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  • I just buy regular pizza and eat the topping, leaving a triangular piece of crust. Works well for me.
  • The marigold bars look ideal. I like the plain packaging, too. The Tanka & Epic bars are shelf stable. They won't satisfy a sweet tooth. The Epic lamb bar is a bit like eating a slab of butter with a large concentration of chewy lumps in it. (I love it!) But the individually wrapped packages are a beech to open. I usually…
  • You are the quintessential mom. I remember how hard it was to do a one-time on my daughter. All we needed was one prick for a mail order blood type test. Anyway, thanks for the link to the offer of the free meter. I'm wondering if I should go for it. It might be useful. I'm not diabetic, but I tend to go into metabolic…
  • I've just started, too, on 9/15. Looking to lose only about 25 lbs. Just as important is how stable my mood has already become!
  • I read somewhere that just thinking about a sugary treat is enough to stimulate an insulin response. I look at the packaging of the Quest and Mission1 bars and get turned off by it for this reason. Besides, they both list soluble corn fiber on their list of ingredients, but no mention of non-GMO.... Frankly the Kind bars…
  • I was surprised to find that my favorite "meat" bars (Epic lamb), have a whooping 11g net carb content. That's more than 1/3 my day's allowance! I guess that's better than Luna at 20+g. Krave jerky has 12g. So far the lowest net carb bar I've come across is the Kind bar with 9g, and only certain flavors such as "Dark…
  • Thanks, MssLvz! It's just what I needed!
  • Just started a ketogenic diet yesterday. It's so hard to keep the carbs low!
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