ping Ray

Weight Watchers and Thomas' both make lower carb english muffins. If you
cant find them, try eating one half a english muffin and although ymmv,
it could be a good thing

Loretta

On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 11:00:50 -0400, Loretta Eisenberg wrote:

> Weight Watchers and Thomas' both make lower carb english muffins. If you
> cant find them, try eating one half a english muffin and although ymmv,
> it could be a good thing
>
> Loretta

Thanks for the note. I currently have one half english muffin whith my
breakfast nearly every day. I've checked labels, but everything I've seen
has the same carb content - except the ones with raisins, which are
higher. I'll see if I can find any of those locally. I have found a couple
of breads that were significantly lower - I think one was an Oroweat
'double fibre'. And, BTW, Baker's semi-sweet chocolate is only 7 grams
carb for 1/2 ounce.

In article <pan.2007.07.04.21.38.31.555612@zianet.com>,
ray <ray@zianet.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 11:00:50 -0400, Loretta Eisenberg wrote:
>
> > Weight Watchers and Thomas' both make lower carb english muffins. If you
> > cant find them, try eating one half a english muffin and although ymmv,
> > it could be a good thing
> >
> > Loretta
>
> Thanks for the note. I currently have one half english muffin whith my
> breakfast nearly every day. I've checked labels, but everything I've seen
> has the same carb content - except the ones with raisins, which are
> higher. I'll see if I can find any of those locally. I have found a couple
> of breads that were significantly lower - I think one was an Oroweat
> 'double fibre'. And, BTW, Baker's semi-sweet chocolate is only 7 grams
> carb for 1/2 ounce.

You can get much better chocolate for that carb hit. There's a large
variety of 70% cocoa solids (and higher) at Trader Joes, for instance.
The organic/natural section of my supermarket has bars from a variety of
manufacturers. Ghirardelli has dark chocolate bars. And so on. The
higher the quality of the chocolate, the more likely you are to be
satisfied with a small piece.

The chocolates I'm currently working on are mini peanut butter chocolate
cups (sort of like Reese's cups). The serving size on the package is 3
pieces, for 21 g carbs. I find one quite satisfying, and 7 g carbs,
especially with a bit of peanut butter, is quite manageable.

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AF
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On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 17:56:18 -0400, Alice Faber wrote:

> In article <pan.2007.07.04.21.38.31.555612@zianet.com>,
> ray <ray@zianet.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 11:00:50 -0400, Loretta Eisenberg wrote:
>>
>> > Weight Watchers and Thomas' both make lower carb english muffins. If you
>> > cant find them, try eating one half a english muffin and although ymmv,
>> > it could be a good thing
>> >
>> > Loretta
>>
>> Thanks for the note. I currently have one half english muffin whith my
>> breakfast nearly every day. I've checked labels, but everything I've seen
>> has the same carb content - except the ones with raisins, which are
>> higher. I'll see if I can find any of those locally. I have found a couple
>> of breads that were significantly lower - I think one was an Oroweat
>> 'double fibre'. And, BTW, Baker's semi-sweet chocolate is only 7 grams
>> carb for 1/2 ounce.
>
> You can get much better chocolate for that carb hit. There's a large
> variety of 70% cocoa solids (and higher) at Trader Joes, for instance.
> The organic/natural section of my supermarket has bars from a variety of
> manufacturers. Ghirardelli has dark chocolate bars. And so on. The
> higher the quality of the chocolate, the more likely you are to be
> satisfied with a small piece.

We're all out of Trader Joe's up here in Idaho - probably not one withing
500 miles. I've checked out some of the chocolate bars, and they all seem
quite high. Actually I'm quite satisfied with a half square of the Baker's
semi-sweet. I find that as I've modified my diet it takes smaller portions
to satisfy me. I will check again - our Fred Meyer has a 'low carb'
section. Anyway, thanks for the ideas.

>
> The chocolates I'm currently working on are mini peanut butter chocolate
> cups (sort of like Reese's cups). The serving size on the package is 3
> pieces, for 21 g carbs. I find one quite satisfying, and 7 g carbs,
> especially with a bit of peanut butter, is quite manageable.

The problem there, is that I've never been able to stand chocolate and
peanut butter.