Hi everybody

[RustyGooch]

Hi all. I'm hoping to educate myself and make the most of this great resource ❤️

Currently setting up meal plans for my reluctant Dad after his 2nd heart attack and sort out my own cruddy dietary choices.

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[DavidG1971]

In no expert - but easiest change has been to have porridge for breakfast.

[Calliope153 in reply to DavidG1971]

so true, but after 18 months of every day the bowl gets more and more added to it - now have walnuts, Brazil nut, ground flaxseed, banana and -this week's addition - satsuma. Next week blueberries.......

[DavidG1971 in reply to Calliope153]

I’m going to try that. Sounds manageable.

[Lezzers in reply to Calliope153]

I have porridge every morning with blueberries, it's lovely. Have tried flaxseed and bananas, have never thought of walnuts or Brazil nuts, will give those a try out.

[Shoshov in reply to Lezzers]

mines is porridge with grapes. i know there high in sugar but i like them. just shoot me 🤣

[Lezzers in reply to Shoshov]

Grapes are too moreish, I cant stop at a handful. Bit like chocolate really, I've e nothing but admiration for those who can eat a couple of squares and put the rest in the fridge. I'd get my 10000 steps in a day just walking backwards & forwards to to the fridge! 😂

[Hidden in reply to Lezzers]

Luckily for me, I’m one of these folk who can quite happily eat 1 or 2 squares of chocolate and that’s more that enough for me 😌

[Lezzers in reply to Hidden]

I just dont buy chocolate unless its a special treat, then I can eat it all without feeling guilty. ☺

[Hidden in reply to Lezzers]

Ah yes same here... I’ll probably have a couple of small squares at xmas and then that’s it until Easter. Personally, I can’t resist fruit 🍉 for my sins 😊.

[cowparsley in reply to Hidden]

I`m like Lezzers,I just don`t buy it.I get all my sugar from Prosecco.It`s made with grapes so it`s one of my 5 a day.Actually it`s probably 5 of my 5 a day!!

[Calliope153 in reply to Lezzers]

My husband has banned me from the supermarket unless he is with me. I love chocolate and he will say very loudly when I go near the chocolate aisle to embarrass me "step away from the chocolate" and should i try to slide any forbidden item (sugar free gums count as sweets) into the trolley he spots it at the checkout and I am made to foot the bill for the entire shop and he adds 6 bottles of wine to it. I am tee total by the way.

[Lezzers in reply to Calliope153]

Kevin says exactly the same thing to embarrass me but I thinks that's because I'm embarrassing him by caressing all chocolate bars telling them I love them as we walk through the aisle!! 😂 The wines a nice touch, leave your cards at home next time, that'll teach him 😂

[Calliope153 in reply to Lezzers]

Like the devious approach....

[Sunnie2day in reply to Calliope153]

Have you tried raisins, peaches, or strawberries? It's not porridge without one of those three - bonus, no need to sprinkle on any sugars or maple syrup (yes, well, ok, the syrup is lovely...).

[Loving-life]

Hi RustyGooch welcome to the forum. For a one stop shop for dietary, nutrional information and fab recipes go to bhf.org.uk. just have a search round the site and you'll have all your meals sorted. Its surprising, by just making small adjustments to what you already eat you can still eat your favourite meals. Thank god for the BHF website 😁😁. Happy cooking 🥘🍲🥗

[Lezzers in reply to Loving-life]

Some great recipes as well, I've downloaded the BHF recipe finder app.

[RustyGooch in reply to Loving-life]

Hiya. I was amazed by the bhf website. So so much info on there and the recipes actually look decent.

[Sunnie2day in reply to RustyGooch]

Hiya and welcome, RustyGooch, and by 'decent', you mean 'possibly tasty', right? Add my voice to those vouching for the nice meals possible from those recipes.

[Loving-life in reply to RustyGooch]

I agree it's amazing.

[cowparsley]

Lucky Dad having someone sorting his meals for him.Good for you.

