caveman diet is out - your body converts protein into carbs.
So a medical keto diet as prescribed by one of the uks top dieticians - is not protein heavy
The last week pretty much 90% of my carbs have come from vegetables !
How bloody weird is that !
Mind you I have developed a really good no wheat bread recipe.
You still use almond flour (simple to make) but you replace a chunk of it with gluten
Gluten is actually lower in carbs than almonds. It is 80% protein , so you don't go mad with it.
But the rolls I made were great.
They also stayed oven fresh and springy for the last 3 days - something no wheat based bread has ever done. I presume it's the high fat content that retards it going stale.
A year ago my blood sugar levels were in the 20's.
This morning 9.7 - so I guess the last year's sacrifices weren't for nothing.
No sign of keto in my piddle but I guess that side of things is going to take a lot longer with the diabetes and my insulin resistance.
Who knew brussels sprouts even had carbohydrate ?
On the plus side - I can pretty much eat as many mushrooms as I like.
So the first thing I did mas make some mushroom powder.
600gms of mushrooms went down to 81gms powder.
Mushroom powder is great stuff, works like an umami heavy seasoning but also as a sauce thickener and 600gms much rooms is about 3 gms of carbs.
Garlic - 10% carb !
Fortunately dried garlic has half the carbs content - no it didn't make sense to me either.
But glad it does. I go through an awful lot of garlic !
Brazil nuts have 1/3 the carbs of almonds. less protein and a lot more fat.
So I roasted 600gms and made them into brazil nut butter.
Kinda runny - but that just means it lasts longer
Currently trying to work out a 'pasta' recipe.
Gluten is the key. But also picking the right kind of flour to go with it.
watch this space.