My stubborn stupidity!

[SparkJack]

Cold weather starts and all I want are those things I can no longer have when I lower carb. I was doing really well until to-day. I succumbed to two slices of hot buttered toast with marmite for breakfast. Post 2 hrs I was 13.7 !

Lesson well and truly learnt not to stray off the straight and narrow even if hot apple crumble and custard beckons from afar.

Tomorrow I will eat my usual: cheese, cold meat, avocado and tomato.

Silly me.

 

[WhitbyJet]

SparkJack don't be so hard on yourself,
You can have bread, thick slices of white bread even but you need to bake it. I have posted some bread recipes in the low carb recipes section.
I was cold this morning had a fry up including fried bread if you are low carbing is worth baking your own.

 

[borofergie]

I know where you're coming from SparkJack, low-carb weekday breakfasts suck.

It often amuses me, when tucking into a fried breakfast, that I've gone from not eating the fried bread cos of the fried bit, to not eating it because of the bread bit.

WhitbyJet is my low-carb hero. I get hungry reading all of her wonderful recipes, although unfortunately not hungry enough to actually cook any of them (I'd never do them justice anyway).

 

[wiflib]

Why can I ACTUALLY smell fried bread.............


wiflib

 

[lovinglife]

You can still have crumble and custard - and proper egg custard how custard should be made - not the one made with cornflour! (not a substitute for once) :lol:

Make your crumble with ground almonds instead of flour, I add some chopped hazelnuts too for extra texture - use berries or rubarb as the better fruits.

for your custard google proper custard or Mary Berry has a great one here
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/realp ... tard_65614

- just replace sugar with sweetener of your choice - enjoy!

E.T.A. oops just read the mary berry recipe properly and she uses cornflour :shock: :shock:

In 30 odd years have never used cornflour in mine - that's a cheats trick - just omit the cornflour - the eggs are the thickener

 

[Caleb Murdock]

There are so many things I could say about this topic. First, if you don't have it in you to deny yourself the foods you love for week after week, month after month, year after year, then the willpower/self-control route is going to fail eventually. However, you can eat pretty much normally if you inject insulin -- but that's a plunge that most people don't want to take (though it's not as bad as you might think). In other words, you mustn't blame yourself or lay a guilt-trip on yourself if you can't keep denying yourself, and you need to know that there is another option.

Having said that, there are lots of ways to get a sweet taste without eating too many carbs. Foods can be made with artificial sweeteners. Also, dark chocolate, yogurts and honey-roasted nuts aren't too high in carbs. I buy very small tangerines that have about ten carbs each, and I find them very satisfying. Here in the U.S., one company has started selling butter with cinnamon and sugar mixed in. The amount of sugar is actually pretty low, and when I put it on reduced carb toast, I end up with very satisfying cinnamon toast for about 10 carbs per slice. I need at least 2 slices to satisfy me. Of course, 20 grams of sweets won't fit into a very low-carb diet.

Just keep in mind that if the self-denial wears thin after a while, there is another option.

 

[borofergie]

Why can I ACTUALLY smell fried bread.............

Grrrrrr.

Don't usually get the tube to work, but I had to walk past a greasy spoon cafe near the station. It took all my will power not to stop and get a sausage sandwich. I really could smell the fried bread.
(this was even more difficult because my wife was singing in a concert last night, so the only dinner I managed to eat was 10 cocktail sausages and some disgusting garlic prawns from Tesco express outside of the Barbican).

Even if they never "cure" diabetes, I hope that in the next decade we get to see more low-carb food choices in the supermarkets. Because unless you really do have the time to cook clever stuff, sometimes the whole food thing feels more like an excercise in refuelling rather than anything to do with pleasure.

Can we stop talking about the fried bread now please? :cry:

 

[Patch]

It often amuses me, when tucking into a fried breakfast, that I've gone from not eating the fried bread cos of the fried bit, to not eating it because of the bread bit.

I know exactly what you mean - and it breaks my heart!

 

[Unbeliever]

" An exercise in re-fuelling" in a nutshell, borofergie..

 

[WhitbyJet]

SparkJack I meant this recipe, its so easy to do, and even some of my NON-Lowcarb friends prefer it to normal bread.
I bought a very cheap bread maker from ebay, cost of just £9.99 second hand.
http://www.lowcarbcooking.co.nz/index.p ... &Itemid=56

Low carb cooking is not difficult, I never feel as if I am missing out, most recipes can be adapted as the above post re crumble and custard shows.
There was a time when I was stuck with cauliflower mash, now i have progressed from that. Mix in grated cheese different types, mix other low carb veggies onto it, top with chopped fried bacon, top with fried onion rings you don't need the batter, and so on.
You learn as you go along, I am driven by the wish to ne healthy but I am a pig I love to eat, so needs must.
All the recipes i post have been tried and tested to make sure that they really are easy to do and that they really are tasty.
I hope the photos that i enclose are of some help and encourage people to try for themselves. I certainly hope i don't get on anyone's nerves by posting recipes, nobody HAS to cook any of them, maybe just knowing about these recipes can help someone.
Feel free to tell me to stop.

 

[borofergie]

Feel free to tell me to stop.

No! Your recipes are an inspiration to all of us (even those of us who are too culinarily challenged to actually attempt any of them).

 

[SparkJack]

Thank you for all your posts. I am going to try some of that low-carb bread AND the custard etc. Thank you so much everyone. xxx

 

[marti]

please don't be hard on yourself

 

[Carbdodger]

WJ

Where do you buy "gluten flour" for the bread please?

Also you and everyone else please do keep posting the recipes. Made a fab trio of choc desserts for a dinner party last week from inspiration here and they were a huge hit with all. Choc panna cotta, bounty balls and choc dipped berries.

Cd

 

[WhitbyJet]

Thank you everyone, keep checking the recipe section, I have many more recipes to try out.

Carbdodger - I buy wheat gluten flour from here
http://www.realfoods.co.uk/product/1634 ... ur-organic

All the best

 

[Unbeliever]

When are you going to write a cookery book Whitbyjet? Forgive me if you have already done so amd I have missed it.
if I were to take any notice of my "diabetic cookbooks" I would probably be in a coma!