CALORIES IN HUMMUS

HUMMUS NUTRITION

What we are looking at here today is another addition to our HEALTHY SLOW FOOD, MADE FAST, specifically at how many calories in a hummus sandwich, compared with peanut butter, cream cheese and mayonnaise. Hummus is especially for the woman who wants to stay svelte and sinewy, but loves to indulge in the odd icecream! But how many calories in hummus?

What I do, and am encouraging you to do, is not to eat out for lunch, or go to a fast food take-away, but rather to rattle up a sandwich before stepping out the door. Today, just for fun I'm going to time it.

• 3 slices wholewheat bread

• Butter (never margarine, why?)

• Cheese/ mustard

• Lettuce

• Radishes and olives

• Hummus

• Boiled egg

• Apple vlaai

Four minutes later... (apologies for my unsteady hand)

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CALORIES IN HUMMUS

A quick analysis...

1. The calories in hummus are the lowest

2. Peanut butter is higher in protein, and has no more carb.

3. But the calories in peanut butter are 7x higher. Fattening, so just a thin spread, plus a leaf of lettuce in the sandwich. Then it doesn't stick to your mouth! Lekker.

4. Cream cheese is much lower in carb that either hummus and peanut butter but has zero fibre. It's also highest in calcium, but also highest in saturated fat, by far. 20x that in hummus. Easy does it!

5. The anti-oxidants zinc, magnesium and selenium and vitamin E are highest in peanut butter, but it has no vitamin C, another important anti-oxidant.

6. Nothing comes close to the hummus when we are looking at the fat profile. One twentieth of the saturated fat of cream cheese, and it has the right mono/ poly unsaturated fat ratio. We eat too many polys in the great Western diet.

7. Mayo too has its benefits and provide you make homemade mayonaise I have no truck with mayo. Why HOMEMADE MAYONAISE ..?
   
   

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(12/12/11)

BERNARD PRESTON LUNCH

It involves a twenty-minute cycle to the train station, 9 minutes of the Sudoku of the day on the train and then a ten minute walk. It's a bit of a fag, but then I've cancelled my gym membership. This is much more fun, but I do need a solid breakfast and lunch or I fade away during the day!

I timed it, this lunch took me four minutes to throw together.

1. An egg and just enough water to cover the bottom of the pot, boil.

2. A hummus sandwich (two slices of bread). I don't have time for my Olive Bread Recipe during the week, so just regular wholewheat. OLIVE BREAD RECIPE ...
   
   
3. A dozen olives.

4. A cheese and lettuce and mustard sandwich (one slice)

5. Three radishes.

6. And I spoiled myself wrotten with a slice of Limburg vlaai. Yum, total junk except for the apple filling, but "lekker" once in two or three months.

   That was the working man's lunch at a Chiropractic Coalface. Read a few more stories from Anecdote of the Jar ... ANECDOTE OF THE JAR .
   
   

And so now I must love and leave you for a day in the life of chiropractor Bernard Preston. A long morning, by Saturday it's degenerated from the Chiropractic Coalface to the Saltmines! Not seriously! I love my work and I know there are two very serious lumbar disc herniation that are going to test all my clinical skills this morning. Plus all the regular bread and butter that keeps us out of mischief! Have a good day. A DAY IN THE LIFE OF CHIROPRACTOR BERNARD PRESTON ...

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