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Pointless Carrots

Skattered · 2004-03-09T19:35:22+00:00

Why are carrots only pointless until they are cooked? If they are cooked/steamed and served without butter etc do they not still retain the Pointless status.

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Skattered
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9 March 2004, 19:35 UTC #1

Why are carrots only pointless until they are cooked?
If they are cooked/steamed and served without butter etc do
they not still retain the Pointless status.

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Kate Dicey
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9 March 2004, 19:35 UTC #2

Skattered said:
Why are carrots only pointless until they are cooked?
If they are cooked/steamed and served without butter etc
do they not still retain the Pointless status.
They do in the UK.
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Susan
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9 March 2004, 19:35 UTC #3

Raw carrots are 0 points. Plain cooked carrots are 1
point per cup.

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Fred
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9 March 2004, 19:35 UTC #4

Cooking probably breaks down fiber or liberates additional
sugars in the carrots. They are still not very many points.
Skattered said:
Why are carrots only pointless until they are cooked?
If they are cooked/steamed and served without butter etc do
they not still retain the Pointless status.

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Miss Violette
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9 March 2004, 19:35 UTC #5

to me cooked carrots are pointless because I do not eat them, our leader
said she figured that the sugar became more concentrated or something during
the cooking process. I would question this but I can eat fresh strawberries
but am allergic to frozen ones so who knows, Lee, who will never have to
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Why are carrots only pointless until they are cooked?
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Skiur
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9 March 2004, 19:35 UTC #6

My guess (and I do mean guess) is that cooking might bring
the sweetness out of the carot and the body digests it in a
different manner.
Julie
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do they not still retain the Pointless status.

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Donna In Idaho
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9 March 2004, 19:35 UTC #7

Regardless of the points - I love cooked carrots & don't
mind using the points for them. Cooked onions are the same -
they're points when cooked - brings out the sugar according
to the WW leader where I went to WW meetings.
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Skiur
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9 March 2004, 19:35 UTC #8

erf...carrot.
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of the carot and the body digests it in a different
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Kate Dicey
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9 March 2004, 19:35 UTC #9

Donna in Idaho (remove invalid) said:
Regardless of the points - I love cooked carrots & don't
mind using the points for them. Cooked onions are the same
- they're points when cooked - brings out the sugar
according to the WW leader where I went to WW meetings.
Verrrrry odd: onions are also pointless when cooked here
in the UK.
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Joyce
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9 March 2004, 19:35 UTC #10

On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 10:04:51 +0000, Kate Dicey <[email hidden]>
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Donna in Idaho (remove invalid) said:
Regardless of the points - I love cooked carrots & don't
mind using the points for them. Cooked onions are the
same - they're points when cooked - brings out the sugar
according to the WW leader where I went to WW meetings.
Verrrrry odd: onions are also pointless when cooked here
in the UK.
Know what? I didn't much care what ww said, and both carrots
and onions remained pointless in my US home. I managed to
lose the weight ok, too. <G> I used that old *I didn't get
fat eating onions and carrots* logic.
Joyce

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Kate Dicey
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9 March 2004, 19:35 UTC #11

Joyce said:
On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 10:04:51 +0000, Kate Dicey <[email hidden]-
online.co.uk said:
Donna in Idaho (remove invalid) said:
Regardless of the points - I love cooked carrots &
don't mind using the points for them. Cooked onions are
the same - they're points when cooked - brings out the
sugar according to the WW leader where I went to WW
meetings.
Verrrrry odd: onions are also pointless when cooked here
in the UK.
Know what? I didn't much care what ww said, and both
carrots and onions remained pointless in my US home. I
managed to lose the weight ok, too. <G> I used that old *I
didn't get fat eating onions and carrots* logic.
Joyce
Tonight's low point dinner: pasta with bacon sacue
100g bacon, chopped - 6 oints 1 lg onion
1/2 a green pepper (coz that's all I have left in the
fridge! I'd add more if I had more.) some mushrooms
a clove of garlic some mixed herbs for flavour a tin
of tomatoes
Fry the bacon in a non stick pan. Add the chopped veggies
and let them fry a bit. Throw in some herbs and the tin of
tomatoes. Allow to cook down a bit while the pasta cooks...
Devide into 3: pasta, 3 points per serving, sauce 2
points per serving. Muller Lite yoghurt for dessert, and
that's dinner for 6.5 points! AND at least 2 servings of
veggies there!
No carrots, but I sometimes bulk this sort of thing up a bit
with grated carrot.
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Kate Dicey
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9 March 2004, 19:35 UTC #12

Kate Dicey said:
Joyce said:
On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 10:04:51 +0000, Kate Dicey <[email hidden]-
online.co.uk said:
"Donna in Idaho (remove invalid)" wrote:
> Regardless of the points - I love cooked carrots &
> don't mind using the points for them. Cooked onions
> are the same - they're points when cooked - brings
> out the sugar according to the WW leader where I went
> to WW meetings.
Verrrrry odd: onions are also pointless when cooked
here in the UK.
Know what? I didn't much care what ww said, and both
carrots and onions remained pointless in my US home. I
managed to lose the weight ok, too. <G> I used that old
*I didn't get fat eating onions and carrots* logic.
Joyce
Tonight's low point dinner: pasta with bacon sacue
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and dyslexic spelling....
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100g bacon, chopped - 6 oints 1 lg onion
1/2 a green pepper (coz that's all I have left in the
fridge! I'd add more if I had more.) some mushrooms a
clove of garlic some mixed herbs for flavour a tin of
tomatoes
Fry the bacon in a non stick pan. Add the chopped veggies
and let them fry a bit. Throw in some herbs and the tin of
tomatoes. Allow to cook down a bit while the pasta
cooks...
Devide into 3: pasta, 3 points per serving, sauce 2
points per serving. Muller Lite yoghurt for dessert, and
that's dinner for 6.5 points! AND at least 2 servings of
veggies there!
No carrots, but I sometimes bulk this sort of thing up a
bit with grated carrot.
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Kd
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11 March 2004, 15:08 UTC #13

