Healthy Horror!

[Bluenosesol]

About a year before my diagnosis, I went on a personal campaign to reduce red meat in my diet. I was mooching in an Asian supermarket in Brum, when I came across a box of Chick Pea Curry spices. I bought a crate of chick peas. Thereafter, the chick pea curry, with basmati rice and loads of home made chapatis became a family favourite. I would cook a large pot about once a week and invite the family round and spend a couple of hours making tons of chapatis. No meat, little fat, washed down with glasses of sugar free lemonade......What could be healthier??....
........I have weighed up the carb content of my personal consumption each time I had this meal...........????????

Approx 400 grams of carb !!!! :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

Steve

 

[IanD]

Re: Healthy Horror

Looking at your "horror" post & from my own experience with Indian meals, try

chick pea curry, withOUT basmati rice and loads of home made chapatis

 

[cugila]

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Try Tandoori foods with a healthy green salad. That's my Indian treat now after I used to consume very similar curries like you. Must be a 'Brummie' thing ? A Curry House on every street corner ?

Ken.

 

[phoenix]

Jut confirms what I've said elsewhere, getting some scales and good carb counting tables is invaluable so that you know what you're actually eating. I think its essential for people on insulin but probably equally invaluable for others.
Few would think this a healthy amount - unless perhaps they were about to swim the channel in the middle of winter.

 

[cugila]

Hi Phoenix.

I think you make a very valid point here which is of benefit to all Diabetics whether T1, T2, Low or Non Low carb people.

Ken