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Bread / Cracker Options (low carb)

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Jodee

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Bread options, I tried to get Burgen Bread in tesco today or the Hovis low carb bread, but they didn't have any in Tesco, but they did have Weight Watchers Warburtons malted Danish which is low carb, its not filling as you can guess but it still made me a ham, lettuce and tomato sandwich for lunch.

Just thought I would list here the bread options I know of that are low carb, perhaps others can add if they know of others, or low carb crackers maybe?

WW Small Malted Danish 9.0 Carbs - 51 kcal per slice - Protein low and calcium not mentioned
Details : https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/256641396


Burgen 11.8g Carbs - 90 kcal per slice - Protein and calcium per slice better
Details: https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/shop/gb/groceries/burgen-soya---linseed-bread-800g


Hovis lower carb 9.9 per slice, higher in protein, calcium not mentions
Details: https://www.hovis.co.uk/our-range/Lower-Carb

Hi-lo small loaf 5g carbs per slice, high in protein, low in carbs.
Details: go to www.hi-lo-bread.co.uk

LivLife 3.8g carbs per slice (just purchased some in Waitrose)
http://www.livlifefoods.co.uk/


Per Cracker
- Jacobs Cream Crackers Carb 5.3 - Cals 35 (good iron, magnesium, calcium magnesium B6)
- Ryvita Crispbread dark Carbs 6.7 - Cals 34 (good magnesium, zinc and iron per cracker)

Carr's Melts - Cheese 2.6g carbs per biscuit
Carr's Table Water biscuits 2.5g carbs per biscuit

Tesco's do their own Brand of this type of biscuit (wholewheat and multi seed) for 3gr carbs per biscuit.


I would say for nutritional value and size of one slice
Burgen Soya & Linseed Medium Sliced Bread 400g
is the best option - Sainsbury's 🙂

LivLife bread slice although smaller with only 3.8g carbs per slice is a good option (you could always have up to 3 slices of that to 1 slice of Burgen 😛

Most already know Burgen but for those who can't find Burgen above are the other options in Bread 🙂

For weight loss I would say Warburtons (as above) unless you only want a cracker now and then.
 
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Protein bread in Asda just under 4 gm of carb per slice.
 
Thanks Drummer, is it Asda's own brand?
 
Not an Asda brand - it looks like a brown brick in clear plastic wrapper.
 
Lidl low GI bread is good.
 
I say 20g a slice bit it is low GI so tends not to spike so much.
 
I still don’t know how many carbs we should have in a day?

Has anyone got Phil Vickery’s Ultimate Diabetic Cookbook?

I bought it last week, seems good, but unfortunately not too much for me personally on the things I would eat. I only eat fish and chicken (have done so since the age of 5) and I don’t like spicy food. But for those who eat everything, I’d say it’s a good book! It has some good information in it.
 
Annette&Bertie said:
I still don’t know how many carbs we should have in a day?

Has anyone got Phil Vickery’s Ultimate Diabetic Cookbook?

I bought it last week, seems good, but unfortunately not too much for me personally on the things I would eat. I only eat fish and chicken (have done so since the age of 5) and I don’t like spicy food. But for those who eat everything, I’d say it’s a good book! It has some good information in it.
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On the Desmond course for women maximum carbs 35g per meal max 12g snack, but if you can get it lower better and if you want to lose weight. Don't know that book, I just bought The diabetic weight loss cook book but not really used it yet. (Katie & Giancarlo Caldes.
 
I want to lose weight and control, it’s not easy. Thanks for the numbers it’s higher than I thought.

Is it just me but how do you calculate how many carb grams are there in meals you prepare from scratch yourself?
 
pottersusan said:
I say 20g a slice bit it is low GI so tends not to spike so much.
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My gut obviously never got the memo about low GI - 20 gm a slice is just not going to work for me.
 
I've added hi-lo bread to the original post small load 5g carbs. details above.
 
Annette&Bertie said:
I want to lose weight and control, it’s not easy. Thanks for the numbers it’s higher than I thought.

Is it just me but how do you calculate how many carb grams are there in meals you prepare from scratch yourself?
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On the back of packaged products it gives you the carbs, for bread per slice.

I also have the the carbs and cals book which gives details per portion size for most foods generally.

https://shop.diabetes.org.uk/products/carbs-cals

Referring to it regularly I guess you get to know what's what.
 
Thanks peeps for the help, I’ll look into it
 
I use the MyFitnessPal app, it’s free. Although I think you can pay a monthly fee to get more information. In my opinion it’s very useful 🙂
 
Thanks Rachel. Incidentally, I notice that some of you quote your HbA1c numbers in high numbers, mine is quoted from my annual readings is smaller numbers, how is this converted to the higher numbers?

it’s ok I just found a chart. It seems my surgery are still using the old style. No surprises there!
 
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I don’t know if anyone has tried these crisp reads, to be honest I came upon them by accident, browsing the special section in Morrisons. Shar gluten free crisp reads. They have no gluten, no wheat and are lactose free. I didn’t buy them for those other than the wheat free, but when I looked at the nutrition label I was impressed.
PER CRISPBREAD 24 CALS. NO FAT, NO SATURATES, CARB 5.9. SUGAR 0g, FIBRE 0, protein 0, salt 0.10g. I will certainly be buying more as I really enjoyed them. They come in a 150g box and the overall numbers are different per 100g that being carbs 84g sugar 6g.
 
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