Recipe Help - Carb Free

[Tomatoking]

I found out a few years ago that I was diabetic type 2. I was not that overweight 34" waist. at 5ft 10. so not short for my weight

I have had to cut out a lot of carbs, my worst enemy was bread, but I could live on sarnies.
There is no way I could have cut out all carbs, but I do replace bread with salads, and find I do not feel I need to eat between meals now, where as before I tended to have a 4pm snack.
Todate I am now a 32" waist again! and I am still not on tablets yet!
The way I did lose weight was really by changing my diet of course, and having a stroll after my evening meal, so burnt up a few carbs before going to bed. I also took up swimming 3 times a week.

I had so much help on the Diabetics web sites, which really help you choose low carb foods, which help people who are diabetics and people who just want to lose a bit of weight.

Your hubby seems to be on the right track, the first stone is the worst, tell him.

[taff]

Parsnips and potatoes are carb rich, so not allowed on a carb-free diet, carrots are borderline. Quite a lot of veggie-protein is also carb-rich (v-low carb diets for vegans are problematical, eggs and cheese solve the problem for non-vegan vegetarians)

I went on a weight watchers diet years and years ago, and the thing they were doing at the time was a carb/protein/veg mix etc, but they did have beans down as either carbs or protein, very confusing for me... still not exaclty sure how your body is supposed to know the difference

which brings me to my point....if beans are protein and not carbs, one of my favourite tricks [with any veg really] is boil/steam to your favourite consistency, chop or squish a clove or two of garlic in a bowl, chuck the veg on top to let the garlic soften a little bit.

Once lukewarm, pour on olive oil and some kind of vinegar apart from malt or white. Salt. Bobs your auntie.
Works for everything, including cauliflower. You can also add chopped parsley to beans or potatoes [if you're eating them]

[Hilary B]

Beans (and peas) contain quite a lot of protein, and a fair bit of carbs.

[taff]

do you think they were talking about the difference between fresh whole beans and bean seedsshelled beans, or some other esoteric thing?

[Hilary B]

Pods contain a lot of fibre, lots of moisture, and relatively small amounts of anything else.
'Green' seeds (broadbeans, peas, etc) in the pod or on their own, contain quite a lot of water, a fair bit of protein, and sugar rather than starch. Apart from that, fresh ones or 'dried' are not so very different.....