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What carbs for lunch ?

  • 19-02-2014 4:44pm
    #1
    yourdeadwright
    Registered Users Posts: 20,506 ✭✭✭✭


    He folks just wiondering what carbs do you eat for your lunch,
    I normally have sweet potato or brown rice with my DInner ,but for lunch i eat 2 slices of home made brown bread,but im going to try and compelety come off eating bread, what do you folks normally eat ?


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  • #2
    Stench Blossoms
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,390 ✭✭✭Stench Blossoms


    Carrots, broccoli, peas, cauliflower and spinach.


  • #3
    Zillah
    Registered Users Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    Stench Blossoms wrote: »
    Carrots, broccoli, peas, cauliflower and spinach.

    Those aren't carbs...

    OP: Marks and Spencers do a nice range of salads that have things like quinoa, butternut puree, cous cous, bulgur wheat, stuff like that. Tend to have a lower GI.

    What's your angle - keeping calories down? Fueling workout? Tasting nice?


  • #4
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    oat bran, latte flavoured whey, flaxseed

    nom nom nom


  • #5
    Hanley
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,981 ✭✭✭✭Hanley


    Zillah wrote: »
    Those aren't carbs...

    Do tell...


  • #6
    Zillah
    Registered Users Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    Hanley wrote: »
    Do tell...

    Huh, looking up the numbers, these things are more carby than I realised. Still not really in the league of bread though. Cauliflower and broccoli have 5/6g per 100, for example. Spinach has 3.


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  • #7
    Stench Blossoms
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,390 ✭✭✭Stench Blossoms


    Oh my god, vegetables aren't carbs anymore??!

    Why didn't anyone tell me?! When did this happen?


  • #8
    saucers82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 253 ✭✭saucers82


    Wholemeal pitta


  • #9
    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users Posts: 24,550 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    If it's not bread, it's not carbs.

    I thought everyone got that memo.


  • #10
    Zillah
    Registered Users Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    There's a difference between something having carbs and something being a good source of carbs. It's like that bloody Brennans Bread ad where they describe it as a source of protein. Sure, ok, it has protein, but it would be stupid to say it is a good source of protein.

    You can't think spinach providing 3g of carbs per 100g of weight makes it a good source of carbs?


  • #11
    cletus van damme
    Closed Accounts Posts: 960 ✭✭✭cletus van damme


    Stench Blossoms wrote: »
    Oh my god, vegetables aren't carbs anymore??!

    Why didn't anyone tell me?! When did this happen?

    yesterday , it was on the news.


    OP - if I'm training later I'll have oats with berries at lunch , with my salad, meat and protein shake

    If not not I'll leave out the oats/berries and just have salad and shake.
    ocassioanlly if rice is left over from last nights dinner I'll have that
    But that said my lunch is my breakfast (about 600- 700 cals)


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  • #12
    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users Posts: 24,550 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    Zillah wrote: »
    There's a difference between something having carbs and something being a good source of carbs. It's like that bloody Brennans Bread ad where they describe it as a source of protein. Sure, ok, it has protein, but it would be stupid to say it is a good source of protein.

    You can't think spinach providing 3g of carbs per 100g of weight makes it a good source of carbs?

    The OP probably doesn't want to eat something as carb heavy as bread if he's giving up bread.


  • #13
    Hanley
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,981 ✭✭✭✭Hanley


    Zillah wrote: »
    There's a difference between something having carbs and something being a good source of carbs. It's like that bloody Brennans Bread ad where they describe it as a source of protein. Sure, ok, it has protein, but it would be stupid to say it is a good source of protein.

    You can't think spinach providing 3g of carbs per 100g of weight makes it a good source of carbs?

    It's a good source of nutrients. Far more important!

    But as you flagged in an earlier post it's hard to say what a good source of carbs are without clarification.

    ...but for most - vegetables are the best source of carbs, because unless you're involved in instense sport and frequent training, you're probably over consuming.


  • #14
    Zillah
    Registered Users Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    Alf Veedersane wrote: »
    The OP probably doesn't want to eat something as carb heavy as bread if he's giving up bread.

    So? He didn't ask for low-carb food, he specifically asked for "carbs for lunch". Foods in the 3-5g per 100g range hardly count.


  • #15
    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users Posts: 24,550 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    Zillah wrote: »
    So? He didn't ask for low-carb food, he specifically asked for "carbs for lunch". Foods in the 3-5g per 100g range hardly count.

    Why wouldn't they?

    He's looking for a suggestion for a replacement for two slices of bread at lunch, not something to replace carbs entirely.


