Vegetables .....

[Wirrallass]

Old potatoes are very high carbs
WL

 

[Wirrallass]

Our favourite cauliflower is very low carb - great mashed with broccoli or choice vegetables - often used as cauli rice - and as an alternative to mashed potatoes.
WL

 

[Wirrallass]

Does anyone have an image of carrots and know whether they're high or low carb please?
WL

 

[Wirrallass]

Yes that is a pumpkin, but where I come from originally (NZ) most of ours are large grey ones. Hard outer skin but fab orange flesh and just the yummiest to eat. Soup, fries, wedges, scones, mash, roast. Divine

Sounds delicious weecee - do you happen to have an image at all of your ex-grey pumpkin? Just to compare really - if not then doesn't matter x
WL

 

[Wirrallass]

This bag of mixed veggies only take 4mins to cook in the microwave - reasonable size portion too.

 

[Ditto]

Does anyone have an image of carrots and know whether they're high or low carb please?
WL

I don't eat carrots at the moment. They're not allowed on Atkins Induction, not that I'm sticking strictly to that but I do agree with the carrots being a no no at the start of a weight loss regime due to their sugary content. Did I tell you about the gravy? My Mum back in the day made gravy with the water from the carrot pan and stepdad went bonkers because it was sweet gravy. It stuck with me for some reason. 🙂 I do like them and will eventually 'take them back' but not at the minute. Same with garden peas. I had a whole can yesterday and gained! Had to jump on and off the scales a few times this morning to get it down a bit. 😉 So no more peas for a bit and definitely no mushy ones! 😱

With regards to kale, Brussels sprouts, cabbage and cauli I now only have them once a week at weekends. I read Thyroid For Dummies and wished I hadn't. They can give you hypothyroid! What's that all about? Here I am thinking I'm being all healthy and stuff and what for? Sick of all the conflicting advice. They also say Aspirin can give it to you as well but I'm not stopping taking that. Agh it's a nightmare.

 

[Wirrallass]

I don't eat carrots at the moment. They're not allowed on Atkins Induction, not that I'm sticking strictly to that but I do agree with the carrots being a no no at the start of a weight loss regime due to their sugary content. Did I tell you about the gravy? My Mum back in the day made gravy with the water from the carrot pan and stepdad went bonkers because it was sweet gravy. It stuck with me for some reason. 🙂 I do like them and will eventually 'take them back' but not at the minute. Same with garden peas. I had a whole can yesterday and gained! Had to jump on and off the scales a few times this morning to get it down a bit. 😉 So no more peas for a bit and definitely no mushy ones! 😱

With regards to kale, Brussels sprouts, cabbage and cauli I now only have them once a week at weekends. I read Thyroid For Dummies and wished I hadn't. They can give you hypothyroid! What's that all about? Here I am thinking I'm being all healthy and stuff and what for? Sick of all the conflicting advice. They also say Aspirin can give it to you as well but I'm not stopping taking that. Agh it's a nightmare.

I love the carrot image Ditto - thanks x
WL

 

[Dave W]

Does anyone have an image of carrots and know whether they're high or low carb please?
WL

Carrots - Old carrots boiled = 6.0gm carbs/100gm. Young carrots = 4.4gm.( Swedes are 2.3gm.)

 

[Martin Canty]

Seems we call vegetables different names depending on whereabouts we live

I hear you there, took a while for me to get used to the American names for things..... Now I have to do a quick mental conversion from UK to US & vice versa....

 

[Wirrallass]

Carrots - Old carrots boiled = 6.0gm carbs/100gm. Young carrots = 4.4gm.( Swedes are 2.3gm.)

Aw thanks for that Dave - so it goes without saying that carrots are off my menu from now on unless I only serve up a one or two slices! I think I read somewhere that all veggies that grow beneath the ground contain carbs. Do you think this is correct - I still have so much to learn re: diabetes 😉 but getting there slowly. By the way did you enjoy your recent holiday or am I mixing you up with someone else? x
WL

 

[Wirrallass]

I hear you there, took a while for me to get used to the American names for things..... Now I have to do a quick mental conversion from UK to US & vice versa....

