Anyone else here love eating these type of things? I could add raisins to almost anything, although I hear mixed comments about them being healthy/too sugary.

I feel a bit sad when I say that I could spend a fortune in somewhere like Julian Graves!

Don't start me on Goji Berries...

I love raisins, especially the big juicy Californian ones from Tesco. At present, I'm dieting so trying not to have too many but my favourite "grab-a-quick-snack" at present is a small palm full of those with about 4 Brazil nuts. Just enough to stave off my sugar craving, and I love to have something to scrunch, so the Brazils are good for that (get stuck in my teeth too, so last ages..... ) I also have a handful of raisins sprinkled on my Special K, but I've cut out breakfast, so have it for lunch sometimes instead now.

My OH's mum had some at Xmas, probably just ones bought from morrisons, but they were lovely! Had dried pineapple in with the raisins, I couldnt stop picking at them!!

Just going OT:


Maybe a silly question, but can I just ask why you are cutting out breakfast if you are trying to diet? I thought most recommendations for dieters is to eat breakfast?
Last edited by Tumbleflumps : 10-01-2008 at 18:09

Not a silly question at all. I know they say you must eat breakfast, but it doesn't work for me. I have been eating breakfast for the past three years which consists of a huge bowl of cereal normally with the raisins, so about 300 cals. So by cutting it out, I save 300 cals a day instantly, and I don't feel hungry, I don't eat anything till at least 1pm. If I eat breakfast, it starts me off wanting to pick all morning too, seems to make me hungrier as soon as I eat anything. My metabolism gets a kick without the food, cos I have to have a thyroxine every morning for underactive thyroid.

I lost three stone 4 years ago by not having breakfast too.

Cor I wish I could skip breakfast and not feel hungry until lunchtime lol