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Soups for sure! I have a stick blender, it cost about £10 and then you just use it in the saucepan. I've never tried it with meat but for any veg type soup it works brilliantly. I'd hazard a guess that it'd work with pasta in there too - or buy the really small soup pasta that you can just swallow?

I'm a bit confused. Eggs are all different weights and you don't say how much milk you're using. Why not weigh out all the ingredients, put them in the recipe builder, then weigh the total amount of scramble. Use that as the number of servings, and you can just log your scrambled eggs by weight and not worry about how much…

Which city are you in? I'm in Glasgow and have the same problem with it being pitch black in parks this time of year, so I stick to running on the pavements under street lights. Could you find a group to exercise with? That might help with deflecting idiots. I really can't stand people sometimes!

Is it not possible for your current doctor to refer you to the nearer doctor? So they send all your test results etc over? I realise you want to get this surgery as soon as possible, that's very understandable - so maybe try and set this up for afterwards. It isn't just the financial cost of travel, it's a hassle for you…

I assume that the added carbs are sugar in store bought kefir. I add a bit of sugar to my home made kefir because I prefer the taste that way. I also like to chill it before drinking. However, I always add sugar just before I drink it. I think making it with sugar added could alter the balance of microbes - which may or…

https://www.yemoos.com/pages/milk-kefir-step-by-step-guide is a guide to it I rather like (they sell it too, but I didn't buy mine there - got some grains from eBay, probably not recommended but I'm still here!). Addressing your later post - my milk kefir does just fine on my kitchen countertop. In Scotland. We have…

At a guess, because the store bought pickles are treated in such a way as to kill off any bacteria, useful or not? OP, kefir is another probiotic thats easy to make at home - it's a bit thinner than yoghurt. You could try that, but I don't know if it'll help with your specific problem. I think it's tasty and cheap enough…

Yes - and even if I chain eat them, I still usually stop before the point at which I'd've eaten an entire "normal" packet. So I don't usually go over my calories. Still not great for my health mind, but better than previously! And it mostly works out much better than that.

I bake a lot. I can't draw sodium bicarbonate, but I'm well aware that it reacts with acids to form perfectly harmless substances so I'm happy to have the light fluffy cakes :) I like your last sentence though - make an informed decision. Reading nutrional labels are a great start for that. But any arbitrary rule is only a…

A, but with an eye to also enjoying my run the next morning. So not too crazy.

Whenever I'm visiting I know that the food will be cooked according to their normal, not mine. Sometimes that's salad instead of my normal steamed veg, sometimes that's more like you describe. I take a small portion of things to try and make sure I compliment the host appropriately :) even if I go over my calories, I can…

I guess it depends how voluntary it is - if it affects the cost of your healthcare insurance via the same person, it is coercion. Just a matter of scale and perspective as to whether it gets seen as a neat discount or something darker. Could the 30 minutes be used at the start or end of the day? That would accommodate…

I've often found pavements much more unforgiving than grass/trails - I can walk all day even on rough trails, but not around town. They're very uniform, and there isn't as much give. Can you get shoes to suit? You might need to work up to your normal trail level as well, giving your joints time to adapt to the new surface.

Massively depends on the route. My dad occasionally cycled to work alongside a canal - and I got the impression that the toughest time was spring, because the towpath got very overgrown very quickly and it wasn't that easy to see the edge of the path. He never did end up swimming, thankfully, but he did stop doing it!

I'm really not sure I could afford to let him get away with that... I guess if you've been feeding him up until now then you've got the extra slack in your budget though. Replacing all my seasonings at once could easily kill a weeks' food budget for me! Or more, since I tend to bulk buy some things. Ignore the diet rubbish…

Yes, I don't think I said any different... just that you need to be clear when you do say!

Chilli, bolognese, anything with mince can be bulked out with carrots, lentils celery. How about beef or chicken stew? Carrots, parsnips, swede, onion, leek all go nicely in there and it's a good winter warmer. Dumplings are very tasty on top but not obligatory if you want to keep it low cal (I can't resist just one on…

What's your height and weight? Are you trying to lose weight? Or just get fitter? For snacks - I like hard boiled eggs :)

I don't know how accurate your machine is... there's a thread somewhere about how many exercise calories people eat back. I only eat back 50% from my running tracker app - I figure I get 50% of the calories today, and the other 50% goes towards future slim me ;) if you find you're not losing weight (or losing too fast)…

If you've put in your height and weight correctly it should give you a reasonable number. Make sure not to over estimate your exercise or under estimate your food though. Best idea is to give it a go for a few weeks, then reassess whether you've lost as much as you thought you would and adjust from there :)

I don't think you need a new thread for every meal... Weigh your food, log it, make sure you're under your calorie goal. Doesn't matter what you eat, if you eat fewer calories that you use you'll lose weight. Even if you just start spooning sugar out of the bag instead of eating normal food (that's a bad idea for many…

I assumed that it must mean deliberate exercise. Walking is such a normal thing to me I forget that some people count it as exercise - to me it's a method of transport. I was easily walking more than 2 hours a day while I gained most of this weight. I think I'd find it harder to put on weight if I was running 2 hours a day…

Carrot and coriander is one of my favourites. I bulk most things out with celery :) I like frying some broccoli and egg in a little bit of olive oil for breakfast too. I really enjoy Asian cooking as well, so I've been known to just eat leftovers of that for breakfast - as far as I know, they don't really have a separate…

I think you'll get as many different answers as you do people... but they'll all boil down to figuring out what works for you. I often run first thing in the morning before breakfast. Then I just eat my normal breakfast, whatever it is that day. If I run in the afternoon I prefer to have a drink with a bit of something - a…

It's a vital habit if it's an allergy, but I guess if it's an intolerance then you have to weigh up the consequences of guessing wrong to the possible awkwardness of asking someone alluded to up above. I don't get that though - I'm always more than happy to reel off every ingredient in something I bring to work. It's a…

Is it just boxing/exercise this affects, or other things too? Is there something specific that's bothering you? I work in a male dominated field. I honestly think men, in general, are not that different to women in general. We all get on just fine because we have the shared interest of our work. Boxing could easily work…

Nothing on your bread - can't be persuaded to make it a ham sandwich? Sauce on your pasta, like bolognese or carbonara? I love all the things you listed but I'm pretty sure I'd feel yucky if I didn't eat anything else with them. If your concern is how you look (which I guess it is) then eating such a restricted diet will…

That's fair enough. I only ask because you need to be clear whether it's artificial sweeteners that are the problem or something more general. I wouldn't have classed stevia as artificial for instance; I could grow it on my windowsill! Honestly, there are so many potential things that people can be allergic or sensitive to…