Good morning fellow Winnipeggers!

For those that would like to know where to get low carb products in Winnipeg. We live in Fort Rouge and shop at a number of places around town.

Veggies can come from your store of choice, but generally speaking, Superstore can beat Safeway any day. My hubby actually prefers to shop at the Superstore veggie isle (and he has refused to set foot in Superstore for years!) They also have some a couple of varieties of no sugar added ice cream. They also have a very nice cranberry diet drink. Unfortunately, aspertame is the sweetener. Safeway no longer makes my favourite Black Cherry, says there was no demand for it! Yeah right.

Meat - Miller's on St. Mary's and St. Anne's junction (it's the original one)

Baking/cereal products such as wheat bran and flax seed meal - Scoop and Weigh on Grant, right across from the Superstore. We buy enough to last for a while and keep it in the freezer.

Dairy - Safeway or Costco. Safeway is expensive though and we load up on the whipping cream when we make the trip to Costco. Have tried Superstore's whipping cream, but it is too thick for us, looks like it's going sour. I think they put some kind of thickener in it.

Bacon Puffs - Safeway. We used to get the bacon puffs right from Old Dutch, but they don't sell to the public anymore. Price Choppers will bring in a box for you if you want and if you have abailavle a place to store 10 - 15 bags. (Sprinkle some taco seasoning on it and shake them up. Or. Put some bacon puffs on a microwave safe plate, sprinkle with shredded cheese, nuke for approx 30 seconds, top with black olives, a little sour cream, sometimes taco seasoned meat, and voila, nachoes.)

Borowski's Health Foods on St. Anne's road - La Tortilla tortillas, carb sense mixes, Steel's sauces, some varieties of sugar free ice cream, Ross' chocolate bars, some flavours of Atkins bars.

We tend to try to make our own bread and cereal mix, versus buying all the mixes, etc. Although the boxed stuff tastes yummy, sometimes they throw you off track, just because they are available! We try not to buy low carb versions of the stuff that made us fat in the first place! As for the Dr. Atkin's Bake Mix, your mileage may vary. We use it very sparingly as we have never had food bite us back! This stuff can be nasty. We bought a tin two years ago, and it's still half full. It's best used half strength. There is a recipe for Faux Dr. Atkin's mix on the web that is more palatable than his.

Anyway, that's it for now. Any questions, just ask away.