Chicken kiev

[Kitty W]

Hi,

Just wondered on what people's experience is with Chicken Kiev. We've not had Kiev for ages and when I was shopping this morning I just fancied it for tea. The package says 14g carb and we'll be having it with green beans and broccoli, so hopefully this will be ok for my T2 partner. We'll test before and after and hopefully he'll tolerate it ok. If not at least it'll be a lesson learned.

I also bought some frozen chocolate eclairs after reading some of you have an eclair as a treat. I think it's 7g of carb per eclair. I'm a bit more nervous about my OH trying these. Think we'll wait for a day when we know everything else will be ok for him to see how much of an effect it has.

 

[Leadinglights]

Both of those thing look as if they should be OK. The thing is to spread the carb so you (he) are not having things together until you have tested.
My mistake in the early days was having some pasta (which I don't have now unless it is edamame or blackbean) and then pancakes. which pushed up my level but you just think Oh S..t and not do it again.

 

[Kitty W]

Thanks for the advice. Yes I'll definitely be saving the eclair to try on a day when we know everything else should be ok and we've had an otherwise low carb tea. It's quite scary trying new things but it's good to be able to test and see if it's ok to have again

 

[Kitty W]

Chicken Kiev experiment was a success. Reading went from 5.5 to 5.7 two hours later! Sometimes things you think will cause a problem don't, and other times seemingly innocent things cause more of a spike than expected. It's nice to know we can have kievs on occasion when the fancy takes us.

 

[trophywench]

Chicken - zero carb. Garlic butter - zero carb. A few (golden) breadcrumbs on the outside - 14g carb. Virtually no carb in the veg you had with it. I doubt the addition of an eclair for 'pudding' would have shifted that BG reading much, if at all. Choux pastry is kinda like hard meringue - has more fresh air in it than carbs, despite the fillings/toppings. (and not really that difficult to make yourself - it scares people cos the recipe and instructions are so different from normal pastry. It's one of those things that gives great self satisfaction to produce like you're Delia/Nigella ruddy Lawson!

I recommend Eton Mess - if you like meringue that is - although I'd use a few raspberries rather than strawbs just cos I love em more than strawbs. One individual meringue nest, roughly smashed, is enough for two portions, served in pretty glasses.

 

[Kitty W]

Thank you @trophywench. I think I'm just scared of trying new things. As I do most of the cooking I feel responsible and I'd hate to cause a huge spike in BG.

Thanks for the advice about pudding. I love the idea of an Eton mess and will certainly look into that

 

[trophywench]

Sold in 6s or 8s depending in which supermarket, Tescos happen to be 11.8g carb each so even if you have a whole one each, with only chopped up strawbs or rasps plus thick (or spray!) cream, you still have a mega low carb dessert. I'm all for picking easy things, me.

If you choose it when out for a meal - beware though - they're liable to use 'coulis' aka bright red mega sweet thick syrup (you know like the red 'juice' they happily squeeze all over Mr Whippy ice creams, may they rot in hell) cos they think people like it. Well some people do - but I don't !!!