David Gillespie - Please help

05 Jun 2011 1:08 AM

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Hello,

Have just done my first shopping trip with no sugar in mind. Was harder then I thought it would be and my trolley was half empty. Have a few questions.

My kids love spagatti bolognese. The lowest sugar jar of sauce I could find was 3.8gms per 100gms. There is sugar in the ingredients. Is this okay? If not can anyone suggest an alternative that I can perhaps make myself.

Also is baked beans okay. I bought a reduced salt one that has 4gms per 100gms. Also has sugar in the ingedients.

As a rule do we always take 4.7gms off any dairy product for the lactose.

Lastely, David mentions in his book that you can eat anything you like as long as it doesn't have sugar. But I am guessing we still need to eat wholegrains ect and look at saturated fat in products. I am a little confused as the whether I just now look at the sugar content on the label of foods and not worry about anythng else.

Thanks for your help

05 Jun 2011 11:42 PM

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Hello :) With tomato pasta sauce, I use passata (just tomatoes, you could use tinned). IT has no sugar. I don't buy tinned stuff with sugar added, makes life easier :) We have canned cannilleni beans with a teaspoon or so of tomato salsa (which does have some sugar but the amount you eat is tiny) and sour cream. yummy

not sure about the lactose

with fats, unless they're transfats, they're probably ok :) i'm not sure if i've read it somewhere (or if my own brain made this up ;) ), but i believe saturated fats aren't as bad as they think (cos the human race has eaten them for eons and we're still here, plus coconuts have saturated fats and the Islander races are still here).

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06 Jun 2011 12:47 AM

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Nicole Taaffe wrote:
Hello,

Have just done my first shopping trip with no sugar in mind. Was harder then I thought it would be and my trolley was half empty. Have a few questions.

My kids love spagatti bolognese. The lowest sugar jar of sauce I could find was 3.8gms per 100gms. There is sugar in the ingredients. Is this okay? If not can anyone suggest an alternative that I can perhaps make myself.

Also is baked beans okay. I bought a reduced salt one that has 4gms per 100gms. Also has sugar in the ingedients.

As a rule do we always take 4.7gms off any dairy product for the lactose.

Lastely, David mentions in his book that you can eat anything you like as long as it doesn't have sugar. But I am guessing we still need to eat wholegrains ect and look at saturated fat in products. I am a little confused as the whether I just now look at the sugar content on the label of foods and not worry about anythng else.

Thanks for your help

Hello Nicole

welcome to the sugar free community!

I also use tinned tomatoes in Spaghetti bolognaise, they still have three grams of sugar because tomatoes are a sweet vegetable and the sugar occurs naturally, but the ones I buy are pure tomato, no added sugar. You just have to look at the ingredients list on the tin and this will tell you if sugar has been added.

David recommends we eat any animal based fats, as Bron said, the human race has always eaten these fats, in fact, the Thai cooks have a rice which has animal fat added to it because their diet is so low in fat. Any low fat food is out for us as we don't actually know what these "interferred with" foods actually do to the body.

cheers Freda

06 Jun 2011 2:56 AM

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Thanks for your help.

07 Jun 2011 6:11 PM

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Well said, ladies. I too use Passata, buy it from the greengrocer, as it's usually cheaper, have to buy 2 bottles to get the price, but if you cook 1 kilo of meat at a time, that should serve 4 people at least 3 meals, or 4 if you're adding more veggies. Especially if it's minced meat.

Don't know about the lactose, I must say didn't understand that bit, if anyone can help me understand, I'll be grateful!!

If anyone out there doesn't eat garlic, (like me & my DB), buy Provisto Sugo brand tomatoes, (in bottles in the pasta aisle) I get mine at Franklins, but I think Woolies have it too. I'm guessing most of you eat garlic, I usually find myself in the minority when it comes to eating garlic, I don't mind a little bit, but it's like capsicum, it doesn't like me!!!

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07 Jun 2011 6:44 PM

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Sylvia Liney wrote:Well said, ladies. I too use Passata, buy it from the greengrocer, as it's usually cheaper, have to buy 2 bottles to get the price, but if you cook 1 kilo of meat at a time, that should serve 4 people at least 3 meals, or 4 if you're adding more veggies. Especially if it's minced meat.

Don't know about the lactose, I must say didn't understand that bit, if anyone can help me understand, I'll be grateful!!

If anyone out there doesn't eat garlic, (like me & my DB), buy Provisto Sugo brand tomatoes, (in bottles in the pasta aisle) I get mine at Franklins, but I think Woolies have it too. I'm guessing most of you eat garlic, I usually find myself in the minority when it comes to eating garlic, I don't mind a little bit, but it's like capsicum, it doesn't like me!!!

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Hi Sylvia
Lactose is the sugar in any dairy product, it turns into glucose in the body, so it's ok.

So, in milk, for instance, plain full cream milk, it will say "sugars 4.5 grams" then that is lactose. In flavoured milk, you will find it has an ingredients list as well as the nutritional panel and will list "sugar" as one of the ingredients and you will notice that the nutritional panel now has a greater total of sugar listed in it.

Some manufacturers are kind enough to separate the sugar total into lactose and added sugar on the nutritional panel. But for the ones that don't, we can safely assume that the lactose in any dairy product is 4.5% and the rest is sugar. Some of the fruit flavoured cheeses for instance have a lot of added sugar which is what makes them into, what I would consider to be................confectionery.

Hope that helps.

cheers
Freda