AloeSvea
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Thanks @retrogamer, for bringing this topic up in a thread. I've thought about this a lot too, and wondered what was going on supermarket-level. But while I was wondering since 10 years ago when I was diagnosed, the food producers and manufacturers have caught up in Australia and NZ (Australia owns one of our duopoly/cartel supermarket chains, so we get Aus products) (It isn't me calling it a cartel - it's from a government sponsored investigation and report!). Anyhow, during this time period the amount of low-carb and keto products has mushroomed, and I am very grateful for it.
I spend a lot of my life cooking from scratch as a LCHF eater, and I love the fact I can buy low carb bread and crackers pretty easily now. With quite a bit of choice. The no-grainola being marketed as keto, I am with @lovinglife on this - I wonder as I have enthusiatically eaten some of it, as incredibly expensive as it is, I wonder how keto it really is. I have wondered about more than one keto product if their carb count is actually correct. And how stupid would I be if I say, which I would like to be true - well, I just have to trust them?
I think it's vaguely amusing that 'low-carb' didn't cut it big time for marketing, but the way more intense 'in reality as a WOE keto' label did!
I know in my life I have gently (OK - bluntly!) said to folks attempting a keto way of eating that it's about the food and drink, and I don't understand how a pill marked 'keto supplement' can do anything. And costs a LOT. But there you are.
And about the cost. It's a lot, for sure. Those bread and crackers - wo ho! I try and rotate their purchase, save it for when I really need a break from baking and attendant dishers, so one week - mainly dairy, meat, fish and veg. The next week - keto products, and so on. NZ food prices are extortionate, considering we are a food producing country big time. I just see it, and talk to my friends about it, that my huge food bill considering it's just me, is the price I am paying for keeping alive and off kidney dialysis and the CV ward a bit longer. It is absolutely a big price though.
I spend a lot of my life cooking from scratch as a LCHF eater, and I love the fact I can buy low carb bread and crackers pretty easily now. With quite a bit of choice. The no-grainola being marketed as keto, I am with @lovinglife on this - I wonder as I have enthusiatically eaten some of it, as incredibly expensive as it is, I wonder how keto it really is. I have wondered about more than one keto product if their carb count is actually correct. And how stupid would I be if I say, which I would like to be true - well, I just have to trust them?
I think it's vaguely amusing that 'low-carb' didn't cut it big time for marketing, but the way more intense 'in reality as a WOE keto' label did!
I know in my life I have gently (OK - bluntly!) said to folks attempting a keto way of eating that it's about the food and drink, and I don't understand how a pill marked 'keto supplement' can do anything. And costs a LOT. But there you are.
And about the cost. It's a lot, for sure. Those bread and crackers - wo ho! I try and rotate their purchase, save it for when I really need a break from baking and attendant dishers, so one week - mainly dairy, meat, fish and veg. The next week - keto products, and so on. NZ food prices are extortionate, considering we are a food producing country big time. I just see it, and talk to my friends about it, that my huge food bill considering it's just me, is the price I am paying for keeping alive and off kidney dialysis and the CV ward a bit longer. It is absolutely a big price though.