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Tuesday, March 10, 2009
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Those of us who are cutting carbs are often seeking some kind of low-carb bread or cracker that will serve as a platform for some soft cheese or other spread. One cracker product that Dr. Richard K. Bernstein said had the lowest carb count is the Norwegian GG crispbread. According to Bernstein, a 9...

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Buyer Beware
Venkat
Tuesday, March 10, 2009 at 01:20 PM

Thanks for the post Gretchen.

I was buying Aut Hattie's Low Carb Bread advertised as 5g net carbs per slice. When I consume - 2 slices, I used to see disproportionate increase in BG. Even after 2 hours - my BG will be hovering around 125 or 130 range. Hence I stopped buying it now.

As always - trust the meter and its values (onc in a while do sanity check on meter also).

Thanks

Venkat

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Trinkwasser
Thursday, March 12, 2009 at 12:43 PM

Never eat food with small print!

Tonight I shall be mostly eating chicken stir fry with real chicken and real veggies, none of which has writing on at all

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Gretchen Becker
Thursday, March 12, 2009 at 06:32 PM

I too eat mostly unprocessed food. In the summer I grow my own. But I also occasionally like something sweet. I occasionally eat a half a LC wrap. I think it's unrealistic to expect people to go to real extremes like never eating anything but organic meat and home grown veggies. Trying too hard often leads to failure.