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I tried it and... (new foods)

Celeriac

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Just occurred to me that there are many forum members who have tried different kinds of food, as a result of being diagnosed with diabetes (of any type) or pre-diabetes.

As my husband has given up anything containing gluten and I've given up loads of food items, we like to experiment and add new things back into our diet. It keeps LCHF more interesting.

So I thought it might be fun to share the items we have tried, whether we liked or hated them, whether they spiked BG or were fine. Anything you've tried
since diagnosis that isn't an actual recipe (it could be something you made a recipe with) ie an ingredient of some sort.

Right now, I have lined up Sevenhills Wholefoods organic raw chia seeds to make pudding with over the weekend and Sukrin organic coconut flour and Dukan Diet organic oat bran to try pancakes with. So I'll post how it goes..

In the meantime, I'd love to hear about your Best and Worsts XX
 
Spinach..........like!
Veggie burgers.......detest!
 
I also received my first order of chia seeds today. Now I really need to decide what to do with them apart from looking at them!
 
I have two largish bags of coconut flour and to be honest our couple of attempts at using the stuff haven't turned out to well.
My next try will be almond flour having recently seen on here a pizza base made from it.
 
Almond flour, gram flour, buckwheat (careful with that), chia seeds, golden linseed (whole), coconut oil, low-salt yeast extract (Meridian), dark tahini, xylitol, xantham gum, psyllium husk, organic low-salt stock cubes, a load of dried herbs, spices & veg (in a big box of stuff ordered online to get best value for shipping cost).
Celeriac, sprouts (I'm trusting @Pipp on this), spinach, butternut squash (alas, free home-grown but carby), okra.
Belly pork strips (rinds cut off & crisped separately).
Kippers.
 
I'm on the trail of Barenmarke Kondensmilch Der Bio-Sahnige Traum 12 which translates as 12% fat organic condensed milk, 4g carbs per 100g which comes in a resealable glass bottle, not a can. Seems to be used in Germany as a coffee creamer.

DeejayR that's a very impressive list ! Some things I buy because we went organic in 2012, some things because husband developed NCGS in 2012 also, so I don't think my low-carb-specific-diabetes-list is that long.

Marigold Engevita nutritional yeast flakes with vitamin B12, Prewitt organic premium ground flaxseed, Rude Health raw organic unsweetened hazelnut drink.. hmm need to think about this..
 
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@Celeriac Alas, I can't escape the meter and every time I refer back to previous lists of allowable things I have to cross a few more off. Either my window of good levels is closing or I didn't test very accurately in the first year.
Some things I've always eaten but have become fussier about. I don't trust supermarket meat, for instance, but Tesco's fish stall is good if I can't get locally caught seafood.
 
Husband found some organic gluten free burgers in the depths of the freezer tonight. I took one bite.. " I think this tastes sweet" says moi, take a few more exploratory bites " definitely tastes sweet ". Offloaded burgers on Himself who swapped me a fried egg.

As he had helpfully thrown away the plastic film we had to do some detective work and I tracked them down as being Eversfield organic gluten-free burgers. I bought them on special offer from Ocado but definitely won't buy again. The ingredients list says 4% kibbled onions (no idea) and potato flour. As I'm fine with onions, it must have been the potato starch ??

I'm dead impressed with my tastebuds, maybe I could hire myself out as a sugar detector.

Deejay I upset supermarket fishmongers because I ask what's wild and then they have to admit that most of it isn't. At Sainsbury's on a trip to Folkestone once, I asked, bearing in mind that it is by the sea and there is a tiny fishing fleet, and none of it was wild, let alone hooked out of the English Channel !

Having tried Organix Goodies organic cheese and herb puffs (9g carbs per 15g bag) and Propercorn sea salt popcorn (12.3g carbs per 20g bag) and got BG rise I think I have to admit defeat and say processed carbs, however organic, hand-crafted etc, are off the menu.
 
It's complicated. Our local fish shop survives by selling fresh crab meat and live lobsters (mostly to restaurants)(which Tesco, 150 yards away, can't), but sometimes has almost nothing else local to offer, whereas of course the supermarket slab is always full, being supplied by a worldwide market.
 
Am currently drooling at the smell of a wild venison shank (4.99) semi-steaming in Swedish medium roast ground organic South American Arabica coffee, recipe tweaked from 'The Low Carbohydrate Diet' edited by Evelyn L. Fiore (Michael Joseph 1965).. Cooking with coffee is a first for us.

