I noticed a few items in my house with the super food title on the packet, just wondering if anyone here has felt the benefit of super foods as they are now called or if you base a lot of your shopping on these super nutritious goods?
What are ''superfoods''? To me it's something that has all the nutrients necessary to keep you in good health. For example - spirulina. I take spirulina tablets from time to time, really as sort of an insurance for vitamins and minerals, instead of multivitamin tablets. I don't really feel any shocking benefits, but I guess it helps me be sure I give my body all it needs to keep going and recover properly.
Blueberries on porridge.... superfoodplus a vitamin D supplement every morning.
I'm a big fan of fruit and veg and having a reasonable and varied amount in my diet makes me feel better. But as far as I'm concerned the super foods concept is just marketing and hype.
Couldn't agree more.Originally Posted by gerrudd
As my gran used to say "a little bit of everything does you good".
Superfoods = nonsense
It's just a matter of time...
Organic cranberry / blueberry concentrate 15ml mixed with 50ml water twice a day works.
Sounds interesting, when you say “works” in what way does this concoction work?
I’m interested in adding more better food in my diet as the years go on, so a super food as in loaded with something super (vitamins) is interesting..
I was going to say you get all the vitamin D you need from sun exposure - then I remembered you are in County Durham.Blueberries on porridge.... superfood
URSOLIC acid Murkey keeps the brain sharp.
I eat a lot of Avocado which is a so called Superfood, I eat them because I love them, try mashing one with a spoonful of mayonnaise and Tuna
😁 Cheeky bu••er as they say up 'ere.
Bloody hell Paul, if I ate that I’d gyp*
(*A local term for vomit.)
Home- made curry, containing lots of onions, lots of tomatoes, lots of spices, garlic and ginger, lots of spinach, lamb mince and chicken.....and a few fresh chillies. That’s my definition of super- food!
I've changed my lifestyle/diet completely over the last 12 weeks and so far have lost 24kg with around another 24 or so to lose to put me back where I want to be.
Got my bloods tomorrow so hopefully it's worked/working.
I would say broccoli, chilli and green tea and butter coffee are superfoods for me at the moment.
Super foods are for Vegans who need to supplement their diet with the important nutrition they are missing.
Don't let any one kid you that veganism is healthy life choice decision - ethical yes, healthy no.
Edit - ac82 beat me to it.
I hope your blood test comes back OK.
Last edited by Reeny; 5th May 2020 at 23:33.
I do eat all of the above also, especially fresh green Chillies, as my mom hails from Mauritius I was bought up on it
Is it wrong or very British to feel hungry at Breakfast after reading those ingredients, sound blooming lovely..
Fair play and keep it up, part of the reason I asked the question in the first place was to add some really good food to my diet while trying to bin some of the crap, being mid 40's I feel it becomes more important to look at what goes in.
Yes I thought Vegan's pushed the term super food, I love my meat based meals but I'm seriously thinking about reducing the red meat intake, saying that a fat Gourmet Burger with skin on fries and a beer would go down a treat now..
I reversed my Diabetes 2 by diet and exercise. I shed two Stone’s five years ago and I have kept to a steady 13 and half stone. I eat healthy meals most days but do go off the rails now and then, when that happens I do extra 30 miles on the bike,soon brings the bloods back into line.
You can enjoy burger and chips if you do it carefully. We buy good quality burgers with little fat and cook them in the oven on a grid. This gets the fat out and cooks them evenly. We cook chips in an air frier (Tefal Actifry) with a small quantity of rapeseed oil. The Actifry is excellent, you can leave the skin on your chips and add flavourings ( spices, salt, black pepper) to make ‘em nice.
Baked beans with added tomato puree and spices goes nicely with it too. So does home- made chilli.....hot of course!
I’m not a great cook, I specialise in hot and spicy stuff but that’s my limit. Mrs W does the subtle stuff.
Do you have it serviced at set intervals, or do you wait until it starts to malfunction?
No danger of the oil drying out either.
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Jamie's Oliver's cracking good burger recipe cooked on the Weber and home made oven cooked chips. Cut, parboil, hot oven, olive oil, salt, rosemary, a garlic clove or two, 40 minutes later bliss.
Start with some steamed asparagus with lemon butter. Serve with a big salad. Add a G&T for the ant-malarial properties and then a good bottle of red for the polyphenols, including resveratrol. Real super food :)
Marketing bollocks.
There is no one "superfood" that you can eat, and get everything you need.
If you have to take ten of these so called superfoods, then it's not really a superfood, is it.
Spirulina - if you can afford the tariff, then no harm taking a teaspoon a day. It (along with tempeh), was claimed to be a good source of vitamin B12 for vegans. Tosh.
I have some friends who got spirulina in 44 gallon drums - they used it as fertiliser.
Quinoa - just because that was the staple food in the Andes years ago, doesn't mean it's the one thing a westerner with disposable income should eat today. By the same logic, rice and potatoes are superfoods. In potato season, I probably roast them three times a week, and eat 1kg (uncooked weight) at a time. Likely not that great for me, but I stop when they are out of season.
I used to have homemade pizza five times a week (just ones from the house oven, not anything like the pizza thread on here).
To be an eatery I want to return to (not counting curry houses here) they must have five items - pizza, fries, burger, finished off with ice-cream and cake.
Rob.
Last edited by Rob (NZ); 7th May 2020 at 03:40.
If the packet tells you how amazing it is for you then its usually shite.
You wont see an advert for Broccoli on a bus shelter!
RIAC
Agreed, if it’s in a packet (pre-made) it’s usually shite. Just a well balanced colourful diet and eat whatever you like within your bodies normal calorie requirement. Circa 2400-2500 for a bloke dependant on lifestyle. I’ve been obese in my 20’s and had a six pack in my 40’s, I started eating properly when I turned 30 and lost 30kg.
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