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Desserts and Sweets / NO-BAKE FTS Friendly PEANUT BUTTER BARS
« on: December 15, 2010, 11:21:36 PM »
NO-BAKE  FTS Friendly PEANUT BUTTER BARS  (my peanut butter has no sugar and is just peanuts so I will put in the 3/4 cup xylitol)


Ingredients
•   1 cup butter or margarine, melted
•   2 cups Dixie Diner graham cracker crumbs (or alternative recipe that follows)
•   1/2 a cup to 3/4 of a cup of Xylitol (1/2 a cup if your chocolate already has sweetner,3/4 if it doesn't)
•   1 cup SF peanut butter (or ½ cup Beanit Butter + ½ cup of SF peanut butter)
•   1  cup SF chocolate chips (put some of the xylitol with this if there is no sweetener in your chocolate chips)
•   2 tablespoons shortening (makes the chocolate shiny)
Directions
1.   In a medium bowl, mix together the butter or margarine, graham cracker crumbs, xylitol, and peanut butter until well blended. Press evenly into the bottom of an ungreased 9x13 inch pan.
2.   In a metal bowl over simmering water, or in the microwave (not in a metal bowl), melt the chocolate chips with the shortening, stirring occasionally until smooth. Spread over the prepared crust. Refrigerate for at least one hour before cutting into squares.

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Graham Cracker Crumbs Alternative (same carb count as Dixie Diner graham crumbs)

Ingredients
2 tbsp unsalted butter, melted      0g carbs
3/4 cup almond flour            6g carbs
1/2 cup ground pecans                 4g carbs
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon                 0g carbs
1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract      0g carbs
2 tablespoons xylitol            0g carbs
1/8 teaspoon sea salt            0g carbs

Mix together

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Here is a recipe for chocolate chips if you don’t have any:
Chocolate Chips
Ingredients:
2 squares unsweetened bakers chocolate
1/4 cup xylitol
1/4 cup cream

Melt chocolate in microwave safe dish.
Take out of microwave and add xylitol and heavy whipping cream and mix well.
Pour out into 9x9 pan, plate or pie pan and put in the freezer.
Freeze for 3 hours. Once frozen break into pieces and use for recipes.
 A pastry bag may be used to make chips also. Let chocolate come to room temperature and put in pastry bag and squeeze chips out onto parchment or wax paper. Then freeze and use as needed.

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Ask Umpa / No Bake Peanut Butter Bars
« on: December 13, 2010, 02:58:11 PM »
Umpa hope you are having a wonderful birthday.  When you get a chance I was hoping you could help me convert this recipe to be FTS friendly. I know from the post for the FTS Magic Bars that Dixie Diner makes graham cracker crumbs and someone also added a recipe on that thread to make your own graham cracker crumbs, so that is covered.  I may use 1/2 SF peanut butter and 1/2 beanit butter to cut back on a few carbs.  I have SF chocolate chips, so that's ok, I am not sure how much xylitol to use in place of 2 cups of icing sugar.  I always loved that this is a quick and easy recipe with no baking and it always seemed that others would take these off my platter of cookies first.  I'll just make a big batch of "graham cracker crumbs" ahead of time and then it will be easy to whip together.
Thanks
 
NO-BAKE PEANUT BUTTER BARS 
Original Recipe Yield 1 - 9x13 inch pan
Ingredients
•   1 cup butter or margarine, melted
•   2 cups graham cracker crumbs
•   2 cups confectioners' sugar
•   1 cup peanut butter
•   1  cup semisweet chocolate chips
•   2 tablespoons shortening (makes the chocolate shiney)
Directions
1.   In a medium bowl, mix together the butter or margarine, graham cracker crumbs, confectioners' sugar, and 1 cup peanut butter until well blended. Press evenly into the bottom of an ungreased 9x13 inch pan.
2.   In a metal bowl over simmering water, or in the microwave, melt the chocolate chips with the shortening, stirring occasionally until smooth. Spread over the prepared crust. Refrigerate for at least one hour before cutting into squares.


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Ask Umpa / Good Job Organizing Recipes
« on: November 11, 2010, 10:31:27 AM »
Umpa, great job organizing all of the recipes.  It makes it so much easier to find things.  Is it possible to put One Minute Muffins in Breakfast and in Breads?  I know I eat them for breakfast and there are variations for pancakes and French toast in that thread as well as making square ones for grilled sandwiches.  So I think it would be helpful to have it listed in both or maybe cross reference it somehow.  Thanks! 

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General Discussion / Where is Everyone From?
« on: November 03, 2010, 05:03:02 PM »
I love to look at members profiles and see where they are from, not for any particular reason, I just think it is interesting.  I know everyone is concerned about privacy issues, but just to put your State or Province or Country (if not from Canada or the US). If you want to add it go to "Profile" and then "Forum Profile Information" on the left column.  Then go down to "Location" and say where you are from.  I think then you have to go to the bottom and click on "Change Profile".  I'm from Ontario, Canada.

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Today, Oct. 20/10, Dr. Oz's show is about artificial sweeteners and sugar substitutes.  It is on at 5pm where I live, check your local TV listings.  Might be interesting to see what he has to say.

