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Originally Posted by SameOldStory
The father of the owner of my favorite Chinese restaurant became seriously diabetic. He told his son that he would rather die than give up rice. His son respected his father's wish.
I'm now borderline diabetic and must give up breads and sweets. The sweets are no problem, there're many substitutes.
But the breads! I can identify with that father!
For those in the US I can make 2 recommendations.
Regarding bread-bread (I'm not stuttering  ), there's Pepperidge Farm Bread - Carb Style. I use the Low Carb 7 Grain Bread. My blood sugar doesn't even go bump. With regular whole grain bread it does go way past bump. Not as bad as "normal" bread, but still bad.
Regarding pasta-bread products, I've just found (last Saturday) Dreamfields Pasta. I've only tried the Angel Hair pasta but the blood sugar was normal when tested. I can't wait to try making lasagna again. |
Pepperidge Farm is usually pretty good no matter what. I'm going to try that bread just on general principles.
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Originally Posted by vivaldirules
Lentil salad, chickpea salad with adzuki beans, roasted cauliflower with feta and almonds, grilled zucchini, and imam bayendi. A great veggie feast!
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Oh yum! A Texas girl I may be, but I like me some veggies, too.
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Originally Posted by THE TERMINATOR
You're totally right, sausage and processed meat products and especially chicken, if you buy them in cheap bulk they not only taste bad but are bad with the stuff they put in it, but if you buy it from a local butcher/farm they are much better and actually taste like meat. I'd rather have less good meat than allot of bad/cheap meat. If you've ever seen the tv show on BBC "kill it,cook it, eat it" it shows the good meat from the bad, and how much better the animals are treated. Rib steak is awesome never had it rare though, how is that?
Back on topic I'm eating chili with taco chips.
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I miss living in Texas for the meat. I could call a few rancher buddies, basically go out to the pasture, pick an animal, pay the guy, and go pick it up at the local meat processing plant a week later. (I usually skipped the "go out to the pasture and pick an animal" part, and just trusted the rancher's judgement!). I also had a friend that had kids that raised hogs for FFA(Future Farmers of America) and she was good about letting me buy a portion of the hogs when they were sold/butchered.