| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
|---|
| 478.1 | | NIGE::LESLIE | Nothing sucks like a VAX | Sun Jul 02 1989 05:38 | 44 |
| Most hotels in the UK (and indeed Europe) will put a fridge in your
room. Normally this is used for the "mini-bar" - but you can take that
out and put it on the top. You are then free to visit the local shops
and stock up.
Why do this? Because UK hotels are appalling at providing food in
quantities beloved by slimmers. Unless you are one of those people who
can leave 3/4 of a plate of food without a guilty conscience OR are
prepared to put on weight by the tonne, eat there as infrequently as
possible! (This is the voice of an experienced fatty)
Shops
-----
Supermarkets with reasonable prices in the UK are Tesco, Safeway, Asda
and Gateway.
All stock Diet Sodas such as diet coke and pepsi. Also available,
"slimline" tonic water, bitter lemon, orange, etc.
Low-fat yoghourts are available in all of these too, with low-fat
spreads and slimmers biscuits (such as Ryvita).
If you haven't experienced what I'd call "real" bread before (and I've
seldom found any in or around Boston) get a small "wholemeal" loaf.
Around 75 calories a slice and tons of roughage.
Eating Out
----------
If you want to visit an english pub, then be prepared for pies,
pizza's, puddings and cream to be offerred.
However, if you can find a "Harvester" pub, you'll find they have a
help-yourself salad bar. Very useful. There's at least one within easy
reach of DEC's REO facility (DEC Park Reading.
All pubs will sell the diet drinks as per the supermarkets above.
Eating with DEC
---------------
All DEC cafeterias offer salads and diet sodas.
- ���
|
| 478.2 | Just what I needed. | SUPER::HENDRICKS | The only way out is through | Sun Jul 02 1989 13:50 | 8 |
| Thanks, Andy!
Where is the Harvester Pub near Reading?
This is great info to have...
Holly
|
| 478.3 | | NIGE::LESLIE | Nothing sucks like a VAX | Sun Jul 02 1989 15:50 | 7 |
|
There's a Harvester Pub on the A33 between DEC Park and Reading Town
Centre. You can tell it because of the large green sign outside with
"Harvester" in yellow writing.
- ���
|
| 478.4 | More ideas for eating out in Reading | MARVIN::JUBB | Ali, 830-6779 *New location REO2-G/K3 | Tue Jul 04 1989 06:24 | 61 |
| Some more suggestions for places where you can eat out in Reading and not
put on too much weight...
Pizza Express (St Mary's Butts) - Try their Salad Nicoise without dressing
(just lots of black pepper), or what I
have also done before is ask for a double
portion of side salad, or fruit salad
(yes, dessert as a main course) - without
dressing/cream of course! (It helps that
I don't like pizza, mind you... but they
do a couple of pizzas without cheese,
which have considerably fewer calories
than those with!)
They are also good value for mineral
water - a big bottle of Italian water
rather than a small designer bottle.
Muswells (also St Mary's Butts) - Greek Salad - delicious and enormous, and
good value at #2-95. They do other
salads too (don't know what they're like,
I like the Greek Salad too much!), and
I'm sure would oblige with a double
portion of side salad as a main meal.
They do various fish and chicken dishes
which have been marinaded or blackened
rather than covered in sauce or fried.
They are also very flexible - there
is no division between starters and main
courses on the menu, so you can have a
small meal very easily.
Pizza Hut (Broad Street) - Order a salad as a main course, and choose
your own at the salad bar. The dressings
are on the side, so you can miss them out
all together, or just have a little.
The George Hotel (Broad Street) - They serve steak and chicken basically,
and have a serve-yourself salad bar.
I stayed here when I relocated, and lost
weight by ordering plain chicken, plain
baked potato and undressed salad, followed
by fruit salad almost every night.
The Hexagon (Behind the Broad Street Mall) - The food bar here is open at
lunchtimes, and you can pick up a
selection of salad very cheaply. Best
bet is their side salads, because they
put absolutely no dressing on these.
I hope these are useful.
Ali
PS: If you find yourself over here on business, and unable to turn down
an invitation to Sweeneys (the amazing pie shop), don't listen to the
list of pies - you can always have a baked potato with ratatouille,
salad, or the vegetable of the day. Don't even contemplate the
puddings!
|
| 478.5 | Guide to yoghurts in the UK | MARVIN::JUBB | Ali, 830-6779 *New location REO2-G/K3 | Wed Jul 05 1989 05:36 | 32 |
| This is a quick guide to yoghurt in the UK (in reply to Holly's note -
461.9, I think).
If you found the yoghurt in the Indian restaurant a bit sour, the
same will probably apply to regular plain yoghurt too. However fruit
yoghurts have a smoother flavour, and these days they all have the
calorie count on the side of the carton.
You may like "set" yoghurt better than the runny stuff, because it tends
to taste smoother. And if you are coming to DECpark, you can buy
both kinds in the canteen and in the shop, which opened here a couple
of months ago! (They sell fruit in the shop too).
A word of warning: If you are at all concerned about taste, avoid "diet"
yoghurts; the small saving in calories really isn't worth the
sacrifice, and they are loaded with artificial sweeteners.
You would also be wise to make sure when you buy yoghurt that it is
low fat. Luxury "thick and creamy" yoghurts have become more popular
recently, and they are pretty high in fat! Another kind of yoghurt
that is delicious, but rarely low in fat is Greek yoghurt.
If you like yoghurt, but would like a change, you might like to try
fromage frais. This has a lovely light taste (a bit like petit suisse
cheeses, but with nothing like the fat), and is available in supermarkets
alongside the yoghurts. Again, as with yoghurts, look for the ones
that specify low fat, and enjoy!
Happy eating.
Ali
|
| 478.6 | | SUPER::HENDRICKS | The only way out is through | Wed Jul 05 1989 10:42 | 4 |
| Thanks, this information is great!
Holly
|
| 478.7 | | LESLIE::LESLIE | andy ��� leslie | Tue Jul 11 1989 20:45 | 4 |
| What wholemeal breads can I get in the Nashua area? Where from?
- ���
|
| 478.8 | | CSSE32::LESLIE | andy ��� leslie | Sun Jul 16 1989 09:49 | 5 |
| Are there some scales in ZK's wellness center? I need to weigh myslef
whilst I'm over here and don't want to buy any!
���
|
| 478.9 | try health services | SUPER::HENDRICKS | The only way out is through | Sun Jul 16 1989 12:27 | 12 |
| Probably.
I can always bring one in from home (I live about 6 minutes away)
if you can't find one there. Also, health services would have one.
Let me know if you need anything while you're here - I'm down on
ZK1-1, and my trip over to the UK got postponed until September.
Take care!
Holly
|
| 478.10 | | CSSE32::LESLIE | andy ��� leslie | Mon Jul 17 1989 07:51 | 4 |
| OK, thanks.
���
|
| 478.11 | | LESLIE::LESLIE | Andy ����� Leslie, CSSE/VMS | Tue Aug 01 1989 05:59 | 4 |
| Well, it wasn't too bad - see my reply in my "recidivist" note.
- ���
|