  • #16
    runawaybishop
    Registered Users Posts: 9,499 ✭✭✭runawaybishop


    I eat a white bread demi baguette from time to time, because eating some bread at lunch isn't going to ruin my whole diet ;)

    Today i had buttermilk soda bread with almost equal amounts of butter. Was heaven.


  • #17
    Zillah
    Registered Users Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    I cycle to work so I devour all sorts of dirty carbs at lunch :pac:


  • #18
    doctorwhogirl
    Registered Users Posts: 2,664 ✭✭✭doctorwhogirl


    If it's not beige, it's not carbs. ;)


  • #19
    FortuneWookiee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 30 ✭FortuneWookiee


    Stench Blossoms wrote: »
    Carrots, broccoli, peas, cauliflower and spinach.
    Stench Blossoms wrote: »
    Oh my god, vegetables aren't carbs anymore??!

    Why didn't anyone tell me?! When did this happen?

    Oh FFS you knew well what the OP meant by carbs. You can assume they're eating veg anyway if they're having rice or sweet potato.

    It was obvious they were looking for complex carbs but you thought you'd try and be smart.


  • #20
    Stench Blossoms
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,390 ✭✭✭Stench Blossoms


    FortuneWookiee wrote: »
    Oh FFS you knew well what the OP meant by carbs. You can assume they're eating veg anyway if they're having rice or sweet potato.

    It was obvious they were looking for complex carbs but you thought you'd try and be smart.

    Actually no I wasn't trying to be smart.

    He said 'What do folks normally eat'
    I said what i eat.

    This was my lunch today.

    j6nckn.jpg

    So that's chicken on top of cauliflower, broccoli, peas and spinach.

    So take your FFS and shove it.

    :D


  • #21
    bman
    Registered Users Posts: 590 ✭✭✭bman


    Zillah wrote: »
    Those aren't carbs...

    Carrots per 100g - Carb: 10g, Fat: 0.2g, Protein: 0.9g

    You can google the others yourself.

    Edit: I need to refresh before replying any more!


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  • #22
    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users Posts: 24,550 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    FortuneWookiee wrote: »
    Oh FFS you knew well what the OP meant by carbs. You can assume they're eating veg anyway if they're having rice or sweet potato.

    Incorrect. The OP said they had sweet potato or rice for dinner. They had two slices of brown bread for lunch and asked for an alternative suggestion..

    You can let the OP have a taste of your humble pie.


  • #23
    coffee_cake
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    Jaysus that's all a bit angry
    maybe you need some cake??
    Of course veg is carbs. Nothing smart about it
    I have veg for mine also
    anything much heavier like bread or portatoes and it's afternoon nap time


  • #24
    Ah_Yeah
    Registered Users Posts: 3,020 ✭✭✭Ah_Yeah


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  • #25
    Dathai
    Registered Users Posts: 2,192 ✭✭✭Dathai


    Baked sweet potato, broccoli and cauliflower.


  • #26
    thegreatiam
    Registered Users Posts: 2,869 ✭✭✭thegreatiam


    Dozen creme eggs


  • #27
    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users Posts: 24,550 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    thegreatiam wrote: »
    Dozen creme eggs

    Reminds me of taking my last five pounds out of the Post Office. The fiver with Scotus on it.

    The local shop had 4 creme egss for a pound at the time.


    So I bought 20.


    The story ends, inevitably, with me feeling very, very ill.


  • #28
    tmc86
    Registered Users Posts: 1,031 ✭✭✭tmc86


    Nice to see this forum hasn't changed


  • #29
    thegreatiam
    Registered Users Posts: 2,869 ✭✭✭thegreatiam


    Alf Veedersane wrote: »
    Reminds me of taking my last five pounds out of the Post Office. The fiver with Scotus on it.

    The local shop had 4 creme egss for a pound at the time.


    So I bought 20.


    The story ends, inevitably, with me feeling very, very ill.

    I have no problem eating 20 creme eggs in one sitting. I'm lucky they are limited to a 3 month selling window or I'd probably be dead


  • #30
    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users Posts: 24,550 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    thegreatiam wrote: »
    I have no problem eating 20 creme eggs in one sitting. I'm lucky they are limited to a 3 month selling window or I'd probably be dead

    I was 11 or thereabouts.

    My eating capacity was much lower.

    The whole episode taught me a valuable lesson though.

    Use the brakes on a BMX - don't try and stop it by putting your foot on the back wheel (I got myself a bruised toe on the way to town that morning).


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  • #31
    thegreatiam
    Registered Users Posts: 2,869 ✭✭✭thegreatiam


    Tesco ballybrack have em 12 for 4 yo yo. I might go for the Cadbury cool hand luke challenge and eat 50.

    Edit. If I did that and 50 scoops of whey I wouldn't be far off my weekly macro totals. I might just live of creme eggs and whey til April.


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