Ultimate Guide to Carbs In Food

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1. Julie says

   October 15, 2017 at 2:56 am

   Hi Libby
   I’m really interested in learning how to work out how many net carbs there are in each of your recipes. I’m trying to lose weight and are keen to stick to the recommended 20g/ day.
   Thanks so much for terrific variety you offer with your recipes!

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2. Sruti Chandran says

   May 30, 2017 at 1:42 am

   Hey Libby I just want to tell you that I think your website is really cool and by following a low carb diet, my dad has managed to get off his diabetes medications, which he was taking for 20 years and I am so thrilled 😀 I am from India and I am 19 years old and I was looking for ways to follow a similar lifestyle in college. Unfortunately in law school, with late nights and what not, I have no access to healthy food and all the meals served to us are just carb fests- rice and potatoes. I suspect that even the curries are made out of vegetable oil. Do you have any idea as to what someone in my situation could do? All we have is junk and the only healthy food I have access to is fruit, which is fine because I don’t need to lose weight or anything, just looking to follow a healthy lifestyle. Any advice would be appreciated. (PS: I don’t eat meat or eggs and I apologize for the long rant 😀)

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   • Libby www.ditchthecarbs.com says

     May 30, 2017 at 1:15 pm

     Wow Sruti, send my congratulations to your father. I am so proud of him, that is superb. I spend my days dispensing T2 diabetes medication and so many don’t even want to acknowledge they are medicating for their food choices. He is a star, well done. Now, as for your study days, it will be tricky as you don’t eat meat or eggs, but do you eat cheese? Ghee? Whipped cream with berries? Nuts? Avocados? Fish? Tinned/canned tuna? Coconut cream? Nut butters? I also have this post for low-carb vegetarian meals . I’m sure there are some meals there you could make extra so you could take some leftovers with you perhaps. I am writing an article for vegans soon, so stay tuned. there will be some tips in there too.

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     • Sruti Chandran says

       May 31, 2017 at 8:40 pm

       Hey Libby thank you so much for responding! You are right, plus I am so angry that not a single doctor told my dad about this lifestyle and chose to medicate him instead. I am sure that they knew about this. If I, as a law school student who isn’t even studying medicine, can learn about this from watching YouTube, I fail to understand how these qualifies professionals did not know about this natural way of curing his disease and could have kept this hidden from my father and tell him that there’s no cure. Unfortunately, for me, with my exams going on, I was stress eating and I had fallen off the wagon completely and your post has woken me up 😊 thankfully I’m going home for summer break so I can finally eat healthy. It’s so annoying when law school gives access to so much junk but no good quality foods. I think that given my situation, the best i can do is to avoid junk completely, eat nuts and butter as well as coconut oil, just stick to the curries and eat fruit and if I have to eat carbs, to at least go for the unprocessed stuff. I don’t think that, given my lack of access to real food in college, I can follow an ideal nutrition plan but I think that for me, just cutting out the junk and refined carbs would be great. Plus i workout on a daily basis so I’m happy 😊
       I want to apologize for the length of my comments but I have a TON of questions, because I found so much conflicting information on nutrition… Can you please also talk about all of the cultures that ate a great deal of fruit, rice, potatoes and so on and never had any issues? Thank you so much!

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       • Libby www.ditchthecarbs.com says

         June 2, 2017 at 12:01 pm

         I know, it seems like it is up to all of us to do our own health research, because for most, nutrition is certainly is not offered as an option. I’m glad to hear some of my suggestions will work for you while studying. Do the best you can as often as you can. As for your question regarding the cultures which existed with fruit rice etc. There are many factors which don’t apply today. Food back then was unprocessed and they had to work darn hard to get it. Grow it, harvest to, cook it all with manual labour. They led incredibly active lifestyles and didn’t eat processed food, 80% of which now has added sugar or wheat. Also rice wasn’t the main player, it was meat, vegetables and healthy natural oils and fats. There were no ultra processed seed oils which are so damaging. Modern wheat is no longer anything like our ancestors ate, it is bred to be shorter, more disease resistant, higher in starch etc and wheat is found in almost every meal and snack. It’s like modern society needs to be carb loading for some famine that never arrives.

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3. Karen Phipps says

   May 29, 2017 at 8:22 pm

   Dear Libby
   First of all I want to say how much I’ve enjoyed using your ideas and recipes. But I am becoming increasingly frustrated with your website. It is just so busy with adverts popping up everywhere. I don’t want to buy furniture or clothes when I’m looking for a recipe to help me use up what’s left in my fridge. They take up so much screen space which is especially annoying when I’m using my tablet. I’m now finding that I can’t delete them!
   The other issue I have is searching for recipes – is it possible to have an index like at the back of a cookery book? If I put an ingredient in the search bar it brings up things that bear no relation to what I’m looking for because they are grouped in recipe ‘types’.
   I’m sorry if this sounds mean and grudging because I know you’ve done a fabulous job. I’m not a techy person so it maybe that this is how websites are built – I have seen some of the other sites have similar problems but it really puts me off.
   Best wishes,
   Karen

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   • Libby www.ditchthecarbs.com says

     May 30, 2017 at 1:06 pm

     I am so glad you are enjoying my site. Apologies for the adverts, that is what keeps my site free for everyone to use. I want to reach as many people as I can without any subscriptions or costs involved for them. As for searching recipes, just head to my recipe search. From there you can see an easy photo grid of all my categories such as breakfast, lunch, dinner etc. I’m not a techie person either. I’m a pharmacist who is trying to improve health through nutrition, not through dispensing pages of prescriptions which I do in my day job. So bear with me, I’m trying my best 🙂

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