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Nov 27th 2012, 8:50 am

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Re: What's for lunch today?

Day 2 of the noodle diet. Having found some English writing on the pot it has 50% of my daily allowance of fat - How can that be with dried noodles??!

Nov 27th 2012, 9:18 am

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Day 2 of the noodle diet. Having found some English writing on the pot it has 50% of my daily allowance of fat - How can that be with dried noodles??!

Is there a Chilli Oil sachet?

Nov 27th 2012, 9:19 am

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Day 2 of the noodle diet. Having found some English writing on the pot it has 50% of my daily allowance of fat - How can that be with dried noodles??!

What about the salt content?

Nov 27th 2012, 10:02 am

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Re: What's for lunch today?

Salad and ryvita for me two days in a row now - I need a halo!

Nov 27th 2012, 10:04 am

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Is there a Chilli Oil sachet?

Yes, A lime coloured paste.

What about the salt content?

The sodium in 70% of my daily allowance

I shall try another brand tomorrow.............Probably the cheap shredded wheat sized ones will be better?

Nov 27th 2012, 10:05 am

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Salad and ryvita for me two days in a row now - I need a halo!

6lbs of lurpak per Ryvita slice to make it palatable?

Nov 27th 2012, 10:06 am

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Yes, A lime coloured paste.

What about the salt content?

The sodium in 70% of my daily allowance

I shall try another brand tomorrow.............Probably the cheap shredded wheat sized ones will be better?

Not that I'm one to talk, but anything packet is generally salt-heavy.

My heart struggles enough as it is without going sodium mental on it.

Nov 27th 2012, 10:06 am

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6lbs of lurpak per Ryvita slice to make it palatable?

No butter at all

But i did have a bit of buffalo mozarella with it today

Nov 27th 2012, 10:10 am

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Not that I'm one to talk, but anything packet is generally salt-heavy.

My heart struggles enough as it is without going sodium mental on it.

Though I never add salt to anything except eggs and Jacket Pots. Neither of which I eat here...................

Nov 27th 2012, 12:13 pm

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Not that I'm one to talk, but anything packet is generally salt-heavy.

My heart struggles enough as it is without going sodium mental on it.

SCAMP!!!! Have you looked at the sodium content of most of the food you are eating darling???

Nov 27th 2012, 12:20 pm

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SCAMP!!!! Have you looked at the sodium content of most of the food you are eating darling???

But it's not packet food, so that means it's alright and I won't hear differently.

Also, I had half a fruit salad today. That's a weeks worth of 5-a-day sorted.

Nov 27th 2012, 2:24 pm

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Day 2 of the noodle diet. Having found some English writing on the pot it has 50% of my daily allowance of fat - How can that be with dried noodles??!

Most instant/pot noodles are fry-dried - immersed in boiling vats of cheap oil which the starchy noodles absorb with gusto when their water content evaporates off....

Nov 27th 2012, 3:38 pm

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But it's not packet food, so that means it's alright and I won't hear differently.

Also, I had half a fruit salad today. That's a weeks worth of 5-a-day sorted.

A little bit of reading for you darling

It is recommended that adults consume less than 2,300 mg of sodium per day. This is equivalent to about 6 g or 1 teaspoon of salt.

http://www.foodstandards.gov.au/scie...arange4648.cfm

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-st...s-7964244.html

Nov 27th 2012, 4:21 pm

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Re: What's for lunch today?

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That's a weeks worth of 5-a-day sorted.

But the Govt knows that 5-a-day is nonsense. They were going to go with 9, but considered that that would mean most people wouldn't take it seriously. That in spite of the fact that actually the recommendation is 11-15. On top of that, it should be primarily veg, not fructose-laden fruit. Or noodles...