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im trying to follow a good diet but would fish and chips once a month be a real bad thing. sometimes i just want a change.

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Calliope153 profile image
Calliope153

I found a local chippy that cooks in sunflower oil and so have fish and chips once every few weeks but don;t eat much/any of the batter. I feel very guilty but my cholesterol continues to stay below 4 - you can have vinegar but no salt! Enjoy!!

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Glasgowgirl1947 in reply toCalliope153

I agree I'm not fond of fish & chips as I don't like batter but really it's just there to steam the fish. I always love the smell then can't eat them. We buy lightly dusted Plaice, Pollock and Basa which most supermarkets including Aldi sell in the freezer section, oven chips are better than fried or make wedges, spray or sprinkle a little oil and season with pepper or chilli, they're delicious done in the oven. I don't think to have fish & chips once a month would make a huge dent in your diet

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Lezzers in reply toGlasgowgirl1947

I agree fish & chips smell nicer than they taste!! Bit too greasy for me unfortunately. definately prefer home made.

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Lezzers

Yep, salmon is really nice. Could also make home made chips, spray them with extra virgin olive oil 1 cal spray & cook in the oven, very tasty and healthy.

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jimmyq in reply toLezzers

You don't need any oil on them if you are cooking them in the oven.

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Lezzers in reply tojimmyq

How do you get them to have a bit of colour without oil? Mine always look anemic.

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jimmyq in reply toLezzers

Cook them longer.

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Lezzers in reply tojimmyq

Thank you. I've tried that but took too long. I'll stick with the spray.

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Rob6868 in reply tojimmyq

Then there burnt and half the size😁😂😂😃

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jimmyq in reply toRob6868

I like my chips "well done" 😆

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Lezzers

Hmmm, I'll try that if it ever stops raining!!

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MichaelJHHeart Star

Some plaices do a vegan/vegetarian version where the fish is tofu wrapped in seaweed before being coated in batter (egg free) and fried.

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Glasgowgirl1947 in reply toMichaelJH

This isn't fish & chips though is it?

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MichaelJHHeart Star in reply toGlasgowgirl1947

I know - it is what I saw advertised somewhere. This tofu version is more like a variant of Mars Bar in Batter! ☹️

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Glasgowgirl1947 in reply toMichaelJH

OMG I don't think they would be anything like a battered Mars bar although I've never tasted one despite my origins.

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Maisie2014

🤮that sounds disgusting Michaeljh. Plaices? 😂

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Lezzers in reply toMaisie2014

I'm a glad you said that, I wanted to say it but didnt dare!! Do you think plaice is deliberate!! ☺

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MichaelJHHeart Star in reply toLezzers

Indeed - pun intended. I have seen a chippy called "Golden Plaice"!

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MichaelJHHeart Star in reply toMaisie2014

I imagine it is - I cannot stomach tofu!

Wild Salmon GS?? I just think of that in a Tin lol.....!

Me too. You can't beat a Fish Finger Sandwich 😊

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Maisie2014

I keep buying it to try but can’t bring myself to cook it. I do not like fish but I eat baked cod from time to time to try to eat healthy. I sprinkle fresh rye breadcrumbs mixed with pepper and a small amount of grated Parmesan to mask the taste of the fish. It’s lovely. I cook chips in the actifry.

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Lezzers

Yummy mackerel, haddock, kippers, salmon, sea bass, you must try them sometime!! You’ve really got to get over your phobia about fish....jaws did not really happen 🦈 honest!

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Lezzers

Now that's an image I'll never recover from!!! 😱

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Prada47 in reply toLezzers

It could of been worse

Like licking the underside of a Nagasaki ditch diggers flip flop, now that would be really bad lol

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Lezzers in reply toPrada47

Now I'm scarred forever! 😱

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Janshageo

I think occasionally would be fine. What is your ldl cholesterol level. Like another person said why not make your own

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cowparsley

Go for it as long as it`s only once a month and doesn`t awake a ravenous beast in you.No backsliding after you`ve enjoyed your treat!

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benjijen

Eat it and enjoy it! It's once a month. You're eating 'healthily' for the rest of the time, just make sure you don't slide back into old ways!

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Janma123

Everything in moderation! It’s sugar that does the damage not fats. Fish is very healthy, maybe just don’t eat all of the batter!

We have a piece of fish each and share a portion of chips.

Enjoy!!

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Prada47 in reply toJanma123

Snap that's what we do, share a potion of chips my other half has a Fish I have a Steak Pie which is my treat because I prefer Pie to Fish !!