On a related topic, I've also read that carrots are one of
the few vegetables that is more nurtitious when cooked.
Apparently carrots have a very tough cellular wall, which
your body can't digest when it's raw. Maybe this has
something to do with it?
I never really count carrots, I consider them healthy
anyhow. I add a lot of them to the WW veggie burgers,
add extra to soups, etc. I recently bought a crinkle
cutting kitchen tool, and keep telling my husband to
just imagine he's eating crinkle cut french fries that
happen to be orange...
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Why are carrots only pointless until they are cooked?
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do they not still retain the Pointless status.

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Laura
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11 March 2004, 15:08 UTC #14

Does he believe you?
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On a related topic, I've also read that carrots are one of
the few vegetables that is more nurtitious when cooked.
Apparently carrots have a very tough cellular wall, which
your body can't digest when it's raw.

Maybe
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this has something to do with it?
I never really count carrots, I consider them healthy
anyhow. I add a lot

of
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them to the WW veggie burgers, add extra to soups, etc. I
recently bought

a
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crinkle cutting kitchen tool, and keep telling my husband
to just imagine he's eating crinkle cut french fries that
happen to be orange...
KD
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Why are carrots only pointless until they are cooked?
If they are cooked/steamed and served without butter etc
do they not

still
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retain the Pointless status.

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Donna In Idaho
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11 March 2004, 15:09 UTC #15

Joyce, sounds like good logic to me!
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Donna in Idaho (remove invalid) said:
Regardless of the points - I love cooked carrots &
don't mind using the points for them. Cooked onions are
the same - they're points when

cooked -
Quoted message said:
Quoted message said:
Quoted message said:
brings out the sugar according to the WW leader where I
went to WW

meetings.
Quoted message said:
Quoted message said:

Verrrrry odd: onions are also pointless when cooked here
in the UK.
Know what? I didn't much care what ww said, and both
carrots and onions

remained
Quoted message said:
pointless in my US home. I managed to lose the weight ok,
too. <G> I

used that
Quoted message said:
old *I didn't get fat eating onions and carrots* logic.
Joyce

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Miss Violette
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11 March 2004, 15:09 UTC #16

That does sound good, without the carrots of course, Lee
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Joyce said:
On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 10:04:51 +0000, Kate Dicey

<[email hidden]>
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"Donna in Idaho (remove invalid)" wrote:
> Regardless of the points - I love cooked carrots &
> don't mind using

the
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> points for them. Cooked onions are the same - they're
> points when

cooked -
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> brings out the sugar according to the WW leader where
> I went to WW

meetings.
Quoted message said:
Quoted message said:
Quoted message said:

Verrrrry odd: onions are also pointless when cooked
here in the UK.
Know what? I didn't much care what ww said, and both
carrots and onions

remained
Quoted message said:
Quoted message said:
pointless in my US home. I managed to lose the weight
ok, too. <G> I

used that
Quoted message said:
Quoted message said:
old *I didn't get fat eating onions and carrots* logic.
Joyce
Tonight's low point dinner: pasta with bacon sacue
100g bacon, chopped - 6 oints 1 lg onion
1/2 a green pepper (coz that's all I have left in the
fridge! I'd add

more if I had
Quoted message said:
more.) some mushrooms a clove of garlic some mixed herbs
for flavour a tin of tomatoes
Fry the bacon in a non stick pan. Add the chopped veggies
and let them fry a bit. Throw in some herbs and the tin of
tomatoes. Allow to cook down a bit while the pasta
cooks...
Devide into 3: pasta, 3 points per serving, sauce 2 points
per serving.

Muller Lite
Quoted message said:
yoghurt for dessert, and that's dinner for 6.5 points! AND
at least 2

servings of
Quoted message said:
veggies there!
No carrots, but I sometimes bulk this sort of thing up a
bit with grated

carrot.
Quoted message said:
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Kate Dicey
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11 March 2004, 15:09 UTC #17

Miss Violette said:
That does sound good, without the carrots of course, Lee
Greated carrots are good, bur grated cougettes works just as
well if you like them.
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Kd
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11 March 2004, 15:09 UTC #18

What is a cougette?
KD
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Miss Violette said:
That does sound good, without the carrots of course, Lee
Greated carrots are good, bur grated cougettes works just
as well if you

like
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them.
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Miss Violette
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11 March 2004, 15:09 UTC #19

I don't know what that is?, Lee
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That does sound good, without the carrots of course, Lee
Greated carrots are good, bur grated cougettes works just
as well if you

like
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them.
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11 March 2004, 15:09 UTC #20

A European zucchini :-)
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Miss Violette said:
That does sound good, without the carrots of
course, Lee
Greated carrots are good, bur grated cougettes works
just as well if you

like
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them.
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