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I want to do a LOW carb diet and I basically know how
But
I have so many food intolerances and low food budget and no teeth.

Is it even possible?
Here are my restrictions---

Beef/pork intolerances
Most milk products and milk intolerances
No sweeteners
0 teeth

I can tolerate hard cheeses, cottage cheeses.
Chicken when on sale. I can do scrambled eggs.

It just doesn't seem to leave me with many choices.
Veges have went way way up in price.

Am I looking at hard cheeses, cottage cheeses and pb and eggs every day?

No fruit and no grain. They would be off my list as a low carber. No fish as I really hate it. Plus due to side effects of meds I need legumes. (I tried other ways to do number 2 but haven't found anything yet). And the protein powders spike my bs from the sucrolose.
The food I eat now makes me feel like I'm hurting myself.
 
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cdpm said:
I want to do a LOW carb diet and I basically know how
But
I have so many food intolerances and low food budget and no teeth.

Is it even possible?
Here are my restrictions---

Beef/pork intolerances
Most milk products and milk intolerances
No sweeteners
0 teeth

I can tolerate hard cheeses, cottage cheeses.
Chicken when on sale. I can do scrambled eggs.

It just doesn't seem to leave me with many choices.
Veges have went way way up in price.

Am I looking at hard cheeses, cottage cheeses and pb and eggs every day?

No fruit and no grain. They would be off my list as a low carber. No fish as I really hate it. Plus due to side effects of meds I need legumes. (I tried other ways to do number 2 but haven't found anything yet). And the protein powders spike my bs from the sucrolose.
The food I eat now makes me feel like I'm hurting myself.
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Home made soups , stews , curries or whatever appeals to you. Batch cook and freeze.

Or you could try other things that are cheap like broth. There is always offers for products that out nearing out of date and such in supermarkets.

I know about intolerance and the drawbacks it creates. But you must try and be resourceful, speak to a butcher to get cheaper cuts, speak to where you get your vegs. Buy something cheese like Lancashire.

I can't do dairy or most foods, 'cept meat and some veg, eggs.
But I have found a way to make it happen.
With a bit more dietary knowledge I'm sure you could to.

Best wishes.
 
mouseee said:
What's your usual eating look like? That is restrictive but if we know more we might be able to help with ideas to adapt what you already eat.
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I eat canned soups, canned pastas, hard cheeses, pb, cottage cheese, bananas, canned chili con carnes (fibre), family made meals which could be anything but most have some sort of sugar added as well as high carb, protein powder in plant milks, rarely chicken, potatoes, canned green peas, crackers melted in soups.
Once in awhile oatmeal.
It al seems higher carbs. And I can't freeze stuff with no good freezer. So needs to be fridge and cupboard foods. Even if made homemade. And I'd try to eat 50 grams of carbs. Max.
 
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I guess I can live with pb and cheddar cheese and cottage cheese and eggs.
It is alot better than the salt and carbs I eat now.
The cans can be more than one days worth of salt in one day. Surely bad for high BP. And it will be way less than the hundreds of carbs I eat now.
I'm just not sure it's will fit into 50 grams carbs a day?
 
Can you make your own soup? Then you can up protein in some way and reduce salt.
What do you mean by canned pasta? That sounds carby plus any sauce that it's in will add more carbs and is bound to have added salt and sugar.
 
mouseee said:
Can you make your own soup? Then you can up protein in some way and reduce salt.
What do you mean by canned pasta? That sounds carby plus any sauce that it's in will add more carbs and is bound to have added salt and sugar.
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It's cans of beefaroni and ravioli. Pasta in a can with tomato sauce and spices and salt and sugar and a bunch of chemicals, additives.
I can make soup but I can't afford chicken or vegetables.
I can't tolerate beef or pork.
 
cdpm said:
It's cans of beefaroni and ravioli.
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cdpm said:
I can't tolerate beef
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Beefaroni has beef. Many types of ravioli has pork.
In what way can you not tolerate beef, if you can tolerate beefaroni?
cdpm said:
Pasta in a can with tomato sauce and spices and salt and sugar and a bunch of chemicals, additives.
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Dry pasta is very cheap, and so are canned tomatoes and tinned meat. Buying the canned pasta is likely more expensive than making a similar dish with less nasties.
 
Antje77 said:
Beefaroni has beef. Many types of ravioli has pork.
In what way can you not tolerate beef, if you can tolerate beefaroni?

Dry pasta is very cheap, and so are canned tomatoes and tinned meat. Buying the canned pasta is likely more expensive than making a similar dish with less nasties.
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I'm not sure why I can tolerate the beefaroni. I do know that if beef or pork is the main ingredient as in meatloaf or meatballs or sausage it sends me to the washroom.
 
I guess a low carb diet or any specific kind of diet won't work for me. My shopping is irregular. Meaning that there would have to be times I eat high carb or don't eat. It isn't possible to buy enough low carb foods at one time. Being perishable foods. Especially if I had to get them too close to being not edible due to being near expiry.
It was a nice thought anyway.
 
Hopeful34 said:
When they're available cheaper, could you buy low carb veg and make soup, as this will keep for a week in the fridge quite happily, and is filling and nutritious.
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So for 1 week it's $14 I have to work with if no surprises come up to take some of it.

That might be--
1 head of cauliflower the size of a baseball-$5 or 4 peppers -$5
1 or 2 cartons of broth (3-6 cups total)-$6
1 onion- $1
1 broccoli crown-$2 (on sale) normally is $3

So it's possible maybe.
And no other foods that whole week. No protein.
 
I'm compiling a list and have added sour cream to it. I like sour cream straight from the container.
To find food items that are lower carb I actually type in keto foods when I search online. That way I'm sure it's lower carb.
The only thing is I'm trying to compile a vegetarian low carb list and that's very hard.
I have to make a list because I need to gather foods slowly due to limited finances. I mean except for perishables of course.
How does a person do low carb vegetarian? I'm nearly there already being that I can't tolerate meats.
 
Just read the post about prices of things.... its definitely more expensive than the UK.
What about veg stock cubes rather than ready made stock? They would be far cheaper.
If you're happy eating potatoes, add a couple in with whatever veg you can get to bulk it out. If you have a freezer then frozen veg are far cheaper here and that with some stock would make a good soup. Also good as you don't have to use the whole thing at once. We have chopped onion, beans, brocolli, cauliflower, mixed veg etc in our local supermarket freezers.
 
And my family believe that healthy foods are ok even if they raise the bs because they are healthy. Foods such as pasta. All fruits all vegetables. Yogurts. Potato.
I just can't prove this wrong even showing my bs when I have to eat them of how high it goes and stays .
 
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