To think not keeping sugar in the house

[Hullygully]

Is fine if no one in your family takes it and it's poison anyway?

And dogs. Don't eat dog, they eat poopy.

Pretty much all fruit and grain seeds are designed to survive a humans and other animals digestive tract - it's how they evolved to be spread. It's why we have to cook/make into bread etc. grains so we can actually get any nutrition out of them.

HullyGullly Dogs raised for meat are amost always fed on vegetable matter as it's the only way to make dog meat cheap enough.

lol at friskybivalves.

Also loving Lteve's tomato plant/shit story. We too got flooded in 2007, house flooded under 6 feet of water. And the house is next to a graveyard so the water was not only shitty from the sewers but corpsey from the dead bodies.

We were out the house for a year, was an nightmare.

No tomatoes though. We did find a couple of dead rats though.

corpsey from the dead bodies

Did you really see corpses GetOrf?

No, didn't see the corpses you great dafties, rather that the water that flooded our house may have been tainted by the dead people over t'other side of the fence.

From sugar to death in less than 400 posts.

Disappointed.

I know, it's a bit crap really isn't it.

It would have been a lot better to come back to tell you of cadavers floating round my sitting room with the sofas. I should have lied.

I was busy doing flood rescue in Shropshire when it all went off, so didn't get to mum and dads for a couple of weeks. Had phoned to tell them and was a bit put out that they didn't care. Lots of 'oh we'll we're fine, it's not in the house yet, don't hurry home' whereas usually I get a 'come home NOW' summons.

Turned out that my dad had panicked that I would come racing home (like I always do, to be fair) and he'd realised that the bones of old buried pets (2 cats, 2 dogs) had surfaced.

He'd told mum "Put our Eve off coming home till I've had chance to get rid of them bones, she was hard enough to deal with the first time round"

poor old floating K9.

:(

When our beloved puss cat died, dp buried her in one of his freshly laundered and rather expensive pink shirts, because that was where she liked to sleep most.

If a flood were to raise her from the dead, she'd be floating about the garden in a shroud.

Oh eve that is so sad and funny

That flood in Gloucester came from NOWHERE. I will never forget it. I was working at GE in Bishop' Cleeve at the time - I left work at 12. People who stayed until later were flooded in, if they had left the site they would have got washed away. About 40 people slept in the office overnight.

And my house in Gloucester - flooded about half an inch at 4pm. 6 feet at 10pm. The poor sods over the road were on holiday in spain, and a load of houses were stuck upstairs, and had to be rescued by boat.

Bishop'S. Not that it matters.

Not that it wasn't partly caused by SEVERN TRENT BLOCKED CULVERTS.

SEVERN TRENT BLOCKED CULVERTS stole your 's'? Bastards!

MILs house in Gloucester was full of water when we got down to her. Not severn trents fault, it was the neighbours. stacks of bottles of the stuff.

The worst thing about the floods of 2007 was not the flooding itself, it was the fact that the water got cut off. So you had to collect buckets of water from bowsers in the street and collect bottles of water from supermarkets (which caused fights).

No showers. Vile.

And then there was the threat that the electricity would be cut off as well. The low point was the run on candles in Tesco (and some fucker who stole glade candles out of my trolley, the panic buying twat).

It was grim - no water for 2 weeks. Luckily our insurance company housed us in a hotel which piped water from a milk truck (bizarre).

Pity you didn't know my MIL. She was of an age whereby there was already a cupboard full of candles (probably been there since the 3 day week), and the knowledge of how to keep clean with a flannel and cold water (pre war boarding school - the only useful thing they taught her probably)

See I don't think it was the 'grown in poo' aspect so much as the seeds having been through someones body first

Don't ever eat berries then, the seeds have all been through a bird's digestive system.

I don't have any flood stories - but I think I'm glad I don't.

OP YANBU sugar is poison.

Recently I've cut out sugar and processed foods from my diet and I am feeling so much better.
Processed foods are full of sugar, they add it to EVERYTHING especially low fat so called health food. Oh to the person who said they love crisps, a lot of sugar is added to crisps too, check the labels. On a recent trip to Tesco's for a laugh I checked canned dog food and yep that had added sugar too!

If you do have a sweet tooth and need a sweetener, try Stevia, Xylitol, Agave Nectar, Honey, Date Syrup or others with a relatively low glycaemic index.

To check out how bad sugar is for you try watching and

Each to their own of course, but you can't make an informed choice without being informed!

Honey is primarily composed of glucose, fructose, and water. It has many fine qualities but is not really massively different to sugar in that respect.

Agave nectar is worse than sugar. It's almost pure fructose.

Stevia - is that available in the UK now? I didn't think it was. Xylitol, you have to be a bit careful of because of its laxative properties if you have too much of it. Many of the polyols (sugar alcohols) have that problem because they are basically indigestible by the human gut enzymes, but the gut bacteria love them.

Fructose in large quantities has its own risks - that's why high fructose corn syrup is so bad for you. I'd take table sugar over HFCS any day.

You need it for visitors. Workmen invariably have at least 2 spoonfuls in tea. It is also needed in cooking. I don't see how you bake bread without it, make chutney, cakes etc without it.

Or are you just going to rely on processed foods that have hidden sugars?

Erythritol does not have the laxative properties of the other sugar alcohols.

Stevia and stevia products are in the shops now. I think since 2011. (Or 1978 in Japan!)

How do you make the best breakfast known to (wo)man..... Cinnamon toast

WHITE bread
REAL butter
SUGAR
oh, and a bit of cinnamon!!