Christmas Baking Ingredients

Rachox said:

My Christmas baking ingredients look a bit different these days! Gone is the dried fruit, wheat flour and dark brown sugar!
But the real point of my post is to let you all know that Whitworths products are 2 for £2.50 in Tesco now, so
I’ve stocked up with ground almonds and desiccated coconut View attachment 29672

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Christmas seems to be a bit nutty in your house!

I’m at my moms for Xmas dinner this year and us ‘kids’ need to take a pudding each, so may need to go stock up too and see what I can get baking

Rachox said:

My Christmas baking ingredients look a bit different these days!

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Please post the recipes to go with those yummy ingredients......

I never had much of a sweet tooth before diabetes so I don't really miss cakes and other sweet stuff so will not be baking for Christmas. I did try some cake made with almond flour by someone I know and I thought it was horrible it had a weird taste and a very open texture almost holey and was nothing like cake made with real flour

This is my take on Chistmas. I hav a non diabetic family so I make the usual foods I always did. Last Christmas I was only just diagnosed 3 weeks before so I did my best. I will have turkey dinner with one small roastie and a little bread stuffing. But I made huge changes re party food/canapies which we only seem to have at Christmas. Friends, neighbours drop in for a drink and a nibble, eg. my sons in laws are important guests on Christmas Eve afternoon and because we have a candlelit dinner on Christmas early evening these morsels were essential during the day. My advice is do not buy supermarket (even m&s) canapies which are so high carb! My son got enthusiastic about preparing trays of lovely low carb mouthfuls and nobody felt cheated, quite the opposite. I have listed ideas on the thread currently on page 5 called “are you going to do LCHF at Christmas” and I am too stupid to paste it here! So take a look if you are interested.

Rachox said:

he of course @ianpspurs infamous CCB bars.

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Any chance of posting this? Looking for low carb snacks.....

Rachox said:

Hi @Zilsniggy , here is a screen shot of it I took. Hope it is clear enough to read. I do the chocolate version, it’s really yummy.

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@ Rachox, thanks!!

Rachox said:

My Christmas baking ingredients look a bit different these days! Gone is the dried fruit, wheat flour and dark brown sugar!
But the real point of my post is to let you all know that Whitworths products are 2 for £2.50 in Tesco now, so
I’ve stocked up with ground almonds and desiccated coconut View attachment 29672

Click to expand...

Fantastic thread. Thanks

Slightly off topic, but my latest discovery is a Wensleydale mince pie cheese (in wax).
Astonishingly good.
And I can honestly say that I would prefer this cheese to any mince pie.

It does have carbs (20g/100g as opposed to 60g/100g in a ‘real’ mince pie)
But whereas I can eat a few mince pies, I couldn’t eat a whole cheese.

Seems to me it is a great option for a lower carb Xmas indulgance.