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Permalink Reply by JohnG on March 23, 2012 at 4:13am

If it's not required for medical reasons why add it to your huge list of daily requirements, it's expensive and your choices for Gluten free food will minimal at best...RU-celiac.

Yes I have tried gluten free and it was a complicated and time consuming but not a impossible task.

You can have great BG control and still eat just about anything as long as it's "Low Carb" and you practice some kind of portion control...a low carb diet can be very close to a Gluten free diet.

JMHO...;-)

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Permalink Reply by palomino on March 23, 2012 at 4:17am

Lol. I like cake. And brownies. And things like that. I figured trying gluten free baking at the least would help.

Damn regular chocolate chip cookies send me crazy high every time.. but I can't give them up!

Cry.

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Permalink Reply by juliannaergrl on March 23, 2012 at 5:18am

One the back of the Splenda brown sugar blend package there's a really good choc chip cookie recipe. It still has carbs but it's easier to control my bg when it's those.

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Permalink Reply by palomino on March 23, 2012 at 11:55am

I can try sugar free, but I feel that it is the wheat that makes my sugar spike like crazy. I can eat regular plain chocolate without issue, but the cookie not so much.

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Permalink Reply by Zoe on March 23, 2012 at 10:54am

Gluten free doesn't mean carb free. And even sugar free substitute desserts often have more carbs than the ones with sugar.

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Permalink Reply by MyBustedPancreas on March 23, 2012 at 5:01am

No, I tried it briefly and it didn't make any difference (in fact, it made things worse because a lot of the packaged foods that are gluten free are also high in carbs!)

What has worked best for me to improve control is simply limiting the number of carbs I eat. For a while, I was eating a "normal" diet, with upwards of 250 carbs per day. My BG control was horrid. I just could not reliably match my insulin to my carb intake. When I lowered my today daily carbs to around 90-120, I immediately felt better and had better control.

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Permalink Reply by Trudy on March 23, 2012 at 5:03am

Hi palominovet. I have Celiac Disease, so have no choice but to eat gluten free. What you are asking, I think, is for lower carb flours than wheat. Coconut and almond flours are both healthy with lower carbs and taste good. Gerri here on TuD has good recipes that are gluten free, low carb and taste good. Finding gluten free recipes is easy; finding gluten free recipes that are low carb is not so easy!

Just cooking gluten free is not necessarily low carb cooking. Without the gluten in wheat, textures can be poor, so many gluten free recipes have such as white rice flour, tapioca flour, and potato starch (which is different from potato flour). I do find brown rice flour to be useful because of the fiber and lower glycemic index. There are a lot of good pancake recipes using the alternate flours; the trick is to eat just a few and freezing the rest. Darn portion control!

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Permalink Reply by palomino on March 23, 2012 at 11:58am

Thanks, Trudy. I think part of my issue is that the wheat spikes it.. regardless of the carb numbers. I thought maybe I would try a recipe or two of gluten free 'sweets' (trying a portion with similar number of carbs as the regular cookies I eat) and see how it affects my BG.

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Permalink Reply by KCCO on March 23, 2012 at 5:17am

I am on pinterest and there seem to be so many blogs on there about eating gluten free. You have to search, but it's fun to do. You also have to be invited to join, so if you want me to invite you via email, I can do that.

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Permalink Reply by BadMoonT2 on March 23, 2012 at 6:11am

I am a T2 not on insulin following an "eat to your meter" approach. Early on I found wheat spiked me unacceptably so I haven't had wheat or any other grain for 2.5 years. There are lots of recipe resources on the web. You can still eat well and not feel deprived. In addition to gluten free search for low carb and paleo. Actually cookies and cakes are fairly easy to bake using almond flour, coconut flour etc.

Some recipe sources:
http://www.lowcarbfriends.com/bbs/
http://www.genaw.com/lowcarb/

tuD is also a great resource.
There are several low carb recipe groups here's one to get you started.
Another place to look is in the Bernstein Group. While not a recipe group per say some great recipe ideas have been posted from time to time.

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Permalink Reply by palomino on March 23, 2012 at 12:00pm

Thank you! Corn is also my enemy. :( Oddly.. potatoes don't do a heck of a lot to my BG as long as I cover their carby goodness. :)

Can't wait to try some of these.

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Permalink Reply by Helen Howes on March 23, 2012 at 9:35am

I don't eat wheat. My partner is celiac and I don't want to risk contaminating his food supply, so I removed it from the house. I feel better without it but the BS numbers are only marginally lower. Even that is worth having
I use a lot of almond flour in baking and no sugar or any other sweeteners. My cakes rise OK, but my BS doesn't...
Most GF processed food is Very High Carb, very sweet, and pretty disgusting. All of it spikes me worse than wheat products and is not nice.

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