LCHF Diet First Day - Comments?

[AlisonM]

Blame his mum @trophywench, she must have been feeding him all this time.

I'd probably avoid the wraps as well, but some of the hot boxes looked really good, especially the superfood ones. I might go for a ricey one once a week maybe, I can get away with that.

 

[Stitch147]

Err, fish finger wraps? - are f/f's low carb? let alone the wraps! I'm not keen on wraps - they tend - to my palate - to taste exactly of what they are made of - ie Flour - and you couldn't possibly eat a spoonful of flour - let's face it if mom scrapes the bowl out (after making cake) and there's still flour on the side of the spoon - it just makes the leftover cake mixture - ie your treat when you were little - taste Yukk !

Used to have before being diagnosed, not had one since.

 

[stephknits]

Wraps have more carbs than a custard donut. My ex is a Tim, he is lovely, although despite having a name so very close to time, he has no concept of it.
Good luck cowboy Bob 🙂

 

[JamesAM]

I've seen the Leon but never been in. Looks good, thanks. Was always a Wasabi or Itsu man before diagnosis, but that's definitely out now as it's mostly rice. I'll miss it though :-(

Do you have a Teaco Metro there? Good value at £4 for a large (very filling!) and apart from the cous cous, all low/zero carb. I usually makes a salad for work to take in, but when I don't for some reason, I go to Tesco instead.

 

[Mark Parrott]

Hi Cowboy Bob 🙂. I live in Chatteris, so not far from you. I'm newly diagnosed and am still finding my way when it comes to LC food. There is a great health food shop in Ely that I went to yesterday. Bought some stuff to make muesli with. Must admit, I'm still having semi skimmed milk in coffee & tea. Didn't know this was a bad thing. Maybe I should convert to almond milk.🙂

 

[Robin]

Milk has sugars in it, in the form of lactose. Depending on how low carb you want to go, having a dash in tea and coffee isn't going to make much difference, I'd say. I never count mine towards my carb/insulin requirements.

 

[Lynn Davies]

Whole milk is lower carb than skimmed or semi skimmed.

 

[Cowboy Bob]

Hi Cowboy Bob 🙂. I live in Chatteris, so not far from you. I'm newly diagnosed and am still finding my way when it comes to LC food. There is a great health food shop in Ely that I went to yesterday. Bought some stuff to make muesli with. Must admit, I'm still having semi skimmed milk in coffee & tea. Didn't know this was a bad thing. Maybe I should convert to almond milk.🙂

Yep, that's a great shop. There's also a lovely little deli hidden by the arch that goes through to Waitrose with loads of goodies in. And I've already converted to almond milk. Much nicer than soya IMO. Leaves a nutty taste in the mouth rather than the bitter taste that soya seems to leave me.

 

[DeusXM]

I'm still having semi skimmed milk in coffee & tea. Didn't know this was a bad thing.

It's not.

Almond milk and soya milk have around 3-5g of carbs per 100ml. Milk itself has 5g of carbs per 100ml. Most people probably put less than 10ml of milk in their drink anyway, so it's completely inconsequential. If you're looking at low-carbing, by the way, muesli isn't low-carb at all - an average serving is about 70g of carbs, the equivalent of eating three Mars bars!

 

[pottersusan]

It's not.
muesli isn't low-carb at all - an average serving is about 70g of carbs, the equivalent of eating three Mars bars!

😱 I'm glad I don't like muesli

 

[Mark Parrott]

It's ok. I decided to go for all bran instead 🙂

 

[Lynn Davies]

😱 I'm glad I don't like muesli

Me too Susan - blooming bird seed!!!😎

 

[pottersusan]

Me too Susan - blooming bird seed!!!😎

Floor sweepings imho

 

[Kitana]

I use the carbs&cals app and book really helps me when counting my carbs

 

[pat.y]

I saw pork scratchings a one of the best snacks for diabetics recently and it said not pork crunch.

 

[DeusXM]

There isn't really any difference between the two. Both are zero-carb, the scratchings just have a slightly higher fat to protein ration.

Worth bearing in there are no such things as foods which are good or bad 'for diabetics'. There's just 'food', and it's up to us to read the labels and work out we can or can't eat it without any major issues.

 

[Lynn Davies]

I saw pork scratchings a one of the best snacks for diabetics recently and it said not pork crunch.

Not the nasty sometimes portrayed - and kinder on the tuskers!

Calories in MS Traditional Black Country Pork Crunch 20g

Serving size
Energy:
104 calories
Protein 14.4g
Carbs 0g
Fat 5.2g

Morrisons
Pork Crunch
Nutrition Facts per 1 bag (35 g)
Energy 849 kj
203 kcal
Protein 20.6 g
Carbohydrate 0 g
Fat 13.4 g
Saturated Fat 4.7 g

 

[DeusXM]

You can also go for the ultimate in posh and pauper fusion cuisine - use pork crunch for dipping in hummus instead of crisps.

 

[Lynn Davies]

My dad used to buy something called Liquid Humus to put on his tomato plants - seems it is a by product of the local sewage farm!😱

Well that was what he told me anyway - still cannot eat hummus as it just sounds (and tastes) too similar! 🙄

 

[Annette]

Ah, the vaguaries of the English Language
Humus, from the Latin humus, meaning earth or ground, is the organic matter, from decay of plants etc, that is added to soil to improve its fertility. As a lot of what is sifted out by a sewage farm is organic matter, it could well be added to water and used as a high nitrogen/phosphate feed.
Hummus (or houmus) is from the Arabic for chickpeas. Which, in themselves, will lead to a fair bit of said organic matter being introduced into the sewage farm, as a lot of the chickpea is insoluble fibre.😛
So one can lead to the other fairly directly...