![]() ![]() If you’re wanting to use it as part of a low-carb diet, what you need to get is UNSWEETENED soy milk (NOT the same thing as "plain" soy milk "plain" means "doesn’t have a flavor like vanilla or chocolate added"). ![]() Apparently the manufacturers of a lot of soy milk load it up with sugar, which completely ruins it for dieting purposes. The first thing to know about soy milk is that while it can be low carb, it isn’t automatically low carb. Here in California there are sometimes kinks in the pipeline getting it from New England, and so I’ve also researched other substitutes, and I can tell you about the two that you see on the ends, both of which are forms of soy milk. You can probably get it by special request from your grocer no matter where you are. Albertsons carries it and Vons used to but doesn’t have it now unless you ask (at least that’s the way it is in my neighborhood). Out here in California, you can get it in the stores, but you may have to ask for it. The Hood company is based in the northeast, and if you live in New England you can even get it delivered to your home. Incidentally, both of these also come with 8 grams of protein per serving. ![]() It’s also got WAY less sugar: 3 grams as opposed to 29 grams! So even if you aren’t on a low-carb diet, this is a great chocolate milk to use. And it has 4 net grams of carbs per serving (5 total grams, less one gram of fiber), which compares to 31 grams of carb in a normal chocolate milk. It’s got 90 calories per serving (compared to 230 calories in a standard chocolate milk). This is a 2% reduced fat product, so its calories are a little more than the Fat Free version. The taste of Hood’s Chocolate Calorie Countdown is delicious. It also has 75% less carbs and sugar than regular milk (3 grams of each per serving instead of 12 grams of each). As you can see if you squint a little, it has 70% fewer calories than whole milk (45 calories per serving), making it good for dieters of any kind–not just low-carbers. Hood’s Fat Free Calorie Countdown, to me, tastes indistinguishable from normal skim milk, and there’s a good reason for that: It’s made from real milk, but with the carbs extracted. They also have a 2% variety, though I generally don’t get that one. ![]() Here I have their Fat Free and Chocolate varieties. The best alternatives to high-carb milk that I’ve found are the two in the center: Hood’s Calorie Countdown products. Here are several, as found behind Door #2 on my fridge: For a long time, low-carbers had to do that, but now there are a wide variety of alternatives. If you want a make-shift low-carb equivalent to milk then the thing to do is get heavy cream or whipping cream (which have virtually no carbs) and then dilute it with water to taste. The problem is that, unlike dairy products such as butter or cheese or heavy cream, normal milk contains way too many carbs. It wasn’t a big loss in that I had never been a big milk drinker anyway (now if I’d had to give up diet cokes–in the broad, inclusive sense where "coke" means any carbonated soft drink–then that would be another matter!), but over time I did miss it, and I’ve found a number of alternatives, which I thought I’d share with y’all. When I first went low-carb, one of the things that vanished from my diet was milk. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |