Soup and salad....

[ummmm]

Who has this...?

Just spoke to OH asking what he wanted for dinner. He said soup with salad as it's too muggy for a heavy dinner. Soup and salad though..

Strange..

[cazzz1975]

protein gives me strength, veg gives me the giddy kippers

[ummmm]

lol...

Don't you eat any veg?

[pastafreak]

I'd have no problem with that....soup has actually been shown to keep you full for longer than a heavier meal. It takes longer to leave the stomach.

That's my trivia for the day....

[cazzz1975]

only when I have to, essentially I am a meat person

meat snacks
meat meals
take away meat
emergency meat

[ummmm]

Soup is just so easy to make...I'm loving this soup phase.

It use to be chilli's.....

[Hugo-Johnson]

That's horrendous teaching pastafreak, So a liquid takes longer to digest then lets say peanut butter, Cottage cheese or a steak? I think not!

[mrs.chappie]

Love the sound of the cheese and onion toasts, and the soup, I'd pass on the salad though. Wish I could get motivated to eat more healthily. [:o(

[ummmm]

Do you not like salad MrsC?

Soup can be very healthy....

[mrs.chappie]

Not really ummmm, don't mind it as a garnish, but the problem is that I never feel fed up after a salad (seems to make me more hungry than before I started eating!)

I love cheese and onion toasts and you've get me really fancying one now. [:o)

[pastafreak]

Sorry hugo...I saw it last year on a BBC program about diet and nutrition. And yes...scientific studies have shown it to be true. So why is it 'horrendous teaching'?...because it does not support your ideas?.

[Hugo-Johnson]

Pastafreak I study nutrition so it does not fall with anyones ideas anywhere. Can you rustle up any proof from google please?

[pastafreak]

I'll see what I can find hugo.....

[ummmm]

Wouldn't that depend on what is in the soup Hogo..?

[Hugo-Johnson]

Yes to a degree but the soup will still be mainly liquid so compare this to a calorie dense fatty meal and it still will pass through our system before the solid meal.

[cazzz1975]

http://www.dailymail....ee-healing-soups.html

they mention slow digestion in this article bigfoot, er I mean hugh

[pastafreak]

Here you are Hugo

http://news.bbc.co.uk.../magazine/8068733.stm

It may not mean 'full' in the way you may understand-but there is a scientific basis for itI found it interesting when I first heard about it.

[Hugo-Johnson]

Cazzz yes I agree pulses and veg are slow digesting, not as slow as fats.
Pastafreak this study is due o the binding of water to soup molecules and the feeling of being full with lower calories for weight loss. Not what we're talking about at all. Fats take longer, Fact.

[pastafreak]

But it is what I was talking about,Hugo. I was not making a contentious point...I DID say it was a bit of trivia. Talking about the digestion of fat,proteins,carbs.......whatever...is a totally different topic. If I remember correctly-the article does state that part of the effect is due to a sphincter-type valve at the base of the stomach. I imagine the effect is the same no matter what type of meal is combined with water. They used the example of a chicken meal...it could just as easily be a meal based on pulses.

[ummmm]

Cazzzzz ;-)

[pastafreak]

It's gone all silent all of a sudden....