Knowledge is everything when it comes to what you eat. The more you know about the food, the better idea you will get of what you should and shouldn’t be eating. Someone asked me about chickpeas the other day. So I googled it and that took me on a journey of googling a whole stack of foods. Are you ready? Here we go:
Firstly, you are aiming for foods with 7g or less of carbs per 100g. Of all the foods below, it’s total carbs out of 100g.
Sugar 100g
Pasta is 75g
Chickpeas 61g
Bread 56g
Chocolate Brownie 50g
Croissant 46g (per 100g)
Rice 23g
Sweet potato 20g
Sweetcorn 19g
Potato 17g
Peas 14g
Butternut 12g
Carrots 10g
Avocado 9g
Broccoli 7g
Cauliflower 5g
Baby marrow 3g
Mushrooms 3.3g
Egg 1.1g
Bacon 0g
Milk Products are measured in carbs per cupful (250ml)
Whole milk – 11.4g
2 % milk – 11.7g
1 % milk – 11.6g
Fat-free (skim) milk – 11.9g
Buttermilk – 11.7g
Goat’s milk – 10.9g
Light Cream – 7.1g
Heavy Cream – 6.6g
Evaporated milk (canned) – 25.3g
Nonfat evaporated – 29.0g
Sweetened condensed milk – 166g (not a typo)
Fruit – measured per 100g
Banana 23g
Melon 9g
Strawberries 8g
Pawpaw 11g
Orange 12g
Nuts & Seeds- this may surprise you!
Pumpkin Seeds 54g
Cashews 30g
Flaxseed 29g
Almonds 22g
Mixed nuts 21g
Peanut Butter 20g
Sunflower seeds 20g
Peanuts 16g
Coconut 15g
Macadamia 14g
Walnuts 14g
This is really just an indication – with most of the foods on the green list that appear here as having more carbs than ideal, you have to take off the value of dietary fibre to get the net carbs, which is the true value.
This serves as a reminder to do your homework – read labels, search the internet and get educated!
The Bible has some advice for making a natural form of bread:
Ezekiel 4:9 “Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them in a storage jar and use them to make bread for yourself.”
It would be interesting to try!
God bless you as you try to find the balance in what you eat.
In His Grip,
Helga xx 