Shard

How much is too much?

Five good sized strawbs quartered, two tablespoons of double cream = 1 portion.

Portions per day: 2-3! Too much?!? Such a delicious crop this year.

Jerseygirl

You can never have too much IMO.

Shard

Just what I wanted to hear!

Jerseygirl

Same applies to chocolate and sex.

Shard

Reminds me of the George Constanza trifecta!

Piff Poff

My Mum's idea of Strawberries and cream was one (small) strawberry surrounded by an ocean of cream and a healthy sprinkle of sugar.

Tinpusher63

Too much? Possibly yes.

Strawberries are high in Oxalate, something that you might want to avoid or at least minimize if you don't want kidney stones.

Just sayin'.

Kidney Stone Diet : GiCare.com

Teaandtoday5

Reverse karma to you for the vision of proper double cream when I haven't had any for the last 4 years

BristolUK

I was thinking that. I had one in the early 90s and the first thing the doc asked was had I eaten a lot of strawberries.

Shard

Just what I didn't want to hear

From the article:

Although there are many foods that contain large amounts of oxalate, eight foods have been shown to be most at fault for raising urine oxalate levels. They are rhubarb, spinach, strawberries, chocolate, wheat bran, nuts, beets, and tea.


This does not sound good.

Jerseygirl

I've always eaten large amounts of the above...apart from rhubarb.

BristolUK

Maybe you got lucky, or dismissed all those back pains as back pains.

Or all that dancing - that is you in the avatar isn't it? - shook the stones about and broke them up.

Jerseygirl

Yeah that's me and you could be right.

magnumpi

Does strawbs & Cool whip count ?

Shard

When it comes to strawbs, it's all good. A couple of years back I had a phase of clotted cream ice cream and strawbs. Might need to reinstitute that if summer ever arrives.