Caveat emptor.

If it is processed / made in a factory be very critical of it and eat minimal amounts.

If you cut out the bread and crumpets, the problem will go away!

Same here, as I explained.  Toast, crumpets, and sandwiches in general form a part of my "normal" diet.  I'm not going to do anything though, until I've spoken to my practice nurse, and have received her wisdom.  Obviously I'll plan to work with her, so buggering off at a tangent now will do me no good.

Pure Spread could be the least worst

Vegetable Fat Spread (54%) with 32% Sunflower Oil
Free from nasties*
*Free from artificial flavours, colours & preservatives
65% less saturated fat than butter**
**Butter contains 54g per 100g
We've been proudly pure since 1994.
RSPO - We Use Certified Sustainable Palm Oil, 2-0868-18-100-00
Spread, Cook, Bake
Made from Honest, Plant Based Ingredients
Dairy, Gluten and Lactose Free
High in Omega 3
Source of Vitamins A, D, E & B12
Free from GM Ingredients & Hydrogenated Fats
Suitable for vegans
Pack size: 500G
High in Omega 3
Source of Vitamins A, D, E & B12
Information
Ingredients
Vegetable Oils (Sunflower (32%), Palm, Linseed), Water, Salt (0.75%), Natural Flavouring, Vitamin E, Vitamin A & D, Natural Colour (Carotenes), Vitamin B12

I've just ordered a tub of Pure Dairy Free Vegan Olive Spread to try.  

75% Less Saturated Fat than Butter 11.1g per 100g **

** Butter Contains 50 - 55g per 100g (those are my adjusted figures after checking 10 types of butter on the Sainsbury's website)


Olive Oil Goodness***

***Rich in monounsaturated fats. Replacing saturated fat with unsaturated fat in the diet contributes to the maintenance of normal blood cholesterol levels, as part of a varied and balanced diet and healthy lifestyle.

After trying out a few zero alcohol lagers, Beck's Blue Alcohol-Free is still my favourite. The Birra Moretti Alcohol-Free was quite nice, and a little bit sweeter than Beck's Blue. I'm currently on bottled Heineken 0.0, and it's lacking a bit in flavour, and it's quite gassy compared to the other two.

Guinness Alcohol-Free 0.0% made a nice change of pace. It's not as full-bodied as the "real" thing, although it's been years since I tried canned Guinness, and I'm basing the comparison on my memory of draught Guinness, so it was never going to match up to that.  For Guinness-lovers who want to cut out the alcohol (and the calories), I'd definitely suggest trying it.  I still can't get the Big Drop Brewing Co. Galactic Milk Alcohol-Free Stout online, so I haven't been able to compare that to the Guinness, but straight away, it's a lot more expensive.  It works out at £4.55 per litre against £2.27 for the Guinness; it's twice the price in fact.

It's funny how things work out because when I started on the alcohol-free stuff it never even occurred to me that it was half the calories of ordinary beer, so that was an unexpected bonus for me.  Sadly, what I've also discovered tonight is that zero alcohol beer contains more sugar than alcoholic beer.  It's not a huge amount, Beck's Blue, for instance, contains 8.5g of carbs, 0.6g of which is sugar, in a 275ml bottle, but it's not something the brewers seem to be shouting about either. Again, I can't see my one bottle a night, or even two, being disastrous though especially balanced against the lower calorie count.

Alcohol-free beer really has come on in leaps and bounds over the last few years, due, so I've read, to more people trying to cut down on their alcohol consumption and brewers needing to tempt the new breed of non-drinker who still likes the taste of beer, but not the effect it has.

What do you think of this Paul? Something I learned from a recent trip to a nutritionist.

60 grams of carbs in the morning
60-75g at lunch
60g at supper

Would that land anywhere near your current carb intake? This is what I was recommended to switch to.

The way it was presented to me was with a list of items/portions that have 15g of carbs and that I could pick 4 at each meal.

A small bag of chips is 15g, 1 slice of unspecified bread was considered 15g, a bowl of cereal another 15g, and a portion of potatoes was 15g.

Even fast food that comes without a label was googled by the nutrionist to show how many carbs a specific popular item would have.

She did seem to make it quite easy to count and calculate.

I've purchased a food scale as well which has come in handy when weighing marinated chicken portions.

Apart from being as sensible as I can, I'll not be planning any total diet makeovers until I've spoken to the nurse at my GP's surgery, which will not be until July 13th.

After testing both the Pure Dairy Free Vegan Olive Spread and the Pure Dairy Free Buttery Taste for a week, I have come to the following conclusions.  Both are prefectly acceptable, and quite tasty.  I reserve the :"Olive" for stronger, spicier toppings, plus, obviously, anything that "goes" with olives.  The "Buttery" is even richer-tasting than my old spread, and healthier.  It's great on things like plain toast, and to accompany more delicately flavoured toppings, like my favourite Paysan Breton French Sea Salt Cream Cheese.

If something "healthy" comes on offer I'll probably give it a go, just for comparison's sake, but generally speaking I think I'll be sticking with both variarions of Pure.