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smc4761 said:
Greetings fellow teabags, hope you are all having a good weekend. BG have been mainly behaving themselves though I still need to work on my ratios and carbs for an Indian even with only a small piece of nan bread and no rice. BG were steady from when I had the meal around 6.15 until bed at 11pm when it was 6.4. Woke up at 4.30am to a lovely 15.3. Correction dose taken and back to normalish just now.

Will not be on much over next 5 days or so, off to Costa del Sol for 5 days flying out tomorrow. No doubt will have a few beers which will be my first beer since May 2018.

Hope you all behave yourselves
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Have a great time smc4761 x
 
helensaramay said:
The low carb police have not made it to my kitchen. There's two sourdough loaves cooling on the rack and one more in the oven.
Meanwhile I am waiting for the steam to clear from the morning showers so I can finish painting the ceiling from last weekend.

I have a question for the ornithologists. My understanding was robins were territorial. However, I have been seeing 2, 3 and some times more close together. Is this family, a robin peace commune or is my limited birdie knowledge wrong?
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Carb police would arrest me if they knew what I had in my larder cupboard particularly as I eat it as well as my husband - although not the same amount.
 
kitedoc said:
New invention - a carb detector in the kitchen, set for low, medium or high settings.
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If you believe some of the weird stuff documented, coming out on the net regarding Alexa..?! ;)

This may already be in your home...o_O:nailbiting::p
 
helensaramay said:
I have wondered if burnt toast still has the same amount of carbohydrates as untoasted bread. A dietician once told me it does but as the black burnt stuff is carbon, I am not convinced. I think the cabohydrates react to the heat releasing hydrogen and oxygen and leaving carbon. I may be entirely wrong as I am an engineer not a chemist.
But it does lead to the next question: does carbon affect our bg?
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Not a chemist either, but I suppose the burnt bit is such a thin layer on top that, while it's no longer carbohydrate, it's so slim it's not going to reduce the overall carb content that much.
 
Scott-C said:
Not a chemist either, but I suppose the burnt bit is such a thin layer on top that, while it's no longer carbohydrate, it's so slim it's not going to reduce the overall carb content that much.
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You don't burn your toast properly!
 
helensaramay said:
I have wondered if burnt toast still has the same amount of carbohydrates as untoasted bread. A dietician once told me it does but as the black burnt stuff is carbon, I am not convinced. I think the cabohydrates react to the heat releasing hydrogen and oxygen and leaving carbon. I may be entirely wrong as I am an engineer not a chemist.
But it does lead to the next question: does carbon affect our bg?
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Toasting bread.? i'd say it has a nominal effect on the carb count. (If noticeable at all?)
This is interesting... https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/14155/calories-in-toast-vs-bread
 
@Robinredbreast . Carbolic soap!!!!!!!!!!!!
As a spotty teenager a few years back the go to soap for my mother was Lifebouy.
Learning to wet shave with carbolic soap was a challenge to say the least. Beauty was that if a cut occurred, it healed up before you had finished shaving.
Ahhhh the good old days.
 
helensaramay said:
I like the butter discussion.
But as I like my butter solid, my toast is usually fat-free (apart from cheese on toast).
I guess that makes it HCLF!
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Is that the one regarding the results of the "Panasonic SD-2501?"I thought the poster was throwing the ingredients into a camcorder & hoping for the best... :D
 
G'd Morning from Oz.
A rare meteorological phenomenon called rain fell last night for the first time in about 36 days.
That was definitely not a groundhog day !!
Opinion is that all the moisture is in the North Hemisphere forming snow, and keeping temperatures below the yardarm.
Despite perfidious weather here BSLs have remained steady at 5.4 mmol/l range with an unseasonal 7.5 last night.
Kitchen zone is at peace. Breakfast was a quiet affair with few carbs. .
'Nuther day in paradise. Time for more sleepin' in after i feed the fish.
Just hope those galahs on the powerlines don't start up a'squawking !!:):):)
 
helensaramay said:
I have wondered if burnt toast still has the same amount of carbohydrates as untoasted bread. A dietician once told me it does but as the black burnt stuff is carbon, I am not convinced. I think the cabohydrates react to the heat releasing hydrogen and oxygen and leaving carbon. I may be entirely wrong as I am an engineer not a chemist.
But it does lead to the next question: does carbon affect our bg?
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My answer would be that it does not because it is no longer carbohydrate.
 
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