Milk?

[bellabella]

Unsweetened almond milk and soy milk instead

 

[uart]

Lactofree milk has around half the carbs as standard milk.

I drink full fat Lactofree milk, 100ml (2.2grms carbs) in the morning with my coffee.

Thanks guys, but unfortunately all of the brands of lactose free milk available locally to me have exactly the same carbs as regular milk (I've checked).

It appears that there must be two types of "lactose free" milk. Those that actually remove the lactose (or at least some of the monosaccharides that it breaks into) and those that simply add an enzyme (lactase) to break down the lactose (into its glucose and galactose monosaccharides).

Unfortunately all of the "lactose free" varieties available to me here are the latter type. They actually taste sweeter than regular milk because the lactose is already broken down into simpler sugars, but they're exactly the same total carbs.

So just a "heads up" for anyone thinking about lactose free milk. Don't just assume that because it says "lactose free" that it's really less carbs. Always check the nutritional label.

 

[uart]

Thanks to mehhh2015 and noblehead I now know that reduced carb should be available. And 2.2g/100mL sounds good to me, so I will search a bit wider and see if I can find a source.

I'm not all that confident though, as I have looked into this before. You know there's about a dozen different varieties of low fat milk at "my" supermarket, but not even one low carb variety.

At this point I think I'm probably going to have to make my own. Here is my proposed recipe (for approx one day's supply).

- One heaped (or two level) desert spoon(s) of unsweetened whey protein.
- 300 mL water
- 300 mL regular milk
- 100 mL cream.

I'm going to mix that up tomorrow and see how it tastes. I've just got to buy the whey protein, so I'll update here after I've tested it.

 

[Medusa41]

I only have it in 1 cup of tea a day (just a dash) as I drink black coffee & green tea too.

 

[fallongerie]

What does unsweetened almond milk taste like? I use skimmed at the moment

 

[DonnaC-T]

Milk spikes me so I have cream in tea and coffee which doesn't seem to do anything to my bg. X

 

[Lexa_x]

Ive been having blue milk in tea and coffee. Trying to man up and get through it. I really only like green milk. Tried cream and cant handle that..*sigh*

 

[Kat100]

It's almond milk for me

 

[catinahat]

What does unsweetened almond milk taste like? I use skimmed at the moment

Quite pleasant slightly nutty, my other half makes her porridge with it and puts it on her breakfast cereal she prefers it to real milk. I use it to make the green smoothies I sometimes have for breakfast.

 

[fallongerie]

Isn't blue top or cream very fattening

 

[Lexa_x]

Isn't blue top or cream very fattening

Its 'fatty' since I replaced carbs with fat ive lost 40lbs.

 

[fallongerie]

Sorry do u mean u lost weight using soya or normal milk?

 

[Lexa_x]

Normal blue top. Its the low carb high fat diet.

 

[JTL]

It's disgusting stuff!
As a kid I was milk monitor for a while around the ages of ten and eleven.
We had to bring the milk in that had been sat in the glare of blazing hot sunshine .... need I say more?
Put me off for life.

 

[Spencer67]

None.

I love you, always tells it like it is. You are the man!!!! Your handle should have been 'bushman' cos you don't beat around it.

 

[vit90]

None.

Milk does contain a lot of carbs in the form of lactose. A 200ml glass of semi-skimmed milk contains 9.7g of carbs - the same carbs as in about one and a half teaspoons of granulated sugar.

 

[vit90]

I love you, always tells it like it is. You are the man!!!! Your handle should have been 'bushman' cos you don't beat around it.

Uh, and on this occasion he was mistaken.

Edit - absolutely sorry, as you pointed out, I was mistaken and assumed the question was about how much carbs were in milk.

 

[vit90]

It's disgusting stuff!
As a kid I was milk monitor for a while around the ages of ten and eleven.
We had to bring the milk in that had been sat in the glare of blazing hot sunshine .... need I say more?
Put me off for life.

Yup - school days in the 70s cured me of any tendency to like milk However, I love all kinds of cheese and am warming to cream, especially in cooking. Cheese is mostly low carb because the lactose is used up in the cheese fermentation process

 

[phil1966]

I gave up milk earlier in January and started drinking my coffee black. I saw a simultaneous improvement in my BS levels and they really settled down.

The problem I see with milk in drinks is you're having them all day so you're constantly putting carbs into your system rather than just at mealtimes

 

[vit90]

cream, even watered down cream and use it as milk [they homogenise here, so it mixes well]

Good tip; single cream, for example, has a lot less carbs/100g than milk and even less of course when diluted.