British Menus please?

[Zarabelle]

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I know, I can't Adam n Eve it! I had to get on the dog to my Ma to tell 'er after I took the saucepans up the apple and pears to skein of thread.

[andrewglynn]

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I know, I can't Adam n Eve it! I had to get on the dog to my Ma to tell 'er after I took the saucepans up the apple and pears to skein of thread.

LOL!!!
I still dont know if club soda is carbonated water!! Does anyone know this?

[Elizellen]

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I still dont know if club soda is carbonated water!! Does anyone know this?

I found this definition

soda water: effervescent beverage artificially charged with carbon dioxide
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

So it looks to me as if club soda = sparkling water (unsweetened would count as part of your water intake)

[focus83]

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wow what a great thread. Thanks Elizllen for clearing that up, i was always curious about that.

[andrewglynn]

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thats great as I love drinking sparkly water!!

[Pam112]

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Yep yep, club soda is fizzy water. Thing is, I've read that these don't count towards the amount of water we need to drink per day. Since ya never know yer Donald, I thought I'd throw it out here and ask if anyone knows if that be true or false.

[Big Daz]

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I have picked up on a few US/UK differences when checking out Atkins recipes online. It's not too hard figure out what the UK translation is by Googling! Here are two of the best ones:

Egg plant = Aubergine
Zucchini = Courgette

It's annoying using FitDay for just this reason. I end up adding things as custom foods as a result!

Cheetos-snack food. crunchy corn cheesy poof covered in a fake neon orange cheese powder. Hey! Powdered cheese!!!

They used to sell these in the UK when I was a lad. The brand was crushed by similarly orange and toxic Cheesy Wotsits!

[Tumtum]

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Hiya helena

I'm in the Uk and all my menus are pretty much the basics

eggs, bacon, tomato, mushrooms, cheese and mayo for brekkie
or
kippers in a bag with butter sauce
or
cheese and tomato omellette and cream cheese (philidalphia)

lunch

tuna, chicken salad (basically two cups of lettuce, tom, mush, olives, peppers, cucumber) and mayo with garlic sprinkles instead of salt
or
tinned mackeral and 1 cup of brussel sprouts with butter/garlic and pepper
or
chicken hot wings (chicken wings with paprika, cayenne pepper, mint, corriander and garlic and olive oil)


dinner

hmmm lots here but typically
a meat (steak, roast chicken, fish)
with mashed up cauliflour (lovely solution to potato), butter, garlic and pepper
or I can make a beef or pork stew with my allocated vegetables and bouilion or clear broth
or I can make a chicken dish in cream, onions, cheese and oregano

I like to stock up on about 20 different types of spices to make things taste different so as not to get board

Snacks

I love putting peices of cheeses in the microwave and crisping them (like chips) - or slices of pepperoni or garlic sausage (you can get in sainsburys) and crisp them too

I drink at least 10pints of water

but I do allow myself about 2 decaf coffees with cream

and as a sweet treat, I have about 5 chopped up fresh strawberries and double thick cream.

hope this helps.

I also love making fake hashbrowns which you can see under my recepies in my blog if you like.

xx

[Chef Kevin]

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I have my All American Chinese made Television on the BBC all the time so I've picked up quite a bit of the lingo differences. Top Gear is about my favorite show on the whole 200+ channels I get. Of course Dr Who, been watching that since the Tom Baker days, The F Word, Graham Norton, re-runs of Ab Fab, I love Kitchen Nightmares, Primeval is pretty decent, yeah, too much Brit TV for me.....

Every once in a while someone will be on Top Gear being interviewed and I can't understand a word they are saying. It always seems to be some aging rock star with no brain cells left and it all sounds like one big word. Like Ozzy Ozbourne, I can't remember the name of the last guy I saw on there, but it was a train wreck of an interview.

Of course, I can't understand half of the aging American rockstars either....

[emmie30]

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I had been wondering about the club soda aswell and also coconut oil? if anyone knows where to get this please let me know.
As for translation Im from Newcastle and so am used to taakin t geordies aal day. I didnt think my accent was very strong but I had to ring a customer the other day who is in Scotland. I couldnt understand him and he couldnt understand me lol.

[C P]

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Hi Emmie,

You can usually get coconut oil in health food stores - I haven't seen it yet in any supermarkets in the UK, but I'm still looking!

CP

[gemdris]

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Helena -I am an english girl living in Australia and I know what you mean about the menu's - it makes references to alot of food that we dont have in england and the terminology is very american - I will see if I can put something together for you - give me a day or two xxx

[gemdris]

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Atkins products from Avidlite

Helena - this might be a handy website for you x

[gemdris]

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Here is a gre website from the UK:

Low Carb in the UK

[owly]

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hi = i am thrilled to learn that aspartame-free low cal tonic water is found in M & S