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Sleep Assists Your Diet
Livestrong has a good article about sleep, and the problems of not getting enough sleep. Type 2 diabetics should take heed of the following points:
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Thai Iced Tea
Thai iced tea is tea with some milk or cream, sugar, and ice. I tried to make this low carb. It’s basically a few tablespoons of milk, a spoon or two of cream, and 1.5 fake sugars per cup. The stuff is very sweet. The tea is this bag of tea. I thought it was […]
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Register receipts showing what to buy
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Tips for Cooking Konjac Zero Carb Pastas and Shirataki and Miracle Noodle
Konjac or konyakku based zero-carb pastas, like shirataki, are becoming a popular noodle alternative for people on low carb diets.
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Trying a New Technique
I had a half sandwich with bread, and a coffee with 1/8 to 1/4 cup of whole milk. My blood sugar 90 minutes later is 162. This is terrible. The total carbs were probably around 40, which is way too high – but that’s what happens. What’s going on?
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Berries
When you’re strictly eating low carb, you can’t have fruits, excepting a few that end in *berries.
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Foods to Avoid for Type 2 Diabetes
Diabetic Health published a good list of foods to avoid. They are a bit different from my list, but my list could use some improvement.
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Low Carb Calpis or Calpico
A friend mentioned a drink called “kumis”, and on researching it, I thought it sounded like Calpis, aka Calpico in the English speaking countries. The base of kumis sounded like buttermilk. I’d made a drink just like Calpico with buttermilk. Turns out that buttermilk is 13g of carbs per cup. I have a recipe that […]
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Get a Food Scale, and use Grams, not Cups, Teaspoons, Ounces, or Pounds.
If you don’t have a food scale, get one, now. It’s a game changer. I have a link to some tips, at the end of the article. Most of us, in the United States, don’t use grams, but we should. Why?
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Konnyaku Notes
I’m learning to make konnyaku, a kind of hard gel made from konjac root, common in Asian cooking. People on keto diets are often eating the noodle-shaped form, called shirataki or ito-konnyaku (string konnyaku), as a pasta substitute.