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Thought I would start this as we are nearing the traditional time to start thinking about healthier eating ie after the festive goodies have run out...
I've also been thinking about the link between nutrition and management of RA....
These are my favourite healthy alternatives which i think are helpful for RA and for when i need a break / alternative from the christmas cake and after eights!
I do love my chocolate though....!
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Banana sandwiches made with brown bread.
Healthy breakfast yogurts - we've been making healthy breakfast bowls of fresh or defrosted frozen fruit layer followed by layer of natural yogurt (i like raspberry flavour at the moment) and topped with strawberry breakfast crunch cereal and more fruit - yummy!
Pumpkin / sunflower seeds / mixed fruit for movie munchies....
Lettuce sandwiches (brown bread again) - apparently they help you sleep....
Banana and milk combo is supposed to help sleep too....
What are other people's healthier options?
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Green tea seems to be promoted as a sort of health product these days. I bought some from a Chinese Dr who was treating my shoulder and she said it was also good for aiding weightloss. Not sure about the weightloss - hasn't done me much good yet!!
What do you find the benefits are, Carol?
Love Jeanxxxxx
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I do welcome this as when i get bored with food i go off it and end up eating crap cos im famished. I like roasted pumpkin seeds. What i do is when I am cooking something in the oven I put some in roasting dish with a sprinkle of sea salt for 10 mins adn then empty them into a dish for nibbles. I also buy a big jar of olives and then treat them when i get home, rinse them, pour some olive oil on them and some chopped herbs like basil or corriander and a tinny bit of garlic. i forgot about the pumpkin seeds so I think I will go off and buy some now. I have been over the christmas addicted to fruit gums but with the weather being so cold it really takes a lot of chewing adn my teeth were traumatised for days when I ate 2 rolls.  I find eating things like satsumas or small bannanas handy when I am in a rush. I have a very sweet tooth so would love ideas to replace my tea and cake as well as savouries to pick at. Not sure if any of that is healthy but I suppose its healthier than fruitgums!  Lizzie, Crisp subsittues would be home made popcorn, toasted pumpkin seeds - benefits less oily Breakfast fav: granola, organic yoghurt and fresh fruit (forgot about this too) Dinners: Cut down on red meat - and eat more veg and fish - good for the soul, body and planet! Cake subsitute:  
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I've got a long list of them!
Daily mixed berry smoothies made with oat milk, oat meal, ground linseed, and hemp seeds: Breakfast
Rye and spelt sourdough bread with sunflower seed spread and manuka honey: Breakfast
Roasted Tamari mixed seed mix: sunflower, pumpkin, linseed, hemp, and sesame seeds; also fresh and dried fruit to snack on.
Hearty soup made from red peppers, pumpkin, spices, lentils: lunch
Green leaf and Teriyaki tofu stir fry served with brown rice noodles: evening meal
Drinks herb teas, 6-8 glasses of water.
Typical contents of my larder:
Drinks: spiced ginger tea, red bush tea, herbal teas in general, & fruit juice (no sugar)
Oat cakes
Brown rice
Quinoa
Miso paste for soups
Bulgar wheat
Dried seaweed
Lots of fresh veg, salad, & fruit
Lots of oily fish, or grilled chicken
Oils: extra virgin cold pressed olive oil
I've cut out cows milk and cheese, but do eat sheep and goats.
Rice, oat and soya milk
Dried and fresh herbs and spices.
Ah yes: RED WINE, Champers, AND G&B CHOCOLATE made with no less than 75% coco!!!
Love,
Barbara
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For a substitute for potato crisps try Cassava crisps instead or dried banana chips
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Tabbycat wrote:Green Tea! Goes in one end and straight out the other!!  A friend is someone who knows all about you but loves you anyway!
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barbara-o wrote:............ but do eat sheep and goats.
Can you eat a whole one Barbara?  A friend is someone who knows all about you but loves you anyway!
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hmmmm healthy munchies??? marshmallows? foam bananas? sherbet saucers? turkish delight? Good grief I'm a slob compared to you lot  YES I'VE CHANGED, PAIN DOES THAT TO PEOPLE.
