Hi and welcome.  I'm sure you're gonna do well. 

You don't have to give up your cake or your ice-cream.  You can eat 'almost' just as you have been but with modifications and substitutions.  If you check out the recipe forum it is absolutely chock-a-block full of ideas, suggestions and recipes.  There is also a host of people on the forum who are ready, willing and able to help you with any problems or questions you may have.

I had the baking bug yesterday and the need for cake - so I baked a lovely sponge with cream and chocolate 'frosting'.
Unfortunately there is only me to eat it so I had to take some to a friend's place for morning tea.  She usually turns up her nose at anything sugarfree because she is a sugarholic.  Apart from saying the 'frosting was a bit too coco-y (I made it with dark chocolate - she likes milk chocolate. Picky Picky Picky) she loved it. 

Yay - hopefully a new generation of fit, healthy children.

There isn't much that I miss but from time to time I would love to have a cookie that has a crunch like an Oreo.  With the flours we use to keep them low enough in carbs to be worth having it is hard to get them to stay crispy     

This is probably the only legitmate use of sugar a person on fts would have - if you put 2-4 sugar cubes in the container with your cookies they should not go soggy. The cubes actually absorb any moisture.  Old household tip.
If you want to keep cake (mainly fruitcake - which isn't really fts) moist you keep a slice of white bread (also not fts) in the container.

Hi  and welcome armywife4 - is this your only child?

I'm not sure if this is the right section to ask - but (never having used these before) for future reference - do you rinse the beans (canned) before adding to recipe?  I made chilli and used these.  I rinsed them like I usually do any canned bean, but then wondered if perhaps you through the whole lot in.

I'm sure I read the answer somewhere but can't find it now.  When cooking with alcohol (mainly wine) what happens with the carbs?  Do we just include the carb count in the overall recipe or is there an adjustment when cooking?
thanks

Schools just seem to be butting into everything these days.  And children supposedly have all the rights and parents none.  There was a big controversy last year at one of the high schools near me when it became known that the school was making doctor's appointments for girls (mind you underage girls) to be put on the pill without their parents knowledge or consent.  It went above and beyond their parameters of 'care'.  To my knowledge they didn't even teach sex education.  And doctor's writing these prescriptions without guardian knowledge but with a teacher present is just outrageous.  What is it with Doctors?  You would think that new doctor would at least ease in and say perhaps - I need you to drop in weekly to monitor your blood works.  Not go cold turkey for 4 months.  Worse case scenario (and I wouldn't want that to happen) medical negligence!

Morgan, what was the result of your daughters salt increase?

Would you believe since I told her about it she hasn't had one.  Unbelievable