UK Lo-Carbers??

Hello from Aberdeen. The only low carb goodie I get is KETCHUP!!!! The Ketchup
god has finally smiled upon us and I've found Sainsbury and Morrison stocked
with the Hellman's low carb Ketchup since November last year. Other that that I
had a couple of M&S low carb wraps - pretty happy with the taste.

I don't get ready meal type things. Used to eat a lot of sausages (you know
those "premium" versions with higher meat content and not v much flour) but I
ended up eating too much of it - way to easy to overeat sausages than e.g. salad.

elise said:

Just wondering how many on this ng are from the UK and where do you get your
lo-carb goodies (if any) from??

I get mine from the lo-carb megastore online and Tesco's have just started doing
loads of fresh ready meal type things, such as chicken chunks with dips, and
cheese, egg and meat platters. Also got some of the slimfast locarb/local bars
for when I'm past induction if I get the munchies.

elise said:

Just wondering how many on this ng are from the UK and where do you get
your lo-carb goodies (if any) from??

I get mine from the lo-carb megastore online and Tesco's have just started
doing loads of fresh ready meal type things, such as chicken chunks with
dips, and cheese, egg and meat platters. Also got some of the slimfast
locarb/local bars for when I'm past induction if I get the munchies.

Stirling here. Buy all my food at Tesco, I don't go in for ready meals but
all their uncooked chicken, pork, salmon and beef is lo-carb! Check the
label on those slimfast bars though, don't mix up lo-cal with lo-carb, I
didn't think slimfast was a lo-carb diet...

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elise said:

I get mine from the lo-carb megastore online and Tesco's have just started
doing loads of fresh ready meal type things, such as chicken chunks with
dips, and cheese, egg and meat platters. Also got some of the slimfast
locarb/local bars for when I'm past induction if I get the munchies.

Stirling here. Buy all my food at Tesco, I don't go in for ready meals but
all their uncooked chicken, pork, salmon and beef is lo-carb! Check the
label on those slimfast bars though, don't mix up lo-cal with lo-carb, I
didn't think slimfast was a lo-carb diet...

They've just brought out a new range of lo-carb drinks and bars - The normal
ones are really high carb!!Boots has also brought out it's own range of shakes
instore as well as loads of stuff online.

I only tend to get the ready made stuff as a quick alternative to sandwiches etc
when I'm out or at college. Just easier than making up a goodie box the night
before - already have kid stuff to deal with.
Elise

Hello there - i am in Birmingham. Bit of a lurker on here.

I get the carb options by Knorr (pasta, sauces etc)

Jackie

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elise said:

I get mine from the lo-carb megastore online and Tesco's have just
started
doing loads of fresh ready meal type things, such as chicken chunks
with
dips, and cheese, egg and meat platters. Also got some of the slimfast
locarb/local bars for when I'm past induction if I get the munchies.

Stirling here. Buy all my food at Tesco, I don't go in for ready meals
but
all their uncooked chicken, pork, salmon and beef is lo-carb! Check the
label on those slimfast bars though, don't mix up lo-cal with lo-carb, I
didn't think slimfast was a lo-carb diet...

They've just brought out a new range of lo-carb drinks and bars - The
normal
ones are really high carb!!Boots has also brought out it's own range of
shakes
instore as well as loads of stuff online.

I only tend to get the ready made stuff as a quick alternative to
sandwiches etc
when I'm out or at college. Just easier than making up a goodie box the
night
before - already have kid stuff to deal with.
Elise

Goodies are how you got fat in the first place.

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Just wondering how many on this ng are from the UK and where do you get
your
lo-carb goodies (if any) from??

I get mine from the lo-carb megastore online and Tesco's have just started
doing
loads of fresh ready meal type things, such as chicken chunks with dips,
and
cheese, egg and meat platters. Also got some of the slimfast locarb/local
bars
for when I'm past induction if I get the munchies.

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Goodies are how you got fat in the first place.

No, stuffing my face and not bothering about any exercise are what got me fat in
the 1st place.

Goodies help me through the day and help make it a WOE not a diet!!
Elise

Hey Elsie

I'm down Southampton way.

I tend to stick to food, as opposed to bars and specialist lo-carb things.
I went through a phase when I had them because I was feeling a bit deprived
but I got over it and figured that it was better not to be carring around my
Mum's figure than having soemthing sweet. Besides, I don't really like much
of the lo-carb stuff.

