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<blockquote data-quote="ziggy_w" data-source="post: 2012549" data-attributes="member: 323454"><p>Hello all. Another late night.</p><p></p><p>[USER=490508]@Emma_369[/USER] -- Hope your husband feels better soon, food poisoning is really nasty. You might consider going to emergency if starts feeling any worse.</p><p></p><p>[USER=496650]@zauberflote[/USER] and [USER=479239]@BibaBee[/USER] -- To be honest, I had never heard of replacing chocolate with carob before. When I saw it in the vegan section of the supermarket, I was just looking for a thickener. Have used gelatin, chia flour, xantham gum and guar gum in the past, but didn't really like the consistency. Egg yolk works well, but is a bit finicky to work with (you have to heat the liquid, but prevent it from boiling). Carob is really very similar to food starch, very easy to work with, you just have to add it to cold liquid and stir while the liquid starts boiling.</p><p></p><p>Next time, however, I will probably blend it with water before adding it to the mixture, the chocolate pudding had a few clots, which luckily disappeared after a day. The recipe was really very simple: Double cream (200ml), clotted cream (2 tablespoons), water (300 ml), erythritol (about 5 tablespoons), cocoa fiber (three tablespoons) and two teaspoons of carob -- came to about 2g of carbs per 100g. So, really low carb.</p><p></p><p>Had an appointment with my GP today to talk about the blood tests, I will have on Monday. The meeting went really well. We agreed on HbA1c, cholesterol with HDL and LDL (can calculate trigs based on the other three), and liver function test to see how my liver deals with 1 glass of red wine per day on average.</p><p></p><p>Then we also talked about remission. Although, I have had normal, non-diabetic HbA1c for almost four years, I am still listed as T2 -- and every time I get a referral, the referral form states an HbA1c of 11.3%, which imo can be a bit misleading. Anyway, GP agreed that I am not really diabetic anymore and that he does not see a reason that this would change in the future.</p><p></p><p>He said, however, that he wasn't sure what would happen if I went back to carbs. I did agree with him on this and said that I consider myself carb-intolerant and didn't see any reason I would ever go back to eating carbs, especially as I don't really miss them.</p><p></p><p>So, all in all a very productive meeting. I see this has turned out to be a longer post than anticipated. Sorry if I have hijacked the thread a bit.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ziggy_w, post: 2012549, member: 323454"] Hello all. Another late night. [USER=490508]@Emma_369[/USER] -- Hope your husband feels better soon, food poisoning is really nasty. You might consider going to emergency if starts feeling any worse. [USER=496650]@zauberflote[/USER] and [USER=479239]@BibaBee[/USER] -- To be honest, I had never heard of replacing chocolate with carob before. When I saw it in the vegan section of the supermarket, I was just looking for a thickener. Have used gelatin, chia flour, xantham gum and guar gum in the past, but didn't really like the consistency. Egg yolk works well, but is a bit finicky to work with (you have to heat the liquid, but prevent it from boiling). Carob is really very similar to food starch, very easy to work with, you just have to add it to cold liquid and stir while the liquid starts boiling. Next time, however, I will probably blend it with water before adding it to the mixture, the chocolate pudding had a few clots, which luckily disappeared after a day. The recipe was really very simple: Double cream (200ml), clotted cream (2 tablespoons), water (300 ml), erythritol (about 5 tablespoons), cocoa fiber (three tablespoons) and two teaspoons of carob -- came to about 2g of carbs per 100g. So, really low carb. Had an appointment with my GP today to talk about the blood tests, I will have on Monday. The meeting went really well. We agreed on HbA1c, cholesterol with HDL and LDL (can calculate trigs based on the other three), and liver function test to see how my liver deals with 1 glass of red wine per day on average. Then we also talked about remission. Although, I have had normal, non-diabetic HbA1c for almost four years, I am still listed as T2 -- and every time I get a referral, the referral form states an HbA1c of 11.3%, which imo can be a bit misleading. Anyway, GP agreed that I am not really diabetic anymore and that he does not see a reason that this would change in the future. He said, however, that he wasn't sure what would happen if I went back to carbs. I did agree with him on this and said that I consider myself carb-intolerant and didn't see any reason I would ever go back to eating carbs, especially as I don't really miss them. So, all in all a very productive meeting. I see this has turned out to be a longer post than anticipated. Sorry if I have hijacked the thread a bit. [/QUOTE]
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