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Chicken Carnivore Bread Bun

Ingredients:

  • 300 g Raw Chicken Breast
  • 2 Large Eggs
  • 2 tsp Baking Powder

Boil the chicken for 15 minutes. Put the other 2 ingredients in to a food processor. Allow the chicken breasts, once cooked to cool down so you can handle it. Roughly chop the chicken before adding it to the processor.

Once you have processed the mixture, it will look like porridge, Jen says it looks like something else, but I won’t say what.

I’m making two buns, so you measure out approximately 150g in each tin. I’ve used a 4 inch cake tin but you could use a ramekin.

You then set an air fryer to 160°C and bake for 15 minutes.

After cooling in the tin for 10 minutes, here’s the finished product……..

How much sugar do you eat in a day?

How much sugar do you eat in day? If some of us are being honest, we know that we eat too much sugar. The biscuits or sweets that we tend to eat mid morning, and during that afternoon energy slump add up. I’m sure there are others who eat whole grains, with plenty of fibre, who would say that they don’t consume too much sugar.

Have a look below at an “unhealthy” day of eating, compared to a “healthy” day. The results might surprise you. The examples below are all taken from widely available UK high street retailers, though I haven’t named them, or the products specifically.

The important detail to know is that ALL carbohydrates turn into sugar when eaten, this may not be immediate, but it will happen. Also, this is the case for all of our bodies, NOT just diabetics. So when a label says carbs, read that as sugar.

Unhealthy day’s eating:

Breakfast:
3 crumpets, without jam – 58.2g carbs
Pure apple juice. One glass, 150ml – 16.7g carbs
Total breakfast carbs – 74.9, 18.7 teaspoons of sugar.

Lunch: A meal deal.
Chicken mayo baguette – 62g carbs
Ready salted crisps 45g – 23g carbs
Can of fizzy drink – 35g carbs
Total lunch carbs – 120g carbs, 30 teaspoons of sugar.

Dinner:
Four cheese pizza 330g – 93.4g carbs
Mini cup leading brand ice cream, 81g serving – 22.8g
Total dinner carbs – 116.2g carbs, 29 teaspoons of sugar

Total daily 310.9g of carbs, 77.7 teaspoons of sugar.

Healthy day’s eating:

Breakfast:
Superberry granola 50g – 31.7g carbs
50ml skimmed milk – 2.5g carbs
Banana, avg flesh weight 100g – 23g carbs
100% pure squeezed orange juice, with bits. One glass, 150ml – 15g carbs
Total breakfast carbs – 72.2g carbs, 18 teaspoons of sugar.

Lunch:
Tuna and sweetcorn sandwich, on malted bread – 44.5g carbs
120g portion of mango chunks – 16.3g
Smoothie drink, with added vitamins and no added sugar – 33g
Total lunch carbs – 93.8g of carbs, 23.4 teaspoons of sugar

Dinner:
Chicken breast – 0g carbs
Sweet chilli dipping sauce, 29g serving – 12.2g carbs
Brown rice, 75g uncooked weight – 65.3g carbs
Leading brand steamed vegetable bag – 9.8g carbs
Total dinner carbs – 87.3g of carbs, 21.8 teaspoons of sugar

Total daily – 253.3g of carbs, 63.3 teaspoons of sugar

Please take a look at the YouTube we have linked, Richard Smith explains extremely well the impact of sugar on our body. Each time we consume over one teaspoon of sugar, which is just 4g, our body has to use insulin to offset the glycemic load.

I have been told in the past that a Ketogenic lifestyle is unhealthy and dangerous. The NHS recommendation for daily “free” sugar intake is no more 30g, and to eat a therapeutic Keto diet is to have no more than 20g of total carbs a day. I don’t believe that our pancreas can detect a difference between a naturally occurring sugar, and an added sugar. So the insulin responds to the glycemic load. So can eating 10g fewer carbs in a day than the Govt advises be dangerous? Please have a look for Dr David Unwin, he is lovely NHS GP, who has made a hugely positive impact in his practice. He is, in my mind, showing the NHS how it should be done, showing how beneficial lowering carbs can be for our health.

The Sugar Burden
Common Foods
A Common Breakfast
Breakfast Cereals

I have lost over 6 stone since I realised that eating fat wasn’t the problem, it was eating low fat and high sugar that was hurting me. Simon, my husband, put his Diabetes type 2 into remission by eating this way. His T2 diabetes has not been “cured”, because if he were to start eating high carb, therefore high sugar again, his blood glucose would increase quickly. This is why it is only in remission, not cured. So I don’t see how the Keto diet can be dangerous.

Don’t blame the fat for what the sugar did.

Yet again, these are purely my own thoughts, based on our experience and research. This is not medical advice, just sharing what has helped us.

Keto/Carnivore Cheese Sauce

This flourless cheese sauce is great for diabetics and is the best and creamiest cheese sauce I’ve found.

The left just shows how thick the cheese sauce is.

Cheese Sauce covered hard boiled egg and Pork Belly.

Ingredients

  • 120 g cream cheese
  • 60g butter
  • 80g double cream
  • 125g grated cheese
  • Pinch Mustard Powder (optional)
  • Salt to taste.

Method

  • Add Cream Cheese, butter and cream into a saucepan.
  • Once the ingredients have started to melt, whisk until smooth
  • Add the cheese, and salt if using.
  • Whisk until the cheese is melted.
  • Transfer to a bowl and serve.

Making this sauce only takes 5 minutes once you have put the ingredients together. It is so simple.