Hi Martin - nice to see you here - so do the names of vegetables vary very (say that quickly!) much where you are, from ours here? x
WL

 

[Martin Canty]

Hi Martin - nice to see you here - so do the names of vegetables vary very (say that quickly!) much where you are, from ours here? x

I have to think about that one..... A quick few that come to mind are:
Garbanzo Beans - Chick Peas
Zucchini - courgette
Egg Plant - Aubergine
Spring Onion - Green Onion

 

[Wirrallass]

I have to think about that one..... A quick few that come to mind are:
Garbanzo Beans - Chick Peas
Zucchini - courgette
Egg Plant - Aubergine
Spring Onion - Green Onion

I didn't want to tax your brain too much Martin but thank-you - the only veg I would eat from your US list would be Green Onion or our UK spring onion. I think some folk on here favour the other veggies. It's 11.45pm here - what time is it over there? Hope you are well. x
WL

 

[grovesy]

I have to think about that one..... A quick few that come to mind are:
Garbanzo Beans - Chick Peas
Zucchini - courgette
Egg Plant - Aubergine
Spring Onion - Green Onion

I call spring onions scallions.

 

[Dave W]

Aw thanks for that Dave - so it goes without saying that carrots are off my menu from now on unless I only serve up a one or two slices! I think I read somewhere that all veggies that grow beneath the ground contain carbs. Do you think this is correct - I still have so much to learn re: diabetes 😉 but getting there slowly. By the way did you enjoy your recent holiday or am I mixing you up with someone else? x
WL

Yes, veg from below ground are higher in carbs. Parsnips are double the carbs of carrots at around 12gm/100gm. However it's not just the amount of carbs you have to think about, you also need to consider the quantitity of the veg and eating a small quantity might be ok. I grow carrots and can eat small amounts with a meal without pushing up my BS much. I used to grow potatoes too but have cut back on them as they are pretty high carb and a very small boiled one is as much as I can get away with.
We were away on holiday last month and spent a week on the tiny island of Barra in the Outer Hebrides. We stayed in a cottage at the end of the beach runway and enjoyed seeing the planes land. Also had fun collecting and cooking cockles.
There's a good book - Carbs and Cals that is worth buying as it contains a lot of info about foods, it is also available as an app for a phone. And if you have Microsoft Excel on your computer you can download the Composition of Foods Integrated Dataset and this contains a vast amount of data on almost 3000 foods.

 

[mikeyB]

Blimey, Dave, you sailed to Barra past the Isle of Mull and never waved? Shame I missed you🙂

 

[Wirrallass]

I call spring onions scallions.

Scallions! Now this a new one on me grovesy - not heard of that before, thanks x
WL

 

[Martin Canty]

We are 8 hours behind.....

Reminds me of the day after I arrived in the States, jet-lagged I ended up in the grocery store at 0300 looking to get some food, decided on English Muffins (I lack creativity when that tired)... Looking for butter I was faced with a bewildering array of "Sweet Butter"... Either salted or unsalted but it was all sweet butter, not good, I don't like sweet things on my toast> Anyway I picked one out & found that it wasn't sweet, just regular old butter

 

[Dave W]

Blimey, Dave, you sailed to Barra past the Isle of Mull and never waved? Shame I missed you🙂

I was waving like a windmill Mike but you were looking the other way! Off to Arisaig next week 🙂

 

[Ditto]

Aw thanks for that Dave - so it goes without saying that carrots are off my menu from now on unless I only serve up a one or two slices! I think I read somewhere that all veggies that grow beneath the ground contain carbs. Do you think this is correct - I still have so much to learn re: diabetes 😉 but getting there slowly. By the way did you enjoy your recent holiday or am I mixing you up with someone else? x
WL

On Atkins Induction which I like to think I'm on but I'm kidding myself, I'm not allowed stuff that grows under the ground because of the high carbs, so I should not have had that beetroot this week. Also not allowed corn though that grows above ground, but it's not a veg come to think of it...