Are You Overweight?

[PeteC]

A thought about the wild rice......The white and brown rice I looked up definitely said "cooked". The wild rice may have been a dry, uncooked 1 cup, which is of course much more than a cooked 1 cup. Anyone looking at the site can check. Pete

[sargeant]

For some reason i only recieved a post advice notice for this thread today so am a bit baffled as to why its taken almost a month

stll while i am here i am maintaining my weight at 83/4 kilos which is comfortable the new me can be seen on the billy thread and the old me on the taking the easy option thread

oh and Richard not only do i now fly on my new alluminium frame 24 gear click up click down shimano equipped throughout with disc brakes front and rear 7,500 Bt shiny bicycle i can in top gear when i forget speed bumps loop the loop

[dtaai-maai]

How can you be 1-5 pounds overweight? Seems a bit too precise to me!
Having said that, Mrs D-M seems to manage it occasionally...

[Takiap]

Draw your own conclusions but it looks to me as if rice is better than potatoes, but if you can eat your meat/veggies/Thai food with bread instead or either you'll be better off in the weight department. Pete

Yes Pete, the rice might be better in terms of watching one's weight, but I think that's where it ends, since it has virtually no goodness in it at all. Potatoes may not be a health food, but they do at least have some nutritional value.

Unfortunately nobody in my household eats them, so I don't bother either. What we do is we mix, white jasmine and brown jasmine rice in equal proportions, and then add in a 5kg bag of the white,red and black rice you can buy in most supermarkets.

Personally, I prefer the sticky rice, but even the in-laws who are from Isaan are keen on eating it every day, and besides, the price of sticky rice has got silly.

[PeteC]

Concerning potatoes, I don't blame anyone for not eating the Thai variety. Overly sweet to me with a yellowish flesh. If you're near a Macro they usually have potatoes from many EU countries and the USA. I don't know about Villa for a selection but wouldn't hurt looking.

I went to a Christmas church dinner last week and somehow they got hold of 50 lbs of Idaho potatoes and they were the best mashed I've had in years. Pete