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General Discussion / Pasta Sauce Question
« on: October 13, 2010, 01:50:42 PM »
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?

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General Discussion / Hallowe'en
« on: October 01, 2010, 02:36:17 PM »
I started to think about Hallowe'en coming up.  In previous years I always chose bags of my favourite chocolate bars to give out in case there were leftovers, then they were mine.  I DO NOT want to bring bags of choclate bars into the house this year.  Too much temptation for me and then I would be giving something to kids that they don't really need either.  I was in the cheese aisle of the grocery store this morning and had a great idea, I think I will hand out the individually wrapped string cheese (0 net carbs, I checked).  I might even tie a black & orange ribbon around a couple and hand them out that way.  So, do you think I will get my house egged for giving out healthy treats?

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Product Reviews / Ole Xtreme Wellness Tortillas??
« on: September 29, 2010, 02:46:12 PM »

Umpa or Doug:  I was shopping today in Buffalo, NY (yes, lucky me lives close to the US border) and came across Ole Mexican Foods Xtreme Wellness Tomato Basil Tortillas.  I wanted to verify that the Nutrition Facts are correct.  It says there are 5g of Total Carbs and 12g of Dietary Fiber and 0g of Sugar.  Is this possible for a tortilla to have negative net carbs?

Here is the website for the wraps:
http://www.olemexicanfoods.com/OLEmenuTortillas.htm

I couldn't find the nutrition facts on their website to verify if there was a typo on the package, but I did find it on another site and it is the same as on the back of the package.
http://www.grocerycouponnetwork.com/foodproducts/products.php?Id=29827

Could you let me know if the net carb count is correct.
Thanks

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Beverage Recipes / Chocolate Milkshake
« on: September 13, 2010, 01:03:18 PM »
I was thinking today that I hadn't had a chocolate milkshake for a few years and would love to have one, so I came up with a a FTS friendly recipe.  I was planning on drinking it with my lunch.  It was soooo good and filling that it ended up being my lunch.  This is what I did:

Chocolate “Milkshake”

In a Magic Bullet or Blender add the following:

1 cup SF Vanilla Almond Milk (1 net carb)
Ό cup heavy cream (0 net carbs)
2-3 ice cubes
1 – 2 tblsp SF Hershey Chocolate Syrup (< 1 net carb)
1 tsp. xylitol (0 net carbs)

Blend until you can no longer hear the ice cubes on the chopping blades.  Pour into a tall glass with a straw.  Drink and enjoy!!
Did I add the net carbs right?

 

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General Discussion / Carbs vs. Calories
« on: September 09, 2010, 12:15:10 PM »
I know we are supposed to increase our activity to try and burn off more carbs than we take in.  How do we know how many carbs we are burning off.  My pedometer and the equipment at the gym all tell you how many calories I am burning, but not carbs.  I just would like a rough idea how to determine this.

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Ask Umpa / Lemon Meringue Pie
« on: August 22, 2010, 07:45:00 PM »
Umpa, your recipes all seem wonderful.  I have tried a few and can't wait to try more.  My (thin) mother and I were talking today and she was talking about a lemon meringue pie and kept saying how good this pie was, over and over, and now I want lemon meringue pie.  I had to tell her no more food discussions, she is giving me craves and I was doing so good not craving anything.  So instead of running out and buying a lemon meringue pie or making a "bad" one, I thought maybe you could help me plan ahead to make a FTS friendly one.  My sister makes a pie crust out of 2 cups of ground pecans and 2 tblsp. of butter, patted in a pie plate or spring form pan.  I thought this might be good idea for the crust unless you have another suggestion.   I will hold off on my crave hoping that you or someone else can help me out with a recipe.

Thanks!

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I just wanted to let you know that I am doing very well with my new "Fat to Skinny" lifestyle.  I have yo-yo'd for years, from my teens and up, now in my early 50's.  Back in 1999 I reached my highest recorded weight of 193 lbs. (I may have been higher, but didn't get on the scale).  I didn't want to see 200 so I got busy and took off 33 lbs., but little by little it started to creep back up.  At 184 lbs. I again got serious and got back down to 170 lbs. but even with exercising I wasn't able to get below the 170.  At this time I started to have issues with high blood pressure and diagnosed as a Type 2 diabetic.  I now take pills for both, and my weight was creeping up again.

Back in July I read an article in our local paper about Doug's book and thought it sounded interesting.  I sent for the book on www.chapters.ca.  On the 19th of July I began my new life at 176 lbs.  I am very pleased with how easy it is to follow and I don't feel that urge to eat things that I shouldn't.  In less that 4 weeks I have taken off 13 pounds, now down to 163.  My blood sugar numbers are excellent and when I went to the Dr's. for a checkup on Friday, my blood pressure was lower that it has ever been since the high blood pressure diagnosis.  I am feeling great and am hoping when I go back to the Dr's. in 2 months he cuts down on my medication.

I bought a pedometer and have started walking at least 10,000 steps per day.  I feel great.  I haven't gone down in clothes size yet, but probably because I have stretched them out and am now fitting into them properly.  I am loving the forum.  Everyone seems so supportive of each other and am really enjoying experimenting with all of the recipe posts that are there.  Thank you for helping me and I'll keep you posted on my progress.


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