What's for supper?

[Erichalfbee]

I did 6 months on the Zoe diet at the start of last year. It completely changed the way I look at food.
My supper last night was a baked sweet potato with cheese and an enormous salad of avocado, lettuce, cucumber, courgette, tomato, onion, beetroot, grated carrot, nuts and seeds.
I went on the diet because I was pre diabetic, within the 6 months I had corrected the problem.
Most of my meals are low in carbohydrates nowadays!

I’ve seen that advertised all over social media. You recommend it?
I have a small sliding diaphragmatic hernia and I would love to get off PPIs

 

[Newbeeneil]

I’ve seen that advertised all over social media. You recommend it?
I have a small sliding diaphragmatic hernia and I would love to get off PPIs

I found it a great way of changing my diet. Not cheap (it cost me about £500) but it achieved what I wanted and I feel fit, healthy and 10kg lighter.
I would certainly recommend it but read up about it and make sure it fits your needs.

 

[The Poot]

Saturday night rib eye, followed by Sunday brunch fry up. I missed Sunday's sausage dinner with mash, veggies and onion gravy but followed on with Monday and bubble and squeak with the left over veggies.

Got room for a lodger?

 

[BeeAdmin]

You need to eat better

I'm trying!

 

[Swarm]

Got room for a lodger?

Rogan Josh tonight

 

[JamezF]

By coincidence, this week the Food Foundation reports that it now costs £8.80 to buy 1,000 calories worth of "healthy" food (fruit and veg) whereas 1,000 calories of ready meals and processed meat only costs £4.30. Adding insult to injury, items in the first group have increased in cost by 21% over the last two years whereas the latter only increased 11%.

I can't help wondering if the price of "healthy" food items might be raised more than for others by supermarkets and suchlike, purely on the grounds that the customers will "stand more pain" to get what they want rather than having to buy whatever is cheapest. I accept that decisions on pricing may actually be quite complex, but the thought still crosses my mind...

James

 

[Ely]

We always buy the large bag of chips when having fish and chips.
That's enough for four people is their response.
The secret is to freeze the remaining chips for later and put them in the oven and you get well done , browned and crispy !

I've never thought of freezing chips. I didn't think they could save. I'll have to give it a go

 

[Sutty]

I’ve seen that advertised all over social media. You recommend it?
I have a small sliding diaphragmatic hernia and I would love to get off PPIs

A nissen's funduplication is another option.

 

[Erichalfbee]

A nissen's funduplication is another option.

No....I've heard horror stories about those. Being unable to belch must be pretty painful and I do love my champagne
Gastroenterologist I saw says the sliding hernia is small and that PPIs are safe....but then he would Perhaps @Amari could join our little MDT

 

[Gilberdyke John]

I've never thought of freezing chips. I didn't think they could save. I'll have to give it a go

One Saturday evening I called in at a local chip shop to collect the family tea. A local farmer who I knew was being served with one of each four times. Knowing the household was just him and his wife I casually asked if they had visitors to be told he always took four so two went in the freezer until mid week then microwaved for tea. Hence both fish and chips were frozen in his house.

 

[The Poot]

No....I've heard horror stories about those. Being unable to belch must be pretty painful and I do love my champagne
Gastroenterologist I saw says the sliding hernia is small and that PPIs are safe....but then he would Perhaps @Amari could join our little MDT

I was prescribed PPIs (Omeprezole) for acid reflux - cause unknown, by my Somerset gp and I took them for about four years until I moved back to Dorset and had a review with an elderly locum, before repeat prescriptions would be given.
He questioned why I wanted the tablets, twice, which I found odd. He then asked questions about coffee and caffeine. He explained that caffeine is one of the worst irritants known to man, for the stomach, told me to “go home, switch to decaf (preferably tea) and see how you get on”.
I did and from that same day had no further issues and no further tablets.
I had read alarming tales of folks trying to get off of PPIs….

 

[Sutty]

PPIs are pretty safe, though there is an association with gastric polyposis with long term use, and can cause magnesium deficiency in a small minority. A huge proportion of the population seems to be on them!
Nissens can sometimes prevent belching, but I don't think it's common, though they do occasionally need to be revised if the "wrap" is too tight.
Many people have a very distinct weight threshold beyond which they reflux, so sometimes losing a couple of kg is all it takes.

