Chick peas?
 

Hi everyone!

I'm new to the board...I just started Atkins this morning and after one meal, what can I say? I'm pretty positive though, especially after reading all of your comments. Does anybody know whether or not Chick peas are an allowable food? I love chick peas, either plain or with salad and this may be a food I'll have trouble avoiding.

Thanks,
Karma

Welcome to lowcarb.ca Karma!

One cup of cooked, canned chick peas contains the following:

Carbohydrates 22.62 g
Fiber 4.40 g

On induction, you have 20 grams of carbohydrates to play around with then after induction around 30. Most people following a low-carb way of life like to spend their carb allowance on low-carb vegetables, eggs, dairy products and coffee as you will see by reading the forums. It's up to you to decide if you can fit chick peas into your daily allowance.

Karen

Karen,

Thanks so much for your prompt reply! I guess I'll be putting all of those cans of chick peas in the cold cellar...for now!

Congrats on your weight loss...your picture says a thousand words...you look great!

Karma

Actually, the carb-damage is greater than that. According to our carb counter tool, which is based on the current USDA:

• 22.62g total carbs / 4.4g fiber is for 100g of canned chickpeas.
  
  1 cup has :eek: ... 54.29g carb / 10.56g fiber

I always knew they were carby, but somehow thought they were a better fiber-source than that.

Doreen

Absolutely right! I put in 1 cup and forgot to hit change. It did look suspiciously low for beans.

Karen

then there's the chickpea cousin....
 

{I call it the wild chick pea} ... Chana Dhal. I find them dried in big bags in the import (India) sections.

Hard to find the nutrition info for, but they are smaller, darker, much more fibrous and (according to Rick Mendoza of the Glycemic Index fame) very low glycemic.

Have to rehydrate them, of course, but they make a very sturdy hummus, very very yummy!