shelley262
Expert
- Messages
- 5,751
- Location
- Worcestershire Uk
- Type of diabetes
- I reversed my Type 2
- Treatment type
- Diet only
Here’s the recipe @Antje77.... lots of recipes online but this one looks particularly good so I want to make it!
Sounds good, provided I can find affordable almond meal again
I just use ground almonds, it’s not as fine as flour but works just fine in this recipe.Sounds good, provided I can find affordable almond meal again
Just a few questions:
- Is this granulated sugar substitute about as sweet as sugar? I can handle 3 tablespoons of sugar in a recipe with the ingredients adding up to 1000 grams I guess
- What does vanilla come like in your country? I can buy either the natural sticks or a sickly sweet vanilla sugar.
- Not a clue what's in this 'mixed spice' but guessing I'll be fine if I just play around with things like cinnamon, 5-spices, nutmeg, chilli, cardamom, ground cloves and such, right?
Looks like I've got the ideas as to the spices about right@Antje77 -- I usually use some cardamom, cloves, nutmeg and cinnamon as spices for carrot cake plus usually something a bit citrusy such as lemon or orange oil. As to vanilla, I use sugarless vanilla extract, it keeps well and turns out to be a bit more economical than vanilla beans. As sweetener, erythritol is my favorite -- same texture as sugar, holds up well to heat, but is a bit less sweet (about 0.7 times the sweetness of sugar). As I like my cakes less sweet anyway, I just convert 1 to 1.
Now, I realise I should know this by now, but at two hours after a meal should BG be back to where it was? Or is this where its not supposed to be more than two points up?
BG before dinner was 5.4
two hours later 5.6
Evening all.
@Chook I’m trying to imagine what lemon sherbet omelette might taste like. I love eggs and lemon sherbets used to be one of my favourite sweets, but I can’t imagine them together!
Bit of an odd day food wise, but BG has finally been a bit more sensible.
Very hungry early on (up before 4am today as woke early) so ate some cheese as an early breakfast. Followed up mid-morning with some whipped cream - succumbed to buying a pot yesterday evening and finished it up today.
Dinner was air fried lamb ribs. Yum!
Large Morrison’s delivery due tomorrow- hopefully not too many missing or substituted items.
Its my Asda delivery tomorrow, i wonder what they'll send in place of bean sprouts this time - its been different every week.
@ziggy_w what a lovely surprise to see you here today. I can imagine that virtual teaching must get really tedious, glad to hear you have a bit more freedom now though.
Today I had black coffee until around 1 pm ( finally saw a 4 on my meter )then a salad of leftover stuff in the fridge: Lettuce, celery, last spoonful mayo, 1/2 avocado 1 Hb egg and 1/2 slice ham. 1DGF strawberry and cream blondie.
Dinner - was pleased to find a meal which was low carb for me, low FODMAP for daughter, vegetarian for daughter’s partner - https://www.dietdoctor.com/recipes/crispy-marinated-tofu with some stir fried veg. It was so disappointing - completely flavourless in spite of 24hrs marinating in ginger, sesame oil, cayenne and soy sauce. Humph!
Mr C didn’t fancy it so had pork leftover from yesterday. I’m still hungry so having some cheese and a glass of red to drown my sorrows. Might be easier if we all just made our own meals.
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