Carbohydrate free or low carbohydrate snacks

[Northerner]

This is a useful little general list of snacks from UCLH (small pdf download)

https://www.uclh.nhs.uk/PandV/PIL/P...bohydrate free or low carbohydrate snacks.pdf

🙂

 

[Stitch147]

Thanks for that Northerner, thats a handy guide. Gonna print that out and save that one.

 

[Lynn Davies]

OOoooo snacks!!! - there is blooming lettuce on there!!!! What kid is going to snack on lettuce 🙄

As for olives - bleugh!!!!!😱🙄

 

[DeusXM]

Oh dear.

Carbohydrate is an important part of the diet; it should make up about half of your total daily energy intake. Carbohydrates provide energy, fibre, B vitamins and some minerals, such as calcium and iron. Aim to base all of your meals and most of your snacks on starchy carbohydrate foods

I'm not sure what's worse, the continued insistence that every meal should be based around the one thing that disrupts your blood sugar, or the delusional belief that in an era of obesity and people getting too much energy for their daily needs from food that 'energy' should be a selling point. And that's before we even get to pointing out that carbohydrates aren't even a good source of calcium or iron compared to say, veg and dairy.

 

[Northerner]

I missed that bit @DeusXM 😱

 

[Stitch147]

I didn't read the top bit either, just the lists of foods!

 

[DeusXM]

It does sort of make you wonder what thought process went into putting this together.

"Make sure everything you eat is based around starchy carbs. Got that? Good. In that case, here is a list of everything that doesn't have carbs in it that you should be snacking on."

I swear to god that anyone with a qualification as a nutritionist/dietician is about as qualified to be involved in medicine as one of those 'doctors' with a mail order degree in naturopathy.

 

[Mark Parrott]

If im peckish i sometimes get a pack of cocktail sausages from M&S. There's 10 in a pack & barely affects my BG.