Hey ladies... are raisins allowed on P2?

I don't think so, TDI. I believe they are high in sugar.


How is P2 coming, dear?

Good. I'm taking very slowly. I had an apple with breakfast yesterday and a SBD cereal bar as one of my meals on the go today along with lots of veggies and roasted garbanzo beans... I finally made them, I found some in bulk finally!!
My thing, I'm making cookies tomorrow for a little "party" I'm making oatmeal raisin cookies. I'm using WW flour, oat meal, oat bran and quinoa... The margarine, Splenda brown sugar.. It'll be mostly SBd except the raisins. I couldn't find any dried fruit without being sweetened. Raisins were not sweetened.

OK...here's the best explanation I have recently read in reference to GI/GL:

The GI was originally developed by researchers for research purposes, and it was calculated from servings of food that contained 50 grams of carbohydrate. In the case of carrots, you'd have to eat about 1 1/2 pounds to get that much carbohydrate! Would you eat that many carrots at one time? Probably not. The GI doesn't take into account realistic serving sizes. However, the glycemic load does.

Glycemic load (GL) is the amount of carbohydrate in a food multiplied by that food's GI. The GL is also a ranking of how foods affect blood glucose levels, but unlike GI, the GL takes serving size into account. Like GI, the lower the GL, the lower the spike in blood glucose levels. Low-GL foods have a value of 10 or less; moderate-GL foods have a value of 11-19; and high-GL foods have a value of 20 or more.

Back to the carrots, then. Carrots have a GI of 71. If we multiply the 8 grams of carb in a half cup by .71, we get a GL value of roughly 6. Therefore, carrots are a low-GL food. This means that, unless you truly are going to eat a pound and a half at a time, carrots don't have a big impact on blood glucose levels.

Hope this info is helpful.
Karla

The Splenda Brown Sugar Blend is half Splenda and half brown sugar. Just in case you didn't know.