can anyone help this pasta/rice loving family to reduce carb intake please

fozziebeartoo

They are made from konjak flour.

I don't think the product smells at all.....its the water they are sealed in with to keep them moist!

To me, its like opening a tin of chick peas (yuck) but stronger and takes longer to wash off.

This is from the H&B website

Nutritional Information

Product Information

Each(100g)serving contains:
Energy 7.7g
Protein 0g
Carbohydrate 0g
of which sugars 0g
Fat 0.2g
Fibre 3.5g
Glucmannan 3.15g

tea_lover wrote: »

I may regret asking this but what are they made of to make them smell so bad?!

purpleshoes_2

All I can say personally, is that having done the slimming world diet years ago and Im aware that it's changed an awful lot since then, it was red day green day then. I did the green diet, was very heavy on carbs, pasta, potatoes. I struggled to lose weight on it. I lost 10 pounds but it took me ages.

My friend who was doing the red day (which did allow carbs but in smaller portions), lost 3 stones in the same amount of time.

I don't dislike pasta, but I put weight on very easily even though Im very active and cutting down on carbs has worked for me.

I don't just feel fitter, I feel better all round. Eating stuff like pasta and potatoes in small quantities with healthy food to make up the rest of the serving might work for some people but it wouldn't work for me.

I was 2 and a half stones heavier 3 years ago and I was active then too, I didnt think I would get any lower than that weight in my entire life.

If people can eat bread and pasta as part of a balanced diet and it works for them, fine, but it didn't work for me and that's why I avoid them.

pinkteapot

pimento wrote: »

That's interesting. A portion of rice for me is 40g but a portion of pasta is 90g (both dried weight). I eat rice more often than I eat pasta.

I'm a little bit overweight but not much.

Interesting... 40g dried rice is around 140 cals. 90g dried pasta is around 300 cals. That's for white rice and white pasta. Do you eat more with rice than you do with pasta? If not, your rice meals are considerably smaller than your pasta meals.

PrettyKittyKat

I am another supporting of slimming world - I still eat my favourite stuff but lots of things now in moderation or with small changes which I hardly notice! Definitely feels like something I can maintain long term. You could join (and only pay for you to go) but then cook the meals and prepare the same snacks for the rest of your family so they get the benefit too!

Georgiegirl256

fozziebeartoo wrote: »

They don't taste of anything at all......so ideal with a tasty sauce etc.

I find them filling. More filling than normal rice and pasta!

To be honest, I expected them to smell bad and they were even worse than I expected

But lots and lots of rinsing sorted it out and there was NO nasty taste!!

If you are sensitive, maybe someone else could wash them for you?

I think they are a great product but VERY easy to be put off them by the wiff.

I think I'd have to get someone else to wash them. If they smell that bad it would put me of the meal before I'd even started cooking it. Just the feel of them in the pack was enough to make me shove them in the back of the cupboard. I might have to dig them out and try them.

adouglasmhor

onlyroz wrote: »

By smaller plates and eat with smaller cutlery. You could also try making your own pasta - it's just flour and eggs, and you can get a basic pasta machine for £20. The packet pasta is basically semolina and so I reckon that proper home-made egg pasta is better for you because it contains protein. You could also try substituting something like soba or udon noodles, both of which contain protein. Or there's the latest "super food" pasta substitute which is seaweed strands boiled up in the same way you'd cook spaghetti. It's quite expensive but tasty enough if you subsitute half the spaghetti for it.

Udon doesn't contain any more protein that ordinary noodles and Soba contains more as it is made with buckwheat.

lostinrates

Re pasta, did any one see the horizon (?) programme in which it was shown that cooling and reheating it changed the GI preferably.


For us here a portion of pasta is 75/80 grams. Millions of Italians eat lots of pasta with out obesity but portions are often smaller than a typical uk portion.

tea_lover

For me a portion of wholewheat pasta is 75g, brown rice is 50g. Could happily eat 250g+ of either if only the calories weren't there!

supermassive

Speaking as someone who knows (I've got one of those bodies that thinks I want to be fat from sniffing a lettuce leaf. Thanks, Genetics!)

Look on pinterest for alternatives. There are ways of making bread buns, pizza bases, pasta etc by using courgette or cauliflower substitutes instead.

Or just don't eat those things at all. Eat only natural things that haven't been played with much - meat, fish, vegetables. Easy.

supermassive

ViolaLass wrote: »

I eat pasta and bread all the time and am not overweight. Just get some exercise and portion sizes sensible. Carbs are not the enemy.

Not being overweight and trying to lose weight are 2 different things. I'm not over weight, but if I wanted to lose weight, I wouldn't carry on eating what I currently eat...