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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Thanks that’s great. I didn’t know that about white wine I missed wine thanks
 
Pipp said:
Thank you, @Shelly276 and @Rachox
It is the bread, specifically toast that I crave. I have tried making with almond flour and flaxseed, but it gives a rather heavy texture.
Will try your suggestions.
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I agree about toast! I’ve also tried bread from here https://www.ketofitnessclub.com/collections/food-products which is pretty good, especially the Panda loaf (but it’s stupidly expensive) My favourite are the SLC rolls though. Great for a packed lunch but really good split and toasted.
Ps thanks for the earlier tag @shelley262 the Low Carb Food Co pork pies were very good, but I didn’t like the beef and celeriac pie at all.
 
Alexandra100 said:
Do you mean 13g carbs per 100g? Or, where did you find the 1.3gc per 100g?
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Just found this on the internet:

https://www.verywellfit.com/pumpkin-seed-nutrition-facts-calories-and-health-benefits-4114356

The USDA provides the following nutrition information for 1 ounce (28g or 85 seeds) of whole roasted pumpkin seeds prepared without salt.

  • Calories: 126
  • Fat: 5.5g
  • Sodium: 5mg
  • Carbohydrates: 15.2g
  • Fiber: 5.2g
  • Sugars: 0g
  • Protein: 5.3g
That is - more than 50% carbs but that is only one site - others give varying amounts, some much lower. Not sure who to trust on this.
 
For example:

(One ounce = 28.35 grams. Not sure but I think 1/4 cup is about an ounce.)

https://www.carbmanager.com/food-de...317e39/pumpkin-or-squash-seeds-shelled-salted
Pumpkin or squash seeds, shelled, salted (0.25 cup) contains 4.3g total carbs, 2.4g net carbs, 14.5g fat, 8.8g protein, and 169 calories.

https://www.carbmanager.com/food-detail/nl:bf003c7520fd4ed22f83d6de47c77887/pumpkin-seeds
Pumpkin Seeds (1 oz, hulled (142 seeds)) contains 3g total carbs, 1.3g net carbs, 13.9g fat, 8.6g protein, and 158 calories.

https://perfectketo.com/are-pumpkin-seeds-keto
Pumpkin seeds (no husk, kernel only) ¼ cup. Calories 187, total carbs 6.15 g, fibre 1.35 g, net carbs 4.8 g, fat 15.83, protein 8.48 g
 
Tesco gives 15.2 gc per 100g https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/271084335
 
Annb said:
One ounce = 28.35 grams. Not sure but I think 1/4 cup is about an ounce.)
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Btw I do much prefer the "per 100g" measure normally given on UK supermarket sites. Impossible to be truly precise when tipping seeds into a quarter cup! I actually invested in a tiny jeweller's scale and for a geek like me it's great! For me the nadir of the US cup system comes where the great Dr Richard K Bernstein in his book tells me what fraction of a cup of lettuce I can eat on his plan. By the time I had crushed my lettuce into a small cup I would no longer want to eat it.
 
Alexandra100 said:
Tesco gives 15.2 gc per 100g https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/271084335
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Mine is whitworths at 1.3g
https://www.ocado.com/products/whitworths-pumpkin-seeds-466746011
But just also checked and higher on Ocado own brand 15g on there clearly one of those odd ones! But think the lower number must be wrong probably a data error.
Still sticking with them though as they are light in weight and I find I’m not eating many - a small handful for me don’t seem to lead me to go back for more unlike nuts!
 
Alexandra100 said:
Oh dear, is this one of those situations where one traipses off to a distant shop and maybe pays more for a similar product, just because that brand CLAIMS a lower carb content? I despair!!!
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Think in this situation , now know there is a disparity - checked Sainsbury’s and theirs claim 5.2- personally I’d budget for the higher figures around 14g and just have a few.
 

Don’t want to turn this into the pumpkin seed thread, but doing the maths, suspect this is a data error, but this does seem to be a lower carb variety of pumpkin seeds.

544 calories per 100g.
41.7g fat = 375.3 cals from fat (@9g)
36.5g protein = 146 cals from protein (@4g)
leaving 22.7 cals from carbs = 5.67g carbs / 100g (@4g)

That’s assuming all other info is correct!

Keeping vaguely on topic, absolutely nothing eaten so far today, but lamb ribs and mince will feature later.
 
Annb said:
The USDA provides the following nutrition information for 1 ounce (28g or 85 seeds) of whole roasted pumpkin seeds prepared without salt.

  • Calories: 126
  • Fat: 5.5g
  • Sodium: 5mg
  • Carbohydrates: 15.2g
  • Fiber: 5.2g
  • Sugars: 0g
  • Protein: 5.3g
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I don't understand ounces or cups and only go by per 100 gram, but if you use a US source, remember to substract the fiber from the carbs!
This same label in the UK would say "carbohydrates 10.2g, fibre 5.2g"

In the US the fiber is listed along with the carbs. Quickest trick to see how to read the label is to check if it says 'fibre' or 'fiber', very friendly of those Americans to use a different spelling.
 
Happy new year (a bit belated)
breakfast; l/c cereal, almond milk, hi lo toast with butter
snack; mocha with a few high percentage montezuma buttons
lunch; salami, brie, tomatoes, cucumber and olives, one cracker. protein bar
dinner; sausage with creamy peppercorn sauce, one small roast potato, peas and roast tomatoes. Raspberries and left over from christmas Baileys double cream
a bag of propercorn salted pop corn (5.7g carbs)

Fifth night in a row not slept which means big carb cravings! Narrowly avoided buying a french stick in the co-op, but stayed on track and got steak and cream instead
 

I guess it all comes back to the usual: test and see what it does to you.

Breakfast: bacon and egg

Only just finished it when Em arrived with her dad. He had to go to town for shopping (something that is NOT beef, of which the family has had a surfeit over the festive period) and to collect some laundry work and she asked if she could stay with me. The laundry work is on the other side of the Island, so he might be a while. She decided to have bacon and ketchup for her lunch. That was after a snack of a Biscoff ice cream stick, a cup of tea, some dolly mixtures she found in a jar in the cupboard and a packet of crisps. She is currently in my bed with my tablet having downloaded a game from Amazon.

2nd meal today will be beef ragout from the freezer.
 
Two meals today. Have ditched all plant matter in honour of World Carnivore Month - not that I usually eat that much of it, but a bit too much crept in over the past month.

Meal 1 was a mince block wrapped in smoked, streaky bacon (idea pinched from a carnivore Facebook group) and lamb ribs. Both cooked in the air fryer.

Meal 2 was a 3 egg omelette with smoked streaky bacon.

 

A day of using up leftovers. Stripped chicken carcass and put bones and a few older veg from fridge into slow cooker for the day will cool when finished to use as chicken stock for a soup later in the week.
Lunch - drumsticks from left over chicken with a few nuts and seeds followed by a few raspberries and spoon of 0% fage yoghurt also a coffee with two squares of 90% chocolate
Dinner - a third of the frittata in the photo. I had some tapas left from new year - peppers, roast tomatoes and artichokes - which I sliced plus a few mushrooms all cooked in olive oil and knob of butter plus added a handful of shredded chicken from remains then added six beaten eggs and some garlic granules, salt and pepper and then finished off under grill to melt the vintage cheddar I’d grated on to the set egg. Served with green salad followed by low carb crumble and cream.
 
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