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Peas in pudding?
Agree with Yooly, lol
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Well SHE asked for crunchy pudding! I don't "see" wasabi pea pudding as catching on anytime soon either… but it would be crunchy! and a pudding! The only other way I can think off to make it crunchy… (pieces of skor bars)… might fail on the calories department!!!!
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I made raspberry jam with Chia seeds before. Then it got used on toast, oatmeal, pancakes, yogurt etc
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I made raspberry jam with Chia seeds before. Then it got used on toast, oatmeal, pancakes, yogurt
BUT you had to MAKE jam! Buying expensive berries, slaving over a hot pot, sterilized jars …. Maybe I’ll just buy some low sugar jam, thin it out with a bit of water and add the chias?
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Great idea Yooly, can imagine that working
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Now this sounds like a project I could embrace!
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Did you try it Yooly?
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Did you try it Yooly?
It’s okay. I used orange marmalade thinned with water. Added chias. The color is abysmal! Not appealing but tastes ok. Mixed with plain yogurt or oatmeal. Next batch will be with raspberry or strawberry. 🍓
After the chias are gone I don’t think I’ll buy any more. Just kind of uninspiring and doesn’t do much for me. Although I’ll see what my upcoming triglycerides show.
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Eat it in the dark? :D
Nothing like eating something visually unappealing!
I picked up some steel cut oatmeal to try - for cholesterol reasons. Thinking a tbsp of wheat germ (fiber, same reasons) with cinnamon, vanilla & blueberries.
I really dislike gluey lumpy oatmeal, so will see. Figure there's more than 1 route... but I did not tolerate a higher meds dose so trying to work with fiber (but not excess.)
I am confused though from the cholesterol debate - some argue dietary cholesterol not the issue but may be sugar/carbs + food fats together have an impact on circulating fat in bloodstream and placque formation, and I get lost in the technicalities.
I just am having high ldl & triglycerides, even with hdl in range. These alsospiked post illness wit other med induced spikes. Nothing has come down yet. Am at a loss with it and wonder if it is just going to be a new normal... :/
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% of people has familial cholestole-y-some-thing will look up when phone not acting up 😜
I.e. blood cholesterol corresponds to food cholesterol.
The rest of us it mostly doesn't.
Curious: have you lost or gained weight in the past little while? Are you more or less active or about the same? Active can be sort of brisk walks levels not just running on treadmill. Look up MET 3.0(+) activity stuff
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Search kept bringing up a drug, finally reached a good explanation on Met/scale.... i'm at 3+ and working on duration & intensity.
Strong familial, age, metabolic/disease/med induced multifactorial issue. Weight still trnding down consistently all year. Eating & moving to give body an assist. Would love a magic wand, but in the absence, I'm doing what I can actually do.
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Sounds like you're doing awesome…. except when it comes to searching!!!! :lol!:
FIRST thing that came up for me when I punched it in to see why it didn't work and figure out which drug was intruding!!!!
Just… MET 3.0(+) in google as is!0 -
Now. Confounding factors in terms of judging the MET level most certainly would include current ability to exercise and the effect of medications.
That's where things such as GPS tracking — f.e. during walks — would come into play to tell us how many (objective) minutes of moderate speed we achieved… which may or may not correspond to HR!0 -
Confounding as in cholesterol triggers.
But, yes, also exercise... still rebuilding post-medical issues. Snail like progress that.
I tend to abbreviate, dropped the 3+ and searched something like 'how does met help bad cholesterol'
Ai (again) replied: Metformin is primarily used to manage blood sugar levels in people with type 2 diabetes, but it may also have a modest effect on lowering LDL (bad) cholesterol levels. However, lifestyle changes such as diet and exercise are typically more effective for improving cholesterol levels.
I would note, AI did not go to baseball or the arts, lol, but did go to the abbreviated word for metformin, so imagine the abbrev is common usage.
So, AI needed that 3+ particular :D
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Helps to have MET vs Met and MET # would be an indicator that you're discussing metabolic equivalents (MET / METS).
While MET 3 to 6 are labeled "moderate" level exercises do not make the mistake of dissing them as useless or thinking you *must* achieve higher intensity to derive plenty of health benefit
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Went and played open court Pickleball this morning with 2 of my daughters. I got smoked by my elders.
