Hhhmmm,
Guinessberry
Stellaberry
Newcastle Brownberry
Hee hee
Should have mentioned - though I'm sure you know this - that whilst spirits are zero carb, all alcohol is Calorie City, USA, so if you're counting calories you'll need to bear that in mind. I couldn't live a life entirely devoid of alcohol (or caffeine, come to that) so it's all a trade-off. You'll hear this said over and over again, but your meter is your friend, especially in the early days, as you learn what your particular
bêtes noires are.
Re oranges, and, indeed, all foods, there's an excellent book called "Carbs and Cals" which will give you nutritional values for a wide range of foodstuffs, and a selection of serving sizes. Some of the worst fruit offenders from a carb point of view are tropical fruits like bananas, pineapples and the like. I'd say that oranges are middle of the road - the book quotes 4g of carbs for a small orange, 7 for a medium sized one and 10g for a large one. In the case of things like apples they are, unfortunately, cultivated for sweetness nowadays, so that a large dessert apple (for example) is 20g. A shame, because I have always loved apples but they evidently don't keep the doctor away any more
Again, it's a trade-off: A diet entirely devoid of fruit is, in my opinion, as unhealthy as one with too much and I aim to have a couple of 10g "units" (for want of a better word) of fruit per day. Sometimes a unit will be a medium orange, sometimes a serving of berries, sometimes half a large apple ............ you get the picture.
PS: You're not
really Maxwell Aitken, are you?
