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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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I'm not on a diet - as if! - but I'm trying to replace artificially sweet things with natural sweetness, but all I've come up with is berries in unsweetened low fat Greek yogurt & fruit but it's boring. Any other suggestions? I like to snack rather than cook.  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Sweet potato thinly sliced and baked, cherry tomatoes, carrot batons, baked chickpeas. That's what I snack on apart from fruit."
I'm leaning towards that kind of thing myself, probably going to get sunflower seeds too |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I'm not on a diet - as if! - but I'm trying to replace artificially sweet things with natural sweetness, but all I've come up with is berries in unsweetened low fat Greek yogurt & fruit but it's boring. Any other suggestions? I like to snack rather than cook. "
Artificially sweet things ie those sweetened with non sugars but "cheat" chemicals that trick your tongue and nothing else will be considerably better for your diet than fructose based sweet things (fruit based sweetness) |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Have a look at the Hemsley Sister recipes. They substitute flour for things like ground almonds or coconut flour. The idea is no processed sugars and good fats. |
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Agarve nectar is a great low gi alternative.
Tastes good and natural.
Get some good quality organic peanut butter spread on oatcakes and have some Agarve on top.
Nom nom
I use soda water and low sugar cranberry juice for drinks.
Porridge oats and Agarve.
Dark chocolate instead of regular.
Still high in sugar but full of antioxidants |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Nakd bars are nice.banana one lovely
They do a cherry bakewell one, which is the shit!
Not tried it.quite dear for size of them"
Oh totally! H&B do them in the penny sale though |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I'm disappointed that on a swingers site nobody has said 'i'm naturally sweet, you could eat me'
But also relieved because I love healthy snack suggestions yo! |
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"I'm not on a diet - as if! - but I'm trying to replace artificially sweet things with natural sweetness, but all I've come up with is berries in unsweetened low fat Greek yogurt & fruit but it's boring. Any other suggestions? I like to snack rather than cook. "
Google 'unicorn fruit bark'. It's very similar to the above but frozen so you get an ice-cream texture. Very yummy. And more interesting than just fruit and yogurt. |
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By *ewxpMan
over a year ago
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I'm gonna go with the dried figs, it's been mentioned a couple of times so far but my goodness, they are sweet and delicious.
They roast nicely too if you cook them with chicken or something... I'm off to the shop |
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"I'm not on a diet - as if! - but I'm trying to replace artificially sweet things with natural sweetness, but all I've come up with is berries in unsweetened low fat Greek yogurt & fruit but it's boring. Any other suggestions? I like to snack rather than cook.
Artificially sweet things ie those sweetened with non sugars but "cheat" chemicals that trick your tongue and nothing else will be considerably better for your diet than fructose based sweet things (fruit based sweetness)"
Is that saying aspartame et Al are better for you than naturally occurring sugars? |
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By *D40Couple
over a year ago
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"I'm not on a diet - as if! - but I'm trying to replace artificially sweet things with natural sweetness, but all I've come up with is berries in unsweetened low fat Greek yogurt & fruit but it's boring. Any other suggestions? I like to snack rather than cook.
Artificially sweet things ie those sweetened with non sugars but "cheat" chemicals that trick your tongue and nothing else will be considerably better for your diet than fructose based sweet things (fruit based sweetness)
Is that saying aspartame et Al are better for you than naturally occurring sugars? "
my protein.com do lovely flavour drops which boost flavours in yoghurt. I do a muffin type cake which involves oats/grated apple/mashed banana/sweetener/eggs/baking powder & either frozen berries or sultanas in. I also do some interesting things with a crumpet
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"I'm not on a diet - as if! - but I'm trying to replace artificially sweet things with natural sweetness, but all I've come up with is berries in unsweetened low fat Greek yogurt & fruit but it's boring. Any other suggestions? I like to snack rather than cook.
Artificially sweet things ie those sweetened with non sugars but "cheat" chemicals that trick your tongue and nothing else will be considerably better for your diet than fructose based sweet things (fruit based sweetness)"
I'd rather take my chances with natural fruit sugar than poison myself with aspartame. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I'm not on a diet - as if! - but I'm trying to replace artificially sweet things with natural sweetness, but all I've come up with is berries in unsweetened low fat Greek yogurt & fruit but it's boring. Any other suggestions? I like to snack rather than cook.
Artificially sweet things ie those sweetened with non sugars but "cheat" chemicals that trick your tongue and nothing else will be considerably better for your diet than fructose based sweet things (fruit based sweetness)
Is that saying aspartame et Al are better for you than naturally occurring sugars? "
In terms of diet yes vastly.
No evidence has ever been found for them to have negative health effects in humans. (Studies where they injected the equivilent of 100+ liters of the strongest artificially sweetened into a mouse are not medically relevant)
And they do not contribute to obeasity, blood sugar or insulin levels, so no hunger inducement shortly after consumption.
They don't taste as nice as balanced sucrose though.
But then niether does high fructose alternatives |
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By (user no longer on site)
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St Dalfour jam on Burgen bread is delicious - made with fruit and no sugar.
Nuts, fruit, coconut pieces, carrots and cherry tomatoes.
A small piece of 70% cocoa chocolate. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I'm not on a diet - as if! - but I'm trying to replace artificially sweet things with natural sweetness, but all I've come up with is berries in unsweetened low fat Greek yogurt & fruit but it's boring. Any other suggestions? I like to snack rather than cook.
Artificially sweet things ie those sweetened with non sugars but "cheat" chemicals that trick your tongue and nothing else will be considerably better for your diet than fructose based sweet things (fruit based sweetness)
I'd rather take my chances with natural fruit sugar than poison myself with aspartame. "
So youd rather take something (fructose) which is proven to cause health problems (not just obeasity it causes damage to blood vesseles and cells in general) than aspartame which despite massive numbers of studies has never been found to be dangerous.
The only time they've ever got negative effects is in non human studies simply because trialing that quantity on humans wpuld be unethical and completley impossible via consumption...you'd actually die from.water toxicity in the amount you'd drank before youd get anywhere close to a possibly harmful level of aspartame |
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"I'm not on a diet - as if! - but I'm trying to replace artificially sweet things with natural sweetness, but all I've come up with is berries in unsweetened low fat Greek yogurt & fruit but it's boring. Any other suggestions? I like to snack rather than cook.
Artificially sweet things ie those sweetened with non sugars but "cheat" chemicals that trick your tongue and nothing else will be considerably better for your diet than fructose based sweet things (fruit based sweetness)
Is that saying aspartame et Al are better for you than naturally occurring sugars?
In terms of diet yes vastly.
No evidence has ever been found for them to have negative health effects in humans. (Studies where they injected the equivilent of 100+ liters of the strongest artificially sweetened into a mouse are not medically relevant)
And they do not contribute to obeasity, blood sugar or insulin levels, so no hunger inducement shortly after consumption.
They don't taste as nice as balanced sucrose though.
But then niether does high fructose alternatives "
That's really interesting. Never seen this argument from someone I'd consider to be a health conscious person. Will have to do some research.
I know high Fructose corn strip is horrendous. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I work with a few dieticians and the general consensus is that fruit isn't as great as everyone would think. Grapes and bananas for instance, high in natural sugars, which can send insulin levels to sky rocket. Fruit juice and smoothies are another thing that they don't recommend - The liver just can't process such a huge hit of fructose all in one go.
I'd be curious to know all the science behind it. |
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