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Healthy Eating

MJJ24

Hello all, does anyone please have any tips on how to eat healthy and get the vitamins and minerals needed when you struggle eating stuff outside of safe foods (which for me are not the healthiest)? I have had a few deficiencies in the past and want to take steps to prevent them but its hard! Thanks in advance Slight smile

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  • What are your safe and unsafe foods? It would be much easier to make suggestions if I knew.

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    So I do a lot of snacking through the day a lot of biscuits (bad I know). I usually have cereal for breakfast (frosties, or chocolate hoops something like that). My mum makes dinner so not normally to bad and lunch varies depending on how I feel that day. Normally like a cheese sandwich or something. I do mainly rely on a lot of snacks and i know I don't drink as much as I should as I find that hard too. I am vegetarian and can't have fructose. I'm sorry I know its not an exact list its just really hard to think of them on the spot!

  • in reply to MJJ24

    This is not medical advice, just general knowledge - we all know too much sugar is bad for us, so I would swap the high sugar foods for something healthier.

    I buy Nairns Oaties biscuits which have about half the amount of sugar compared to a normal biscuit. Also you could try carrot sticks, plain crackers with cream cheese, or nuts as snacks.

    The breakfast cereals you eat have a lot of sugar, so you could try plain porridge and add just a teaspoonful of brown sugar if you want to sweeten it (which is less than most cereals contain). Look at the grams of sugar per portion - a teaspoon is about 4 grams, so if it says 12g sugar per portion, thats 3 teaspoons.

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  • in reply to MJJ24

    This is not medical advice, just general knowledge - we all know too much sugar is bad for us, so I would swap the high sugar foods for something healthier.

    I buy Nairns Oaties biscuits which have about half the amount of sugar compared to a normal biscuit. Also you could try carrot sticks, plain crackers with cream cheese, or nuts as snacks.

    The breakfast cereals you eat have a lot of sugar, so you could try plain porridge and add just a teaspoonful of brown sugar if you want to sweeten it (which is less than most cereals contain). Look at the grams of sugar per portion - a teaspoon is about 4 grams, so if it says 12g sugar per portion, thats 3 teaspoons.

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