Quakers Seasons - UKers?
#156277 - 03/03/05 07:31 AM
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Linz
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Has anyone tried these? I just saw them in my Boots magazine and it says they're baked and only 10% fat!  They have salt and cracked black pepper flavour too - my favourite. Maybe there'll finally be a safe crispy thing in the shops for us! It's not Kettle Chips, but it's something!
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Haven't tried em, but seen the silly advert on tv. I can't find the ingredients on google, but will check em out when I next go shopping......how cool!
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Just wondering if you could tell me what sort of crisps is OK to eat, I love crisps but seem to have a problem with most. Walkers Lite's are OK but want to try some others, any ideas.
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Crisps
#156286 - 03/03/05 07:45 AM
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Linz
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Most of them are far too high in fat! Or they contain triggers...you can get baked Kettle Chips in the States, but not here.
Hence my excitement over the Quakers Seasons.
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I love crisps and do have trouble with them, even walkers lites on an empty tum. I sometimes have a small portion of M&S Tortillas (lightly salted) or what about Roysters (T-bone steak flavour) they don't sell them everywhere nowadays, but they are baked and not fried, (haven't checked the ingreds. though)....any help?
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Crisps
#156409 - 03/03/05 09:35 AM
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cailin
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I have tried the M&S baked crisps- they taste like cardboard BUT they have salt and vinegar flavour corn snacks in the count on us range that are lovely. I also nibble on their salt and pepper pretzels and always keep some in my drawer at work for overtime hunger pangs.
If you're a crisps and dip while watching TV person a weightwatching friend of mine makes homemade salsa (I have a recipe if you want it although I don't think shop salsa is very high in fat)and toasts pitta bread and then cuts it into crisp sized bits. Very tasty and more filling than crisps...
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Re: Crisps
#156476 - 03/03/05 11:14 AM
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AngieB
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Thanks for your response, salsa would be good, but I think they have tomatoes in and I can't have them. But I like the idea about the pitta bread thing. Are low fat dips OK or do sometimes make things worse, I really could do with full fat as I need to put on weight now, but I know I can't.
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Re: Crisps
#156540 - 03/03/05 01:14 PM
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Linz
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I cut tortillas up into triangles and cook them (1.5 minutes in the microwave or longer in the oven) for dips. Just check all labels on dips for dairy or high-fat (which is not neccessary to put on weight!).
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Darn it
#156541 - 03/03/05 01:15 PM
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Linz
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They have lactose and whey in them! Does NO-ONE think of us?
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I knew it! Darn people! I think we should go into business and make our own?!
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Re: Darn it
#156750 - 03/04/05 01:11 AM
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Linz
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I think I'm going to send them a complaint...maybe they don't realise they're cutting out a BIG potential market?
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Will they listen though?? You know what these big corporates are like! I will complain as well that might make em listen a bit more?
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...someone might realise there's more money to be made! I was ready to buy a week's supply of the things AND take extra to my friends party tonight IF I could've eaten them.
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True - worth a shot in any case!! How rude eh! Do you eat oat cakes - I'm addicted to those things and good for partaaays!!
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I used to...
#156770 - 03/04/05 01:58 AM
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Linz
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...but I got out of the habit of buying them. I'm into baked tortilla triangles for dipping atm.
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Yum...
#156771 - 03/04/05 02:08 AM
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Do you bake them yourself or buy them baked?
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...I think Mags' post is up on the Recipe board atm...I cut cut a small tortilla into 8 triangles, sprinkle them with salt and maybe a spray of low-fat oil and then bake them in the oven or microwave (1.5 mins).
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I'm totally going to have a go at them on the w/end! I love these boards x
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...or baked Kettle Chips! I love em. You can add a sprinkling of spices (eg. Cajun spices) if you want to...or garlic salt instead of regular. Absolutely scrummy with houmous, salsa or home-made guacamole...Eeek! Just remembered...I'm out of green tabasco! Why is it that the day AFTER I go to Tescos I remember loads of stuff I needed to get. 
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Why is the UK so badly equipped for digestive disorders/food intolerences. When I first developed IBS I went to the IBS network website, what an absolute load of pants! They don't give any decent advice, except that cod and chicken are good for it!!! What?! 
Haha - I'm ALWAYS doing that, and everytime I just go in for one thing, I come out with loads of things!! Argh! 
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For some reason Waitrose prawn carackers never bothered me, even at my most sensitive. Also those mini poppadom thingies in tubes were OK.
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...for both the IBS food and the Fibro doctors and drugs! Plus, they get PROPER snow, not this mess-up-the-traffic-and-then-melt-so-it-doesn't-even-look-pretty silly stuff. I'm thinking New England sounds good!
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I'm with you there! Proper snow - whats that then?! haha! A sprinkling of pathetic fluffy rain, which makes everyone go mad, and have accidents, clog the traffic up on your way home. When it snowed last year for that hour, it took me 2 and a half hours to get home and I lived 20 mins away!!
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Re: Darn it
#156783 - 03/04/05 03:01 AM
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JaneC
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try So Crispy soy crisps- they're well nice (and also well expensive. Made by Kallo, the people who make rice cakes.
I am not sure if crisps are fine with me or not- I don't normally eat them anyway, but I don't recall having probelems with Kettle Chips, so maybe I'm lucky?
Or you could try those thingies- what are they? Wheat Crunchies? No! Walkers Squares or something- they do a salt and vinegar one which is vegan and they are baked, not fried, I believe. You can also get baked tortilla chips in a lot of health food shops.
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I'll ask next time I go to my HFS but I've never been able to find them!