While you are here. Don't mind JC too much. He is all foreplay. 🙂

Kaye
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Goodies are how you got fat in the first place.

No, stuffing my face and not bothering about any exercise are what got me
fat in
the 1st place.

Goodies help me through the day and help make it a WOE not a diet!!
Elise

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Goodies are how you got fat in the first place.

No, stuffing my face

And what were you stuffing your fat face with?

Goodies, of course.

and not bothering about any exercise are what got me fat in

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the 1st place.

Goodies help me through the day and keep me fat as a hog!
Elise

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Just wondering how many on this ng are from the UK and where do you get your
lo-carb goodies (if any) from??

I get mine from the lo-carb megastore online and Tesco's have just started
doing
loads of fresh ready meal type things, such as chicken chunks with dips, and
cheese, egg and meat platters. Also got some of the slimfast locarb/local bars
for when I'm past induction if I get the munchies.

I'm from Oxford.

I would have some doubts about Ready-Meals - in the States there's been
many, many cases of lying carb counts.

I get flaxseed and Splenda from Sainsbury's and other stuff - bran for
maintenance baking - from Holland and Barrett.

Boots now have the bars and shakes, if you can stand them (I can't).

Da Vinci sell through lowcarbinternational.com as well as
Lowcarbmegastore. There's also a company called Sugarlite, but they
don't have much of a range.

NB: I get most of my stuff from the butcher, the fishmonger, the farm
shop (for Martin Pitt eggs, the BEST!!!), the greengrocer and the
health-food shops. 🙂. If you want a really good cookbook of real low-
carb meals with no silly fakes, A Passion for Protein by Henry Hill, who
is a UK chef, is pretty damn' good.
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Just wondering how many on this ng are from the UK and where do you get your
lo-carb goodies (if any) from??

I get mine from the lo-carb megastore online and Tesco's have just started
doing
loads of fresh ready meal type things, such as chicken chunks with dips, and
cheese, egg and meat platters. Also got some of the slimfast locarb/local

bars

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for when I'm past induction if I get the munchies.

I'm from Oxford.

I would have some doubts about Ready-Meals - in the States there's been
many, many cases of lying carb counts.

I get flaxseed and Splenda from Sainsbury's and other stuff - bran for
maintenance baking - from Holland and Barrett.

Boots now have the bars and shakes, if you can stand them (I can't).

Da Vinci sell through lowcarbinternational.com as well as
Lowcarbmegastore. There's also a company called Sugarlite, but they
don't have much of a range.

NB: I get most of my stuff from the butcher, the fishmonger, the farm
shop (for Martin Pitt eggs, the BEST!!!), the greengrocer and the
health-food shops. 🙂. If you want a really good cookbook of real low-
carb meals with no silly fakes, A Passion for Protein by Henry Hill, who
is a UK chef, is pretty damn' good.
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Jane Lumley

Thanks for that Jane - I may have a look on Amazon. I don't rely on ready meals
and snacks - just like I said before - for when I'm out, It's easier to grab
something at Tescos lie a pack of chicken chunks with tikka dip.

I tried one of their ready meal - Chicken in a cheese sauce with veggies -
Blech!!! never again - truly gross and it was microwave only so the veggies went
squidgy.

Doing a lovely organic roast chuck tonight with broccoli, mushrooms, and mashed
cauli with cream cheese. Have to do some roasties for the kids though - God I
miss crispy roast pots sometimes!!

I get most of my meat from a butcher who sells online from Devon
http://www.devonrose.com/ Got a wonderful Xmas hamper from him - all full of
bacon and sausages etc.
Elise

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Doing a lovely organic roast chuck tonight with broccoli, mushrooms, and mashed
cauli with cream cheese. Have to do some roasties for the kids though - God I
miss crispy roast pots sometimes!!

Sounds yum, Elise. I'd fall on it myself if I were nearby. I've now
weaned my family off potatoes by making them Yorkshire pudding more
often and by making a low-carb bread which I then made into very crisp
croutons by sauteing lightly in olive oil - they loved that. Also
toasted seeds - pumpkin and sunflower. I was really glad to say goodbye
to potatoes - the dirt, the peeling... And I've never missed them. Nor
pasta. Bread is my weakness, and when I carbed up for Christmas, bread
was what I allowed myself. I HAVE to lowcarb because if I'm allowed
bread I can eat a whole loaf.

