Lisaf:

I recently joined the Schwarzbein discussion list on Yahoo! Groups and they send a packet of information sheets when you sign up. Some of them are basically taken straight from the book, but there are a few that seem to be from another source (lectures?). Anyway, in one of them they state that raw tomatoes are considered non-starchy vegetables while cooked tomatoes are carby. Not sure how that works, exactly, but it might be a guideline. I generally try to watch the tomato intake. I might eat 2 a day on weekends but stay clear the rest of the week. Unless I'm making the Carbonara Salad from the SP Vegetarian cookbook, which uses plum (I substitute stewed) tomatoes which are cooked, in which case I assume the carb count in the recipe includes the tomatoes.

Does that make sense?

Dew