Sugar is not your friend part 2

What is the sugar content of plain yogurt? Just wondering... without having to run to the grocery store! I miss my yogurt...used to eat it with a nice yummy granola... those were the days :ohwell:

That is my breakfast every morning with a full serving of strawberries (3/4 cup) and a 1/4 serving of blueberries, some flax, almonds, almond milk. A huge bowl is only 273 kcals. Protein, Carbs and good fats + probiotics. What's not to love?

Nancy's lowfat plain organic yogurt = 16g sugar per cup. (But I have 1/2 cup with mine)

Cheryl, you must be able to read my mind... I came here specifically to ask about Almond Milk! :laugh: Just saw it at the grocery store and it looks pretty good actually! I've been missing cereal and all the reviews I've read have sung praises for Almond milk, more specifically the unsweetened vanilla almond milk! Now I wish I would have gotten a carton while I was there! Any further thoughts on it? I was looking for an alternative to my chemical-laden :grumble: coffee creamer!

Tams,

I've finally settled on soy creamer. Here's why.

1. Never used coffee mate - chemical
2. Half and half was good, but puts me over in Sat Fat too easily, I tend to use 2 servings a day of it
3. Low fat milk is too watery and too calorie dense to get the right mix in coffee
5. Unsweetened coconut creamer is pretty tasteless, and hard to find in the stores, and expensive
4. Almond milk curdles in hot liquids - tastes the same, just looks weird

I didn't even know there was a soy creamer until about a month ago. I'm hooked. Good flavor, you don't use a lot of it, it blends well, no sat fat, no cholesterol, sugars less than 1g, 15 calories, 1g of fat, 10 mg sodium in one tablespoon. You can buy it anywhere, and it's about the same price as half and half. Regular soy MILK also curdles, like the almond milk does.

Almond milk is awesome in anythng cold where you would use milk. It's expensive, too, but I don't use that much of it, and I could never go through a half gallon of dairy milk before it went bad.

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Morning ladies :drinker:

I have never tried Almond or Soy Milk. Does the almond milk taste "almondy" I love my Kashi cereal in the morning, with 1% right now, but the sugars are pretty high, I am T2 diabetic as well. Is the sugar content lower in Almond Milk?

Cheers jewel

cmriverside completed yesterday's food diary and is over her calories by 2,086. So much for this week's numbers :ohwell:

The cocktails & lunch at Red Robin were the beginning of the fall - but that was 3:00. I still had to face all the groceries I bought - including two bananas because we had talked about them and I changed my nutrients to reflect potassium. Didn't eat one though - and only bought two. Turns out there are lots of other veggies and fruits with equal or more potassium, like spinach - which I eat every day - potatoes (my rationale for the Red Robin escapade) - the 60 calorie coconut water - which I bought 5 servings of yesterday because I was out, zucchini, peanut butter, bell peppers, prunes: all of which are n heavy rotation in my diary. So this will be a short trip down Banana-Memory Lane for me.

It... just... sounded... good.




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So - I think this was discussed by a few of you but I cannot remember who. My joints and my feet in particular get very sore/achey anytime I eat anything with refined sugars. I ate some chocolate yesterday afternoon and by the evening my feet were killing me, and so was my back and hips!
No more chocolate for me... it's a sad day.