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Crisps!

Have you tried vegetbale crisps? Tesco sell them in their finest range. They are lightly salted carrot, sweet pot, parsnip and beetroot...very yummy. Not sure how many carbs off hand but my hubby loves them if we go to the cinema etc.

Most health food shops sell them too. Or you could be ultra healthy and make your own. A friend made sweet pot crisps by accidently cutting the sweet pot too thin and frying it. Tasted very yummy though!
 
I make them at home with butternut squash and they're very nice indded, superfine slices flash friend in hot oil and then shaken with salt - but it would be nice to have some in a packet :) for days when I don't really wanna spend hours peeling slicing frying and cleaning the wok (I don't possess a fryer) only to have disappear faster than they can be made :)

The last vegetable crisps I picked up had shocking carbs! I used to make sweet potato ones at home too (after slicing the roasties too thin ;) /// nice they were too)

You can make decent chips from butternut squash too :) :)

Sweet pot send my sugars up :( sadly - used to like them muchly :)

Cheers for the thought :)
 
Be wary of some vegetable crisps though. I bought some from Tesco, only to find the ingedrients list included "glucose".Won't buy those again. M & S do vegetable crisps without the added glucose.
I'm trying to avoid the crisps altogether now.....until one of the "craving" moments hits again, a few months down the line, I hope.
 
Get some low-carb wraps from the lowcarbmegastore.
Cut them into Dorito shapes, brush with olive oil, grate some pecorinao or parmesan over the top and bake until crispy. Really yummy with guacamole.

wiflib
 
hi - funny how i had been looking into this - on a night out a few weeks ago the bar snacks were veggie crisps. I thought they were a bit strange esp the beetroot type.

I contacted a company called real crisps and they mailed me today - per 100g their veggie crisps are 42g CHO /100g - ordinary crisps are around 53g /100g.

The crisps are made of sweet pot, beetroot, carrots and parsnips.
 
I've been eating non-potato crisps for years. Most supermarkets sell them. They are all just fried root veggies; just like potato in fact. The beetroot are particularly lovely.

wiflib
 
Parsnip chips are the best. Far better than potato ones. No I don't make them any more.
 
If it's the ones i'm thinking of, my local Greggs the bakers sell them alongside their normal crisps.
 
Sainsburys just started stocking parsnip, onion, carrot and beetroot crisps -= looked very nice but still high carb values ... would rather make them at home with - yep, butternut squash (and you thought I would say macadamia nuts buwahahaha!)
 
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