11:32:48 GMT
Anything about diet is of interest to me, as I have had ongoing issues with food ever since our two arrived. They only eat processed food, fish fingers, chicken nuggets, waffles, nothing cooked from scratch by me, they will eat a limited selection of fruit and veg. I am a vegetarian and eat a very healthy almost no sugar diet almost the complete opposite to my children!
Lapwing craves fat and sugar and they make her happy when she eats them, I know fat and sugar release oxytocin in the brain and give a short term emotional high, which I suppose is why all of like eating chocolate or crisps at times.
They don't have sweets and they hardly ever have cake, but when Lapwing is allowed something high in both sugar and fat like a dougnut she is eats it like she has been starved for weeks. I but xylitol which is sugar made from birch bark has a very low GI and they have that on their porridge, but I know full well that what they want, especially Lapwing is fat, fat fat, and sugar , sugar, sugar! What other ways are their to achieve the same 'emotional high' for them. Excercise is one and we are always out and about but doesn't seem to have the same pleasure rush for her!
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Post by sooz on Sept 21, 2016 14:19:22 GMT
Rings very true here too. Snooz literally craves high fat high sugar! So hard xx
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Post by loadsofbubs on Sept 22, 2016 9:49:38 GMT
the smalls are the same, but much more recently removed from the daily bathings in sugar that they lived on previously. they will eat 'normal' food hand made from scratch but give them the odd microwave meal when i'm pushed for time or occasional maccy d and you'd think they were in heaven! liquid sugar is reduced to almost zero (ie drinks) and sweets cakes etc were rare treats over the summer but now they're back in school with school dinners they get a pudding every day so are back to wanting pudding with every meal! gave them a drink at frankie and bennies the other day which I hadn't realised was almost completely sugar and the effect was quite profound, big particularly was literally drunk, her balance went, her voice became raised and high, she laughed (cackled!) at everything, she looked 'high', small was similar. but that said they still behaved better than the little ankle biters at the next table that were allowed to shout and scream and jump off chairs, lie down on the floor obstructing the staff etc. so wasn't all bad. did show though that sugar is really not good for them!
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Post by runmum on Sept 22, 2016 11:21:34 GMT
Yes almost all of us need to eat less sugar but what we need is a balanced diet. Get the NHS Sugar App - it's free and you can download it at this link. The aim is to stick to 6tsp free sugar/day as a max. (Technically it's 7 for adults but so much easier if all the family work to the same target with this one.) www.nhs.uk/sugar-smart/home Check food labels if the app is playing up- low sugar is <5g/100g. Some products will show the traffic light symbols in which case look for green However DO NOT fall into the trap of thinking you can eat as much fat as you like. This is absolutely not what the current science shows. The jury is still very much out on saturates and the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition is currently reviewing all the high quality evidence out there. They may well say some saturates are ok but they are not going to say eat as much lard as you like!! Fat has more calories gram for gram than anything else. So eating too much is not great for your waistline either. There is no need to be low carb either - just low sugar and try to make sure as much of the carb food you eat as possible is wholegrain - the scientific evidence for the benefits of 30g fibre/day with fibre coming from variety of sources including wholegrain is very compelling for reducing risk of heart disease cancer and stroke. That said if you want to do low carb for a couple of weeks to kick start some weight loss it will work if you can do it. Just don't stay low carb permanently - you will struggle to get enough fibre. Some low carb fans tell us it's easy and sure if you eat lots of Chia seeds etc you can. However the science seems to show something about whole grains is important. Hope this helps - stay healthy and enjoy food |
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Post by serrakunda on Sept 24, 2016 20:24:00 GMT
hmmm, I let Simba go to the fair with his friends,
5 doughnuts later........
I think someone would struggle with the concept of sugar free
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Post by leo on Sept 24, 2016 20:58:22 GMT
Do the four marshmallows I've just eaten (having returned Hurricane to bed for the third time so far tonight) count as low sugar? Thought not.
My boys are actually far more driven by carbs than by sugar, as am I really despite the above! Mine would eat porridge, pasta, rice, bread... all day and night given half a chance.
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Post by corkwing on Sept 25, 2016 11:21:34 GMT
Meanwhile there is a nurturing value for our children to be provided with warm, sugary drinks (think breast milk).
It's never easy!
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Post by elderberry on Sept 26, 2016 19:44:56 GMT
It's when I go to the adoption support party, as I did yesterday, and watch a room of adopted children dealing with food that I realise that even in that environment my DD really has more of a sugar problem than most. She was just walking around helping herself to every biscuit and cake she could find, sneaking back to get more and more and more. And complaining she felt sick all the way home.
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Post by serrakunda on Sept 26, 2016 21:00:45 GMT
I dont know how Simba wasnt sick after 5 doughnuts.
though it was quite entertaining, in a mean mummy way, to watch him try valiantly to down a bag of pop corn later on
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Post by cowgirl on Sept 29, 2016 10:22:35 GMT
Runmum thank you very much. Lots of very useful help I usually do online shopping as I find it helps my budgeting but I went to Aldi this week. Armed with your 5% rule runmum  I put various things back. Mind you a few minutes away from the shop I had major buyer remorse thinking of those yummies foods I'd left behind  I do have the NHS app but a quick look at the Aldi traffic light system was quicker A third world problem eh ! I am currently chomping my way through a punnet of raspberries. Need eating today as on the turn. Good news is that the punnet is almost 3 of my 5 a day of veg/fruit Sort of Bad news is that sugars equate to 4.6g per 100g so by eating the punnet that is almost 9g of my 30g sugar in take one gobble Looking at the NHS website I should not have more than 30g of sugar a day. I think I have that right |
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Post by runmum on Sept 29, 2016 21:15:07 GMT
Yes 30g for adults but it's less for children so i usually stick with the 24g about 6 tsp for everyone over 7. The rules relates to FREE SUGARS i.e. any sugars added to food or drinks, or found naturally in honey, syrups and unsweetened fruit juices - but not fruit. I know it's confusing but it's because we know that populations that eat lots of fruit and veg have lower incidence of disease like cancer and heart disease so there is something in there that's helping although we still don't really know what. However I would say you need a good spread of vegetables in your 5 a day as well as fruit because it's important to have variety - as many different colours as you can manage - green and leafy, red, black, orange, yellow, purple etc Enjoy!
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I put various things back. Mind you a few minutes away from the shop I had major buyer remorse thinking of those yummies foods I'd left behind 