Recent Content by spinningwoman

Yes,I looked again and it was lower than I thought -it quoted the carbs by 'serving size' but the 'serving' was actually 100gm, not an individual serving which confused me.

5.2 after an hour, even having eaten three. I just checked the date on the coconut flour and embarrassingly it is march 2010, but it tasted fine. I've just tried the carbalose in my usual Yorkshire recipe and they didn't rise very much but with gravy would probably be ok. It doesn't seem to...

Just made the almond coconut muffins and they are indeed yummy despite the ground almonds being best before nov 2010 and I didn't even check the coconut flour<g>. They have a much finer texture than made just with ground almonds and seem moister. I ate three on the trot so we'll see what effect...

Re carbalose yorkshires: anytime I've tried recipes that include baking powder I get something with a muffiny texture rather than that 'empty in the middle' Yorkshire texture. I bought some carbalose a year or do back but never got round to using it - I wonder if it is still in the cupboard...

Re: Breakfast Loaf I'm going to try this, it sounds really nice. I will probably use my juicer to produce a low carb apple pulp - it occurred to me a while back that since apple juice is quite sweet, the pulp left from juicing apples must be significantly lower in sugars. I quite often use it...

Yes I'm quite relieved as last year it had gone from 5.7 to 6.1 which I didn't realise at first was quite a big jump. Of course, given that that was also a home test it may have been dodgey but I had been getting a bit complacent with the diet and i think it made a bigger difference than I...

Has anyone got a Yorkshire pudding recipe? It is the one thing we really miss.

It arrived this afternoon! The expiry date is Feb 13 so not too bad but it would be much better if availed in the two test size. Very simple to use and I got a result of 5.3 which is better than a year ago and more in line with what I expected. Unlike the video it doesn't include lancets but...

I've just ordered one of these despite the cost as I feel I need the Hba1C test to give me the incentive to keep going with low carb - otherwise I gradually slip into more and more occasional lapses particularly when under stress. I used to get a home test kit that involved sending a drop of...

I use courgette noodles a lot in stir fry. I make them with a 'spiralizer' gadget that is intended to make spiral cut carrots etc for salads - they tend to come out in summer from advertising firms like JML etc. I bought mine in a charity shop for £2 having heard that they made good 'noodles'...

I have the jenny ruhl book and it is one of my favourites. Being American it uses different units for blood sugar ISo I have pencilled in the conversions as I went along. I like that it doesn't preach but just says 'read your meter and eat to that'.

It depends on how things like maltitol are labelled and also fibre in American products. Because these don't affect blood sugar although technically carbohydrates they are subtracted from the total carbs to give net carbs. However British labels don't include fibre as carbs so don't subtract...

I think there are two kinds of people in the world; the kind that when something like this happens just want the doctor to make it magically go away and the kind that want to find out as much as possible so that they can be in control and almost make a hobby of it. My husband, who has been...

Dear BB, It may also depend on how overweight you actually are - from your BMI, probably not very? My experience with low-carbing for weight loss is that it works great on the weight you really need to lose, but not on that extra half-stone or so that you would *like* to lose for vanity...

Well, that's what I did - but I meant that questions about exercise are not really about low carbing or diabetes so I felt it was a bit off topic. There isn't an exercise section here as such.