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    Carbs or not carbs. This is the question

    Lamont D, you encourage me to take readings using a glucometer before and after eating to ascertain what foods affect my BG. At this stage I am not happy at having to jab a needle in my body six or eight times a day. Maybe I'll have to if I cannot hold my HbA1c down just by diet. So for now...
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    Carbs or not carbs. This is the question

    Have the recipe :) Now to see if we agree ;)
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    Carbs or not carbs. This is the question

    Good thoughts, Nicole. I'm not on meds and hopefully never will be for T2. I'm just trying to keep my HBa1C below 42 (6%). I don't jab to get BG levels so have only three monthly HBa1C tests to work on. Interested in how the coconut bread turned out. I've tried, oh many, LCHF bread recipes but...
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    Carbs or not carbs. This is the question

    Thanks, that's better. 12.5% carbs I can cope with. So my picture sheet looks about right. I'm averaging 70'ish carbs/day. So finally coconut flour is 26.7% carbs, quite a lot lower than white flour at 73.6%
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    Carbs or not carbs. This is the question

    So, bb, it's 18.2g carbs either way? The parsnip above at 13% needs 6% sugar added. Now I'm really confused.
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    Carbs or not carbs. This is the question

    @bulkbiker, back where I started? from your link: per 100g Carbohydrate 12.5g Sugars 5.7g Fibre 4.6g
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    Carbs or not carbs. This is the question

    @Bluetit1802 I guess you mean this: Carbs & Cals Pocket Counter ?
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    Carbs or not carbs. This is the question

    Tesco do not attach a label with carbs (net or otherwise) to their parsnip :) so I've been using this as my carb bible. Oh dear! Picture doesn't insert from URL so I've added a cropped image as example. Figures represent % carbs but proportions?
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    Carbs or not carbs. This is the question

    My last two HBa1C three monthly readings have hovered around 6% after achieving a low of 5.5% a year ago. So I'm back to monitoring every day logging of total carb consumption. I thought I understood % carbs in everyday food but after more reading I find it now somewhat confusing. For example...
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    Gluten. Would it help make better eatables?

    Not bread but this variation on LCHF pasta looks good: Low Carb Soy Flour Pasta/Noodles (serves 2-3) 120 gr soy flour (I use the full fat variety) 80-85gr gluten (_or_ 20gr wholewheat flour = 11g carbs?) 2 tsp salt 2 large eggs 2 tsp oil 2 Tbsp warm water Mix the dry ingredients in one bowl...
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    Gluten. Would it help make better eatables?

    Avocado Sevenfold, missed your post - wasn't on the page when I first replied :( Gabi's recipe looks complicated but I just might try although it means buying even more ingredients, (cupboard is FULL!). I didn't find the "hit & miss" comments though. What's with the Lidl roll recipe? Do they...
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    Gluten. Would it help make better eatables?

    Thanks, GrantG', ;) I cannot argue with your scientific knowledge since it's way out of my field. However following your link and after I'd googled seitan, it seems you may not be entirely correct. It seems, (I haven't tried .. yet), that making seitan needs the usual kneading to succeed in...
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    Gluten. Would it help make better eatables?

    Last two HbA1c readings were 5.7, 5.9 down from 6.7 a year ago. So the LCHF diet has been good for me. :) However bread and/or pasta substitutes just don't cut the mustard. I can get by with the soya based pasta but I haven't found a LCHF bread recipe that works. I'm no Masterchef but manage...
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    8 week blood sugar diet

    Was the same here Sonnyp, except I'm a few years older. I found beating yourself up trying to get into keto just took any fun out of eating so I began by weighing everything I eat/cooked to keep carbs well below 100/day. Average was/is 50 - 60 per day. Mostly veg and meat. I didn't take any...
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