Maria Lucia Bakes

[Almond_tart2021]

Hello, Has anyone tried the granola or porridge from this range?, i saw it on amazon , looks tasty and is low carb, although pricey!

 

[Leadinglights]

Hello, Has anyone tried the granola or porridge from this range?, i saw it on amazon , looks tasty and is low carb, although pricey!

Looks good and very low carb but as you say pretty expensive, the granola has lots of lovely sounding flavours.

 

[NotWorriedAtAll]

Hello, Has anyone tried the granola or porridge from this range?, i saw it on amazon , looks tasty and is low carb, although pricey!

I just had a look on their website and one or two of the products would be ok for me on keto but frankly I looked at the ingredients and it is easier for me to knock up a batch for myself at a fraction of the price.
The keto products have ingredients that are almost all readily available from Tesco and the others inexpensive and sourced from Amazon or Holland and Barrets (I have my shopping delivered weekly from there) and they haven't even done anything clever with them just mixed them together.
For the price of 1kg bag from them I can source enough ingredients to make my own six or seven time over! Plus it says to use the bag up within 3 weeks. I don't know about you but I would struggle to eat a kilo of granola in three weeks.

I make my own porridge from coconut flour, ground almonds, psyllium husk and flaxseed and add cinammon and nutmeg and almond milk and vanilla extract. There is no magic about it - a teaspoon of this and that and then spices to taste and sweetener if you want it and a handful of frozen cranberries and then just bung it in the microwave. Make it fresh each time or if you work out a mix you like do a batch and store the dry mix ready mixed in the fridge and then just add the almond milk and fruit as you require.

 

[Mica P]

I just had a look on their website and one or two of the products would be ok for me on keto but frankly I looked at the ingredients and it is easier for me to knock up a batch for myself at a fraction of the price.
The keto products have ingredients that are almost all readily available from Tesco and the others inexpensive and sourced from Amazon or Holland and Barrets (I have my shopping delivered weekly from there) and they haven't even done anything clever with them just mixed them together.
For the price of 1kg bag from them I can source enough ingredients to make my own six or seven time over! Plus it says to use the bag up within 3 weeks. I don't know about you but I would struggle to eat a kilo of granola in three weeks.

I make my own porridge from coconut flour, ground almonds, psyllium husk and flaxseed and add cinammon and nutmeg and almond milk and vanilla extract. There is no magic about it - a teaspoon of this and that and then spices to taste and sweetener if you want it and a handful of frozen cranberries and then just bung it in the microwave. Make it fresh each time or if you work out a mix you like do a batch and store the dry mix ready mixed in the fridge and then just add the almond milk and fruit as you require.

Hi I love the sound of your porridge. Would you be able to let me have the quantities to make a serving for 1 please. Does it have to be almond milk ? Thank you

 

[NotWorriedAtAll]

Hi I love the sound of your porridge. Would you be able to let me have the quantities to make a serving for 1 please. Does it have to be almond milk ? Thank you

I fly by the seat of my pants making porridge.
Sometimes it is gloopier than others but it is always nice.

As long as you use about half the volume of coconut flour (or less) to ground almonds and then use a proportionally smaller amount of psyllium husk and a similar amount of ground flaxseed to the psyllium husk (I buy it whole from Tesco - as golden linseed and grind it myself in a coffee grinder I keep for the purpose because whole flaxseed will keep for ages in the fridge whereas pre-ground goes rancid quicker than I can use it up) you can't really go wrong.

The coconut flour and almond flour/ground almonds provide the body of the porridge and the psyllium and flaxseed provide the "gloopiness" - you can leave out one or the other of the gloopy components but then you need to increase the amount of the one you are using. It can be made a bit more porridgey if you also buy oat fibre (check you are getting the very low carb version though as some brands are quite high in carbs) and put a teaspoon of that into the mix too.

I buy this brand

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07W9L4PXP/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

It is expensive for a pack but it has a very long shelf life and I use it in a lot of recipes - especially bread and cakes as it makes loaves and cakes lighter and fluffier so they are not so dense and claggy as keto/low carb bread can often be.
For a single serving I would be measuring one spoonful (a soup spoon or dessert spoon) of almond flour and a half of coconut flour and then teaspoons of the other ingredients.

You can add whatever sweetener you like according to taste.
I use zero carb almond milk but any unsweetened zero carb plant milk will be fine. Just cover the dry ingredients with the milk.
When you mix it will be very liquidy but once you microwave it - it thickens up - the heat activates the psyllium and flaxseed. If it is too runny just keep microwaving in bursts until it thickens. If it is too thick you can loosen it with some more cold and just stir it in. Or you can add some double cream or greek yoghurt.

Some drops of vanilla extract and some cinnamon or nutmeg lifts the flavour and you get something that tastes as nice as the commercially available instant porridge oats.

You can ring the changes by adding frozen berries of your choice before microwaving. I find just three or four cranberries or a big strawberry or a couple of raspberries or cherries or blackberries work very well. I keep packs of frozen berries in the freezer because I wouldn't use fresh ones up in time before they go off due to me keeping the portions small for my personal 20g or less carbs per day. You can of course have more if you are on low carb rather than keto.

 

[Almond_tart2021]

Thanks for all your replies , i just fancied trying something new, i have had The Paleo foods Co low sugar grain free granola, thats quite tasty, but again pricey, but works well for me with frozen berries and greek yoghurt.

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