Sun, Apr-06-03, 11:28
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Senior Member
Posts: 926
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Plan: Atkins
Stats: 167.5/122/115
BF:
Progress: 87%
Location: NC
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Some, not all, brands of vanilla extract contain sugar or corn syrups. A natural or gourmey grocery should have extracts without sugar. Frontier brand (sold as Whole Foods) has no sugar, also Penzey's (from penzeys.com).
All extracts contain alcohol, you can make your own by scraping a vanilla bean into a jar of vodka and letting it sit. I wouldn't worry about the amount of alcohol consumed in vanilla extract though. It's minimal compared to having a drink, and if the dish is cooked the alcohol will cook off anyway. I'm pretty sure the alcohol in an extract contains no carbs, the carbs I think come from the vanilla (and the sugar if it's there).
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According to Fitday, 1 small onion has 4.6 effective carbs, and in Dr. Atkins book 1 medium onion has 7.5 effective carbs.
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I never felt like "small" "medium" etc was a reliable measurement, so I always weighed everything. (This may give you some idea of why I stopped using Fitday, all that counting and weighing was driving me nuts)
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but when you start doing chicken curry, usually made with a spice 'blend' you have a whole new set of numbers, to help the spice blends make the sauce thick most have a cornstarch type carb and sugar in them
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I like Penzey's for spices too because they don't use fillers like that in their spice blends. Or better yet, make your own spice blends! It's easy to do and then you know exactly what's in them.
When I was using Fitday I wouldn't count spices unless I made something heavily spiced like chili or Indian food. If there was only a teaspoon or two I wouldn't bother counting them. When you think about it, two teaspoons of spices might add 1-1.5 carbs to a dish that serves 4, that's only .25 carb or so per serving. That's a bit obsessive even for me
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