Sunday, June 24, 2012

Free foods

Free foods are foods that have either NO carbs at all, or such negligible amounts of carbohydrates that the carbs cannot be counted so the food is considered a free food. 

Technically you can have as much of these as you like of these foods, because they don't add to the blood sugars BUT you do have to consider the amounts of fat and protein that they have and take that into consideration when you are chowing down.

Take CHEESE for example. Cheese is a FREE food because it has no carbohydrates. But it does have fat and protein in it.

This is the list of FREE foods that the Hospital gave me.

Protein Foods 

Cheese
Meat (all kinds - not smoked or preserved)
Peanut Butter
Eggs
Fish
Poultry

Fat

Butter
Margarine
Salad Dressing
Bacon
Avocado
Sour Cream
Cream Cheese
Table Cream
Whipped Cream

Vegetables

Celery
Lettuce
Cucumber
Cauliflower
Broccoli
Spinach
Radishes
Cabbage
Peppers
Mushrooms
Zucchini
Yelllow & Green Beans

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