Are Chicken Stir Fries ok

Anthony_1980

i hear loads of people saying there great low fat etc

i mean chicken fillet pan fried in low cal spray and cooked in soy sauce and tea spoon of lazy chillies and then so some spicy sauce and then spread ur noodles over it and mix around and cook

well u get the gist

is it good for you

BaZmO*

There's no such thing as good or bad food per se, although deep fried Mars Bars aren't that great for you.

What's more important is a balanced diet and as a balanced diet goes a Chicken Stirfry would be a good addition in that it provides vegetables, lean protein and low fat, dependent on the sauce used but you'd be better off making the sauce yourself.

Anthony_1980

cheers

i just wanted to see if it was a good meal while training

BaZmO*

Well actually, it's probably not a good meal while training.....you'll end up getting it all over the bench or the treadmill.

blow69

:d

rubadub

Anthony_1980 wrote: »

i hear loads of people saying there great low fat etc

i mean chicken fillet pan fried in low cal spray and cooked in soy sauce and tea spoon of lazy chillies and then so some spicy sauce and then spread ur noodles over it and mix around and cook

well u get the gist

is it good for you

Your noodles will probably be white flour. Wholemeal noodles are out there but expensive, I just use wholemeal roma spagehetti instead, usually I just have the strifry on its own though.

Becareful of the sauces, many are fine, some are high in fat and/or sugar- just read the labels.

Mini chicken fillets are €10.50 per kg in tesco at the moment, so small there is no preparation needed. And I heard sirloin is ~€8 per kilo in superquinn, also great for stir frys

Degsy

rubadub wrote: »

Your noodles will probably be white flour. Wholemeal noodles are out there but expensive, I just use wholemeal roma spagehetti instead, usually I just have the strifry on its own though.

Becareful of the sauces, many are fine, some are high in fat and/or sugar- just read the labels.

Mini chicken fillets are €10.50 per kg in tesco at the moment, so small there is no preparation needed. And I heard sirloin is ~€8 per kilo in superquinn, also great for stir frys

The meat in tesco is muck and superquinn is hardly any better.I guarantee you if you buy 10 quids worth of fillets from tesco they'll be rancid in a few days.Do yourself and your community a favour by only buying meat from your local butcher,the supermarkets are trying to put them out of business by peddling vastly inferior produce.My butcher knows me by name,gives me discounts nearly every visit and also gives me credit when its coming up to pay day.The meat is better quality and better flavour than anything available in a supermarket and buying meat there is a much better experience all round.

Static M.e.

Becareful of the sauces, many are fine, some are high in fat and/or sugar- just read the labels.

Just on the sauces, I eat stir fries alot so I can get all my veg into me but I use alot of different sauces in the packets that you can get, I have about 12 + different packets at home right now.

Are their some you avoid completely? I had a look at the back of the packets but they all look more or less the same to me, I dont understand the differences really.

Are their any in particular you recommend?

rubadub

Static M.e. wrote: »

Just on the sauces, I eat stir fries alot so I can get all my veg into me but I use alot of different sauces in the packets that you can get, I have about 12 + different packets at home right now.

Are their some you avoid completely? I had a look at the back of the packets but they all look more or less the same to me, I dont understand the differences really.

Are their any in particular you recommend?

Some are high in fat, usually curry sauces, and curry pastes can be very high in fat. Sweet & sour might obviously be high in sugar. Some korma or other cream based sauces can be high in fat.

Most tomato sauces are low in fat & sugar, and very cheap too, I sometimes just add spices to them. Some tomato sauces are high in fat, I think a loyd grossman one with bacon has lots of fat.
Just keep an eye on the "cabs of which sugar", "fats"- eps saturated fat. Just compare between jars side by side.

Tesco do "healthy living" sauces, but I find most are a bit bland, some are simply watered down to lower the caloires. Watch the portion sizes, I would rather have 1/10th a jar of nice tasting high fat/sugar sauce, than a half jar of bland sauce, and that portion might have the same fat/sugar content. 1 brand of korma might be very different from another, so do not presume e.g. "all black bean & green pepper" are good. I cannot think offhand which are good or bad, I tend to only use a little so it doesnt bother me too much.

agentgreen

Degsy wrote: »

The meat in tesco is muck and superquinn is hardly any better.I guarantee you if you buy 10 quids worth of fillets from tesco they'll be rancid in a few days.Do yourself and your community a favour by only buying meat from your local butcher,the supermarkets are trying to put them out of business by peddling vastly inferior produce.My butcher knows me by name,gives me discounts nearly every visit and also gives me credit when its coming up to pay day.The meat is better quality and better flavour than anything available in a supermarket and buying meat there is a much better experience all round.

Superquinn meat isn't to bad, it's the best of a bad bunch. But your dead right about the local butchers. I buy local if I can.

Anthony_1980

i think deggser is a butcher whos pissed off

i do buy my chicken from butcher as i get it already diced and good price

the noodles i use are in a white and red pack cant think of name ( get it later and post it ) and soysauce is ok , the lazy chillies are ground down chillies and just put a tea spoon in it and then sharwoods sweet chilli sauce checked the bottle and per 100ml its like 37kcals and trace for fat

so surely cant be that bad

yes the noodles might be white flour etc but im not training for mr ******* im just trying to lose weight and i think its a healthier option than domino's or curry plus i enjoy stir fry

chicken , noodles , sauce , peppers , onion , carrot mmmmmmmmmmm

rubadub

Noodles pack a lot of calories, far more than most think, so watch if weightloss is a goal, portion size anyways. Some instant packs like koka or mcdonalds are over 550kcal per pack- a lot of packs quote portion sizes as half packs- always watch that, most pizzas do the same, and the kcal are so high that at a guess you would think it is the full pizza/pack of noodles.

I have seen lads in work "dieting" eating them along with a lot of other stuff for lunch, easily downing 1000kcal in one sitting. I would sooner eat more chicken, 3-4 fillets is around the same calories as a single pack of instant supernoodles