Suggestions on low carb, high fiber foods?

francoisd90 wrote: »

Wether you think her diet choice is "woo woo" or not is irrelevant. She didn't ask "Is eating low carb a good idea?", she asked about low carb food with fiber content.

I am merely pointing out that answering her question first is not unresonable.
It's a bit like asking directions to the train station and being answered "Oh no honey ! What you want is the bus station ! Buses are so much better than trains !"

But you are free to ask anything, pal. I didn't mean to be confrontational !

Ok - let's use the train station analogy. In central park, someone asks for directions to the train station. The closest is Grand Central, so I give directions to there. The person goes there, only the person or train they are meeting, is actually going to Penn Station. Ooops. Sometimes a question is too vague to answer without clarification. And sometimes an answer to a vague question can be worse than no answer at all.

To bring it back to carbs - Carbs get a bad rap and as a result, there are a lot of diets out there that involve cutting them that are both healthy and unhealthy. A person making sure his or her answer will not encourage unhealthy eating is a valid endeavor; this is especially true on a site that sells itself on losing weight in a healthy manner.

linnea4 wrote: »

Ok - let's use the train station analogy. In central park, someone asks for directions to the train station. The closest is Grand Central, so I give directions to there. The person goes there, only the person or train they are meeting, is actually going to Penn Station. Ooops. Sometimes a question is too vague to answer without clarification. And sometimes an answer to a vague question can be worse than no answer at all.

To bring it back to carbs - Carbs get a bad rap and as a result, there are a lot of diets out there that involve cutting them that are both healthy and unhealthy. A person making sure his or her answer will not encourage unhealthy eating is a valid endeavor; this is especially true on a site that sells itself on losing weight in a healthy manner.

First, thank you for taking this back to a real civil discussion. Apparently, it's worth mentioning in this thread

As I said, I was not trying to advocate any kind of diet, low carb or otherwise. I was merely pointing out that the OP's question deserved an answer first.

There are MANY different opinions when it comes to what is considered a healthy diet.
Some will say low carb is great, some will say it's unhealthy. Others will accept nothing but veganism.

The list goes on... You will find ENDLESS debates demonizing this diet or that one. And you know what ? Debates are great !

There are so many things we don't yet understand about nutrition that I value those debates and look forward to learning more.

What I'm saying is simply I DO NOT know what is the healthiest way of eating is because NOBODY seems to be sure yet. Doctors disagree, patients disagree, people's experiences vary greatly so it seems the jury is still out !

So for the time being, I'm just happy when people get good results, wheter for weight loss, athletic performance, or health. Whatever the method.

Sorry, I need to correct my post to say, it makes 7 - one cup servings.

One reason why it's worth asking more details about what she is trying to do is that it affects the answer. How low in carbs? Net carbs or carbs generally? If she's trying to go quite low in overall carbs, the answer might be that she won't be able to meet her fiber goal without supplementing (and would have to decide whether she thinks that's healthy).

francoisd90 wrote: »

Most leafy green vegatables will be fine. They contain fiber and not many carbs.

I was surprised at how low these were in fiber, personally. 100 grams of kale has about 4 grams of fiber, whereas 100 grams of spinach has only 2.

Raspberries are a good source, but people who want to keep carbs low often seem to avoid all fruit.

Avocados are a good source, but the calories build up quickly, so you can't rely on them too much if at a quite low calorie level.

ndj1979 wrote: »

the fun thing about copy and paste is that I can use said function to copy your quote below:

"A note for others : why criticize her choice of diet before, or even instead of answering her question !"

so yes, you did say that others were being critical.

And I am not your "pal" so why would you use that word?

Yes, you're right, I said "why criticize her choice of diet before, or even instead of answering her question !"
And I stand by that ! Why ?

You said:
"because if she is cutting carbs based on some woo woo reason like "carbs make me fat" then maybe she does not need to cut them in the first place and won't have to do back flips to eat "low carb" just because she thinks she has to...."

Which is not a question it seems....but I'm just repeating myself...

And what should I have called you ? "Dude" ? "Bro" or "Sir" maybe ?

This is getting silly...

misterwendy wrote: »

damn...i clicked on this thread thinking "wow...that's a lot of suggestions for low carb food ideas."

schooled.

Yep ! We might not be far from the Godwin point.

I have a table of higher fibre low carb foods here which uses UK / EU labelling conventions ie the "Carbohydrates" are sugars / starches and "Fibre" is completely separate and not part of carbs.