Whole grains, etc.
 

I'm starting to pay more attention to my diet than in the past. My question is this: If I'm supposed to seriously cut back on carbs (breads and cereals are my weak points), how do I ensure I'm getting enough whole grains, etc. in my diet?

This is important to me since I also have a tendency toward high cholesterol and the whole grains are part of helping control that.

ronmcc44;

When counting carbs you can still have breads and cereals with grains. I eat reduced cal wheat bread (10 carbs per slice) and cheerios (22.4 carbs per cup). You just have to be very selective and read the labels carefully.

Basically, any person carb counting needs to stay away from foods that are white; this includes sugar, flour, pasta, potatoes etc. Another rule of thumb is that; most vegetable that grow above the ground are low carb, with the exception of corn and peas.

Here is a vegetable list for low and high carb vegetables.

Ahh - good info.

Dano:
Cabbage is a high carb food??? :confused:

Yes, I consider it a moderately high carb, more than lettuce and less than corn. :) I suppose you could call cabbage low carb, but it is not no carb.

Other opinions may vary.......

OK, so it's not a no carb food. Then again I'll leave you with a truism somebody told me a good while back that still stays with me to this day.

And I'll add that with the exception of certain starchy or high sugar vegetables (sans sauces/syrups) that I'd be hard put to drive my sugar up meaningfully eating vegetables in anything but huge quantities.

I don't believe that the person who made the truism quote ate their way to diabetes, but it is a good rule to follow and we should have listened to our mother when she told us to eat our vegetables.

I agree. :)

I edited the post to add peas instead of cabbage, thanks for calling this to my attention. My memory is not what it used to be. ;)

I have become a vegan. Dr Neal Barnard has written a book called Reversing Diabetes. I have never had low sugars in the morning. Today it was 85. I had a huge plate of whole wheat pasta & organic spaghetti sauce with veggie cheese. It was the bomb.

Ezekial Breads
 

You can also try Ezekial breads. They seem not to raise my BG as much.

They also make English muffins too.

In the frozen section of good supermarkets and health food stores.

I get it at Wegmans for $3.99 a loaf.

Toasting is a must, though.

Grains are NOT important. I haven't eaten grains like wheat, corn, flour, rice for over 18 months and my numbers are better than perfect. We are being con that whole grains is good for you. They are NOT good for people with diabetes and Wheat isn't good for anybody.