Low Carb Grocery List

I have compiled a list of Low Carb items to look for an buy at the grocery store.  I did some research online for some frozen dinners that were low carb and listed them below.  I had to do the homework so I could make a list before heading out.  I hope my grocery store carries them.  I like to eat a frozen dinner for an easy lunch.  No one had compiled a list of low carb frozen meals so I did it myself.  I wish is was easy to find the carb counts, minus the fiber, on the products pages.  I had to click at least 2-3 times to find it on each product.

I put the –x fiber after some of them.  You can minus the amount of fiber in a product from the carbohydrate count to get the total carbohydrate count that will effect your body.  Some people don’t subtract it, but I added it because I do subtract the fiber.

I didn’t go through all the Healthy Choice dinners yet but I will

Low Carb Groceries

Healthy Choice Dinners
Salisbury Steak   18 carbs
Roasted Beef Merlot  25c  -5fiber
Salisbury Steak  18  -4fiber
Slow Roasted Turkey Medallions  28c   – 4fiber

Lean Cuisine
herb roasted chicken  19c   -3fiber
meatloaf and mashed 25c  -3fiber
Glazed Chicken  26c   -2fiber
Beef Pot Roast  26c  -3fiber
Fajita Spring Rolls  20c  -2fiber
Steak tips Portabellas 18c
Roasted Turkey & Veggies 18c -7 fiber
roasted Garlic Chicken 11c
Baked Chicken Florentine 14c
Honey Dijon Grilled Chicken

Smart Ones
Meatloaf and mashed 22c  –3fiber
Slow Roasted Turkey Breast  18c  -2fiber
Home Style Beef Pot Roast  18c  -3fiber
Creamy Parmesan Chicken  24c  -4fiber
Chicken Santa Fe   11c  -4fiber (OMG)  LOL
Roast Beef, Mashed Potatoes  18c   -2fiber
Salisbury Steak  21c   -4fiber

Michelinas
Sausage, Egg, Cheese Snackers 15c
Salisbury Steak 20c –2fiber
Sausage, Egg & Cheese Breakfast Biscuit 16c
Gravy & Sausage Breakfast Biscuit 16c

Other Groceries
Lemons (sliced in water)
Mayo
Low Carb Flour (almond, carbquick)
Sugar Substitute
Sugar Free items various pre packages
Sugar Free brownie mix (must have)
Sugar free chocolate chips
Low Carb Crackers
Flat out Tortilla’s  (pizza crusts, wraps, etc)
Lettuce
Tomatoes
Almond Milk
Bacon
Sausage
Canned Pumpkin
Frozen Cauliflower  lots
Sour Cream
artichoke hearts (canned)
spinach frozen
cheeses
cream cheese
olives
pickles
Sugar free pickle relish

Quinoa Pizza Crust

hmm   saw this online.  I ‘m going to try it tomorrow.   I’ve been in deep denial about my health……..frustrating………………need to stop thinking I’m normal…….

Back to low carbing………

Quinoa Pizza Crust Recipe

Lemons are my friends….

OK, I didn’t know anything thing about this till I saw a post on LowCarbFriends.com.  It has to do with alkalinity.

Piratejenny ~ “Fresh limes & lemons work, too. They’re not alkaline themselves, obviously, but the effect on the body is alkalizing. A few days ago, my BG was 125 a few hours after lunch; I squeezed an entire lime into a glass of iced tea, and 2 hours later, my BG was 80! “

ACV Apple Cider Vinegar is suppose to have the same effect but I would much rather drink Lemon I my water. 

So yesterday I added either RealLemon from the green bottle to my water or a couple slices of fresh lemon squeezed and my sugars were down all day.  Even after having a piece of shoo fly pie (oopppss) after dinner for Bob’s birthday.  My BS this morning was 87.  And after having an english muffin, egg, and sausage for breakfast my blood sugar was 77 before lunch!  I hope this lasts.  It is so easy to add lemon to your water. 

I wanted to post this so if anyone else wanted to try it.

I stayed hydrated yesterday too because I wanted to drink, did I say that?  I always have a hard time staying hydrated, which could be another reason the BS’s were low. 

I don’t know but I’m going to stick with it.

Oatmeal Savings and Convience

I saved a little I think but definitely made it easier for morning or snack time.

I took regular oatmeal in the can and measured out 1/3 cup into small sandwich ziplocks. Then added sweetener and some spices. I like cinnamon and apple pie spice. Then wrote on the bag “add 2/3 C water”.

Now I only have to grab a bag empty into bowl add water and microwave! Yes, I could buy the premade packets but they are pricey and I can make my own flavors this way.

The box (can) says one serving is 1/2 cup dry for 150 calories. I want it in 100 calories servings so it is 1/3 cup. It is plenty for a breakfast or easy 100 calorie snack.

Easy to take with you too!

Loved this email…. Being Green

Being Green

Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren’t good for the environment.

The woman apologized and explained, “We didn’t have this green thing back in my earlier days.”

The young clerk responded, “That’s our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations.”

She was right — our generation didn’t have the green thing in its day.

Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled.

But we didn’t have the green thing back in our day.

Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we reused for numerous things, most memorable besides household garbage bags, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our schoolbooks. This was to ensure that public property, (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribblings. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags.

But too bad we didn’t do the green thing back then.

We walked up stairs, because we didn’t have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn’t climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks.

But she was right. We didn’t have the green thing in our day.

Back then, we washed the baby’s diapers because we didn’t have the throwaway kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts — wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing.

But that young lady is right; we didn’t have the green thing back in our day.

Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house — not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana . In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn’t have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn’t fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn’t need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.

But she’s right; we didn’t have the green thing back then.

We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.

But we didn’t have the green thing back then.

Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn’t need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint.

But isn’t it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn’t have the green thing back then?

Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smartass young person…

We don’t like being old in the first place, so it doesn’t take much to piss us off.

Good article diabetes-–a low energy disease

http://ownyourhealth.wordpress.com/2008/08/20/diabetes-–-a-low-energy-disease/

Metformin

I thought I’d update about my metformin.  OK  I really, really, hated taking the stuff.

I’m on 2000mg’s a day, and when taking it I am in the bathroom most of the time. Can’t go exercise because I need a bathroom near, hiking is hard to do……

I slacked off and my sugars were great, so I convinced myself (denial) that I can do without it. Well, my weight climbed through the winter and sugars started going up again. 

I told myself when we get home from moving my daughter from Golden, CO to Houston for her job, that I would get back on track.  So I took 1/2 of a pill with breakfast and a whole pill at bedtime. Taking a whole pill at bedtime hasn’t made me feel bad.  I did that for a couple days then I started taking 1/2 a pill at breakfast, 1/2 a pill at lunch, then a whole pill before bed.  I don’t know why I didn’t think of doing this sooner…

Now I’m getting the full dosage daily and taking the pill split in the morning seems to help me with the bathroom runs and NAUSEOUSness!  YEAH.  So my sugars have been back down in the normal range and I’ve lost a few pounds, so I hope the trend continues.