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Home made soup query

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Today in my slow cooker I made tomato soup with onion, garlic, lardons and fresh tomatos.

I added a teaspoon of mustard to flavour and will add spinach to serve.

Just a bit scared my onions have caramelised and are too sugary.

Is there a way I can calculate sugar content?
 
Just add up the carbs of the individual ingredients, and then divide by the number of portions.
Sounds very yummy.
 
I luvs caramelised onions. It makes them sugary? I didn't know this. :(
 
Yes - it's the natural sugars coming out that actually BROWN, Ditto.

But those sugars are there anyway - whether you let them go brown or not - so don't worry about it. There are also carbs in tomatoes - but don't worry about them either.

You still produce insulin - the very small amounts of carbs in each of those ingredients most likely won't worry your body a jot - I could eat fresh tomato soup without a bolus - but not so tinned, that has a lot of carb.

But it's always the bread I'd want with it, that would have the most!

Grogg - there are even carbs in lettuce and cucumber - but not anywhere enough to pose a problem for any of us - don't get TOO hung up about counting every speck of it!
 
Thanks. I had a bit of a bad day today as I didn't sleep at all last night then had a 2 hour nap. No food for 24 hours just water and tea. I tested before soup and 6.8 then went out for a walk after food and wasn't home till 2.5 hours after I had eaten (I just had soup, no bread) and 6.1. Just had a handful of nuts and trying to persuade hubby to make me a cup of tea.

I'm very bothered by a large boil/cyst on my neck which flared up about a week into my sugars dropping. I finished a course of antibiotics last week as it was infected but it's still incredibly large and painful. Trip back to GP I think.
 
Unfortunately you may find that an infection in the body will push your glucose level up higher than it would have been if there was no infection present. Sounds like you are doing well. It took me a while to get things under some control but patience and tenacity are the keys here. Good luck and well done so far 🙂
 
happydog said:
Unfortunately you may find that an infection in the body will push your glucose level up higher than it would have been if there was no infection present. Sounds like you are doing well. It took me a while to get things under some control but patience and tenacity are the keys here. Good luck and well done so far 🙂
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Yes my BG went a bit awry last week when I was taking antibiotics. Apparently there was no clash with them and met but they made me feels so sick. I'm hoping they just cut it out!
 
Love the nail polish Grogg! Don't worry about veg caramelising in their own sugar, at worst it means they hit the blood stream a bit quicker but the carb value is the same in the end. I love a bit of homemade soup, and you've inspired me to knock up a batch of roasted tomato soup....if I can be bothered to peel them all that is 🙂. Hope the boil/cyst calms down soon.
 
My favourite tomato soup was invented for mum by my dad when she had to do the low cholesterol thing, He halved about a kilo of vine tomatoes, softened a chopped onion in a little water, added the toms, a litre of water and some fresh chopped basil. The final ingredient was a small handful of pinhead oatmeal as a thickener. Once cooked through he liquidised it and sprinkled a little more chopped basil on top. It's the only tomato soup I like, it's so fresh and fragrant. Anyone who wanted salt and pepper added their own.
 
Love tomatoes but I am not keen on tomatoe soup. Though I use tin tomatoes in my homemade mixed vegetable soup. That I have as it is or with lardons or chicken depending what I feel like. I make a large pan and then freeze it into portions .
 
I was reading that canned tomatoes aren't so good for you. Something about the acid of the tomatoes reacting with the lining of the tin so I've stopped having them. I don't understand the science, never do, but if something sticks in my head then I go with it. :D What are lardons?
 
Ditto said:
I was reading that canned tomatoes aren't so good for you. Something about the acid of the tomatoes reacting with the lining of the tin so I've stopped having them. I don't understand the science, never do, but if something sticks in my head then I go with it. :D What are lardons?
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I use ones that are in a carton, and lardons bits of bacon.
 
I put too many lardons in so soup a bit salty.

As it was going in my slow cooker I just cut tomatoes in half, didn't peel them. Then 8 hours later blended it to a thick broth soup. Added a bit of double cream to tone down the taste of bacon. Will take a pot for lunch tomorrow.

I also made today the most disgusting concoction! Cauliflower couscous mixed with egg and then cooked in frying pan like a potato rosti! Awful, tasteless, horrid texture. I did think while eating that I should have added maybe cheese and tomato but I will never make again!
 
I tend to cook lardons separate in a frying pan without oil or fat and then drain and add to soup.
 
grovesy said:
I tend to cook lardons separate in a frying pan without oil or fat and then drain and add to soup.
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I'm a lazy !!!! I love my slow cooker as I just drop in ingredients switch it on and off I go to work! I often call it self assembly cooking as I defrost meat/veg night before and load up cooker!!
 
I cook my veg soup the old fashioned way in a pan, I don't thinks it tastes the the same out of a slow cooker.
 
grovesy said:
I cook my veg soup the old fashioned way in a pan, I don't thinks it tastes the the same out of a slow cooker.
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I would agree for potato and leek soup (now banned as too high carb) but other veg soups, chilli's, stews etc. I prefer in my slow cooker.

In other news today I tried eating strawberries. I had 3 medium strawberries with double cream - don't you just love being able to have fat, after my tea of bacon in a Lidl protein roll. I only had 2 testing strips left so I decided not to test before eating but 2 hours after. Really pleased with 5.6 as my post meal reading. I'm not a huge fan of strawberries but know I need to eat fruit.
 
Grogg1 said:
I would agree for potato and leek soup (now banned as too high carb) but other veg soups, chilli's, stews etc. I prefer in my slow cooker.

In other news today I tried eating strawberries. I had 3 medium strawberries with double cream - don't you just love being able to have fat, after my tea of bacon in a Lidl protein roll. I only had 2 testing strips left so I decided not to test before eating but 2 hours after. Really pleased with 5.6 as my post meal reading. I'm not a huge fan of strawberries but know I need to eat fruit.
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Berries are generally a better choice for fruit, grapes the worst 🙂 Mmmm...strawberries and cream! 🙂
 
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