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Pasta

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Ok I have a huge opened bag of pasta (weeks old) so need to use it up, ideally. So how much do I have without it shooting up my BG?.
Ive just bought healthy low fat pasta sauce too.

I have bought diet scales btw.
 
That's a very tough question! A lot of people have trouble with pasta as it often causes a late spike - blood sugars rising long after you might expect (i.e. possibly several hours later 😱) As usual, it will be a case of trial and error and determining what you personally can tolerate and how it affects you by testing. Sorry I can't offer more help! One of the Food experiments was with spaghetti, so it might be worth looking at that to see how pasta affected people there:

http://www.diabetessupport.co.uk/boards/showthread.php?t=6004
 
Vegan is it shells, tubes or what? If im having pasta I weight out 2 spoonfulls from my large metallic spoon and thats ample for me but I have no issues with pasta so its worth testing to see if it causes you any bother after eating x
 
Its the bow type. Well I measured 60 grms dry weight, cooked it with small portion of pasta sauce and fried mushrooms and broccoli/onion.


My BG before meal was 8.0 one hour after its 13.1 so all though high, not as high as I thought it would be.
 
veganlass said:
Its the bow type. Well I measured 60 grms dry weight, cooked it with small portion of pasta sauce and fried mushrooms and broccoli/onion.


My BG before meal was 8.0 one hour after its 13.1 so all though high, not as high as I thought it would be.
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You might want to measure at 2, 3, 4, etc as well. Pasta is notorious for giving delayed spikes.
 
You might want to experiment with different types of pasta - you might find you can tolerate some better than others.
 
60g of Farfalle pasta is around 44g Carb, not counting the carbs in the sauce and the broccoli. That's a tad higher then what I would usually eat in the evening (I'm between 30g and 40g total per meal right now).

Some of the low fat sauces are a bit carbohydrate rich too.

Probably a good idea to give away if you have a large pack, but you might want to retain a bit so that you can try again with 30g pasta and 15g pasta to find your limit (replacing the pasta with broccoli/cauliflower, etc).

From experience that 1-hour reading was probably the pasta sauce and not the pasta itself.
 
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