[RustyGooch in reply to cowparsley]

Gotta be done. It will do me good too hopefully and a good learning experience. Cheers Cow.

[cowparsley in reply to RustyGooch]

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[Khonkaen]

If we are talking breakfast, keep everything raw and preserve the digestive enzymes too to assist healing if over 25.

Banana, blueberries, rolled oats and either oat milk, or almond milk. Pretty tastyand as about as healthy as it gets. No pans to clean either.

Make you own milk even better. Everything on Youtube.

[Sunnie2day in reply to Khonkaen]

Please don't laugh - I'm Scottish and can't bear the thought of cold oats. I put the oats in a biggish microwavable Pyrex bowl for microwaving to perfection then add the fruit or other enhancements including a nice splash of milk. Still only one bowl to clean and the bonus is my breakfast is tasty and toasty warm

[Lezzers in reply to Sunnie2day]

As you know, my mum was Scottish & we were brought up on porridge but made the old fashion way. A big pot of oats on the stove, hours spent stirring it, so it didn't go lumpy and salt was added! Thank god for microwaves 😂 like you I have a small splash of milk and usually blueberries, but now gonna start reintroducing banana's, flaxseed etc.

[Sunnie2day in reply to Lezzers]

Microwave cooking one of the best inventions of the 20th century, ranks right up there with the electric dishwasher if you ask me!

And oh my do I remember those pots with porridge on the Rayburn - the rule was if you could see into the pot you had to give it a good stir as you passed the cooker, but only Mum or Gran could add the salt and caught rebels were punished by having to eat a bowl of over-salted porridge with no milk or fruit to ease the pain.

[Lezzers in reply to Sunnie2day]

How lovely to have had a raeburn, very cosy. I'm sure stirring the porridge was a form of punishment! And yes, nobody was allowed near the salt! I also remember my granny toasting bread over an open fire, I tried that last year with my wood burner....shan't repeat the experiment! 😂

[Sunnie2day in reply to Lezzers]

Did she have a cage? My grans called theirs 'toasters', lol. Ours (big family, we had twelve of those toasters - per gran so really, 24 total) were like gold in our house, huge fight between my siblings over who got them when the house was being closed. These many years later I still look at what pops up from the electric toaster as less than real toast for the lack of those grid marks on the bread.

Oh heck, now hungry for a second round of breakfast (porridge and toast) rather than the pub lunch my husband has promised me for today.

[Lezzers in reply to Sunnie2day]

Nothing so grand as a cage, it was done on a toasting fork! But something in the back of my mind remembers grid marks, I'll have to ask my sisters now.

It's a nice sunny day (well it is down here!) take the pub lunch, sit in the garden

[Sunnie2day in reply to Lezzers]

Nice up here for a change although rain appears likely for the later afternoon so we'll be headed down the pub in an hour or so. Our local does such a lovely lunch served through to 4pm that if we go around 2pm I usually don't need to cook in the evening (which really works for me!). Best of all, they cater for the coeliac and low-salt crowd (he's coeliac and I'm low-salt) so I never have to worry about him or feel guilty about me.

Forks, I remember those from camping trips - usually my bread fell off so I always hated those. The grans used to say we weren't grand, just practical. Every now and again someone would gasp at what they saw as something of an extravagance and both grans had the same response - 'We're nae grand, we're practical!'. I miss them both.

[Lezzers in reply to Sunnie2day]

That's really good that they cater for people with dietary issues, eating out is difficult. We haven't used salt in over 20 years so we really notice it in food. On Sunday we went to a large garden centre & had a meal there, I had jacket potato with chilli and the first mouthful felt like I'd eaten a whole salt cellar! Enjoy your meal and the weather while it lasts.

[Khonkaen in reply to Sunnie2day]

Yes, living in the tropics and southern Europe, I forgot about the weather in the UK. As long as you are getting you oats!!!!**%$ Fill your boots Jimmy.