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I get most of my meat from a butcher who sells online from Devon
http://www.devonrose.com/ Got a wonderful Xmas hamper from him - all full of
bacon and sausages etc.

Thanks - great tip, though we do have a WONDERFUL local butcher here in
Oxford, in the Covered Market - M Feller, Son and Daughter.

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I've now
weaned my family off potatoes by making them Yorkshire pudding more
often and by making a low-carb bread which I then made into very crisp
croutons by sauteing lightly in olive oil - they loved that.

Jane, would you mind sharing your bread recipe? I'm just about to start
experimenting along those lines, and am trying to read every variation I can
get my hands on!

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Thanks - great tip, though we do have a WONDERFUL local butcher here in
Oxford, in the Covered Market - M Feller, Son and Daughter.

Boy, I miss the Covered Market. Is Burlington Berties still going?

Nicky.

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I've now
weaned my family off potatoes by making them Yorkshire pudding more
often and by making a low-carb bread which I then made into very crisp
croutons by sauteing lightly in olive oil - they loved that.

Jane, would you mind sharing your bread recipe? I'm just about to start
experimenting along those lines, and am trying to read every variation I can
get my hands on!

Nicky

Also Jane - Do you do a low carb version of Yorkshire puddings??
Elise

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I've now
weaned my family off potatoes by making them Yorkshire pudding more
often and by making a low-carb bread which I then made into very crisp
croutons by sauteing lightly in olive oil - they loved that.

Jane, would you mind sharing your bread recipe? I'm just about to start
experimenting along those lines, and am trying to read every variation I can
get my hands on!

Actually I make two kinds of low-carb bread. The one my children like
in croutons is as follows:
I fear all measurements are in US cups because I always use US baking
books (even though I'm all Brit) so think in cups.

Walnut Bread

2.25 cups vital wheat gluten (get it from www.flourbin.co.uk)
1.5 cups oat bran (Holland and Barrett)
1 cup ground almonds
1 cup vanilla whey protein powder
1 cup ground walnuts (grind yourself in food processor, or more gorudn
almonds, or use ground seeds)
3 Tb flaxseeds
4 envelopes easy-blend yeast
3 Tb walnut oil
1 Tb salt - add a bit more if you like
3 eggs
1.5 cups double cream
1.5 cups warmish water

Mix dry ingredients, then add liquids, including eggs and oil. Mix -
it's too wet to knead, more like cake mix, but a dough hook in a
mixmaster will do it if you have one - until well blended. It will be
very sloppy. Oil two 2 lb loaf tins thoroughly. divide mixture between
them Let rise in tins in a warmish place for around 1.5 hours, till
dough crests top of tins (don't cover with clingwrap for this reason - I
use an upturned plastic box. Bake at 200 C for 20 minutes, then lower
temp to 180 and bake for another 15-20 minutes. Rest intins for 10
minutes after baking, then cool on racks.

Flaxseed Bread

3 cups Vital wheat Gluten
1/2 cup whey protein powder
1/4 cup coarse wheat bran
1/4 cup oat bran
2 envelopes Easy-Blend Yeast
2 Tb salt, or 2 Tb of Vegemite and 1 tsp salt
1 cup ground flaxseeds - best done in coffee grinder
3 Tb any oil
1-1 1/2 cups water - depends on day.

Mix dry ingredients, then add wet ones. Knead on Speed 2 for around 3-4
minutes - dough will be scarily rubbery, and you mustn't overdo it.
repress misgivings and place it to rise in an oiled bowl. In around an
hour it will look like a pregnant football. Pat it out on the bench,
divide in half. Oil tow loaf tins and roll dough into loaves. Bung it
in tins. let rise agian for one-one and a half hours. Bake at 180 for
20 minutes, then turn the loaves around in the oven. Bake for 15
minutes. Take out, remove at once from tins and cool on a rack. Makes
lovely chewy bread, much nicer than you will think from dough.

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Thanks - great tip, though we do have a WONDERFUL local butcher here in
Oxford, in the Covered Market - M Feller, Son and Daughter.

Boy, I miss the Covered Market. Is Burlington Berties still going?

Where are you now, Nicky? Let me know how the baking goes. Not much
has changed in the market, but the oddball Little Bookshop has folded.

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Nicky.

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Just wondering how many on this ng are from the UK and where do you get your
lo-carb goodies (if any) from??

I get mine from the lo-carb megastore online and Tesco's have just
started doing
loads of fresh ready meal type things, such as chicken chunks with dips, and
cheese, egg and meat platters. Also got some of the slimfast locarb/local bars
for when I'm past induction if I get the munchies.

