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Please tell me hot chocolate isn't off the cards?

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Peapod87

Peapod87

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I keep getting cravings for hot chocolate. Ideally covered in whipped cream and marshmallows but pretty sure that's a no go so has anyone got any alternatives I can try?

Thanks all xxx
 
I don't see why you shouldn't have hot chocolate, Peapod, as a now & again treat, especially if you get one that's got a higher percentage of cocoa & a lower percentage of sugar than usual, and you check the carbs & inject the right amount for it. The facts that it's hot and that it has milk in it will slow down the sugar so it shouldn't send your bgl up too fast. I've not tried it so just guessing, but it's worth experimenting, testing before and after, and seeing what happens. I'd drop the marshmallows though!
 
Try an Options hot choc - not quite the real thing - but I have one every night around 9 and it hasn't done me any harm
 
I'm another fan of Options, low carb and lovely 🙂 The marshmallows are probably the only thing you might have to give a miss to 😱
 
I had one the other day! I used the carbs&Cals book to estimate the carbs, as it was from a market stall, and the estimate was pretty spot on.
It was delicious!
I didn't have marshmallows though...
options ones are lovely, I have a craving now, I'll have to get some on my way home from work tonight!
 
Depends what you mean by hot chocolate and how much sugar you're comfortable with really peapod. On the whole I'd rather chew my own toenails than drink hot chocolate, which surprises me because I really like dark chocolate (really really 🙂), but I think its the sugar in most brands that turns me off because I haven't got a tremendously sweet tooth. You could use cocoa powder and then sweeten it yourself with sugar or sweetener, or with marshmallow, one large or a couple of small ones won't break the carb bank if you're using unsweetened cocoa powder. A friend of mine makes wonderful hot chocolate using a bar of cocoa solids (pressed beans so no added sugar, but it still has the cocoa butter), milk, cinnamon and a tiny bit of maple syrup. She makes it with almond milk too. It's not really like hot chocolate you get in the coffee shops more like dark chocolate which is probably why I like it, oh and she does one with chilli which is divine.

All that said if you fancy hot chocolate as a treat go for it and see what happens, I'd have one with food to slow down the sugar but I'd still have one if I fancied it. I have recently discovered that a pumpkin spice latte has no impact on my blood sugar at all, which I'm delighted by. I only have half a pump of syrup (because I don't do really sweet) and not even a blip. I am however going to disagree about that options stuff....yuk! Far too sweet 🙄
 
To each their own I suppose
 
Thanks everyone, I forgot about options I'm gonna pick some up today and give it a go . Xxx
 
Another very low carb version is to make cocoa using unsweetened soya milk, then sweeten to taste with your sweetener of choice. I haven't tried adding cream but that's my next idea. I don't like marshmallows so that's no sacrifice for me!
 
Does the sugar milk not separate! When I have tried it in hot drinks in the past it went like curdled milk!
 
Morrison's sell sugar free marshmallows. I haven't tried them, & I'm sure they're full of polyols.
 
Sugar free marshmallows are an abomination. I'm so glad I'm Type 1. Well, no I'm not, but you know what I mean:confused:
 
I know someone who makes hot chocolate by using double cream, topped up with boiling water, with a quality hot chocolate/cocoa. I don't know what the proportions are, but @Brunneria should.
 
If it's an everyday thing, I use Options Belgian, Belgian Butterscotch and semi-skimmed milk. For special occasions I do the following

Buy a 100g bar of dark chocolate (at least 75% cocoa), I like the Green & Blacks and finely grate it - all of it. Heat a mug of milk in the microwave for 1.5 minutes, remove and slowly stir in most of the chocolate till it's all melted and replace in the nuker for another minute, or until it begins to bubble. Remove again and add your favourite decorations, mine are a little freshly ground cinnamon or nutmeg and the rest of the grated chocolate. No need to add any further sweeteners unless you really want to.
 
That sounds awesome.🙂
 
I make cocoa the old fashioned way in a saucepan with real cocoa powder (the home baking type) and milk.

(Put the cocoa in the mug, add a teaspoon of milk at a time to make a smooth paste, heat the rest of the milk in the saucepan until it is about to boil, pour some of the hot milk into the mug slowly stirring, then pour the mug stuff back into the saucepan and stir with a (wooden) spoon letting the milk cook.)

I just put a couple of sweeteners in mine for sweetness.

I could look up the carbs in milk and real cocoa powder but it can't be a lot.

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As a Type 1 nothing is off the cards as they remind us on DAFNE i.e. normal eating. In reality if you want reasonable control then it's probably better if you don't go too mad too often but there is no need to miss out on things completely.
 
grovesy said:
Does the sugar milk not separate! When I have tried it in hot drinks in the past it went like curdled milk!
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I have only had that when adding it to hot drinks, never when warming it up.
 
Matt Cycle said:
As a Type 1 nothing is off the cards as they remind us on DAFNE i.e. normal eating. In reality if you want reasonable control then it's probably better if you don't go too mad too often but there is no need to miss out on things completely.
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The only exception I make to that rule is sugared drinks, simply because I have never found a way of preventing the massive spike they give. Hence avoiding normal hot chocolate in my case!
 
I was told by dietician that heat or cold makes a difference to the way we absorb the sugar - so I'm not allowed fruit juice unless I'm hypo because otherwise it would spike me, but I can eat ice lollies which are just frozen fruit juice without any spike at all (in fact, if I'm not careful, more likely a hypo!).
 
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