Re: Fiber quantities
06/05/03 02:16 PM
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Heather
Reged: 12/09/02
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Loc: Seattle, WA
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Hi - Well, the answer to this is much easier than trying to calculate grams of fiber vs. protein or some such. All you need to do is make sure that the largest portion, by actual physical size, of your meal comes from soluble fiber foods. And try to get some soluble fiber in your stomach at the beginning of the meal - have just a piece of white bread, or a handful of baked corn chips, or a dose of the soluble fiber supplement.
If you have chicken with mushrooms and tomato sauce, serve that over rice or pasta or potatoes. You want at least half again as much of the soluble fiber food as you do for the chicken/veggie topping. This usually works out to how you'd normally eat, actually. You have pasta, say, and top it with a veggie sauce. There's normally more pasta in that meal than sauce. Same thing with something like fried rice - there's a lot more rice in there than there are the diced veggies or shrimp/chicken pieces.
You could certainly add the peeled apple - that would make a good dessert after the meal.
Hope this makes sense!
- Heather
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