White flour and sugar

kshama2001

merlins93 wrote: »

Thinking about staying away from white flour altogether. Diabetes runs in my family and I keep hearing how white flour and sugar spike your blood sugar. But how do u ever eat anything sweet if u follow that rule.

Fruit! (Not juice or dried fruit.)

I've had spectacular fruit from the farm stand this year, plus a month of strawberries from my garden, followed by two weeks of raspberries.

ABeautifulDistraction

PB2 mixed in with an individual serving of vanilla Quark or Dannon Triple Zero vanilla yogurt. Raw food bars made with fresh dates. Fresh fruit (try grilled pineapple - YUM). Pumpkin "pie" in a cup made with packed pumpkin, stevia, pumpkin pie spice, unsweetened vanilla almond milk. Microwave for 3 minutes.

s_shortridge

My husband is type 2 diabetic that once he loses another 10lbs, it will go away. Anyway...we DO stay away from refined sugars and refined grains right now, because he doesn't want to take medicine. BUT, for instance...sourdough bread...REAL sourdough bread can be gluten and sugar free. When you eat bread made with a sourdough starter, the natural yeasts feeds off the gluten and sugar. Breads w/commercial yeasts never get this opportunity. We kinda shot ourselves in the food with this invention. I make my own sourdough and it probably takes me 5 min of my own time to bake it (oven takes 45) and 15 min at night to prepare the dough for an overnight rise. Can we say happy husband and household? You can take this bread and make biscuits and buns and pizza crusts and then life seems pretty nice. --- We do stay away from pasta, but I have been having fun using spaghetti squash and hope to try zoodles. Plus with that, it is another vegetable AND it is less calories then pasta. Rice spikes his sugar...all of it, so we stopped eating it. I want to try grated cauliflower, I hear it makes a great fried rice, etc. People think getting rid of refined foods is the end of the end. I think it is the beginning of a cool journey. I have actually learned to be a better cook and I thought I was decent before. Just recently made a DELICIOUS cheese cake with a crust made of almonds, pecans & butter. A tiny bit of Stevia in the cheese part and it's sugar free and grain free. It is great you are thinking about your health now. It just takes patience and a little research and the changes won't be as bad as you think.

PS: whole fruit and dairy sugars do not bother my husband's blood sugar

lemurcat12

ABeautifulDistraction wrote: »

PB2 mixed in with an individual serving of vanilla Quark or Dannon Triple Zero vanilla yogurt. Raw food bars made with fresh dates. Fresh fruit (try grilled pineapple - YUM). Pumpkin "pie" in a cup made with packed pumpkin, stevia, pumpkin pie spice, unsweetened vanilla almond milk. Microwave for 3 minutes.

I thought you claimed not to eat processed food. I think all of this is fine (just like I think the processed foods I choose to eat are fine), but other than the fresh fruit they are processed, of course.

People get confused because they are told not to eat processed foods and most who tell them that eat lots of processed foods. It seems dishonest to me.

LKArgh

merlins93 wrote: »

Thinking about staying away from white flour altogether. Diabetes runs in my family and I keep hearing how white flour and sugar spike your blood sugar. But how do u ever eat anything sweet if u follow that rule.

This is not how it works. Keep your weight in a healthy range, make sure you are physically active, and eat everything in moderation, there are no evil foods. Try to not overindulge in sweet snacks, a diet including 3 sodas, 5 chocolate bars and 5 servings of ice cream will not be the best for you, but there is no reason to completely avoid these things either. As for flour, in general whole grains have more health benefits but white bread will not kill you.

Orphia

aggelikik wrote: »

merlins93 wrote: »

Thinking about staying away from white flour altogether. Diabetes runs in my family and I keep hearing how white flour and sugar spike your blood sugar. But how do u ever eat anything sweet if u follow that rule.

This is not how it works. Keep your weight in a healthy range, make sure you are physically active, and eat everything in moderation, there are no evil foods. Try to not overindulge in sweet snacks, a diet including 3 sodas, 5 chocolate bars and 5 servings of ice cream will not be the best for you, but there is no reason to completely avoid these things either. As for flour, in general whole grains have more health benefits but white bread will not kill you.

Seconded. Good advice, @aggelikik

ABeautifulDistraction

lemurcat12 wrote: »

ABeautifulDistraction wrote: »

PB2 mixed in with an individual serving of vanilla Quark or Dannon Triple Zero vanilla yogurt. Raw food bars made with fresh dates. Fresh fruit (try grilled pineapple - YUM). Pumpkin "pie" in a cup made with packed pumpkin, stevia, pumpkin pie spice, unsweetened vanilla almond milk. Microwave for 3 minutes.

I thought you claimed not to eat processed food. I think all of this is fine (just like I think the processed foods I choose to eat are fine), but other than the fresh fruit they are processed, of course.

People get confused because they are told not to eat processed foods and most who tell them that eat lots of processed foods. It seems dishonest to me.

The original poster asked what to eat when craving sweets. I just provided options. And my raw food bars are homemade, so not processed neither is the grilled pineapple. I don't eat yogurt, but I used to so I know that trick and I think PB2 is considered minimally processed. The pumpkin pie in a mug was something I ate when I first started out. I'm not trying to come across as dishonest here, just giving op some ideas.