After reading some of the newcomer's posts, I was wondering if it would be possible to have a thread under LowCarb: FAQ that lists many of the veggies, fruits, cheeses, etc and their carb count. I know that we have lists of low carb food choices, but for those just starting out it would be nice to have as a reference.

Many of use use Fitday to find our carb count, but a list could be printed out .

from the jean-luc picard school of management: MAKE IT SO. sounds like a great idea. does fitday have an easily printed out list? i know the USDA has major long printouts of all the nutrient values of all the foods, but that's real overkill...

Well, FitDay does not seem to have an easy to copy list. When the next big change comes to this site, there will be a low carb and low GI reference section. In the meantime we will have to use links. Now I need to go find some.

2Bfit, I thought this was a great idea! People are always asking, what can I eat, can I eat this or that.

So I started to make a list and was going to start it over in the FAQ, but it got really long and too involved-

So I started a thread called "Carb Counts" and mentioned the Atkins pocketbook of common food counts, and the Corine Netzer book- the most comprehensive- and, I really think to make a LC diet work, one needs to read at least one of the plans out there- and all the plans have food lists in them.

Can anyone who knows the link to online food lists post them over there?

Ruthxxx, there was a thread for favorite LC links along time ago, that had some good things, but may be out of date. I 'll look and see...

dottie

About 2 years ago I spend 59.95 for a download of a program called the Performance Diet, or Heaalthkeeper Performance diet. It is based on low GI foods. I've never really used it. but I decided to see if I could find a list of low GI foods to post. I haven't got that far yet, but I did read this that I thought is usefull info for all of us to know;


Determining the Accurate and Complete Sugar Content of a Food


Although the HealthKeeper has one of the largest data bases showing the sugar content of foods (about 700,) the fact that no sugar shows up in a selected food’s NutriCode does not mean that there is no sugar in that food. The only way to be certain a food that shows no sugar in the NutriCode actually contains no sugar is to read the ingredients list and nutrition label on the food.


Accurate and complete sugar labeling of all sugars as well as high or low glycemic food labeling is still largely nonexistent. Even the USDA food database used as the main food database in the HealthKeeper has few listings for the total and complete content of all sugars in a food. We hope as more individuals become aware of the important impact sugar has on their health and on various medical conditions accurate and complete sugar labeling including high or low glycemic food labeling will become a reality.


Sugar in its Various Forms


Giving sugar a different name in the food’s ingredient list can hide actual and complete sugar content in a food product. Under this different sugar name the total sugar gram amount in the product may not show up on the label. Here are just a few of the continually expanding old and new for names for sugar, maltodextrins, glucose and glucose polymers, invert sugar, sucrose, dextrose, or healthy sounding sugars like raw sugar, honey, brown sugar, barley malt, date sugar, turbinado sugar, cane sugar, maple sugar, caramelized sugar, distilled or concentrated fruit sugars and blackstrap molasses.

If you log onto www.lowcarbfriends.com to the left in the yellow box, click carb counter. A page will come up with different food groups, you click onto whatever food group you wish to see. I viewed all of them and printed out the pages. Aleka

Sounds like a great idea!

http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcom...k/wt_rank.html

check this site out!!! way more info that you need but to make things more complicated remember that any food you eat you can remove the fiber content from the carb content. so this list needs to be looked at twice but it sure helps!!!