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[CLKD]

Did anyone see the programme a few nights ago about how much sugar we eat daily?  Fiona Phillips was going through food stuffs to see what might be in [mainly] processed foods.

I have a round of toast with butter, black T with 2 sugars for breakfast
mid-morning I have another BTw2Sugars and a chocolate eclair
lunch: can be cheese/crackers; hot pasta with fresh veg.; soup with toast; banana on toast or banana with cream poured over …..
mid-afternoon - BTw2Ss and a bun
evening meal usually made from scratch …….. so curry with rice; spagg boll.; fish/chips with vinegar and salt; chopped mixed veg. in hot pasta with tomato puree ……..

2-day I had half a slice of grapefruit covered in white sugar …….. Yummy 

We are going to check our ingredients for hidden sugars during the next few weeks to see what we eat without physically adding it.  DH has black tea or coffee with no sugar.  He eats a lot of fresh fruits which is something my diet lacks.

[dazned]

Yes it's amazing what prepacked/prepared foods have sugar in them ,soups,tomato ketchup ,beans, things you wouldn't expect !

[CLKD]

Baked beans are supposedly good for us  - however, like cauliflower, they makes me bloated with rather rude results 

I don't eat flakes except in emergencies.  I do eat chocolate in various forms.  Sometimes I open a tin of riced pudding.  We eat a fair about of cheese but wasn't aware that sugar is added 

[robotwars]

Did you see day break in january, this was all about how much sugar is in different items, it was amazing how much there is, Have you seen the new change for life campaign, they have stuff you can order that tells you what sugar is in what item I believe......

[CLKD]

Would save having to squint at the packaging in the stores  .  I plan to buy what we usually do and read the ingredients once home  …………… when DH makes tomato soup he doesn't add sugar  ………

[honeybun]

I cut out sugar in tea years ago....now it tastes sweet to me.
I don't think I take in much sugar at all as I dont eat anything sweet except a chocolate in the evening. If I have a box of chocs I only have two.
I do eat fruit but that's natural sugars I guess. I have a savoury tooth and always have had.

My daughter is a whole other story. She is currently on a healthy diet kick. She makes a lot of fruit smoothies which are great, she eats salads and fruits and veggies....
She is now in head down, third year uni mode, what keeps her awake to three in the morning...energy drinks.....about ten spoonfuls of sugar per can. I hate her drinking these things. Some students rely on all sorts of stuff to keep them going so perhaps I shouldn't complain.


Honeybun
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[Ju Ju]

If you cut down or cut out sugar as far as possible, including keeping down fruit sugars, you lose weight, feel better, teeth and gums problems improve, the threat of diabetes 2 recedes etc. You have to read labels, avoid processed food as much as possible and avoid snacking. Not easy, but I have done it, though the naughty stuff crept back in when I had gall stones as I couldn't keep the weight on. Back to my ideal weight now and I am having to be strict. I don't want to go back to where I was a year ago.

[littleminnie]

We are trying to cut down on sugar.  Asda's low sugar beans have the least sugar of all beans (even less than the weight watchers).  We have weight watchers spaghetti. Cut out cakes (only have 1 or 2 a week).  Just got to cut down on the chocolate now. 

[Kathleen]

Hello ladies.

I think I read somewhere that processed food uses salt as a preservative and therefore requires sugar to disguise the salty taste and make the food palatable! We all know that fresh is best but easier said than done.

Take care ladies.

K.   

[SueRoe]

I'm confused by the conflicting information we've been given (from different sources) over the last few years about the different types of sugars. Some say that all sugars are as bad as each other because of what they do to our pancreas/insulin levels; others say that fruit sugar (fructose) is absorbed more slowly than eg sucrose, has less of a wallop effect on our insulin levels and is therefore better for us. Certainly I have a more noticeable effect (ratty and hyper) from cakes and biscuits (probably sucrose/glucose) than I do from fruit (fructose). Also, at least with fruit we're getting fibre and vitamins which we don't from sweets and biscuits, unfortunately. I suppose the long-standing advice to eat unprocessed (fruit) over processed (biccies) is the best.

