Comment by Trudy on April 9, 2012 at 7:30am

Not our first gluten-free holiday meal, since I've had full-blown Celiac for about 20 years now. Most of the carbs were in the fruits/dessert, of course! Ham, green beans, and mixed salad (lettuce, cherry tomatoes, mango, olives, homegrown fresh herbs). Good bread was served for others than myself. Nice red wine. Dessert was fruit salad and good chocolate candy or Russel Stover marshmallow eggs for those who didn't need low carbs, or those who went low... Hope you're still having a good weekend with good leftovers.

Comment by Kathleen on April 9, 2012 at 10:28am

It all sounds yummy, Trudy. I kept all the wheat away because I wanted to show my family that they really could survive without it. Oh, I forgot to mention that my cheesecakes were also sugar-free. I used Truvia instead of sugar and almond flour instead of graham crackers for the crust.

I've also been eating very low carb for the past two months.

Comment by Trudy on April 9, 2012 at 11:49am

Second try a this comment -- Your meal looked really delicious, appetizers and all. Following up on what you said, none of us felt at all starved either! I haven't tried cooking or baking with Truvia, but I like it in my tea and coffee. Almond flour is great. In the summer I'm active enough to use a few more carbs, and particularly like Udi's Wholegrain gluten-free bread, or make a bread machine loaf of Pamela's bread. Pamela's bread mix is mainly almond flour. I just read your blog and realized that perhaps you're not eating grains. When I just have to have a wrap other than lettuce, I make buckwheat injera; buckwheat is not a grain. I have learned to be very careful about portions, and don't have the "craving for carbs" problem that some folks do using my low/moderation carb diet. You are very ambitious to be working on your Type II by diet alone!

Comment by Kathleen on April 9, 2012 at 2:49pm

Thanks, Trudy. I've heard good things about Udi's. I am in search of it because I would like to remove wheat from my son's diets also and that seems to be a good transition. I would have to use it most sparingly at 17 carbs a slice. I generally have less carbs than that in an entire day. Once I eliminated wheat in particular, I stopped craving carbs. And I was a carbaholic. I also have a recipe for flaxseed wraps that you make in the microwave that I'm going to try. But even almond flour and flaxseed and other alternatives (rice starch, tapioca starch, potato starch, etc.) seem to wreak havoc on my blood sugar numbers. So I'm avoiding them for the most part. I did manage to get through the holiday weekend without trashing my numbers. :-)

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