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what are your favourite fast day nibbles?

PostPosted: 25 Apr 2013, 08:52
by Abigail 77
Week two fast day two for me today! I think fasting would be a breeze for me if I didn't work some days as a cook! Last fast day I had a buffet to prepare....My favourite kind of high calorie indulgence! Rather then cancel my fast day and over indulge I decided to work through it! Happy to say I did it! My secret weapon? A bowl of Silverskin picked onions! 50g for 11 cals! They are also great at stopping a sweet craving so I will be having those again! Similarly pickled gherkins are great too! I have also discovered Aldi sugar free jelly is just 40 calls for a pint made up so I can even have some pudding for 20 cals. It's very true what they say- necessity is the mother of invention! What has anyone else found as a low cal treat?

Re: what are your favourite fast day nibbles?

PostPosted: 25 Apr 2013, 08:57
by TML13
Rice cakes, sugar-free jelly, carrot and cucumber sticks, broth made of stock cubes and I'm thinking that when summer comes I could make popsicles with diet coke or other sugar-free drinks.

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PostPosted: 25 Apr 2013, 09:02
by GrumpyOldKev
Celery sticks for me - virtually no calories at all (less than 20 in 100g) :-)

Re: what are your favourite fast day nibbles?

PostPosted: 25 Apr 2013, 09:07
by foreveryoung
I am a savoury person and find that oxo cube soup at just 7 cals a cube keeps me going on my fast days. Sometimes I drink it instead of having coffee or fruit tea.

Re: what are your favourite fast day nibbles?

PostPosted: 25 Apr 2013, 09:09
by dominic
TML13 wrote: Rice cakes...


Whaaaaaaaaaat! Did you see this? Guaranteed to make you hungry I would think?! I agree with the other stuff though. Personally I don't nibble at all on fast days, I think it's safest...

Re: what are your favourite fast day nibbles?

PostPosted: 25 Apr 2013, 09:12
by lizzyo
I find chopped up melon and grapes are great to refresh my palate and keep me going.
In the long, cold winter it was a cup of bovril that did the trick... :heart:

Re: what are your favourite fast day nibbles?

PostPosted: 25 Apr 2013, 09:15
by TML13
If I tell you what I think about nutritionists my post will be censored, LOL! I find them absolutely filling and delicious!
Although I hear people saying that carbs make them hungry, they fill me up for quite a long time. In fact, they are they only food that does that!!!

Re: what are your favourite fast day nibbles?

PostPosted: 25 Apr 2013, 09:38
by Abby
Quark! Protein with only few carbs and fat. Unfortunatly, difficult to find good quark in the UK. The Sainsburies is okay, somtimes I have seen good tasting Quark at Lidl... Use a good blender and blend the quark several minutes. Add some berries (when it is hot outside I prefer frozen berries), some lemon juice and a half banana (some friends of mine add a bit of sweetener instead of the banana).
Should look like that: http://www.germanfoods.org/images/typical/typ_snk_fruchtquark.jpg
The most delicious and healthy desert I know and keeps me full for half a day!

Re: what are your favourite fast day nibbles?

PostPosted: 25 Apr 2013, 10:04
by Pip
dominic wrote:
TML13 wrote: Rice cakes...


Whaaaaaaaaaat! Did you see this? Guaranteed to make you hungry I would think?! I agree with the other stuff though. Personally I don't nibble at all on fast days, I think it's safest...


I ADORE rice cakes. They're comforting carbs. I literally blow all my 500 cals on a HUGE leaning tower of pisa stack of rice cakes for supper. I feel very satisfied afterwards.

Re: what are your favourite fast day nibbles?

PostPosted: 25 Apr 2013, 10:14
by dominic
Hey, if it works for you TML and Pip... Still the 'science' says that eating a leaning tower of rice cakes should get you a big insulin spike (making you feel nice'n'full for a bit) and then a crash afterwards (making you feel low and hungry). See a list of GI ratings here.

But what would the scientists know? I guess your own body is the best guide...

Re: what are your favourite fast day nibbles?

PostPosted: 25 Apr 2013, 10:25
by vickiej
Great ideas as I am on my first fast day! thanks x

Re: what are your favourite fast day nibbles?

PostPosted: 25 Apr 2013, 10:30
by Golarne
If only I had some celery here. RIGHT NOW! :wink:

Re: what are your favourite fast day nibbles?

PostPosted: 25 Apr 2013, 10:32
by Pip
dominic wrote:
But what would the scientists know?


lol @ passive-aggressive Dom :grin:

Re: what are your favourite fast day nibbles?

PostPosted: 25 Apr 2013, 10:40
by Scotty
I try not to nibble on fast days as I'm a grazer & it would be too much temptation but I do like to leave some cals for after tea for "pudding" - 10cal low cal jelly with a little fruit or low cal hot choc

Re: what are your favourite fast day nibbles?

PostPosted: 25 Apr 2013, 11:04
by Pip
Dom, I'd also like to point out that consuming my leaning tower of rice cakes (12 large ones to be exact) in one sitting feels like a FEAST. Psychologically I feel like I'm really gorging and treating myself, even though the sum total is 500 cals. So it's more than just the nutritional content of said tower.