Hi Nicola,

You can grind up oatmeal to use for oat flour. I suppose the oat bran would work too!

The carb count of arrowroot is 6.78 per Tbsp. There is a product call Not/Starch available by mail order. Click on the CarbSmart banner on this page. They have it. Doreen also posted an idea and recipe for a stir-fry sauce thickened with ground flax that she was quite pleased with. You can thicken other sauces with flax as well. This is the link to the thread:

http://forum.lowcarber.org/showthre...=&threadid=4430

I think the nasty green stuff you are referring to is rocket. We call it arugula. Here is a picture of it. It's on the right hand side down around the bottom.

http://members.tripod.com/aerogreen/sshot.htm

Karen