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I'll have a look too - and I'll let you know if I find any. Let us know if you do too x
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if its less than 10 inches nothing will stop us from going on with our daily business. haha
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I'd be happy to carry on - its everyone else! The supermarkets get full up, everyone panic shops! Its a nightmare!!
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...and NO-ONE in the cities ever obeys the travel only if necessary warnings so all our roads get clogged up with people who don't have a clue how to drive in snow!!! Ok, rant over. It's just crazy...I've driven in a snowstorm in Colorado and over here people can't drive in one inch!
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Walkers lites ready salted crisps....each pack has only 5g fat and is made from just potatoes sunflower oil and salt...no triggers....I eat a pack a day theyre like a staple for me!! I was also excited about those quakers things....why does everything have to have lactose in god damn it!! Im serious though....we should atrta a business....with safe ibs food for the uk....I wana write to Luna bar and get them to sell them here....I love them ist not fair we cant have them here and baked lays!! Why is it we get nothing over here????
Oh and Marks and Spencers have a crinkle crisps reduced fat multi pack of 12 which are well nice and only 6g fat per bag....
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and...
#157036 - 03/04/05 11:52 AM
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Tesco's own lites too! Nice!! Luna Bars - deffo!
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well i see you are in england....but i went to whole foods...which is somewhat of a health store..not the dinky ones that smell funny, but with organic stuff and all that good stuff. i asked the people working there if they had them...and asked if they had suggestions too...because they work in a health food store they had some background as well on trigger foods ect. hope that helps any??
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Hey Linz
I have tried them. They are very yummy but there werent safe for me 
Niki
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How about Japanese rice crackers? I am currently munching my way through a bag of them - they are VERY crunchy and almost fat free. This particular brand is called Sunrise and the ingredients are:
rice (85%)
soy sauce
sugar
tapioca starch
I think I got them in Waitrose, but I've bought other (similar) brands in Sainsbury's and HFS.
Also, I'm sure I've seen a thing for slicing potatoes very thin to make homemade crisps - maybe in the Lakeland catalogue? - and I don't see why you couldn't then bake them in the oven with a spray of oil. Has anyone tried this already?
Have to say I don't agree that we in the UK are badly off for IBS-friendly foods - there may be fewer junk food substitutes, but from what I've read on these boards, it seems much harder to find bread and other basic foods without HFCS or artificial sweeteners in the USA than it is here. The one thing I really miss is cheese and unfortunately there's no substitute for that anywhere ...
Josephine
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Just thought Id let you know, dont know if you've already tried and hated them but....in Holland and Barrett stores in the uk(the health food store thats always on the telly) they sell....cheexly soya cheese which comes in a cheddar style, mozzarella style and nacho style flavours and also toffutti soya cream cheese in herb flavour and regular etc, plus they also sell cheese slices for sandwiches(like the dairy lea ones but soya) and tescos also stock the cheezly cheddar style...Ive used a few of them and Id never eat them on their own but on pizzas and pastas, melted and stuff theyre great!
You do have to watch the fat content though, its quite high in a lot of them...I find using small amounts is fine...but like anything high fat you have to just watch the quantity! Ive never had a problem with them.
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I like Toffutti a lot, but can only eat very small quantities because of the fat - I haven't tried the other brands you mentioned so I'll give them a go. But what I really want is a good strong Cheddar or some crumbly Wensleydale - oh and a crisp juicy apple to go with it! That's my fantasy ...
BTW I found this recipe for crisps, but I haven't tried it - it still has some fat, which could be reduced further I'm sure, maybe using a spray instead of oil? It would probably work with other root vegetables, eg parsnips, beetroot, too.
Homemade Low Calorie Potato Chips
Ingredients:
1 large potato, scrubbed clean and sliced
1/2 teaspoon olive oil
salt or seasonings
Instructions:
Pour oil in a plastic Ziploc baggie, along with whatever seasoning or spice preferred.
Put potato slices in bag.
Blow up the bag and quickly seal it shut.
Shake vigorously until all the slices are coated.
Arrange slices in a circle on a microwave-proof plate.
Microwave on high for 4 minutes.
Turn chips over and re-arrange them so they cook evenly.
Microwave again for 2 minutes.
Turn.
Watch them carefully and microwave again for about 2 minutes or until they start to brown.
They must brown a little in places or they will not crisp up.
Remove and let cool.
The chips crisp when cooling.
Nutrition Facts:
Amount Per Serving: Calories 165
Fat 2.4 g, Cholesterol 0 mg,
Sodium 11 mg,
Courtesy of: www.recipezaar.com
Has anyone tried doing anything like this?
Josephine
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Wow - that recipe sounds great! I'm going to give it a go - thanks Josephine...x
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The ones I had were blue corn ones? I was going to check Infinity, the big HFS in Brighton (if they don't have them I'm remembering wrongly) today, but I forgot. I know my mum bought them for my dad, 'cos he was told not to eat normal crisps to lower his cholesterol.
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That could potentially mean the UK isn't baked chip free!! I'm going to make some tortilla's from Linz's recipe as well!! Yum!
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Okay I've posted it on the recipe board now - I've been away so long I've almost forgotten how to use the board!
Josephine
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Some of the other brands to look out for are Clearspring, Wakama and Sanchi - but check for fat content, they do vary quite a bit.
Josephine
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we need some UK support...!! x
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Thanks - I'm really glad to be back, it was very frustrating not being able to read the boards or check things on the website.
There may not be many of us here from the UK, but I think we are pretty vocal!
Josephine
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Following your post I got some today (from Somerfield) and they are soooo moreish! I got the Sunrise 100% FF Original flavour ones...yum!
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