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How can 950 Calories for a meal be 'Low carb'?

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It was nice to hear some of you on here saying you allow yourselves a few sugary treats at Christmas, so I thought I would try it this year. But, as I said in my 1st post on here, I have a problem with severe drowsiness after eating so if I had a mince pie I'd be knocked out for hours! So, I thought I would go onto sites looking for low carb Christmas food.
I finally found one, or thought I did, but I don't know so I need some help on it.
The recipies were lovely, and they were all stated as being low carb and no sugar. I was looking at a pumpkin pie with a pecan crust - on the base. I know it was for the whole pie crust, which would be small and thin, but it was 950 calories?? How can that be low carb?
All the recipies had quite a few calories for each portion. There were some brownies made from dark choc and flax seed meal. One small brownie - 107 calories. Mouses over 200. Can someone explain to me how these calories are not going to put the sugar up when they're supposed to be low carb, no sugar?

Joely
 
Am no expert, but it could well be the fat content. If there are a lot of pecans in the base that would possibly explain the calorie count.
 
Calories have nothing whatsoever to do with blood sugar levels - everything has calories in - fat has loads of calories but no sugars or carbs - Yes these things may be very high in calories but if very low in carbs shouldn't send your BS soaring - As Christmas is one day I allow myself those kind of treats - but would never eat them on a regular basis - it's all down to personal choice of course and if you don't want to eat them then that's ok too :)

Once or twice a year I may make these treats usually at Christmas and Easter because that is when our families gather - the rest of the year I stick to berries with half fat creme fresh or sugar free jelly and the very occasional ice cream
 
You're right Dippy :) - 1 teaspoon of oil has 100 calories in it - not a lot of oil for your "money"! - but it's ok to have a "spending splurge" now and then if you wish - it's when a treat becomes the norm that problems start IMHO
 
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