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Malgail

Balls, just do it. In the last couple of weeks my heart rate has risen by about 5-10 BPM, my sciatica is playing up, I constantly sweat & due to all of this my heart anxiety is up. At some point during all of this you just have to say balls & just enjoy something. So I had a lunchtime chippy yesterday with mushy peas & when ask ‘salt & vinegar’, I said a resounding ‘yes’.

It either that or I going back to 20 fags a day, because I’ll take the tablets & live most of my life like a monk, but I need something for me, so the odd naughty meal is going to stay. As my consultant told me ‘Don’t get too obsessed with the diet etc, just stop smoking, as it took over 40 years to block your arteries, it could take another 40 years to block them again’. A bit basic, but fair enough I thought.

in reply toMalgail

Brilliant reply!! 😊😊

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Plum53

I think it's fine to have now and then I think everything in moderation . Follow an heathy diet . I don't eat the batter but that's just me.

After all life is full of risks ... A tree could fall on you an accident could take you out who knows ( hopefully none of those) enjoy the life you have and if fish and chips once a month makes you happy so be it. Xx

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Healthyheart1

I second that. Just need the weather now lol😎

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dunestar

I don't make my own at home but whenever I spot a Harry Ramsden's I'm in there like a shot. The quality of the fish is brilliant, so much better than supermarkets. I don't eat the batter though and I limit the number of chips. The mushy peas are definitely the highlight.

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Kimkat in reply todunestar

And Harry Ramsdens cook in dripping, you’ll be pleased to know 😃

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MichaelJHHeart Star in reply toKimkat

The Happy Fryer in Holborn does as well. I visited occasionally on my way home when I was a commuter. Very old skool even down to the Formica tables. Amazing cross-section of people; cabbies, business people and the occasional celebrity but I never saw Elvis! 😁

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MichaelJHHeart Star in reply toMichaelJH

Oh, and beer batter!

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MilkfairyHeart Star in reply todunestar

Haha

I am not the only one. Mushy peas are a must.

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Andyman

Once a month is fine. It depends if once a month becomes one a fortnight once a week 2 times a week. We all know where that road goes. 😂😂

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Handel

Not going to get that out of my head!!!

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mistymolly

I bought an air fryer. I only use two dessert spoons of olive oil for two big portions. Chips take 45 minute to make but well worth the wait. Lovely with salmon. I have chips at least once a week.

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Sillyfroggy in reply tomistymolly

I’m toying with buying an air fryer, Molly...how like ‘real chippies’ are they? We do the in the oven, couple of squirts of rapeseed spray currently and they’re yummy. I personally wouldn’t trust myself to have fish and chips once a month. I’d get away with it, then my greedy brain would say ‘twice a month won’t kill you’ and before I know it I’m whizzing on the slope! My takeaway treat is a grilled chicken breast kebab, with pitta and salad. Feels dirty enough to qualify as takeaway, but not cataclysmically bad. KFC... ahhh...I miss you. My husband asked whether I could have the breast fillets and remove the skin. THE ONLY POINT OF KFC IS THE SKIN!!!!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂🙈🙈🙈

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Lezzers in reply toSillyfroggy

I’d be interested as well. I thought about buying an air fryer but I’ve got a halogen oven (which is excellent for cooking skinned chicken) and we either do the chips in it or in the main oven.

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mistymolly in reply toSillyfroggy

I like the chips and I don't feel guilty eating them.lol

in reply tomistymolly

Me neither ha ha! In fact, I'm going to go and have some over the Road now and eat them out of the Bag, lovely!! 😊

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mistymolly in reply to

Hope you enjoyed your chips

in reply tomistymolly

I did thanks. They were luscious....! 😊

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mistymolly in reply to

Us hearties have to treat ourselves

in reply tomistymolly

Definitely!!

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Gladwyn

Some chip shops here in my part of east Scotland have stopped using oil and have gone back to using dripping like they used to. Once in a blue moon I have fish and chips and thoroughly enjoy it. 😀

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Maisie2014

Air dryers are great for cutting down fat. I use an actifry. The chips are great. My grandchildren prefer these chips to any others. You only need one tablespoon of oil for a whole batch of chips. It’s also good for stir fries.

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series1

I have just ( half an hour ago) eaten my first fish and chips for 6 months. I should feel guilty but I don't, they were delicious!

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Rob6868

Captain "Gunsmoke " birdseye 😀😁😂😃

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jon2018

i think ill compromise and have a Mediterranean fish and some chips lol

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St3v3y in reply tojon2018

Fish and chip once a month isn’t a bad thing , surely. Everything is ok in moderation

Well thanks GS, lol. I had them, went down a Treat. Even had a Lolli after to wash it down with. My Cardiologist is great by the way but I always tell him the truth anyway so I think he's used to me by now ha ha!! 😊😊😊

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