Hovis vs Snack Attack

Jan 11, 2011 by cafebebemama

Hello Cafe Bebe Readers! I’m bringing you a fantabulous blogger this week and next who will be sharing her experiences with eating a healthy breakfast and how it makes a difference to her hunger throughout the day. Sabina is a fellow “mummy blogger” at Mummy Matters and has graciously agreed to try out some scrummy Hovis bread recipes for me as, being diagnosed with coeliac disease, I unfortunately can’t eat standard bread offerings any longer. So here is Sabina’s tale of how she’s taming her hunger pangs in Hovis vs Snack Attack.

Hello my name is Sabina, I’m 34 years old and I’m a snacker!  There I said it – I can relax now that it’s all out in the open.  I’ve never been great with food, I’m very much a can cook, won’t cook sort of girl.  I do not have a good relationship with food at all, I just want to eat something that is there and ready.  I find no pleasure in preparing food or thinking about what to eat and this has been much worse since I’ve joined the ranks of the stay-at-home mums.  I think this is probably the reason that Karin asked me to do this review for Hovis – in an effort to make me eat slightly better!

I have one other confession to make, I’m not generally a fan of bread – some people love it, some hate it, I’m somewhere in the middle.  I like bread, I eat bread occasionally but only as far as a sandwich or toast with butter and jam – I’m so adventurous aren’t I!  Although, I did have a bread maker because I wanted to have the smell of fresh bread billowing from my kitchen.

On a normal day I eat a bowl of cereals for my breakfast and then throughout the morning I might have yoghurt, some biscuits, a bar of chocolate or a banana.  Then lunch would be a jacket potato with cottage cheese or a bowl of noodles, again in the afternoon attacking the biscuit barrel or the chocolate cupboard, sometimes a handful of almonds and then some form of meat and vegetables for tea.  When you bear in mind that I’m a breastfeeding mother that isn’t really a healthy diet!

The very well known bread makers Hovis have started a campaign called “Stop Snacking” because researchers have revealed that the average British woman will consume approximately 1,092 unhealthy snacks in 2011.  In the survey of 2,000 women an average of 129 packets of crisps, more than 127 chocolate bars, 77 cakes and 133 biscuits will be consumed by one woman alone in 2011.  Personally, I think I would easily be double that figure – ooops not good when you look at it in writing.

Hovis Wholemeal have commissioned this research in conjunction with the release of their Facebook App at www.Facebook.com/Hovisbakery.  Hovis Wholemeal joined forces with Hovis Ambassador and Olympic Gold Medallist Victoria Pendleton because she understands the importance of healthy eating and choosing the right foods to kick-start your day. On the Facebook page you will find recipes, daily prizes, rewards for completion, people to chat with and ideas on how to stop snacking.  Don’t just take my word for it, check it out yourself.  I visited the page and decided to try out a couple of the recipes but in my own style.  Yesterday I had omelette on toast – it was supposed to be Eggy Bread but in all honesty I burnt it in the pan and so had to throw it away.

However, the question is, did I snack?  I don’t know whether it was a conscious thing or not but, no I didn’t snack.  I didn’t feel hungry at all and lasted out until lunch time.

But today’s recipe is the one that I loved and will definitely be making a regular appearance at my breakfast table – doesn’t it look good?

The recipe which gave me the inspiration for this was Yoghurty Fruity Breakfast with apples, bananas and blueberries topped with low fat yoghurt on toast.  I’m not a big fan of blueberries so I decided to swap mine for raspberries instead.  The funny thing is, this was the one which I was I really unsure about as I generally see bread as a “savoury” not sweet but this was soo tasty and filling I will definitely be having it again and it took less than a minute to prepare.

So why does this make me less likely to snack?  Hovis Wholemeal bread is rich in fibre which will make me feel fuller for longer and therefore less likely to reach for the biscuit tin.

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