[Ju Ju]

As I was insulin resistant and was advised not to have more than 2 pieces of fruit a day and only to eat with a meal, not as a snack.

[Dancinggirl]

I have tried to cut out as much sugar as possible over recent years and it's amazing how the taste buds change - I now hate any sugar in tea and find anything too sweet really horrid. I can't eat any citrus fruits these days either - too acidic on my stomach and I'm worried about the effect they have on my teeth.
Having said this, I do think we should enjoy our food and not become too obsessive - life is short and as long as we endeavour to eat sensibly most of the time "a little of what we fancy does us good".  I think it's comfort eating that is the real danger.
I do try to make my own cakes so I know that I've used healthy fat (not saturated) and minimal sugar.  I also bought a good bread maker 18 months ago - the bread is so much better, there isn't any waste and I eat less.  The bread recipes use very little sugar or salt.
Dg x

[Dyan]

Recorded the programme,haven't watched it yet.
I don't have sugar in my drinks only sweetener in my first cup of the day.( got to taste something sweet when I wake up )
Sugar is meant to be bad for us, but, some say,  so are sweeteners 
I don't eat so much sweet stuff as I did,prefer to have fruit and cereal bars as snacks.
There's probably loads in a cereal bar
I was at my slimming class one week and this women kept going on about how much sugar there was in a banana and that she wasn't going to eat them anymore
She kept on & on &....................until this chap, who was diabetic, said " it's a different type of sugar and no good for me when my levels are low".
Thankfully this shut her up

[CLKD]

Your tutor in the slimming class ain't doing too good a job then!  1st lesson should be about what is in our food 

We use energy bars from walking shops which have less sugar in the bar then others but of course, name escapes me  - that's the name of the bar not the walking shop 

Sweetners are a waste of time    and with some ADs can be dangerous, Canderal is a no no with some.  Bananas are an all-round GOOD food.

[Hurdity]

CLKD!!!! You don't especially need to check your ingredients for hidden sugars in your diet yet - as this is likely to be minimal compared to the amount you are pouring directly into your drinks! No wonder you feel shaky etc and get low blood sugar! Looks like you are adding at least 6 teaspoons of sugar to your tea on top of what you are taking into your diet, adding to grapefruit etc If anything is likely to upset your blood sugar metabolism, and cause fluctuation in sugar levels this is! If you cut out all of this added sugar (and then also look for what hidden sugars there are in your diet) your body will thank you for it because you will stop getting spikes of sugar, insulin surges, and then crashes as the sugar runs out!!!! You are also eating a lot of refined carbs/sugars in the first part of the day which will only exacerbate the effect (spike of sugar then crash as you run out of energy....) 

I agree as Ju Ju says if you have insulin resistance it's best initially to limit all sugar including fruit sugar, and to cut out fruit juice, until you've sorted out your insulin levels. If you don't then I'm sure it's OK to have plenty of fruit - the Slimming World diet allows unlimited fresh fruit of most types.

The only way to cut out any (most) added sugar is to completely avoid all processed foods including pasta sauces and soups. Once you've stopped adding any sugar for a while all these bought things - even supposedly delicious Covent Garden soups - taste horrible to me, because they've got too much sugar in and that's all you can taste. I usually make my own soup but used to buy I a few of the tasty cartons for when I'd run out - but I don't think I found a single one that didn't have sugar in it!

In my case - I eat almost no processed foods, very little sugar, low fat, hardly ever have cakes, biscuits, puddings or sweets (maybe once or twice a week I'll have something in that category) do 3 exercise classes a week and I'm still not losing any weight and struggle to maintain the same weight 

Yes I agree bananas are good - I have one cut up in my porridge most mornings!

Hurdity x