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Me too Julie!  I do like maltesers though, and they have a less-fattening centre. Doreen xx
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i would like barbaras diet i have soya milk live yoghurt home made juice and i like soups made from fresh veg gillain mc keith tpye diet but its hard work when no one else in the house eats it .But funny when i first knew my hubby this was his diet now its not . With the scleroderma this this a good diet for me . christine The chocolate eating housewife ...The washer woman .....naughty lady
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Stewart I can eat for England and have a stomach like a gannet! - sheep or goat no problemo!!!  Doreen, Maltesers are lovely and low in calories, however, it's what goes into our sweeties that counts, I'm thinking all those E numbers and how it's processed. Julie, sorry but your list of sweets sounds delicious, but not healthy. Ah.....I'm no saint and pigged out on all sorts this Christmas including Turkish Delight and Bombay mix Love, Barbara XXXXX
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Just back from sainsburys with tthe smallest packet of pumbpkin seeds ever seen. Had my hand on a packet of cream cakes but promised myself to have some toast and marmalade a surge of willpower of leaft them behind. So when I got home. Had 2 slices of toast and marmalade adn then wolved down some chocolates and a handful of tacos..... well at least I tred. thinking of trying not to buy any more rubbish but to eat whatsever left in teh house
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barbara-o wrote:Stewart I can eat for England and have a stomach like a gannet! - sheep or goat no problemo!!! Doreen, Maltesers are lovely and low in calories, however, it's what goes into our sweeties that counts, I'm thinking all those E numbers and how it's processed. Julie, sorry but your list of sweets sounds delicious, but not healthy. Ah.....I'm no saint and pigged out on all sorts this Christmas including Turkish Delight and Bombay mix Love, Barbara XXXXX Oh 'eck---well i have made a concession and had a clementine........ YES I'VE CHANGED, PAIN DOES THAT TO PEOPLE.
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dorat wrote:I do like maltesers though, and they have a less-fattening centre. Hey Doreen, Polos have a less fattening centre as well. A friend is someone who knows all about you but loves you anyway!
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Hi Christine, My diet was prescribed to me by a doctor in nutrition sort of like Gillian McKeith, but without the quackery. My Vita-mix blender rules in the kitchen - lots of veg and fruit juices, even kneads dough for homemade bread - great for the old RA hands Love, Barbara XXXXXX
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my problem is I have such a sweet tooth- and I love cheese. I always struggle to give up sweets, cake, chocolate and biscuits- or even to reduce the intake.
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barbara-o wrote:My Vita-mix blender rules in the kitchen - lots of veg and fruit juices, even kneads dough for homemade bread - great for the old RA hands Did you get that in Costco Barbara? They're doing it for £387. I see them demonstrating it quite regularly. It looks impressive. It looks good when they bung cabbage in the ice cream and you can't taste it! A friend is someone who knows all about you but loves you anyway!
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 Wow Thanks Lizzie how i missed this one/ Oh yes main one is good old H20 water herbal tea-fav lemon ginger,peppermint,chamoile lime flowers. normal tea no more 2 a day and not after 9pm or wont sleep dont touch coffee Firstly soya milk with added calcium-good quality one not cheap brands. Oat bread Oat cereal such as porridge made soay milk no sugar Apples banana only 1 small one a day Brown pasta snacks wise thats when i have fruit,also ryvita sunflower seeds nice filling as snack alone or with vitaite spread soya cheese spread tini bit. slhoer drinks for xmas,bit white wine,elderlfower water yummy very cleansing. hot honey ginegr lemon for sore throat. dried figs for health tumm tumm ya know hat i mean 3 a day as high sugar content(fruit own sugar not added.) some mince pies 1 with soya custard or soya cream xmas day. main food. small amount potaotes,small ones,boiled not roasted. main ingredients meal vegatbles white protein re fish,turkey,chicken no beef no lamb. low salt gravy. sea salt tini bit. nuts small amount,seeds lots.fav pumpkins seeds. no added sugar polos or no addded chew gum for dry mouth. no saint had cake,mince pies,cake,pudding over xmas and still stuff left but in moderation,stuff from hamper lol trying to reduce and swap bad food for good constantly. inky07 cuddly cats make my world seem so much more fun
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jeanb wrote:Green tea seems to be promoted as a sort of health product these days. I bought some from a Chinese Dr who was treating my shoulder and she said it was also good for aiding weightloss. Not sure about the weightloss - hasn't done me much good yet!!
What do you find the benefits are, Carol?
Love Jeanxxxxx It puts me off eating sweet things. I can take or leave chocolate, cake, biscuits etc., would rather eat a savoury meal. My weight has been stable (save for this year when I lost in hospital) for 10 years. Some people say it can fight cancer. I don't know about that and hope I never have to find out. I drink only Green Tea, nothing else and have about 5-6 mugs a day. Carol
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