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Permalink Reply by Bradford on September 22, 2010 at 9:31am

Their pancakes are loaded. They are good but definitely hard to cover. So rather than "carby" foods you decide to try and get an omelet right? Except it is loaded too. If you read their menus about the eggs (omelets specifically), they say that they use some of the pancake batter to make the eggs fluffier...so you have to try and account for the carbs "hidden" in the eggs too.
I don't have a good magic formula for you other than just from trial and error based on my experience of eating that type of stuff at home and then on my past experiences eating there...

Permalink Reply by Amy on September 22, 2010 at 9:40am

Saturday I had the eggs benedict with regular bacon. Sunday I had the apple cinnamon crepe with scrambled eggs, 2 sausage links and 2 strips of bacon. but I can't seem to find the about of carbs that it is to record! if you can help me that would be great. I personally hate when a restaurant do not have the nutritional value on their site. It makes it harder for me to calculate

Permalink Reply by Bradford on September 22, 2010 at 10:24am

For me the bacon (the fat in the bacon) in those meals would delay the carbs going in, so I'd have to extend the bolus quite a bit. But that's a separate issue :-)

Calorie king shows "eggs benedict" to have between 36g and 40g per serving (for a couple of different brands). Now how does this "serving size" stack up to what you had at IHOP? I don't know. I don't eat eggs benedict, so I can't really say.

The crepe is another area where I'm unfamiliar. Calorie king has a pretty large spread on carb count w/ that too. Here are two screenshots of different brand names of crepes...one is a cranapple and one is strawberry banana (no one had straight apple cinnamon):

You can see that one has 208 g carbs. That is again another vague listing of "one serving", which may actually be several crepes. I don't know how big that is so I can't say with certainty. Compare that to the "one crepe" of the strawberry banana and it is only listed as 43 g carbs. If you know these brand names then I would compare those "serving sizes" to what you received on your plate at IHOP, and I'd go from there...

Permalink Reply by Amy on September 22, 2010 at 10:31am

Thanks for your help. I am not sure who else would make apple cinnamon crepes. I noticed cinnamon in the title and thought to have it as cinnamon has great value to diabetics (so i heard). I'll go based on what you gave me and have to guessamate based on what you given me. My DE may have a better sense of the carbs once she gets the info on friday.

Permalink Reply by Bradford on September 22, 2010 at 10:36am

There is some literature that mentions consuming cinnamon to help better regulate glucose, but I'm pretty sure that is more with type II (if it is even valid...I have heard the same thing but never looked into the scientific side of it to know). I'm sure someone on here probably has more info about it, but I'm 99% sure it doesn't do much for type I :-)

I think your DE would be a great resource for working through the mystery carb items too! Hope she can help you out for the next time you visit IHOP.

Permalink Reply by Amy on September 22, 2010 at 10:46am

I hope so. usually I can get the nutritional value for most of the places I go to but IHOP does not disclose their value. makes me want to write to the American diabetes association and see what we can do to get restaurants to place the nutritional value on their site so we can better manage our food intake and portion our foods better.

Permalink Reply by AaronM on September 22, 2010 at 12:04pm

Of all places to go, IHOP is definitely not diabetic friendly. The menu emphasizes sugar, starch and fat to the extreme. You are better off choosing a different type restaurant with more diabetic friendly choices. The eggs by themselves are ok but the sauce on the eggs Benedict is likely to be thickened with starch. (The real Benedict sauce is pure butter and egg yolks which is not good for us either.) IHOP panders to decadent urges for sugar, starch and fat in oversized portions. BTW Crepes are basically flour with small amounts of eggs and milk to bind the mix. The fillings are usually very sweet friut sauces loaded with sugar. Sorry to bring sad tidings. :-((

Permalink Reply by Amy on September 23, 2010 at 3:54pm

It was the closes place to go eat in a short amount of time we had. I dont eat there often at all but on those two days again the closes to where we were.

Permalink Reply by AaronM on September 23, 2010 at 4:22pm

I found a source for food nutrition information in general that you wanted.
http://www.cspinet.org/menulabeling/
I found some info on IHOP here
http://www.cspinet.org/menulabeling/boards12.html (see attached picture)

Notice the omlet meals with 1200 to 1500 calories. Negotiating an IHOP menu is like going through a Diabetic's mine field. It's tough for Diabetics living in a non-diabetic world. I hear you though.

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Permalink Reply by CarbloverTX on February 4, 2012 at 11:19am

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/nutrition-facts-calories/international-... has SOME information about it. I don't see why IHOP won't provide their carb counts. I thought it had become law that restaurants must provide that information.

Permalink Reply by Shawnmarie on February 29, 2012 at 12:41pm

Looks like this is an older thread because IHOP does provide the information now as legally required: http://ihop.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3...

Good to know because I like my pancakes and have finally gotten the hang of bolusin for them!