beans mash and sausages is a healthy meal

[madhurjazz]

Mother in law thinks its junk food. But the beans contain 1 of your 5 a day, mashed potatoes are just veg and a good source of carbs and the sausages are full of essential protein.

We often have ketchup, this has been shown to reduce many cancers like prostate, and a glass of juice.

Seems healthy to me and not junky.

I bloody love peanut m&ms, i may need to buy some now. Well now i know they are better for you than mash of course.

As for fruit yogurt being healthy/not healthy. I don't really think there is any food that is healthy or not healthy. I think each type of food has merits and the portion size is dependant on those merits. I don't think there is any food that is healthy in that you can just eat it with no limits and never have any adverse effects.

For me i consider fruit yogurt a 'healthy' or at least desirable thing for my ds1 to eat, as he eats no or very little dairy. So the sugar aspect of it is outweighed by the dairy/calcium aspect. I wouldn't let him eat 10 in a row, but i do do an inner fist pump if i can get him to even eat one Thomas strawberry flavoured petit filous (it has to be the Thomas ones or no dice). Of course i know there is sugar in it, but it's still preferable to a jammy dodger (which sadly is the alternative choice often).

or is it because they are seen as a bit posher?

I don't see why everything is a city banker conspiracy. It's not.

Sweet potato has more sugar, but has less other carbs, and has a whole bunch of nutrients that white potatoes don't.

I imagine, however, that doesn't mean that it is a good idea to replace all white potatoes with sweet potatoes. They have different nutrients, so having a bit of both, not necessarily at the same meal, is probably the best.

As for fruit yogurt being healthy/not healthy. I don't really think there is any food that is healthy or not healthy. I think each type of food has merits and the portion size is dependant on those merits. I don't think there is any food that is healthy in that you can just eat it with no limits and never have any adverse effects.

that's not the point. As you can see on this very thread, people assume that things like fruity yogourt are simply fruit and yogourt and as such are just as healthy. People are unaware that one is loaded with sugar and the other you have control of the sugar (beyond the actual fruit). That to me is the problem. That doesn't make fruity yogourt an evil food that should be avoided at all costs. But if people are aware that they have a significant amount of added sugar, they may decide not to chase it down with a glass of juice.

I like sweet potatoes, we got quite into them when we lived briefly in Vancouver. They are obsessed with them. They are pretty obsessed with food/superfood in general. Oddly enough i like them with beans and cheese or tzatziki and feta.

I have a family member who is diabetic and was warned by her doctor about the 'low fat' label as it almost certainly means 'added sugar'.

we are primed for fat and sugar, and they have to make it taste good. you can't remove one tasty thing and hope everyone still loves it.

We started getting fat when 'low fat' came into fashion.

Usually, when i'm not pregnant i eat Low Carb/Paleo, but that's because i like it and it made me lose loads of weight and look good Everything is full fat. The moment i gave up low fat stuff i naturally ate less and enjoyed the food way more. I eat loads of butter too. mmmmm

We started getting fat when 'low fat' came into fashion.

Yes, but even that's contentious-

1. Consumption of more "low fat" products doesn't equate to a low fat diet. It's quite possible to eat a lot of muller lights and then figure that because you ate a low fat yoghurt, you can afford a Dominos.

1. Just because the government told everyone that a low fat diet was good doesn't mean that everyone complied with it.

1. It's totally possible to follow an overall lowish fat diet (i.e. within gov guidelines) without eating "low fat" processed foods. My mum is a case in point. She doesn't like creamy, heavy foods. Subsists on lean meat, eggs, vegetables and potatoes/ bread. Small amounts of cheese, yoghurt. Occasional cakes/ biscuits etc. Glass of wine a night. 69 years old and never been overweight.

I make a version of this meal that is incredibly healthy. Oven cooked lean sausages or veggie sausages if you are a veggie and homemade mash in which I mix onions, herbs and mashed carrot (I'm not keen on sweet potato) - I make home made onion gravy which is low salt and low fat and we have steamed brussels sprouts with it. Delicious. I try and keep to less than 5% fat for the total meal because of having gall bladder issues - otherwise I wouldn't bother about the fat content - if you have good fats and cruciferous veg it isn't a problem.
Sausage and mash can be junk food if you use instant mash and very greasy sausages full of e-numbers and preservatives but it can also be top quality nutritional value. Depends on the ingredients.

I had sausages, baked beans and toast (no potatoes in) last night, purely because of this thread.

Peanut butter M&MS > peanut M&Ms.

I wonder if there have been any studies done on the negative impact of excessive worrying if food is healthy enough?

Bought heinz beans and sausage had them for lunch and they were good

Weirdly white potato is higher GI than sweet potato - the sugars in sweet potato are released more slowly into your blood stream, they're offset by the amount of fibre. So diabetics can eat sweet potato in controlled portions.

Personally sweet potato too sweet.

Well we had sausages and mash on Monday, tonight is fish pie! I dont have mash very often, about once every 2 months or so, but you have all turned me back onto it :o

I don't like sweet potatoes but love mash with added parsnips or swede, lots of black pepper or a spoonful of horseradish sauce to give it a kick.

Mashed swede is great with fish fingers or salmon 😋

I love carrot and parsnip mashed together. But no doubt I'll be told that candyfloss has less sugar than parsnips.

If the OP had talked about her chorizo and judias blancas stew instead of bangers and baked beans we'd have been in danger of drowning from all the MNetters getting moist over it.

I don't think GI/GL is that simple. How you cook it makes a difference to GI, as does what you serve it with.

A baked sweet potato probably has a higher GI than a boiled white potato.

Tbh sweet vs white is a bit of a pointless argument. Neither is healthier or unhealthier than the other. Food and nutrition just doesn't work that way.

For tea, in the vein of this thread:

We're having pizza (shit in a box!)
But it's pizza express (fairly acceptable)
But it's pepperoni as that's all ds will eat (death in sausage form!)
Dh didn't think it was enough so I'm making wedges (worse than m and ms)
But most of the wedges are sweet potato wedges (fairly acceptable)
And we're having salad (healthy!)
But I've put some grapes in (omg! Worse that crack cocaine! Someone call ss!)

We had chicken fajitas.

Chicken - ok
Peppers - ok
Red onion - ok
Salad - ok
Fajita spice mix - might as well have just shit on the plate
Sour cream - ok
Homemade guacamole - saintly
Doritos - would have been better to have just killed my family outright, and saved myself the bother of feeding them.

Meh. After having to FODMAP I can barely eat fruit or veg and low fat or skimmed dairy gives me the squits too.

Since switching to full fat Guernsey dairy and yoghurt by the vat-load, whilst restricting my fibre intake - bye bye baked beans and green veg - I've lost a stone and feel a million times healthier. Tons of energy.

Food and health is so complex and so individual that it's not worth listening to pseudo -scientific nonsense on the Internet. Eat what works for you. We're lucky in this country to have so much choice.

I eat a shed load of white potatoes too. Brown rice, pasta and sweet potatoes are not my friend.

I've switched from Quorn to red meat. Basically I'm bucking every current food fad and have never been better. I basically eat like my granny.

Sausage and mash tonight, although dd and girls asked for broccoli and peas rather than beans. Seeing as they had no veg at lunch time thought I'd better oblige :)

Not even expensive sausages either - oops!

We're having a warm salad of pigeon breast, bacon lardons, walnuts and lightly fried new potatoes. I threw it together from store cupboard ingredients after I found the pigeon freshly run over this morning.