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Just getting into the swing of things, and feeling great as I made my Golden Lentil Soup - just simple soup ... onions, red lentils, stock, a squeeze of garlic and the juice of half a lemon at the end. Thank God for lentils - had them before as accompaniments to curry, had them in my home made lentil and vegetable burgers - with wonderful results. Decided that this meal would be so saintly, I could have one slice of Burgen with it which I made into a little garlic bread.
Fabulous.
2 hours later, I was intrigued as to just how low my blood sugar would be and nearly fell over when I read 11.5mmol/l :eh:
Well, I have a lot to learn!! Now I know - that 100g of lentils contain 16g of carbs. I measured my portion , a whopping 350g of pure lentil soup, plus the 12g for the bread. Without realising, I had eaten an almost exclusively carb meal, containing more carbs in one sitting than I've been having in one day!!! I felt quite rough. :sick:
I imagine that when I've had my burgers or when I've had Dahl as part of a curry, it didn't spike my BG because I ate other stuff with it?? - like veggies and meat - so the load was more even with less chance of a carb spike?
You live and learn !!
Fabulous.
2 hours later, I was intrigued as to just how low my blood sugar would be and nearly fell over when I read 11.5mmol/l :eh:
Well, I have a lot to learn!! Now I know - that 100g of lentils contain 16g of carbs. I measured my portion , a whopping 350g of pure lentil soup, plus the 12g for the bread. Without realising, I had eaten an almost exclusively carb meal, containing more carbs in one sitting than I've been having in one day!!! I felt quite rough. :sick:
I imagine that when I've had my burgers or when I've had Dahl as part of a curry, it didn't spike my BG because I ate other stuff with it?? - like veggies and meat - so the load was more even with less chance of a carb spike?
You live and learn !!
