Question for Canadians or anyone from Western New York State, have you found any brand of low carb pasta sauce.  I keep looking in my grocery stores and the lowest I have found is 6 net carbs per 1/2 cup.  The ones in the health food stores I have found are organic pasta sauce and have more than that.  The pasta sauce from the Low Carb Grocery is 4 per 1/2 cup.  I have even looked in Buffalo at Tops on Niagara St. and Price Rite on Elmwood Ave. and can't find the Victoria pasta sauce that has been suggested that has 2 net carbs.  I don't want to pay the huge shipping and duty fees to order from the U.S.  Any suggestions?

20 carbs maximum per day.  I have managed vacations, weddings and Thanksgiving and have not gone over 20 net carbs per day.  It just takes a little thought to plan your day around your event .  She could start by having as low as possible carbs for breakfast and try to plan ahead for lunch.  There would more than likely be salad and meat-no problem.  If it's sandwiches she could stick a low carb tortilla in her purse and just take the meat off the sandwiches and have some Russell Stover SF chocolate in her purse to help her pass up dessert.  If she is going to eat like this the rest of her life, there will always be occasions come up that you have to think about before you just start putting stuff in your mouth.  Anyway, that is what I have been doing and it seems to be working.  Wish her luck from us.

Hope all goes well for your uncle Owensmath.  The high blood sugar sounds pretty scary!

Welcome to the forum jx.  What we all enjoy about eating this way is the fact that we don't have those terrible craves that used to trip us up and we achieved this by totally giving up sugar.  But we don't give up the things we love, they are substituted with low carb alternatives.  There are lots of suggestions on the forum to replace our favourites so we have no reason to cheat because we are still eating what we love without  the high carbs or the guilt.  Good luck with your journey and jump in with both feet.

Beebs, that would be 110 pairs of Umpa's $9.99 shoes she found!!!

Good luck Keke!!  We are all here behind you!

That is great Jo!!  We are all here cheering you on!