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sugar free jelly

ally1 said:
oh i hadn,t thought of putting mandarins in the jelly
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Ally - I would be a little careful of fruit to begin with.

I must admit, I have made up some jelly this evening. I don't eat desserts, or snacks, but today, I sort of felt the "need". I'll probably have gone off the idea, by the time it has set, tomorrow. o_O
 
AndBreathe said:
Ally - I would be a little careful of fruit to begin with.

I must admit, I have made up some jelly this evening. I don't eat desserts, or snacks, but today, I sort of felt the "need". I'll probably have gone off the idea, by the time it has set, tomorrow. o_O
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I often eat half a diet jelly with breakfast.

But if you want something spectacular set a diet lime jelly with tinned lychees in it,
 
I too like sugar free jelly but stopped eating when I heard they made somthing in the jelly with beetles yukkkkk
 
If you want to eat a full sugar free jelly ally you can, I like to make mine a bit firmer so only make it up to just under 3/4 of a pint, it intensifies the flavour:cool:

Like others have said be careful with the fruit as this alters it from carb free to having sugars in it, maybe top it off with a couple of berries as you eat it rather than add it as you make it,

Forge has suggested lychees, while they are delicious they are little sugar bombs at 1.5g of carb for a single fresh lychee and about 45g for a tin:eek:

Hardly low carb!
 
PatsyB said:
I too like sugar free jelly but stopped eating when I heard they made somthing in the jelly with beetles yukkkkk
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If you are concerned about using beetles for red food colouring, look for either cochineal or E 120 (same thing)
If you are a vegetarian it's obviously important, not so much I think for people who eat animals.
The first (and only) sugar free jelly I looked at used Annatto colouring which comes from a tropical seed. It uses pork gelatine (from skin, bones and connective tissue) to make it gellify* so wouldn't be very good for a vegetarian.
(jellify? domestic discussion here the spellcheck doesn't help, it underlines both !)
 
Being a vegie is an interesting idea but it does not really work.

I had a look at the Universe and all and came up with a new big bang theory (just for fun) and as part of that I checked out what we eat, and why we eat it.

The yarn was fanciful but I realised that we only eat

Living or recently dead things

The exception is of course, frozen dead things and by man's invention, preserved dead things.

Vegetarians could be had up for discrimination against living things without faces.

Just kidding!!!
 
lovinglife said:
If you want to eat a full sugar free jelly ally you can, I like to make mine a bit firmer so only make it up to just under 3/4 of a pint, it intensifies the flavour:cool:

Like others have said be careful with the fruit as this alters it from carb free to having sugars in it, maybe top it off with a couple of berries as you eat it rather than add it as you make it,

Forge has suggested lychees, while they are delicious they are little sugar bombs at 1.5g of carb for a single fresh lychee and about 45g for a tin:eek:

Hardly low carb!
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Err not quite, I suggested tinned lychees and I believe all tinned fruit is canned before it is fully ripe. We can drain the syrup (they add sugar.because they are not ripe)

It is interesting tho, the carbs might still be in the fruit and when it ripens it gets converted to sugar. But anyone wanting to find out the bottom line can simply test for spikes.
 
lovinglife said:
Errr quite

http://www.natural-environment.com/nutrition/fruit/lychee-nutrition-facts.php
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Thanks for that, maybe I need to count how many per tin and maybe only eat 3 at a sitting with 1/2 a diet jelly. I have not eaten them since I went no Major carbs.

I still want some carbs in my diet and I want to lose weight slowly without BS spikes. As my weight has come down (as predicted by my Specialist) my carb tolerance has increased.

In fact, our household is eating more tasty food then ever before and more cakes and some with icing and we have revised our cooking techniques and use the stove less. So food-wise life is tastier and easy.

For me/us a few carbs is ideal, be it tinned fruit or a banana (which I eat daily because my potassium was low)

The ultimate aim for me is good health, for others it might be weight loss, but for me it is good health while having a fun time.
 
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You can put yoghurt in too. A pot of muller liight added to a jelly made up to 1/2pint -let it cool a little the whisk in the jelly. It is easy and tastes lovely. Because you only eat a portion although there is sugar in the yoghurt it isn't bad. I think you could add Greek yoghurt instead of muller light and it would work too.

Ok, off to make some jelly!!!
 
forge said:
Thanks for that, maybe I need to count how many per tin and maybe only eat 3 at a sitting with 1/2 a diet jelly. I have not eaten them since I went no Major carbs.

I still want some carbs in my diet and I want to lose weight slowly without BS spikes. As my weight has come down (as predicted by my Specialist) my carb tolerance has increased.

In fact, our household is eating more tasty food then ever before and more cakes and some with icing and we have revised our cooking techniques and use the stove less. So food-wise life is tastier and easy.

For me/us a few carbs is ideal, be it tinned fruit or a banana (which I eat daily because my potassium was low)

The ultimate aim for me is good health, for others it might be weight loss, but for me it is good health while having a fun time.
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Totally agree with you forge, pretty much the way I eat apart from the cakes as I'm not really a cake person, I have found my tolerance to carbs has increased during my weight loss.

I never tell people that they flat out shouldn't eat anything and it's an individual thing to test and decide but ally has been struggling both with food and high numbers and I just wanted her to be aware that lychees probably wouldn't be the best thing for her:)
 
I love sugar free jelly, had it for years and always add stuff to it, fruit , yogurt and cream as said above. Look carefully and can find certain angel delights lowish carbs.
 
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