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By your eldest or your elders?🤣 Trying to figure out who did the smoking????🤔
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Whatchya doin Yooly?
We were looking at food labels, and I picked up this snack sized fit in palm of your hand 4oz yogurt thinking 70cals was cool...
But noooo.... 3 servings in the dinkasaurus 4 oz pkg... = 210 cals... not cool. Eyeball deception.
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Yup - I gave up buying the small fruit flavored yogurts. Your example being full fat albeit “natural” ingredients is really calorific for size. I found the low fat prepared yogurts not bad BUT they often have a raw starch/flour filler which I can taste over the artificial fruit flavor.
So now I buy plain 32 oz.low fat Greek yogurt from Costco. Measure out 3/4 cup (100 calories ) sweeten with stevia and add fresh fruit. This morning I had my yogurt with fresh mango - often it’s berries cause they’re easily portioned.2 -
My eldest was working, so didn't come. Open court means you throw your paddle in line and whoever's next is up, so my elders. Old people, lol
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“My eldest was working, so didn't come. Open court means you throw your paddle in line and whoever's next is up, so my elders. Old people, lol”
Those danged old people got nothing but lots of time to perfect their pickleball game! Not like they’re going to work all day anymore……
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@yakkystuff I'm fairly sure you're safe to ignore the three portion thing and take it to be around 70 Cal for the 113g container. That company has a few products that are around 70 to 85 Cal per 113g.
And I found pretty much no 1% yogurts that are more than 100 cal per 113g. Even whole milk come in at less than 1 Cal per gram whereas you would be looking at 2 Cal per gram to hit 210 Cal per 113g
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WTG elder pickle ball peops 🤣🤣🤣!
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Yakky - upon further research I think PAV is correct. The yogurt pictured comes in one of those 6 packs? The three serving are for three containers. A single is 70 calories so not very calorific! Why they calculate serving size this way is crazy!
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Now that's even a weirder mindblower, lol. In my life of yogurts, it did not compute... I had intended to add fruit, and left it off for that labeling.
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Unfortunate newsflash—especially since the USDA appears likely to be heading out of the business of being scientifically authoritative—and leaving the labeling to the "good-will" of the manufacturers.
I've seen errors on labels — i.e. the labels don't make sense given other information. But they make sense if you consider that they may be a copy/paste of a different product by the company. This one appears to happen relatively often.
I've seen errors that to me appeared to be deliberate — i.e. name brand "health oriented" product with less calories than a "store brand" similar product made in the same city and with the same (not different) ingredients that was 10 Cal more for the store brand.
I've seen errors that are mysterious. In Canada the label is supposed to be bilingual. So quite often the Canadian importer will stick on a Canadian label. OK. So they are doing the canadian label which may be slightly different than the EU label for example. OK. They will write everything in English and French. Makes sense for space management and compliance with regulations. With them so far. So how can the values for calories once you extrapolate both to 100g of the product be different between the original label that is embedded on the packaging and the stick on label the importer just applied?
So yes. I do sometimes exercise "judgement" as to which value to use and generally go with USDA or in the case of cronometer the university of Minnesota's nutritional coordination center's database, often preferring generic entries to the name brand entry, especially if the name brand one sounds too good to be true and without reason! BUT—the opposite is occasionally true too!1 -
Yes, !!!
And can be wildly diff in grams v. cups.
Recently measured out a 10.5 serv/bag. 1 serv was __×#__ of grams or 1c per serving. They gave 2 col of nutrition. One for grams at 140cals, 1 for cups at 80cals.
It only measured out 8 cups
- was supposed to be more than 10.5c because cups at 80 should be more than servings in grams, (or so i thought)
- so I used the nutrition info for grams at 140cals (and called it a day.)
I have noticed many packages are short of the stated servings based on cups/tbsps.
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When I can I use grams.
Unfortunately sometimes they make life miserable, such as f.e. when measuring ice cream in ml, which is how they do it in Canada.
Good luck realizing when you are first starting to log that a cup of ice cream (236.6 ml) is no-where near 1:1 for grams! For some higher end ice cream a cup could weigh as little as 130g
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