The FastDay Forum

I stumbled on sparkpeople.com as a way to check out calorie and nutritional value info on foods. they have a neat vood versus food chart system
eg
http://www.sparkpeople.com/food_vs_food ... us_walnuts
Ive discovered a new combo to help me through my hunger/protein fix on fast days
walnuts on home made greek yoghurt... i used to do almonds and wondered what the diff in protein and calories is.
Walnuts are nuttier and offer a better flavour. i usually add sultanas but didnt indulge due to fast day restrictions and christmas challenge restrictions.

careful of serving sizes on these charts.. who eats a cup of walnuts as a serve!!!!

I think I'd need honey on the yogurt.

Sallyo wrote: I think I'd need honey on the yogurt.

The honey is always nice.

I use flavour drops/compounds on my FF Greek Yoghurt on FDs - good taste, negligible additional calories. I miss the crunch, of course, but it's only for 3 FDs a week. I sometimes add protein powder if I need additional protein for satiety but don't want the additional kcals of obtaining it from foodstuffs.

I avoid nuts as history shows I can't keep the portions controlled.

Can you get sugar free syrups (usually used for coffee flavorings) where you are? We have DaVinci brand sugar free syrups here, which can be mail ordered online and come in many different flavors. Zero calories and they taste very good in Greek Yogurt. Recently I have been using a good dollop of cinnamon along with a flavor and it makes a delicious dessert for my fast days with the same protein as 3 oz of meat.

SSure wrote: I use flavour drops/compounds on my FF Greek Yoghurt on FDs - good taste, negligible additional calories. I miss the crunch, of course, but it's only for 3 FDs a week. I sometimes add protein powder if I need additional protein for satiety but don't want the additional kcals of obtaining it from foodstuffs.

Never thought of Protein powder in yoghurt @ssure, and i have a can sitting on my kitchen counter waiting for the day i feel free enough to make the protein bars ive been talking about. this might be a quick fix for my hunger issues on Fast days. if it doesnts spoil the flavour.

Whats flavour drops/compounds Ssure?

Juliana.Rivers wrote:

SSure wrote: Never thought of Protein powder in yoghurt @ssure, and i have a can sitting on my kitchen counter waiting for the day i feel free enough to make the protein bars ive been talking about. this might be a quick fix for my hunger issues on Fast days. if it doesnts spoil the flavour.

Whats flavour drops/compounds Ssure?

If you add protein powder to yoghurt/Quark, depending on the yoghurt/Quark, it can set up nicely like a cheesecake. The flavour of your protein powder matters, mine are plan or vanilla: the dairy ones (e.g. casein powder) work with yoghurt/Quark but the pea or rice protein powders only work for me if they're added to a vegetable bouillon/soup or incorporated into a heavily-flavored recipe.

I have a lot of extracts that I use in baking/cooking. Some of them are the sorts that you can purchase in supermarkets (so, vanilla, cinnamon, orange oil, lemon oil); others are more specialist baking and obtainable online (Deco Relief flavours - a huge range that spans the normal sweet but also mirabelle plums, jasmine, salted caramel, hazelnut, speculoos etc.) and you only need 2 drops to flavour a serving of yoghurt or similar. Flavour compounds are the sort of item that you add when you don't want to put water into a recipe but want the flavour of something that intrinsically has a lot of water - like apple. Again, the compounds are available from specialist companies in the UK. You can purchase apple pie flavour, gingerbread flavour etc. etc.

I find that a lot of the fruit and vegetables that are available in the UK lack flavour - so it's not unusual for me to add specialist flavourings to improve matters. You literally use a couple of drops of some ranges so it's hard to think it's more than a 1kcal in exchange for a lot of good flavour, and that's invaluable on a fast day (for me).

In the US, they have ranges of flavour drops (e.g., Mio) that people use to flavour water for negligible calories sooner than drink diet soda - again, it's a negligible quantity that's added. I don't know what the brand names would be in Australia but I do know that in Europe, Dukan appears to have re-badged the Arome range of flavours to sell as part of the Dukan package and those flavours encompass sweet, savoury, spices, herbal, and floral.

Juliana.Rivers wrote:
careful of serving sizes on these charts.. who eats a cup of walnuts as a serve!!!!

I sometimes do Juliana I don't eat meat so I eat loads of nuts, all types except chestnuts which I'm not that keen on.