How do you Spend only 10g of Carbs?

(Davy) #1

Yesterday I shot for 10g. Then found that Spinach has oxalates and they’re not particularly good.
So if you only had 10g to eat of carbs, what foods are the best to use for this?
Probably not 4 low carb beers. :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

(Windmill Tilter) #2

Why 10g?

I think broccoli sprouts are a pretty good place to spend a couple carbs. They’re incredibly dense in sulforaphane and are such a potent anti-cancer treatment that John Hopkins tried to patent broccoli sprouts and broccoli seeds generally. There was all kinds of litigation. Broccoli sprout farmers were getting cease and desist letters. Big pharma is still fighting patent wars over the stuff!

Sounds crazy, but it’s true. Google it!

The next place I’d spend some carbs would be on turmeric and black pepper. The curcumin that is 3% by weight in turmeric is an unbelievably potent anti-inflammatory. It’s available as a whole food, and it’s cheap as heck. It needs peperine and fat to be bioavailable, which is easily supplied with a bit of black pepper and a ketogenic diet. It’s the primary spice in pretty much all Indian cooking. Curcumin is so promising in combatting cancer and as an anti-inflammatory that there have been hundreds of research papers examining how it works in the last couple of years. No joke, the concentrated extract of curcumin is used to treat arthritis. It worked for mine! I considering spending a few hundred dollars a month a prescription med, but curcumin worked just fine.

If you have an oxolate sensitivity, you can buy the pure curcuminoids. I don’t take any other supplements, and most are just fillers and unicorn dust, but curcumin is the real deal. You don’t have to spend a fortune either, you can buy 95% pure curcuminoids on the good ol’ Amazon for pretty cheap. It’s another topic worth a quick google. A 3 month supply is just $25. Don’t buy the pills you’ll find on amazon; you’d need 10 of them to match a serving of the product below. When you read the label on the pill based supplements they’re mostly just turmeric filler.

(Full Metal KETO AF) #3

Cheese, liver, eggs, bacon, sausage, sour cream and the occasional hot peppers. I’m weening off vegetables, peppers are a hold out now. Occasionally I still eat cabbage, broccoli, and cauliflower but I’m moving away from it. Arugula is the green leaf lowest in oxalates. :cowboy_hat_face:

(Bob M) #4

When someone says something is “anti-inflammatory”, what does this mean?

(Susan) #5

Bok Choy, cabbage, lettuce are all low carbs. I often make a salad with romaine, a can of tuna/chicken/ham and avocado mayonnaise, it is very filling and very low carb. I also like to fry cabbage or bok choy in butter, then add bacon or meat to that; again, very low carb =)

(Windmill Tilter) #6

I think it depends on who is saying it, and what the context is.

This website gives a really good overview on what “anti-inflammatory” means in the context of a compound that reduces inflammation, which is how I meant it above when I was talking about curcumin:

(Windmill Tilter) #7

Yes! I only just recently discovered cabbage, and now I wonder where it’s been all my life. Fried cabbage and hamburger is my new comfort food. :heart_eyes:

#8

those low carb beers are sounding enticing tho LOL

I was extreme lc before hitting into carnivore.

I would do about 10 total carbs per day with VLC (very low carb)

So what I would eat is all meat/seafood and my 10g would be from dark chocolate. I bought the best quality bars. It was around 6-10g per serving depending on which ones I bought. Not every day but when I wanted it, I allowed it.

Being carnivore, rarely I want my chocolate any more but when I do…I dirty carnivore that day and eat my 6-10g of chocolate and call it a day LOL

(Pete A) #9

@Don_Q my life (with dairy) in a nutshell:

“So what I would eat is all meat/seafood and my 10g would be from dark chocolate.”

#10

dairy!!!

(David Cooke) #11

I am a big user of turmeric, this year’s crop is nearly ready in our garden. However I might point out that there is a difference between the bioavaliability of curcurmin in fresh roots, dried powder and turmeric extract. The pictured product from Amazon is not turmeric extract, which contains the highest amount of bioavailable curcurmin.
Second to that comes fresh root and then powdered turmeric root .In other words, turmeric spices contain around 3% curcumin, compared to 95% curcumin in extracts

(Windmill Tilter) #12

I’m confused. I thought I was buying standardized 95% curcumin extract in the product pictured above in the amazon link I posted. It’s not turmeric. Here’s the pic of the back of the package. What am I missing?

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That’s really cool! I’ve never cooked with fresh turmeric, let alone from my own garden. I’m going to have to give that a try. Switching from powdered ginger to fresh ginger was a game changer for me, if turmeric is a similar upgrade I might finally make a passable tikka masala… :yum: :+1:

#13

If you like spinach, eat spinach. Don’t be afraid of everything that contains something that SOME people have a problem with.

(Davy) #14

Chocolate = DNC
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Dirty Naughty Carnivore. :grin:

(Davy) #15

Well, I would, but they say it robs you of Calcium. Another Dr. say lack of Calcium is a reason your eyelid twitches, which is what I’ve been having. So nix on the spinach and more Calcium to see if it clears up.

#16

ya had to stick that naughty in there did ya LOL

is it really naughty or nice? HA

#17

If that actually clears it up cool, but many times twitching eyelids can be electrolytes (the main ones) leading to the spasms. My understanding of the oxalates in veggies can make you not absorb the calcium in them, not deplete what you have, maybe I’m wrong on that. But even if that is the way it works you really think you eat that much of it?

(squirrel-kissing paper tamer) #18

Have a couple of Tums.

(Davy) #19

I don’t know. But I had been eating lots of spinach. Cutting back now to see how it goes. I’ve upped all my electrolytes quite a bit.
Tums; hmmm; Might give it a go. Wonder how much sugar is in there though.

#20

eye twitch, looked it up, a lot of things are involved maybe…caffeine, alcohol, stress and more. just saying LOL

tums, nah, don’t eat that crap :slight_smile: :slight_smile:
give your new menu a whirl, see if you balance out etc. you never know what will change as you change your eating :slight_smile: