Resources on a low carb diet

[tim.culhane]

Hi,

I'm a type 1 diabetic for 28 years and am trying to get into a more low carb diet in order to keep my blood glucose levels steadier.
Are there any good resources out there for coming up with meal plans etc.
Most stuff online is very US centric and refers to products and ingredients which are not available around here.

Looking forward to any help you can provide.

Tim

 

[Leadinglights]

Hi,

I'm a type 1 diabetic for 28 years and am trying to get into a more low carb diet in order to keep my blood glucose levels steadier.
Are there any good resources out there for coming up with meal plans etc.
Most stuff online is very US centric and refers to products and ingredients which are not available around here.

Looking forward to any help you can provide.

Tim

If you are sure that is a suitable route then this link may help you. https://lowcarbfreshwell.com/
Some people seem to find low carb helps others find it more tricky.

 

[debinfrance]

I’ve looked at freshwell as mentioned regularly on here but for me a lot of the recipes are a bit ’out there’ -I mostly tweak the ordinary meals that we always eat, qunoa instead of rice, reduce down the liquids in casseroles instead of thickening with flour, use full fat cream or 35 creme fraische for sauces, make crustless quiche in a non-stick pan, add vegetables to ’pad out’ recipes. I can’t really suggest a particular link but there are plenty of ideas on line -maybe google low carb diets and pick from the various plans the foods you like.

 

[Leadinglights]

I’ve looked at freshwell as mentioned regularly on here but for me a lot of the recipes are a bit ’out there’ -I mostly tweak the ordinary meals that we always eat, qunoa instead of rice, reduce down the liquids in casseroles instead of thickening with flour, use full fat cream or 35 creme fraische for sauces, make crustless quiche in a non-stick pan, add vegetables to ’pad out’ recipes. I can’t really suggest a particular link but there are plenty of ideas on line -maybe google low carb diets and pick from the various plans the foods you like.

People can pick and choose what suits them, nobody says they have to follow things to the letter. You have some good ideas there anyway.

 

[Drummer]

As a diet controlled type 2 I don't eat a diet composed of low carb options but eat anything except low fat choices and simply exclude the high carb foods.
Potatoes are excluded and replaced with cauliflower or swede, for instance. I make chaffles (cheese waffles) sometimes, and I bought a big mixer to bake low carb recipes from the lowcarblondoner website. Many baked things are started off in the same way as high carb recipes, but then have low carb flours or seeds or whatever seems apt added in so the final product is larger - 4 Christmas cakes instead of 3 for instance, or 2 loaves instead of 1. It all adds up over the weeks.
If offered steak, mushrooms and peas or steak and chips, I would chose the former because it is tastier, not because it is lower in carbs.

 

[Franthepotter]

As a diet controlled type 2 I don't eat a diet composed of low carb options but eat anything except low fat choices and simply exclude the high carb foods.
Potatoes are excluded and replaced with cauliflower or swede, for instance. I make chaffles (cheese waffles) sometimes, and I bought a big mixer to bake low carb recipes from the lowcarblondoner website. Many baked things are started off in the same way as high carb recipes, but then have low carb flours or seeds or whatever seems apt added in so the final product is larger - 4 Christmas cakes instead of 3 for instance, or 2 loaves instead of 1. It all adds up over the weeks.
If offered steak, mushrooms and peas or steak and chips, I would chose the former because it is tastier, not because it is lower in carbs.

I'm going to check out the lowcarblondoner site thx

 

[Rudi]

I'm using AI in this fight... 🙂

I've downloaded a few AI apps onto my phone (ChatGPT, Claude, Bing), but my favourite at the moment is Claude.

I then ask it to suggest a meal plan for the week containing things that I want it to include and I also tell it what to exclude.

For me at the moment I'm aiming for more vegetarian with meat around 2x/ week (having come from mainly carnivore...)

I also aim to exclude as far as possible all the "white poisons" (white sugar, white flour, white bread, white potatoes, white pasta... okay, the "white" is more a memory gadget as brown sugar is still sugar and brown bread is still bread), so I simply tell it to exclude all those things from my meal plan.

Typically I also aim for regions of the world... Mexican flavour (typically lime & chilli), Curry, Thai, Italian, Mediterranean, Moroccon etc to help add/ change flavours.

So Claude will then spit out really quickly a 7-day plan.

Anything in there I don't like, I'll tell it to change and tell it to "try again".

And so we continue till I'm happy with my plan for the week.

Then simply ask it to give me a recipe for each item and it kicks that out in seconds.

The other cheat I have is to tell it that in my fridge I have X, Y and Z and to suggest a recipe that contains that - and it does so in seconds.

It's been a massive help in our family.
Hope it can be of help for you too.