Ikea cauliflower & Kale "rice"

[Scimama]

Braved Ikea today, bribed the kids with lunch

I saw Cauliflower and kale "rice" served with veggie "meatball", great I thought - lower carb than other offerings they have but decided to check just what was in the "rice".

The Cauliflower and kale rice was actually brown rice, lentils and only a small proportion of cauliflower and kale :-( I had lettuce leaves from the salad bar instead.

 

[PerfectStorm]

Gutted, I didn't realise Swedish meatballs were so high in carbs. I'd been thinking of getting a bag of frozen Ikea meatballs for at home. Oh well

 

[AloeSvea]

Yeah, I'm not surprised that the cauli and kale rice had actual rice as the base. We'll have our real low carb version in chain restaurants and cafes one day - but we might be a bit of a way off that?

As for meatballs - let's differentiate between 'Ikea Swedish meatballs' (ie processed, with breadcrumbs and other cr** in them) - high-carb versions, and the real thing, which are low-carb for sure. Mr Svea has just come home with the lamb chops for dinner, and assures me his meatballs as it were (definitely Swedish) are LC and consist of :
minced beef, onion, eggs, and appropriate spices (allspice, pepper, crushed juniper berries).

That's it!

Not a spike anywhere to be seen.