I have my own priorities, principally keeping my BG in range which keeps my insulin level and insulin resistance in check, which knocks on to the lipids and my energy levels in general.

Sometimes I have to eat Bad Things to manually tweak my BG, or my trick liver will take over and either drive me high or drop me low. In general a Primal type balance of macronutrients lets me run on ketones and provides enough glucose from protein that my BG doesn’t go Out Of Range very often. When I have to cheat I try to make it as healthy a cheat as possible.

The BIG problem comes when other people are involved, among my friends and relatives are starchophiles, lipophobes and vegetarians. We have an excellent fish restaurant, a very good (but expensive) Thai restaurant and several pubs where we can find suitable compromises from what’s on offer to almost satisfy our varying demands (and much of which, like much of the stuff I buy, is locally produced, although some of it may come from the other side of the world, an acceptable compromise for the micronutrient content and the flavour)

Sometimes it just doesn’t work though and I have to stuff myself with far too many carbs then walk them off afterwards purely for social and availability reasons.

In that context “imitation” bread may not be as bad as the real thing, eh?

Sometimes you can train them – a diabetic friend used to cook low carb meals and make carby side-dishes for her nondiabetic husband and kids and low-carb sides for herself, but over time she found they were tending to steal “her” food so has stopped bothering with the carby stuff for them. Which is a result.

But too many of them suck down their Healthy Carbs and follow up with the statin and the ACE inhibitor and fail to see the connection.

I have’t tried it personally but it IS very low carb. Not sure what it would do to my BG but it has been recommended. OK, not that Primal but the theory is it gets rid of the worst aspects of the wheat for those bread addicts among us.

Better than this

“Our Father Which art in Washington, give us this day our daily calcium propionate, sodium diacetate monoglyceride, potassium bromate, calcium phosphate, monobasic chloramine T, aluminium potassiumsulphate, sodium benzoate, butylated hydroxyanisole, mono-iso-propyl citrate, axerophthol and calciferol. Include with it a little flour and salt. Amen.”

(John Brunner, The Sheep Look Up, 1972)

Personally I use oatcakes, something you guys don’t seem to have access to

http://www.nairns-oatcakes.com/content/default.asp?page=s1_1_5

one or two at a time seems to work, and oats do grow wild hereabouts.

This is a low carb bread I make once or twice a week. I hadn’t eaten bread for some time until I figured this out, but now it’s in danger of becoming a staple. There goes my reputation.

You’ll need: wheat gluten, coarse wheat bran, golden flax seeds (linseed), soya flour, soya protein isolate powder, salt, olive oil and yeast. Once you’ve got all that, the rest is a doddle.

Mix the dry ingredients in a bowl – 120g wheat gluten, 45g soya flour, 40g soya protein isolate powder, 30g linseeds, 60g coarse wheat bran, 1 level tsp of salt and 2×7g packets of dried yeast ( I find the Hovis stuff works well.) Add 3 tbsp of olive oil and 250ml warm water. Knead it for a minute or two, roll it into a sausage shape, about 10 inches long, put it in a baking tin, cover, and leave it somewhere warm for an hour. Then bake for 40 mins at 170 in a fan assisted oven.

I find this loaf will stay fresh and moist for days, and everyone who has tried it tells me it’s great. Even my kids scoff it down, which gives me such a thrill. It works out at around 30g carbohydrate for the entire loaf.

I’m partially on primal blueprint since last 2 months. I said partial because I’m a vegetarian (except for eggs). I have already lost 9lbs and I didn’t even exercise!! Other plus points are:

I don’t feel hungry more often

My concentration is certainly improving (I’m an engineering student, so it helps a lot )

You WON’T believe it but I don’t FEEL sad (I guess has to do something with my eating habits!)

Now I want to follow PB completely. Any suggestions on how to turn non-veg? (I hope PETA are not seeing this!)

Alina, the raw foodists I know that are healthiest also eat raw meats (and fish, and shellfish, etc).

Bill, that’s exactly what I’d do if I were forced to run long distances