Baked Beans and the Devil's Work

(Jack Lovell) #1

Met for lunch with an old pal on Sunday and, dodging his best efforts to push me onto Tanglefoot 4.7% bitter, I persevered with spiced rum and soda despite the pressure. For instance “You would think a bloke would have a few pints with an old mate wouldn’t you?” ad nauseum.

The next morning I shot down to Wetherspoon’s for a breakfast of 2 fried eggs, 2 Bacon, only 1 sausage ('cos I don’t know how much rusk is in 'em) and that’s it. However, they additionally ladled on a large scoop of baked beans which looked innocuous enough that I thought they might cheer up the sausage (you’ve just gotta love an optimist).

Talk about repent at leisure. After scoffing them I did a casual carb check to find, horror of horrors, they were at best 53 grams of carbohydrate and probably more.

Riddle me this, Batman! 3 pints of Badger’s Tanglefoot (20 grams carbs/pint) or a dollop of Wetherspoon’s baked beans?
It’s the devil’s work indeed.

(Jessica) #2

You Brits and your beans for breakfast confound me, anyway, LOL! It’s funny finding those carb-heavy things when you are looking!

(Jack Lovell) #3

I thought Mel Brooks invented the bloody things… see Blazing Saddles (1974).

#4

I loved baked beans!! I used to slather it over fried eggs and slop it all up like it was the last edible things on earth. Alas. No more. Nevermind the blooper, get right back up on that horse and keep on going with your keto. :slight_smile:

(Little Miss Scare-All) #5

Same! As an American, I love most things British. I watch British tv, British comedy, but I just cannot get down with baked beans for breakfast, or at all really. I hate them. They dont seem to go with breakfast imo. But it’s all what you’re raised on. Somewhere on earth, cold cereal for breakfast is ludicrous.

(Ken) #6

Anyone know a keto crust recipe I can use for a pork pie?

(Jack Lovell) #7

Thank you for your kind encouragement, but why in hell do baked beans need to be so sugar laden and why would any idiot (such as myself) unwittingly exchange 3 pints of scrumptious beer for them?

#8

Because you were tempted
As we all are from time to time
My achilles heel is fried chicken… My husband is from Miami (I’m Canadian) and he spent a lot of time traveling in the south prior to meeting me. He also ends up being a chef de cuisine. CAN YOU IMAGINE…what we have given up. Beer is not even the least of it. He used to brew his own too. But don’t worry! You can overcome. I remember the taste of fried/refried beans in tomato sauce over fried eggs, Tabasco sauce and black pepper.

What I do to make myself feel better about retirement from fried chicken and baked beans is an entire package of natural smoked bacon… or pork chops swimming in a shallow dish of liquid gold (butter)…

(Jessica) #9

I know when I started, I would assume anything savory was pretty safe, until I learned otherwise. Beans was a big surprise.

(Jack Lovell) #10

Oh yes!
Pork chops and beef steak with pats of butter melting on top is certainly the way to go.
I, like your husband, was a serious home brewer in a previous incarnation and I am sure that this was the main contributing factor to my pre-diabeties.

Having seen the light I have been keto since last March and brought my HbA1c down from 45 to 38 mmols/mol and am thankfully now in the normal range.

I have consequently become obsessive and am still beating myself up about being so stupid as to tuck into a load of unnecessary carbs which I didn’t order, didn’t particularly want, but nevertheless consumed on impulse.

There’s a moral here somewhere but I’m damned if I can see it.