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| # Posted 2008-06-13 21:14:35 | |
| Yukon King: | the key to food is Seductive Alternatives... how do you ingest undesired sugar & wheat (what?! what?! "undesired sugar"...what does this phrase mean??? aaahhh!)
so, does the sugar thing include fruits? maple? fruit juices? dried fruit? just candy/cake dessert/pop type sugars or added-type sugar eg in morning stimulant or on oatmeal? - my sugar scale slides thru all of those sometime depending on how extreme I'm being... once you decide on yer target, then nail it w an easily accessed (ie not too exotic) substitute - eg, for me, one medjool date is totally acceptable as a substitute for any dessert, & altho its super-sugary it does have fibre N vitamins blabla & is small... I have an insanely yummy rye crackerbread that is fast & easy to make, I'll see if it works with pure rye flour, it should be fine... does kamut pasta count as non-wheat (it's just ancestral wheat, really, I think, so it's still wheat) is there a rice bakery someplace close - allota their stuff is skanko-weird, but one or two acceptable substitutes could be all it takes to score some wheat points... uh...blablabla... that's enuf, now... |
| # Posted 2008-06-17 01:31:57 | |
| barb: | The food-related rules on my 17-point plan would not stand up to close scrutiny for logic or consistency, I think.
I allow fruit and honey but want to avoid refined sugar. The reason for avoiding wheat is to lose weight and find healthier alternatives. I think I'll probably allow certain kinds of wheat (like bulgur wheat in tabouli salad). I didn't know about kamut paste. Substitutes are a good idea! Another recommendation I got recently was to decide on half a dozen to a dozen healthy "default" dinner recipes, so that deciding what to have for dinner,. and shopping for it and preparing it is easy. |
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