Healthy eating-what do you eat when you fancy cake/chocolate please?

[Ilmb]

When the wether turns I always fancy a nice bit of cake or chocolate with a cup of tea.... I’m trying to stop processed/high sugar stuff and lose half a stone. What do you teach for that’s healthy when you want cake please?

Hand full of nuts; full fat Greek yoghurt.

A very small potion of something incredibly rich. My current favourite is a single dark chocolate raspberry gin truffle.

Fruit. Good quality fruit.

I definitely don't manage this every time but sometimes I find having something really salty or savoury such as olives takes away my craving for sweet things.

I just eat the cake or chocolate. Life is too short not to. Then I go for a long brisk day walk when the weather brightens up.

I’d go for dark chocolate or bake up a healthy treat and store in freezer so it’ll keep longer.

I've not found any effective substitute, but one square of dark chocolate or a small slice of chocolate malt loaf does the trick without doing too much damage.

I keep Ben and Jerry's in the freezer for those moments. I have a few spoonfuls then put it back for next time.

I also keep mini marshmallows in the baking cupboard. A handful of those and I'm on a sugar high for hours.

Mind you one square of the Lidl bars I buy is actually not that small.

I keep a bag of mints in the cupboard and just have a couple of those which do the trick

For example I make chocolate chip cookies with just oats, dark chocolate chips, and mashed banana for my girls. Fairly wholesome sweet tooth fix.

basic thank you, I think that’s what I’m after....

I can’t just eat 2 spoonfuls of Ben and Jerry’s, I would keep eating so I don’t keep it in

The sod it and eat it, go for a walk thing is the attitude I had that has made me put on half a stone and I’m not happy like this so that doesn’t work for me.

I don’t like dark chocolate, have tried that... I don’t keep any chocolate in the house otherwise I eat it! Any dark chocolate that is nice and not bitter and rich?

Rich tea lights. Two at a time.
Peppermint tea.
A Sula sweet.

llmb dark chocolates do vary in their bitterness. The cocoa variety can makes a huge difference. The richness means there less sugar which means you are less likely to binge. Milk chocolate wise Green and Black's milk chocolate I find is rich enough to be satisfied with a very small piece. You can suck it to make it last longer.

Dark chocolate for me, I want less of it than the sweet stuff.

A bowl of porridge made with milk and a spot of honey?

Dark chocolate or a Kallo dark chocolate rice cake.

Is anyone else a bit ?

The OP asks for healthy alternatives to cake/chocolate and gets truffles, ice cream, marshmallows and biscuits back?

Rapidly, with chocolate it is the quantity. High cocoa solid varieties offer very little sugar, in the quantities you need to eat, to get a chocolate 'hit'. Cocoa also is nutritious in itself.

And the ice cream, marshmallows and biscuits slow?

Toothpaste ..... Brush your teeth - I never feel like eating anything sweet straight after teeth cleaning. Sorry not quite what you were asking!!

100% cacao chocolate, plain nuts, home dehydrated fruit.

If you want something with a good sugar hit, dried cranberries are really sweet and very low calorie.

Plus they're teeny so a handful lasts a while.

Protein - e.g. nuts, cheese or hard boiled eggs. Or lots of water.

Or a homemade smoothie with oats, coconut flour, almond flour, beetroot, apples and banana.