Have found an amazing online deli in the Loire valley, and I'm making a wish list. I hope that with a flat rate shipping rate and the rate of exchange in my favour it might not be too expensive.
 
What is it on the wish list? Venison, coffee or both?

Can you put up the recipe for your venison in coffee, please.
 
The wishlist includes 100% cocoa chocolate and birch sap from the Pyrenees, two things I haven't tried before

Venison shank Brazil

1 wild venison shank
Olive oil
1 clove garlic, peeled but whole
2 thin slices lemon
1 bay leaf, fresh or dried
Half a cup of coffee (not instant) plus more if required (we used a one person cafetiere in all, using 1.5 scoops of ground coffee)
Salt and pepper if wanted

Heat olive oil over moderately high heat and lightly brown the venison shank.

You may need to use a large frying pan then pop it in a lidded roaster, or you may be able to use a big saucepan with lid or a Dutch oven or a lidded cast iron enamel casserole. It just depends on the size of the shank. This doesn't go in the oven though, because you're not roasting (it would get tough).

Once the shank is lightly browned, sprinkle with salt and pepper if wanted. Add lemon, garlic, bay leaf, and coffee (1 mugful). Heat until liquid boils.

Put lid on, reduce heat down to very low, and simmer slowly for an hour. Check seasonings, add more coffee if necessary (should be fine). Continue cooking for another 30 mins until the meat is very tender, or longer if it needs it.

Remove meat from bone (ours came away leaving bone clean), put on warm platter or wrap in foil in top oven or something.

Turn up the heat, boil the liquid until reduced by a third. Remove garlic, lemon, bay leaf, plate up and pour over venison.

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Thank you, @Celeriac
I will try this next time I can get some wild Scottish roe deer venison. Much better than the farmed stuff.

Usually add juniper berries and red wine, so coffee will be a change.
 
Nothing much terribly exotic or hard to find on my list - but first a few new ones I don't get on with
  • kale which was not to my taste at all though husband enjoyed it
  • coconut flour which is OK , but I'm hopeless at using it for baking...
  • psyllium husks -which made me feel I'd got appendicitis so I binned it and banned it forever from my shopping list ...:***: But I no longer needed its help anyway once my system got used to low carbs
Verdict's still out on
  • Chia
  • plain green tea but I can just about manage a couple of the flavoured ones if I sweeten them
Other new foods which are going to stay on my shopping list
  • coconut oil
  • coconut butter (my niece had a taste of this when visiting, and immediately got our her smart phone to place an order for some)
  • almond milk
  • Douwe Egbert decaf hazelnut coffee
  • sesame flour
  • liquid stevia
  • Sukrin Gold (brown) sugar substitute
  • Natvia icing sugar substitute
  • celeriac
  • golden flax seed
  • Lindt 85% dark chocolate (a big surprise because dark choc had always been a migraine trigger until I started low carb)
  • Green & Blacks cocoa
  • ground almonds as a flour substitute though it had sometimes previously been an addition to cooking or baking.

Almost everything else I eat now I'd eaten previously at some time or another - so no new additions to meat, fish, dairy, veggies & salads, low carb fruits, herbs, spices, etc, nuts... but some old friends revisited and welcomed back, my most favourites being walnut oil, figs, goats cheese, and German salami (but not all at once...)

Robbity

PS I love venison!
 
Ooh like the idea of hazelnut coffee mmm

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Celeriac said:
Ooh like the idea of hazelnut coffee mmm
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I was drinking it with added Alpro hazelnut milk until I realised that - unlike their almond milk - they only make an added sugar version...

Robbity
 
The wife and I tried A**** Coconut yogurt .. I didn't like the taste and the wife was in bed for three days vomiting after eating it ... The company were very good and collected the remainder of the yogurt .. tested it .. declared the wife must have a coconut or soy bean intolerance and gave us vouchers to purchase more of their products .. gave them away, as I need the wife on her feet in the kitchen
We was going to try it in a curry .. but not now
 
I haven't tried the Alpro hazelnut drink, I did try the Provamel organic hazelnut and realised that was sweetened. The one I have now is unsweetened organic hazelnut from Rude Health. Makes great cocoa !



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