celast
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I am still waiting to see if anyone can tell me what limit I should be looking at for carbs on packaged food, can you help
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Still cannot get an answer
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Daibell
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Hi. It all depends on the food quantity you will be eating. The portion size you expect to eat will guide you into the amount of carbs you will eat based on the carb content per 100gm shown on the packet. You might want to keep the total carbs, say, below 50gm for a main meal; more or less depending on the degree of sugar control you have. In practice I try to keep the carb gms/100gms below about 35 as this is the level you tend to find with bakery products and is on the high side when you look at a typical bakery portion size.
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It all depends on how many carbs you intend to eat on a daily basis.
If you are trying to stick to a very low carb diet, 30g daily or less, then you need to get most of those from your fresh vegetable intake. See Viv's Modified Atkins Diet , a Sticky Thread in the Low-carb section of the forum. If I buy packaged food, I try to aim for 5g or less per portion. You can use this diet as a basis and add in extra carbs to the level you need - see below.
If you want to eat, say, 100g of carb per day, then you have more choice. If you are eating ready meals occasionally, then look for something that comes out around 15g carb per portion. Read the labels to find out how much carb there is in whatever food you are fancying - if the bread has 20g carb per slice, then a sandwich will use up nearly half you daily carb allowance. It does take a bit of arithmetic sometimes :shock:
2 slices of a Battenburg cake, at 52.7g per slice, will take you over the limit for the day.
The best thing to do is to buy yourself a carb counter book. Collins do a handy-sized one in their Gem series, which you can get from Amazon, or from any book shop. If you check everything you eat against the lists in the book, you will soon learn what is suitable and what isn't - generally speaking, bakery products, cakes and biscuits, are out except as rare treats. Meat, cheese and other dairy, eggs and salad and leafy vegetables, are in, and should be the basis of your diet.
Bread is a rare treat for me. I almost never eat cereal; if you do, go for the lowest-carb one you can find; use a powdered sweetener eg Splenda if you need to. Test 2 hours after eating, and if it has sent your blood glucose too high, try a smaller portion or avoid altogether.
There is no one size fits all with this, I'm afraid; we are all different, and each of us has to work out our own foods, using our meters. The above is general guidance; get your book and read the labels. I find the less than 15g per portion rule is a good average unless you're on very-low-carb.
I'm sorry if you feel people have ignored your question. We are all busy people, and none of us spends very long on the site in any one day. Already I should be somewhere else! :lol: There is no easy answer to your question, but I hope this has helped.
Let us know how you get on.
Viv 8)
If you are trying to stick to a very low carb diet, 30g daily or less, then you need to get most of those from your fresh vegetable intake. See Viv's Modified Atkins Diet , a Sticky Thread in the Low-carb section of the forum. If I buy packaged food, I try to aim for 5g or less per portion. You can use this diet as a basis and add in extra carbs to the level you need - see below.
If you want to eat, say, 100g of carb per day, then you have more choice. If you are eating ready meals occasionally, then look for something that comes out around 15g carb per portion. Read the labels to find out how much carb there is in whatever food you are fancying - if the bread has 20g carb per slice, then a sandwich will use up nearly half you daily carb allowance. It does take a bit of arithmetic sometimes :shock:
2 slices of a Battenburg cake, at 52.7g per slice, will take you over the limit for the day.
The best thing to do is to buy yourself a carb counter book. Collins do a handy-sized one in their Gem series, which you can get from Amazon, or from any book shop. If you check everything you eat against the lists in the book, you will soon learn what is suitable and what isn't - generally speaking, bakery products, cakes and biscuits, are out except as rare treats. Meat, cheese and other dairy, eggs and salad and leafy vegetables, are in, and should be the basis of your diet.
Bread is a rare treat for me. I almost never eat cereal; if you do, go for the lowest-carb one you can find; use a powdered sweetener eg Splenda if you need to. Test 2 hours after eating, and if it has sent your blood glucose too high, try a smaller portion or avoid altogether.
There is no one size fits all with this, I'm afraid; we are all different, and each of us has to work out our own foods, using our meters. The above is general guidance; get your book and read the labels. I find the less than 15g per portion rule is a good average unless you're on very-low-carb.
I'm sorry if you feel people have ignored your question. We are all busy people, and none of us spends very long on the site in any one day. Already I should be somewhere else! :lol: There is no easy answer to your question, but I hope this has helped.
Let us know how you get on.
Viv 8)
celast
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Thank you both very much, I am with it now, and ordered my book from Amazon
