Porridge V Otabix

IanD said:

I don't eat porridge oats nor oatibix - too much carb - though I do have a dessrtsp of oat bran with my "porridge."

I have a low carb porridge every day & sometimes as a quick snack:
Into a mug - component ratio is not important -
3 dsp ground almonds
2 dsp coconut flour
1 dsp oat bran
1 dsp milled flax seed
dry mix roughly
pour on boiling water & stir

It should thicken like porridge, but may be drinking consistency - & that may be more convenient.
Flavour/sweeten with NAS squash. For a main meal replacement, adda sachet of cup-a-soup, or add a sachet of low calorie drinking chocolate.

The high fat/high protein mix stands by me well - much better than packet cereal.

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Ive gone back to basics recently as too much carb was creeping in, I love this and its so tasty!!

By the way, how does Shredded Wheat figure? Pretty low GI I'd guess?

Sorry if this has been answered but I've only just read this thread.

I have the book Carbs & Cals by Chris Cheyette. Under the breakfast items it shows 1 Oat Biscuit, (i.e. Oatabix) as being 13g of carbs and 75 calories. You have to add a 100g of semi-skinned milk and thats showing as an additional 5g of carbs and 46 calories.

If you have two oatabix and extra milk then your probably looking at double these figures.

Porridge is difficult because its highly dependent on quantity which can vary considerably so a small portion made with milk and weighing 75g comes in at 9g of carb while a much bigger bowl weighing 365g has 46g of carbs.

Some of the things that you would think were high in carbs, such as Corn Flakes are relatively low while others such as museli are suprisingly high but again its all down to quantity.