Brits have an unhealthy obsession with hummus

[insoectorgina]

It seems to be the only chilled product where a third of an aisle is taken up with a mind boggeling array of versions. Most people think its some king of health food, when actually its filled with generic vegetable oil and has far far more than a packet of crisps.

Its also uber easy to make your own in less than one minute that is vastly superior.

I just dont get it.

I love it too

If you think the Brits have an unhealthy obsession with hummus then you clearly have never been to a Middle Eastern country....

So I guess it's the oil that makes it unhealthy.

Surely that won't be a problem if you use olive oil, which again, is good for you.

Who thinks it's a health food

I love it but am not a fan of tahini dressings/sauces as I find them too strong.

No toads, it's chick peas and sesame paste (tahini), which is incredibly fattening.

Not in these amounts Toads.

Now am eating toast, hummus, carrots. I blame you lot.

I once mentioned to a friend while were were in Waitrose (not a stealth boast, it was just to see what it was like) that I didn't like hummous. In earshot of some naice shoppers.

I could feel judgemental glares all the rest of the way round the shop.

THIS is a hummus obsession

It's just easy innit?

Like dairylea or Nutella

no food is fattening. Guzzling too many calories is fattening.

no food is unhealthy per se (except canned fizzy drinks which aren't food)

Is that tinned hummus??

Oh the camping possibilities!!

I'm with toads, don't really see the issue if it's made at home with olive oil.

Did you receive a life time ban LeftMy, that would have been the only correct and proper reaction from Waitrose.

There's a lot of hummus hate around these here parts recently.

'Fattening' is silly. It is high calorie but that does not automatically = bad.

I make a fantastic version with spiced almonds instead of tahini. It also has the garlic and some onions slow cooked in it. it is fab.

But you're wrong again specialsubject. Foods that are high in carbs are fattening.

But fats definitely aren't fattening.

Yes, sugary fizzy drinks are fatty, because they are hugely high in carbs.

Hummous is pretty carby, which makes it also a fattening food. It's definitely not a health food - and if you eat it with carrot sticks it's even more carby, which means it's even more fattening.

I love Sainsbury's organic hummus

Moln - yeah, we got a lifetime ban when we went through the checkout and I exclaimed "fuck me, £40 for some fucking olives and some poncy bread and shit, that's not even a meal, we should have gone to fucking iceland".

"No other country is mad on the stuff."

Have you been anywhere else? Houmous is eaten at practically every meal in Israel.

Plenty of foods are bad. They are designed in labs to be highly addictive with q combination of fat and sugar that the human body finds very difficult to not over eat on. 2/3 of Brits are obese or overweight!

British supermarket stuff is horribly gritty and watery.

If you are not overweight or actually trying to maintain a healthy weight hummus is a great thing to eat, I love it eat loads of it and lots of avocados too.

OP I really want to know which countries you've lived in apart from the UK.

I used to live in a country where we had it daily for breakfast and lunch. People made it at home but the supermarket shelves were still full of ready made stuff. Really the UK obsession is very mild.

Food can be highly calorific and still be nutritious, it has lots of protein and keeps hunger at bay.

"And yes, it's dead easy to make but then you have to wash up the blender which I hate doing."

You have to buy tahini (sesame seeds) so you might as well just buy the humous.