To think there is no food healthier and tastier

[BrightonCalling]

Than homemade hummus?

Seriously, i chuck the ingredients in my nutribullet and eat with carrot sticks or straight off the spoon.

It's absolutely delicious plus really healthy.

Care to share other super healthy moreish ideas?

I can't stand them unless they're in a cake or used for batter, but eggs must be the best food, surely. So versatile and filling.

Steamed asparagus and french beans topped with a lightly poached egg and salt and pepper. Could eat for lunch/brunch every day!

It really depends how you define 'healthy'. IMO, a lot of people confuse 'nutritious' with 'good for weight loss' when they aren't the same thing at all.

I'd agree that low fat food loaded with artificial sweetener isn't great in the long term, but for a lot of people, a short blast of seriously reducing their calorie intake (and hence reducing their BMI) would be more beneficial to them than all the nutrients in, say homemade hummus (see also nuts/avocado/full fat dairy products).

@TheTroublesomestTribble
So hummus is fattening?
/screams silently into pillow

Vegetables roasted in Frylite and garlic. Mmmmm!!!

I knew that Nutribullet would come in useful one day ...

Steamed asparagus and french beans topped with a lightly poached egg and salt and pepper. Could eat for lunch/brunch every day!

^ I'm liking the sound of that one

Agree with pp that eggs are great, but they don't half bung you up!

Well, if you're making it at home, you have more control over its fat content, so you could make a low fat version...

I do sympathise though, I used to eat the Waitrose version directly from the tub with a teaspoon until I checked the calorie content

I don't think I could choose on food. Salmon, feta and sweet potatoes would be contenters though. If it became law that i had to choose one.

The point of five day is to get a variety of fruit and veg, mostly veg so getting your five a day out of one food defeats the purpose for maximum benefit you need 10 a day

Ooh so there's something I've been wondering - I quite often chop up raw peppers to eat as a snack, I'll often eat three - a red one, yellow one and a green one. Same veg but different type / colours. Is this three or one of my five a day?

Hummus is not fattening. I follow a low gylcaemic load diet - hummus has a glycaemic load of 0.

So if you eat it with bread it will put the calories down as fat. If you eat it with celery or carrot, it won't.

brighton everything's fattening if you eat too much of it . I like apple slices with hummus, and celery with peanut butter.

Cheesecake
Chocolate
Takeaway curry
Crisps
Iced gems

^^ All foods much tastier than homemade hummus. YOU KNOW I SPEAK TRUTH.

bananafish81 i wondered the same thing with white and red cabbage or different times of melon

I hate hummus.

So YABU.

Why on earth would you want to make a low fat version of hummus?? Fats give things taste. Just eat less if you're worried.

According to the nutrition info for the recipe I put into my fitness pal, a portion equal to 1/6 of the total recipe contains 6g of fat and just over 100 calories. That gets eaten with cucumber sticks, a chopped pepper and some cherry tomatoes. Far more nutritious than having the equivalent in popcorn/any processed snack.

Shelling chickpeas now? Say what?

Agree - everything is fattening if you eat too much of it.

From a purely biological pov, your body can't distinguish between a 'good' calorie and a 'bad' one - true some of the 'good' ones are likely to fill you up more and reduce likelihood to snack, but a bit of will power works just as well IME.

YABU I hate hummus and can’t stand chickpeas yuk.. there are so many other foods I pick over that

OP, could you please post your recipe for hummus; been trying to find a really good one but all that I've tried have come out a bit meh....

I also second the poster who mentioned all things salmon. Fish in any which way, could live off it, asparagus ditto, anything salty and lemony. I'm very hungry now [sad}

"Shelling chickpeas now? Say what?"

Surely you don't use canned chick peas do you @halfwitpicker? How very common. One should only use chick peas that one has sown biodynamically, by the light of the full moon, then harvested with a sickle made of silver. Then, while shelling them by hand, one has time to rehearse one's Puccini arias for the next local concert.

Sautéed spinach with a shed load of garlic and a light drizzle of sesame oil. Food of the gods, but I admit that you probably couldn’t live on it alone.

I admit that I have peeled broad beans after cooking of course, they really are nicer when they're peeled but you have to be in the mood and have the time!

Oooh it's soon the season for broad beans (she says excitedly, I must get a life )

I do love asparagus too.