 

[Amari]

No....I've heard horror stories about those. Being unable to belch must be pretty painful and I do love my champagne
Gastroenterologist I saw says the sliding hernia is small and that PPIs are safe....but then he would Perhaps @Amari could join our little MDT

Thanks Dani but I retired from clinical medicine 24 years ago so it would be unwise for me to pontificate! On a historical note, I remember the joy of both gastroenterologists and patients when medication to reduce acid production by he stomach first came on to the market: H2 antagonists e.g cimetidine in 1976 and proton pump inhibitors e.g omeprazole in 1988.

 

[rossbyjove]

I also having a sliding hernia. I even remember the moment I got it !
The medicinal chef series of books Digestion by dale pinnock helped me.
Also low FODMAP cook book is good.
I gave up meat as well, it's a choice in the 21st century western world.
I eat it occasionally but always find it very dissapointing as it no longer lives up to the expectation I have about the taste once eaten.
I do drink strong black fresh brewed coffee in the morning and rarely eat breakfast, never touch it after 3 pm.
Came off all the drugs and have not been ill since.
If I put the tinfoil hat on, I suspect the drugs are to keep you at a 'low' level of discomfort , so you keep taking the drugs.
A bit like people taking Ketamine to kill the pain caused by taking Ketamine !
My mother is 88 very healthy but takes PPIs and anti depressants, I doubt she needs either.
Drug companies need to sell drugs, so need 'unhealthy' people.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

I suspect the drugs are to keep you at a 'low' level of discomfort , so you keep taking the drugs.
A bit like people taking Ketamine to kill the pain caused by taking Ketamine !
My mother is 88 very healthy but takes PPIs and anti depressants, I doubt she needs either.
Drug companies need to sell drugs, so need 'unhealthy' people.

funny you say that, just before Christmas I had a letter from my GP the last bloods they took showed my Folic acid levels were low so to call up at the chemist as there was a month's supply of tablets waiting for me, then last week SWMBO found out her mother had had the same letter - as had a lot of others. SWMBO reckons there is a new rep' on the rounds and is giving out sweeteners if the practice 'sells' enough of their product - the equivalent of the complimentary ashtrays and notepads you always found in surgeries in the old days.

 

[Murox]

funny you say that, just before Christmas I had a letter from my GP the last bloods they took showed my Folic acid levels were low so to call up at the chemist as there was a month's supply of tablets waiting for me, then last week SWMBO found out her mother had had the same letter - as had a lot of others. SWMBO reckons there is a new rep' on the rounds and is giving out sweeteners if the practice 'sells' enough of their product - the equivalent of the complimentary ashtrays and notepads you always found in surgeries in the old days.

You obviously need to eat more spinach! ..... but seriously a normal balanced diet usually contains enough folic acid.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

You obviously need to eat more spinach! ...

I prefer sprouts, higher in folic I believe

. but seriously a normal balanced diet usually contains enough folic acid.

but most 'normal diets' may not work for someone with primary progressive Multiple Sclerosis.
SWMBO suffers similar, but that's because, having Pernicious anaemia her body cannot process folic acid, vitB or whatever, in fact she's not long back from the hospital after having one of her vitB transfusions.

 

[Penninetrader]

I prefer sprouts, higher in folic I believe

but most 'normal diets' may not work for someone with primary progressive Multiple Sclerosis.
SWMBO suffers similar, but that's because, having Pernicious anaemia her body cannot process folic acid, vitB or whatever, in fact she's not long back from the hospital after having one of her vitB transfusions.

Your reply ably demonstrates once again that one size does not fit all.

 

[Murox]

I prefer sprouts, higher in folic I believe

but most 'normal diets' may not work for someone with primary progressive Multiple Sclerosis.
SWMBO suffers similar, but that's because, having Pernicious anaemia her body cannot process folic acid, vitB or whatever, in fact she's not long back from the hospital after having one of her vitB transfusions.

That sounds tough, I don’t know what to say but I am sure you’re doing everything you can.
I prefer spouts too, though I really do like the flavour of the raw baby spinach leaves you can get from the shops these days.

 

[Gilberdyke John]

I prefer sprouts, higher in folic I believe

but most 'normal diets' may not work for someone with primary progressive Multiple Sclerosis.
SWMBO suffers similar, but that's because, having Pernicious anaemia her body cannot process folic acid, vitB or whatever, in fact she's not long back from the hospital after having one of her vitB transfusions.

Mrs J insists I eat sprouts then complains about the noxious (and often noisy) emissions later. Especially when we're in a supermarket. I get sent to the middle of lidl when we're in there.