Understanding how to read food labels is a big part of being able to buy the correct low GI foods, the foods that will help with a low GI diet. I’ve made up a couple of charts to help me and I thought you might like them too.
The first one is knowing the quantity per 100g that will benefit you. This table has been put together by the Food Standards Authority and will give you a good idea of what is a little or what is a lot with regard to four key components, fat, saturates, sugars and salt.
Now this is a food label and I’ve tried to show how to check out the nutritional values.
These are handy when shopping and comparing one product to another, until I did this, I was always having ‘decision’ time and often I made the wrong decision. But no more…..
Just a little about low GI recipes, I made a really nice recipe for dinner last night, Chicken and Pumpkin Stir Fry, very easy, very quick and the family loved it. It got the tick (the tick means I can make it again, and more than once again too). I put it up on my low GI recipe collection blog. If you want to try it, just click here.
Tonight was my snack night, the family were all out so I had my favorite snack, grilled ham and cheese and finished off with the best grapes I’ve had in ages with some vanilla yoghurt, that is also on my low gi recipe blog, the grilled ham and cheese, that is, click here
The thing I find hardest is the sugar. I’m not a fan of artificial sweeteners, so I have been cutting back on my natural sugar intake and very slowly I can see that my ’sugar hits’ are not happening as often. When you can feel the benefits and see things like that, it spurs you on, at least it does for me.
That’s it for now, I have a few other low GI recipes over on my recipe collection blog, I’m only putting up the ones my family likes.
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