<Puts hand up> Wimbledon, here.

I don't have low carb goodies. I just east fresh food.

I'm interested in this lo-carb megastore of which you speak, though.
Could you please post a link?

Actually, tonight I had an absolutely disgusting encounter with one of
the "Carb Options" cooking sauces. Mr Mogget came home with a couple
the other week. Tonight, you know, end of the week, nothing much left
in the cupboards, I made a Quorn & mushroom stew thing. I've made this
umpteen times and it's a very nice meal with a bhuna sauce, for
instance. Didn't have any of those in the cupboard so I used the Tikka
Masala Carb Options sauce. Groo.

As soon as I opened the jar, it smelt horrible. It didn't get any
better while cooking. I tasted it when it came out of the oven. It had
the most disgusting taste of artificial sweetener. Mr Mogget thought it
was inedible too - one taste and it went in the bin.

....Which gets me on the a general rant: why do "diet" foods get
inappropriately sweetened? Last summer I really fancied some lemonade,
so I bought some of the diet variety. Blech. Far too sweet. In this
case, a tikka masala sauce didn't need sweetening at all; why lard it
with sucralose?

I wish that "diet" foods were made to be their own thing, rather than
pretending to be exactly the same as the regular stuff. Not only does
it not work - it tastes horrible - it's a wasted opportunity for the
consumer to get used to a less sweet food.

I wish that foods were made to suit the palates of those of us who don't
require sugar on everything.

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I've now
weaned my family off potatoes by making them Yorkshire pudding more
often and by making a low-carb bread which I then made into very crisp
croutons by sauteing lightly in olive oil - they loved that.

Jane, would you mind sharing your bread recipe? I'm just about to start
experimenting along those lines, and am trying to read every variation I can
get my hands on!

Nicky

Also Jane - Do you do a low carb version of Yorkshire puddings??

No, I just make the carby kind and don't eat 'em - see my other post on
baking!

Alternatively, Low-Carb Comfort Food has a recipe for a thing called
Magic Rolls - basically choux pastry - which would pass for mini-Yorkies
in the dark, and if I feel exceptionally cravy and diligent I defrost
and warm one to scarf down while the others eat their Yorkshire
delectable. These are NOT faux-food, btw - very nice, crisp, and ideal
as a base for a cream puff or profiterole.

IIRC, there's a recipe for a Dutch Baby in Dana Carpender's first book,
and that's really a Yorkie.
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Jane, would you mind sharing your bread recipe? I'm just about to start
experimenting along those lines, and am trying to read every variation I
can
get my hands on!

Actually I make two kinds of low-carb bread.

Wow, they look good, Jane - thanks! And very different to the mass of other
recipes I've seen. I've just done a quick audit and I've got all the
ingredients except yeast, for some reason, must nip down the shops and start
experimenting : )

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Where are you now, Nicky? Let me know how the baking goes. Not much
has changed in the market, but the oddball Little Bookshop has folded.

Ipswich, which is a dreadful soulless place to shop. I'm sad the bookshop's
closed - we used to collect an armful of books there, then go upstairs for a
pot of Earl Grey that could last for hours.

Nicky.

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I'm interested in this lo-carb megastore of which you speak, though. Could
you please post a link?

www.lowcarbmegastore.com - I use it too. Their low-carb tortillas are very
handy, and the hoisin sauce is to die for. The Carbophobic bread is
excellent also, but costs a fortune - I'm hoping Jane's recipes will make
bread a more frequent treat : ) Their own fresh bread is good, too, but in
diddy slices - for some reason I'd rather have a larger single slice folded
in half.

Nicky.

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Actually I make two kinds of low-carb bread.

I've just tried the flaxseed bread. I made half the dough into a loaf (which
has just come out of the oven, and is in serious danger of having its crust
nicked), and used the other half as pizza dough. Stretching it out was an
interesting exercise - you were not kidding about the dough being Rubbery!
: ) - but it's just passed my personal gold standard test; an hour after
enjoying it my blood sugar is 5.3, absolutely normal. Hubby complained that
the colour was very "virtuous", but had seconds : )

So thanks for what looks like being a regular treat! Working out exactly
what the carb count might be is a headache, but I reckon it's 3-5g per
slice. Ish. I think lunch tomorrow might be a sandwich : )

Nicky.

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