How to get enough sugar without excessive fluid intake

[Filip1993]

Hi! Starch is not my friend, it makes me angry and tired. I do much better with sugar (fruits, soda, cheese etc.). My problem is that I always end up with to much liquids when I cut out starch. I get about 4 liter water from liquids/food. I would love to cut down the liquids, especially during the winter. Any tips and recommendations on how to get around this problem would be highly appreciated. Thanks!

 

[Mittir]

I usually drink a quart of milk reduced to 30 to 40 percent of its
original volume. RP mentioned that it is safe as along as the
temperature is not very high. I add home made farmers cheese
and honey/sugar to this reduced milk and it is very tasty.
Cooking fruits can reduce the fluid content.
You can also add cooked fruits to reduced milk.

 

[Jib]

Making drinks richer and sweeter seems to work for me. Maple syrup is my favorite, although I use white sugar and occasionally honey too. One of my go-to drinks is coffee with plenty of cream, maple syrup and collagen hydrolysate.

Another good rich drink is coconut milk. Making it yourself is the best because you avoid gums and preservatives. You just use 2 cups of dried shredded coconut and 4 cups of hot water (not boiling, but pretty hot). Run those together through a blender, then pour it out into a mesh strainer and press the milk out into a big glass or a mason jar.

Cooking some dried fruit in the coconut milk could make a decent dish. Or mixing it with some pineapple juice (and rum if you want :)).

I can't do orange juice in the morning, even with baking soda or with a salty meal. It seems to wipe me out. I tolerate it fine later in the day. In the mornings I just stick to the rich coffee.

Dates can help. I haven't gotten around to it but I think baking those into something like a Lara Bar would be a good idea.

I'm straining yogurt again, and we'll see if I keep up with that, but there's another option: mixing strained yogurt with honey or maple syrup or sugar.

 

[Filip1993]

Alright, I can't tolerate orange juice in the morning either. Great tips! How much sugar/maple syrup do you use in your drinks?

 

[Ben]

I usually drink a quart of milk reduced to 30 to 40 percent of its
original volume. RP mentioned that it is safe as along as the
temperature is not very high. I add home made farmers cheese
and honey/sugar to this reduced milk and it is very tasty.
Cooking fruits can reduce the fluid content.
You can also add cooked fruits to reduced milk.

What do you heat the milk in?

 

[aquaman]

Cooked fruits - bananas, pears, apples, etc etc ... with a bit of added butter and sugar. Amazing on their own or on yogurts.

 

[Mittir]

I usually drink a quart of milk reduced to 30 to 40 percent of its
original volume. RP mentioned that it is safe as along as the
temperature is not very high. I add home made farmers cheese
and honey/sugar to this reduced milk and it is very tasty.
Cooking fruits can reduce the fluid content.
You can also add cooked fruits to reduced milk.

What do you heat the milk in?

I use thick non stick pot . It is important to have thick pot
for better heat distribution. It is not ideal.
In future i will try to get pot made of clay or ceramic.
In moderately high temperature it takes about
20 min to reduce 50 percent of 1 quart milk if i
stand there and continuously break the skin forming on
surface. Another way is to leave at very low temperature and
break the skin every 10-15 min. A tip from Gordon Ramsey is to
add sugar early , this lowers the possibility of over flowing.

 

[Filip1993]

I usually drink a quart of milk reduced to 30 to 40 percent of its
original volume. RP mentioned that it is safe as along as the
temperature is not very high. I add home made farmers cheese
and honey/sugar to this reduced milk and it is very tasty.
Cooking fruits can reduce the fluid content.
You can also add cooked fruits to reduced milk.

Mittir, how do you make your farmers cheese? Do you use low fat milk?

Thanks.

 

[j.]

Condensed milk.

 

[Mittir]

I use non-homogenized whole milk.
But a good part of fat is lost with the liquid.
Here is a youtube video on farmer's cheese.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TNdR6O0dYc
I wash the curd with cold water immediately after
draining, it removes the lemon/vinegar taste
and stops the cooking . This results in softer cheese.
Over heating the milk or adding too much acid causes
cheese to be dry.

 

[Filip1993]

Thanks a lot! If I make farmers cheese of one quart whole milk, does the cheese have the same amount of calories as the milk?

 

[Mittir]

A quart of milk gives about 25 grams protein,mostly casein.
Nutritional content is similar to that of cottage cheese.
Most of the lactose and calcium are lost in the liquid.
http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/dai ... ducts/15/2

 

[mt_dreams]

Thanks a lot! If I make farmers cheese of one quart whole milk, does the cheese have the same amount of calories as the milk?

it depends if you use/buy whole milk or skim milk farmers cheese. If it's skim milk farmers cheese, it will not have may calories. The same goes for skim milk cottage cheese.

The liquid that is lost in the making of these cheeses is the lactose & whey that's in milk. So the cheeses consist of casien & milk fat.

I can't be bothered to stand by the stove stirring as i condense the milk, so I use a double boiler.

 

[Filip1993]

Okey thanks for the answers. If I drink one quart of milk which is reduced by 40%, do I still get the same amount of calories as if I drink on quart that hasn't been reduced? I need a lot of calories.

 

[j.]

Okey thanks for the answers. If I drink one quart of milk which is reduced by 40%, do I still get the same amount of calories as if I drink on quart that hasn't been reduced? I need a lot of calories.

Maybe you can let hunger be your guide. If you're not full after one quart from reduced milk, drink another?

 

[Filip1993]

Yeah, great point. I'm just tracking my calorie intake for a couple of weeks so it would be nice to know how many calories the milk contains.

 

[Mittir]

Okey thanks for the answers. If I drink one quart of milk which is reduced by 40%, do I still get the same amount of calories as if I drink on quart that hasn't been reduced? I need a lot of calories.

It is the same amount of calories. But few heat sensitive vitamins will be reduced.
Here is a link to list of vitamin and mineral sensitive to heat and light.
http://www.beyondveg.com/tu-j-l/raw-coo ... d-2e.shtml.
RP mentioned that the nutritional difference between
raw and pasteurized milk is very small.

 

[Filip1993]

Okey thanks for the answers. If I drink one quart of milk which is reduced by 40%, do I still get the same amount of calories as if I drink on quart that hasn't been reduced? I need a lot of calories.

It is the same amount of calories. But few heat sensitive vitamins will be reduced.
Here is a link to list of vitamin and mineral sensitive to heat and light.
http://www.beyondveg.com/tu-j-l/raw-coo ... d-2e.shtml.
RP mentioned that the nutritional difference between
raw and pasteurized milk is very small.

Okey, thanks for the help Mittir!

 

[Nstocks]

Once you've reduced the milk (I assume it will work for goats milk too), do you drink it all right away or can you reduce say, 2L let it cool and refrigerate it? (this probably isn't best though!)

This could be a good option after exercise too, right?

 

[Chad_Catholic]

I fill my mug up with a third cup of hot coffee, and then I pour sugar until it is completely saturated and forms a kind of syrup where the sugar no longer can dissolve, and from there I sometimes add a little bit of salt to taste.