Fry up once a week

[BrumJim]

If it is, then I'm going to have to forgo my Friday morning Fry-up treat. Bacon, 2 x sausage, egg, beans, tomato, has brown, 2 x toast with butter (1/2 with marmalade), mushrooms, orange juice. Only applicable if I have cycled in every day, and done one other bit of exercising, e.g. 1hr football, 5 mile run, etc.

Although I'm currently counting a one way run home as more than equivalent to an each way bike ride.

 

[American Cyclist]

Start eating!

 

[Becs]

Apparently a "fry" up done on the grill is healthier than most breakfast cereals (including things like bran flakes and special k not just the kiddies ones) . . . .

 

[monnet]

Nowt wrong with a fry up once a week. I think the ingredients are important though.

I think, like much English food, it has a thoroughly undeserved reputation for being unhealthy due to the muck that usually gets served up masquerading as a fry up. Grilling cuts a lot of the badness out. Use good quality sausages and bacon and there won't be loads of fat in them. Beans count towards your 5 a day (really, they do). Ok fried egg isn't great for you, but egg is good for you and if you grill everything else...Tomatoes, 'shrooms etc. you're getting a proper good meal. I've no idea of the nutritional value of black pud but a good pud (from Bury) is soooo tasty it enters that genre of food that is exempt from dietary information! And you should always have a little of what you fancy.

Both my grandfathers ate a fry up every morning of their working lives (one was a farmer - he also had a mountain of porridge as well! - the other a baker). One died a 91 the other at 80. Decent ages both and I attribute it to the fact they ate good quality food - if they'd had a fry up every day using Wall's bangers I suspect they might have cut their lives quite a bit shorter.

 

[Ellis456]

Thanks for the reply's, yes it's grilled and good quality ingredients, in the week I eat scrambled egg's done in the microwave, so don't normally eat fried egg's.

I can't remember if i've tried black pudding, I keep meaning to so ill add it to my list of thing's to try. People have always out me off buying it saying it's pigs blood etc.

 

[david1701]

quite often do grilled bacon with toast and poached egg if there are only a few of us

fry ups are almost always grilled bacon/sausage with scrambled eggs because its a pita to fry 12 eggs to do the whole table

 

[dodgy]

Apparently a "fry" up done on the grill is healthier than most breakfast cereals (including things like bran flakes and special k not just the kiddies ones) . . . .

Believe it when I see the proven figures, if I do, then it's grill up every day for me.

 

[lukesdad]

Do you not ride on a sunday ?

 

[Banjo]

Thanks for the reply's, yes it's grilled and good quality ingredients, in the week I eat scrambled egg's done in the microwave, so don't normally eat fried egg's.

I can't remember if i've tried black pudding, I keep meaning to so ill add it to my list of thing's to try. People have always out me off buying it saying it's pigs blood etc.

You would know if you had eaten black pudding.Its the food of the Gods only surpassed by white pudding.

Seriously though, a big breakfast once or twice a week isnt going to hurt a fit and active person. Enjoy

 

[Becs]

Believe it when I see the proven figures, if I do, then it's grill up every day for me.

It was in an article in the Times this weekend - I realise this doesn't necessarily make it true though! They were mainly comparing them based on sugar content, but seeing as high sugar foods increase your risk of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes more than fats and proteins I reckon grill ups are a good plan (small ones at least) :-)

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I haven't eaten fried eggs, bacon or chips since I had angina in 2008, I'm sure my love of chips, bacon and eggs and other unhealthy stuff made a contribution to my health problems.

 

[subaqua]

I haven't eaten fried eggs, bacon or chips since I had angina in 2008, I'm sure my love of chips, bacon and eggs and other unhealthy stuff made a contribution to my health problems.

depends how hard you exercised or whether you were sedentary. the posts about farmers and bakers having one every day makwes sense as the farmer would be burning up huge amounts of energy daily. old time bakers would have too with humoping the sacks of flour around the bakery. modern bakers and farmers have it a damn sight easier than my grandad did as a farm worker.

when i was cable pulling for a living instead of managing , i had a cooked brekkie msiot days and had a 34 inch waist weighed 14 stone and was fit as a fiddle. muy problem started when i moved into the management side and still ate like i was burning all the calories.

 

[Sambu]

When I'm doing an overnighter a full English/Scottish is my reward in advance. My next full English is this Wednesday morning in Driffield, East Yorkshire. If I have a heart attack just roll me to the side of the track to make way for you lot.

Anyone had a breakfast at the Whistlestop, Innerleithen?

I hope it wasn't at katie's cafe.

 

[twobiker]

If I am going to have to give up eating anything at all to ride my bikes then I will give up riding,as long as you eat sensibly,ie, not fried every day, then you can eat most things. I would not eat jelly-babies for energy, too sweet and possible dental problems,need the teeth to catch the flies as I mouth breathe up hills,but Hoola Hoops on the other hand

Lifes to short as it is-live a little.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

depends how hard you exercised or whether you were sedentary. the posts about farmers and bakers having one every day makwes sense as the farmer would be burning up huge amounts of energy daily. old time bakers would have too with humoping the sacks of flour around the bakery. modern bakers and farmers have it a damn sight easier than my grandad did as a farm worker.

when i was cable pulling for a living instead of managing , i had a cooked brekkie msiot days and had a 34 inch waist weighed 14 stone and was fit as a fiddle. muy problem started when i moved into the management side and still ate like i was burning all the calories.

I've been cycling for over 40 years, been club cycling for over 25 of those years, been a manual worker all my life, I'm 60 this year, I was fitter than the proverbial butchers dog for years,I've never been sedentary in my life, now I know its not just what you eat but my poor diet was a big part of the problem. I'm now at about 90-95% of of the fitness I had before the angina and eating a lot better, not perfect but very good.