GI two weeks in

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I have stuck to this for 2 weeks and have lost 4.5kg and I am well chuffed! Just had a massive (and diet) vegetarian curry with lentles rice and a slad and rather too much wine....but what the hell it is a celibration. Just another 10kg to go!

bran I see what you mean. You can get 0% fat fromage frais can't you - I could mix normal hummus with that?

bran, I find the splenda tastes funny for cooking, but when I made the muffins with fruisana, they were lovely. Obviously, it is a sugar and does contain calories, but much better than ordinary sugar. As someone else said, its definitely available in Tesco.

Can someone please tell me what section Tescos stock the fructose please? Searched everywhere but couldn't find it and, as usual, no-one around to ask when you want them.

TIA

Fruisana - is that it then?? Near the Splenda etc??

Yep monkeygirl - that's the one

Thanks - really fancy trying those muffins!

it was on the bottom shelf, in the sugar section, in a little green and yellow box. Called 'Fruit Sugar'.

Will report back on the muffins.

The muffins are IN.

The mixture tasted divine

I've love the raw mixture, and it has zero calories provided you've done your best to get all the mixture into the muffin tin

I think houmus would work with fromage frais - you can only try. If you have any fresh mint that's lovely chopped finely and stirred in too.

did you make the muffins bran - I have to say mine were hilariously unsuccessful. They came out looking great, but when I turned them out they collapsed - the inside was pure molten blueberry with a muffiny casing.

Unfortunately dd2 and I have just eaten most of the muffiny casings

Riebee - do those yogurts have sweetener in them? Trying to avoid it as don't like the taste. Bought some lovely ones from Tesco once which were sweetened with either apple or pear juice (don't remember which) and they were scrumptious. Haven't seen them since so think they were a one-off.

Don't suppose they would be low GI though.

I haven't made them yet because dh and I ate the blueberries last night, I'm going out to the supermarket this afternoon so I'll make them later. I use a (modified) recipe by Susan Reimer which is yoghurt/oatmeal/wholemeal and I put some mixture into the bottom of the cases before I mix in the the blueberries. Even so they're still a little crumbly while they're hot, and I think they're actually a much nicer taste and texture the day after they're made. If you're using a flexible silicone tin you definitely need to let them cool before turning them out as they just fall apart.

I can post the recipe if you'd like.

yes - I am blaming on the silicone tin.

There was one left which is now totally cold and it came out very easily - still a 'goo' of blueberries in the middle but dd1 liked it.

sorry bran, meant to say, yes, I would like the recipe

This is from Susan Reimers book, which is fab if you want to buy a muffin book. My modifications are in brackets after the ingredients.

200g flour (half plain/half wholemeal)
1.5 tsps baking powder
0.5 tsp salt
85g rolled oats
240 ml low-fat yogurt (about 2/3 of a big container)
1 tsp bicarb of soda
1 egg, beaten with a fork
110-140g light brown soft sugar (70-90g Fruisana and 1tsp blackstrap molasses)
90-120 ml milk (150 ml)
90 ml veg. oil or 85g melted butter (45 ml oil)
up to 140g fruit or berries

Preheat oven to 190-200C (180 for my fan oven)

Sift flour, baking powder and salt into large bowl

In a separate bowl stir together oats, yogurt and bicarb of soda, allow to stand for a minute (it's great it sort of fizzes up) then add beaten egg, sugar, milk and oil and stir well.

Pour wet mix into the flour mix. Stir gently until just combined and there is no visible dry flour, don't over stir. Add fruit on the last couple of stirs.

Spoon into tins immediately and bake for 20-25 mins (if making 12, 30-35 mins if making 6 jumbo muffins) until tops are brown.

These will definitely fall apart if you try to turn them out of a silcone tray when they're still hot, but are fine when cool. They freeze really well and are yummy if you defrost them in a microwave and crisp them in the oven at 100C for 10 mins.

I've just made these with chopped pear and they are yummy. I think the brown sugar gives a slightly better flavour than the Fruisana and molasses, but it wouldn't be as healthy.

If you're interested in WW points the original recipe is 3.5 pts each (or 7 pts for a jumbo) and my modified one is 2.5 pts each (or 5 for a jumbo).

Better to sweeten with naturaly sweet fruit, as fruits contain fructose rather than Glucose, so they are lower GI. If you use nice ripe friut and plain low fat youghurt, you don't need to add artificial sweetners imo

Fruisana has a GI of 19 HMB, which is why I changed to that from sugar. You are right though, it would be much healthier without any sugar at all, but then the likelihood is that they will sit uneaten in the kitchen for days (my dh thinks cakes should be sweet).

yoyo..the yoghurts do have sweetner in them but they do taste really nice and I don't think they taste synthetic but then again I'm quite happy stirring splenda into my porridge so maybe I'm not the best to judge

Can anybody tell me if Oatso simple porridge is low GI? I've been eating the kids Ready Brek but have since found out it's a no-no, thought I was doing great too!

It should be as unprocessed as possible, so we are on 'real' porrage. All bran and a banana tomorrow!

Emmamama I think that oats become higher in GI the more finely they're processed, just like other type of grain/carb, and Oatso Simple is quite powdery compared to ordinary oats. I don't know what the exact GI would be though, it's probably never been tested.

My Swiss friend taught me to make delicious Swiss-style muesli if you fancy having oats for breakfast. Mix unrefined oats (and seeds/nuts if you have them) with natural yogurt. Stir in grated apple and any berries/chopped fruit/citrus fruit that you happen to have around. If you like it very soft then mix the oats and yogurt the night before, cover and leave in the fridge overnight, then add the fruit in the morning.

I am liking it, have put dh on it wholesale, I do not have that much weight to lose but do need to tone up a little bit!
Dh has lost 6lbs in 2 weeks with no exercise whatsoever
I've lost about 2 lbs.
I prefer veg to fruit though not abig fruit eater cet for cherries and bums mised the last sunday time recipes anyone got a spare or could photocopy it for me and post it? I@ll refund costs?
I am making the chicken honey and lemon with sweet potato wedges tonight
The lamb pittas were awesome really good adn the spinach fritata is a regular hit!

Piffle, if you go to the Sunday Times website they have the recipes there.

Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!