Jamie's sugar rush

[lastqueenofscotland]

Anyone be watching tonight?
I'm really looking forwards :)

When I say show, I mean him parading himself.

I agree this program was a bit pointless, I was interested in the beginning when he was talking about the hidden sugars in cereals/yoghurts/jars of sauce etc, but I really didn't need Jamie Oliver to tell me for half an hour that there's sugar in coke - I think I could've figured that one out for myself thanks Jamie!

I am annoyed at him adding extra to coke etc in his restaurant as it makes it more expensive to not drink alcohol, and what other options are there on the the menu.

I think most people know about sugar in coke but it doesn't stop them giving it to their kids or ribena or the supposedly healthy fruit juice alternative...i wonder whether Jamie saying it will make the difference.
Mind you our school dinners are still shit, less shit than they used to be maybe - they meet minimum standards but they are still shameful.

the sweets when its a childs birthday drives me mad. im going to get my two to start putting it in a tin then i will bin them once they've forgotten about it

One thing JO could do in his restaurants is put a jug of tap water on the table when you come in. I guess that would hit profits though.

I read the labels a while ago looking for salt free breakfast cereal and was shocked to see how much sugar was in barn flakes. Where does it all go? Barn flakes doesn't taste the slightest bit sweet to me.

Not drinking calories is a really good rule of thumb.

My 2 DC mostly drink water. Plus a small glass of milk morning and night.
Pure fruit juice diluted occasionally - maybe at a weekend picnic.
And the very odd (3 times a year) glass of lemonade if we are in a restaurant or pub (just for DD1 as DD2 doesn't like it).

But most days weeks it is water and milk only.

For me I drink water, tea and coffee (with SS milk) or herbal tea. On the odd time I choose a sweet drink I'll have a San Pelegrino. I really love ginger beer but find those on offer way too sweet.

I drink wine and beer occasionally. I love spirits but struggle with the sweet mixes. I've recently discovered Fever Tree Low Sugar Tonic and it is amazing - so I'll enjoy a Gin & Tonic once a week - yum. I'm hoping Fever Tree will also do a low sugar spicy Ginger Beer. They have a lot less sugar in them but they don't use artificial sweeteners - just make mixers that are less sweet. Why didn't anyone think of this before?

The Jamie's I've been in do pour tap water for the table I assumed it was them trying to get into the Italian vibe

fakename I like 'barn flakes" If you look at the ingredients of the sid flakes you'll see that there's quite a bit of salt in them. So it 'overrides' your taste of sweetness. I went to talk about nutrition a while ago and the speaker mentioned that your body goes into a seesaw mode of craving sweetness after saltiness and vice versa I find that's the case with me and dh.

We are all so conditioned to eating too much sweetness (and saltiness) that we can't taste the food without it. I blame the TV chefs for some of it plus the Americanisation of our diets.

luc I thought readybrek and weetabix is ok with sugar too. My DDs have normal shredded wheat and weetabix for breakfast. Another bad one with sugar is granola. A lot of them are sold as healthy food, but have 25g/100g sugar. (baiscally it means 1/4 of its weight is sugar). The only good one I've found is rude health. I used to eat dorset cereal granola, but since DH has been diagnosed with slightly elevated blood pressure, I've been looking at hidden salt as well.

Someone asked how to cut down on sugary drinks on the children. NHS recommends only milk and water for them. I don't get sugary drinks at all unless it's part of a meal when going out. (Some chains are so backwards in that they don't offer milk as an option). Or when they go to parties. Both mine loves milk. Maybe try that instead of water when at home?

The best breakfast is porridge oats probably. But I work full time so I don't have time to make my breakfast. It's a quick milk over cereal job. I always pack my lunch and make dinner though.

HeadDreamer If you just soak your oats in milk or water, overnight, or for a couple of minutes in the morning, you don't have to cook porridge at all (I hate porridge) . I add molasses and cinammon and it's lovely.

He's slimmed down since he wobbled past us in the Olympic Torch Relay three years ago!!! We laughed our heads off when some one in the crowd as he passed shouted out "So you've had your lunch then Jamie!"!!!!!!

I work full time and can make and eat an omelette in 5 minutes if I need to.

I don't eat cereal because it doesn't fill me up and is mostly full of rubbish.

Yes Anonymous I noticed he was getting rather large .

ppeatfruit I have read about that on blogs. Maybe I should give it a try. Definitely trying to lower processed food in my diet.

My son made eggs in about 5 mins this morning. Much much better than any cereal even oats with nothing added.

fakename maybe you need to go cold turkey with the sugary drinks? I know my kids wouldn't drink milk or water if there was any chance of juice or fizzy but we just don't have it in the house, so if they're thirsty the only choice is milk/water! Only time they have juice/fizzy is at a party, or maybe at a cafe as a treat, once every few months.

HelenaDove Fat free/low fat natural greek yoghurt has marginally more sugar than the full-fat varieties, about 5g as opposed to 3g. Likewise skimmed vs full-fat milk - the sugars are virtually identical. It's only the flavoured ones you have to watch out for - not all low-fat items are automatically high sugar!

I haven't watched the programme, but will catch up

To those mentioning WW and SW - their aim is for you to lose weight short term (nothing to do with healthy eating) and then regain it later so that you return to them. They have openly admitted to this

Janet JO forgets that some people are good with a lot of high protein, also chillis and some are not, (I got ill on the Atkins).

We all have different reactions to different foods even sugar. DH is dreadful (he has pre type 2 diabetes) with sugar or honey, I'm ok with some.

I think half the problem is 'low fat' or 'diet' food that just replaces fat with sugar and synthetic flavourings. People have conflated 'low fat' and 'healthy' and think that if they're eating Special K for breakfast, Caesar salad for lunch, and a WeightWatchers frozen lasagne for dinner, washed down with some Diet Coke and a Muller Light, they're being 'healthy'. Whereas really, healthy food is fresh, unprocessed, nutrient-rich, and contains enough fat and protein to satisfy your appetite.

The main reason sugar (and sweeteners) are pumped into food is because they're such cheap additives for manufacturers to use... which is why I agree with the idea of a sugar tax.

Yes I agree Mackerel A junk food tax would be better though, because it's not just sugar that's the culprit. The chemical sweeteners are even worse for your health. There's new research out about it.

I usually make my granola with less honey than the recipe suggests but have bought it recently and found the shop bought one much sweeter.

Didn't watch the programme, forgot it was on tbh.

Going back to the point on the labelling, it would help a lot if labels distinguished between naturally occurring sugar and 'free' or added sugar. So for example with natural yoghurt there is naturally occurring sugar that usually isn't what is causing people problems, but in a flavoured yoghurt the amount of sugar shown in the table shoots up from say 4g to 12g with nothing to tell you that two thirds of it is added. For most people, cutting out these free sugars would make a huge difference to their overall intake and it would avoid the demonisation of things like fruit and unadulterated dairy products. Our bodies deal much more efficiently with the naturally occurring sugars, they are less concentrated, we have to digest and metabolise the other stuff surrounding it (milk protein, fruit fibre and skin for example) and that stuff carries nutritional benefit, unlike pure 'unwrapped' sugar.

The other way labels could be better is clearly marking what ingredients are actually sugar...you will often see 'sugar' as ingredient 2 but followed by things like glucose syrup, maltose, caramel etc - there are maybe 20 different names being used for the same thing - sugar.