Unfortunately this form of "cheese" food is almost 100 percent transfat
which presents particularly negative risks for diabetics. There are real
cheeses that also come sliced and wrapped.

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My favorite substitute for bread for a sandwich is slices of green or
red pepper. They make lovely small sandwiches with a lot of crunch.

Kristi

I do the same except I do the slices on a baking sheet in the oven. That
way, the slices get nice and melty/crisp AND browned. I do two at a time
and then….I then let the slices cool a bit, and use them as the "bread"
for a sandwich. Love this with tuna salad….tastes like a tuna melt,
without the carbs of the bread. Also makes a good tomato sandwich.

Lillian, pork rinds and hard boiled eggs are good snacks, pretzels and
pringles are, for most of us, not very good as they are high carb and not
much else. However, you canmake delicious cheese snacks with slices of
American cheese. The snacks end up delicious even if American cheese is an
insipid pale imitation of good cheese.

You get the individually wrapped slices and unwrap one. Place the plastic

on a plate that is heat proof and the cheese on that, maybe broken into two
pieces, up to you. Microwave this. The time depends on the power of your
micro, from 45 seconds to a minute and 45 seconds. The idea is to melt the
cheese and let it puff up. As soon as it cools, it will become crispy and
taste like a good quality cheese cracker, but with very few carbs.

You can do approximately the same thing with pepperoni slices. Lay them on
a paper towel to absorb the fat and nuke until they are crisp. When they
cool, they will be little round and spicy pepperoni crackers, again, really
delicious and almost no carbs.

Some low GL fruits like raspberries, blueberries and strawberries are good,
but it is sometimes hard to eat just a small amount, kind of like the old
Lay’s potato chip commercials.

Dan

Nuts?

Almonds are a good snack nut. Especially the natural ones that aren’t
smoked or salted. The smoked kind contains Nitrates that has recently been
suspect in certain types of cancer.
100 calorie pringles?

My opinion on these are that they are too carby. But if you aren’t watching
your carbs, but rather counting calories, they might be okay.

Pretzels?

Again…Too Carby. Also, they are pretty high in sodium which causes some

people to retain fluids.

Cheese sticks?

I think the string cheese is a pretty good snack. You are getting protein
and not a whole lot of carbs. Also you are getting dairy (think calcium).
But, there is the fat to consider if you don’t choose the low fat or non
fat. (Then you might as well be eating rubber).

popcorn?

Has some fiber, but for me too many carbs. Plus if your counting calories,
that knocks out the butter. Salt brings in the sodium count.

hard boiled eggs?

To me, kind of bland just by itself, but if you deviled them with a bit of
mayo, and a bit of mustard, some dill pickle relish, it would be okay. Very
Low Carb. You could make it lower fat by using low fat or non fat mayo or
just omitting it and keeping the mustard.

Pork Rinds?

A very acquired taste. I have a lot of low carb recipes that use pork rinds
in place of flour. I have an excellent recipe for stuffing that even my Non
dieting friends love. I happen to like Pork rinds, but only in small
amounts. They have a nice crunch when you are longing for chips.
Definitely NOT low fat.

I hope this helps. One of my favorite Late night snacks is fruit.
Especially blueberries. Celery and carrot sticks are another of my fav
snacks at night. With a bit of dressing to dip. Let me know what you
come up with.

Anyone see better BG on 5 then 10 pen ???

Lillian

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This summer I ended up being seriously overloaded with class, an internship and
trying to hammer out a memo (which is still more in charge of me and I of it).
Food, exercise…it seemed everything ended up being a problem for me. Still, I
had one regular semester where I ended up taking 12 credits, plus doing a
non-credited internship (add 3) and then writing a law review article (add
another 3) for the equivilant total of something like 18 credits of graduate
work during one semester. I was too busy to worry about eating. So the flip
side of working your fingers to the bones is that you may be too tired and
overhwhelmed to eat!

As someone with ADD/ADHD and dyslexia I understand the difficulty of going back
to school and having to learn way too much way too fast. Sometimes it is like

having somone stick a hose in your noggin and turning it on full blast in hopes
that something being poured in will not run out your ears. At least, that’s the
way it feels to me sometimes.

I’m so tickled with your foray into non-junk food eating. I don’t think I eat
much junk food. I’m not sure in my world there IS junk food. Either I can eat
it and it’s on my list or I try not to allow it to exist for me. Really a
problem when I forget to bring food, go to the vending machine in vain hope that
there are peanuts - there almost never are because the Dean is massively
allergic to them - and realize that there is literally nothing else there I can
eat so I trudge back to class and hope I brought a hoodia pill with me to cover
the need to eat. Fortunately, I don’t totally space food very often. I
usually have an Atkins bar or some nuts stuffed into a space in my book wheelie
for emergencies.

When I was losing weight consistently I was eating no more than 1000 calories a
day - often less - around 800 many days. In my case, I can’t just low carb. I
can eat an entire bag of pork rinds at a sitting - which is a whale of a lot of
calories. I have to do both. I have no other alternative.

I have a bit of a kicker in my eating habits as well. I’m hypersensitive to
some sort of chemical (can’t remember what) that means I taste bitter vastly
more than the so called normal population. I found this out when I was in
college and a biology professor had us all taste a powder and I was the one who
went into orbit. This limits what I can tolerate in terms of flavors as well.
Aged cheese tastes bitter as gall to me. I will only eat a few kinds of cheeses
as the rest are inedible. I can’t tolerate any of the really bitter greens and
is probably one of the reasons I can’t deal with This is not helpful when one
is already limiting one’s diet. The professor told me I was the "food taster"
people used to use to find the natural chemicals used in poisons.
Great…that’s me…the unpopular kings of the past just loved my ancestors!

Wish I knew when Byetta was coming to Canada. So near and yet so far, eh?

Okay, enough for now!

Keep on doing your non-junk food thing. I think that’s totally cool!

Marsha

Personally, I have to watch carbs and calories. I’ve tried some of the 100
calorie bags of treats just to see what happened. What happened was high blood
glucose, so I don’t eat them, although I do give them to my highly energetic,
sports playing, thin and well muscled granddaughters who are not diabetic.

Pepperoni and cheese puffs are great for carbs, but not necessarily for
calories. Sort of depends on what the ultimate motivation is. Pork rinds are
fatty and will curb hunger pretty easily, so they can be the best bang for one’s

buck to assuage hunger, whereas maybe low-carb sweet pickles (they are out
there, folks) or some dill spears are enough to get over the need to much
without too many calories or carbs.

YMMV

Cheers!
Marsha