Looking for low glycemic recipes, does anyone have any? Found this cookie recipe

mercy

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also wanted to know if anyone has tried this out? I saw this on a show called Sweet Truth hosted by Kelly Keough on a channel called Veria.com. Can someone also tell me about xanthan gum and where I can buy it. Thanks in advance for the help.

CLEVAGE CHIP COOKIES ON A STICK

A chocolate chip cookie on a stick.

1 cup pecan halves

2 cups plus 2 tablespoons gluten-free flour

2 tsp baking soda

2 tsp xanthan gum

¾ tsp Himalayan salt

2 sticks unsalted butter

½ cup Swerve sugar substitute

½ cup dark agave

2 droppers vanilla crème Stevia liquid

1 organic Omega 3 egg

1 organic Omega 3 egg yolk

2 tbsp pure vanilla extract

¾ cup of grain sweetened chocolate chip

1 ½ cup unsweetened puffed rice, slightly crushed

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. In dry Teflon coated sauté pan, place pecans over a medium heat and toast nuts until oils are released. Shake pan every few minutes so that nuts are

evenly browned about 8 minutes. Immediately transfer nuts to a bowl and set aside.

In a large bowl sift together gluten-free, baking soda, xanthan gum, and salt. Set aside. In medium saucepan, melt butter over medium heat. Turn off the heat under the butter.

With wire whisk, add Swerve and agave. Whisk until combined. Pour into large mixing bowl to cool slightly.

Into the melted butter mixture, liquid Stevia, egg, egg yolk, and vanilla. Add the wet mixture to the large mixing bowl containing pre-sifted flour mixture and stir until just combined.

Let dough cool completely at room temperature.

When cookie dough is cooled add chocolate chips and nuts.

With a large spoon, scoop cookie dough into parchment lined baking tray about 2 inches apart. Spray oil hands so dough will not stick and form dough into balls. Spray oil the

bottom of a small custard dish and flatten the cookie mounds slightly with the flat bottom and slide off the cookie. Do not pull the custard cup directly up or the dough with pull.

Stick a Popsicle or cookie stick in the bottom a 1/3 of the way through at a 45-degree angle and place in the freezer for 30 minutes.

Place in pre-heated oven. Bake for 11-13 minutes. Remove from oven and cool for 2 minutes before transferring to wire rack.

Yield: A dozen large cookies.

http://www.veria.com/show/the-sweet-truth.html

 
Mercy...if it doesn't have a shelf life, I have some and can mail some out to you.

Xanthan gum..it's one of those things I bought a few years ago when Lar wanted to go gluten/wheat-free.

Supposedly it mimics the gluten structure to hold a baked good together. Otherwise, the cookie would just crumble (hmm, maybe that's where they got that phrase from...?)

I'll check and see if XG degrades after so long.
If it doesn't and it's okay, I'll get back with you, ping me with your address and I'll drop some in the mail.

 
Just some tips, or at least what I've found out from personal experience

Bananas and pineapple are HIGH-glycemic, so steer clear of them.

Add fiber - and used whole grains when you can

Adding protein makes it lower-glycemic (so does adding fat, but that's not always healthy!)

Rice? Not usually too low-glycemic. I'm not sure that the gluten has much to do with the glycemic level, but maybe

Pasta isn't high-glycemic, contrary to what one would think. Watch out for baked potatoes, though. Yikes!!!

Don't go for fat-free recipes - not only does the fat make the food lower-glycemic, but these recipes often have more sugar to compensate for the lack of fat (read: lowfat usually = high sugar)

 
I found bananas are okay if just ripe- it is when they are really ripe the the GI is high

When the skin starts showing speckles the GI goes way up.

When I lost all my weight using a modified South Beach Diet (they are big on low GI) I stayed clear of over-ripe bananas, watermelon, oranges, carrots, corn, peas, all foods with white flour, potatoes, white rice and others.

I ate a lot of berries, apples, raw tomatoes, raw and cooked sweet peppers, whole grain foods, most veggies, wild rice, leafy greens, stuff like that. The GI stayed low. It is how I still eat almost 4 years later.

 
Exactly Cathy! For a food to be considered low GI , it will have a GI value of below 55. The other

important thing that most people don't realize is that when making a plate to eat a meal, the entire meal needs to be s totsl value GI 54 or less. Just because something is low fat or low cal doesn't make it low GI or even good for you. Not only are potates high GI but white flour and anything made with white flour is also high GI too. The problem with white flour is the over processing that it goes throew but how do you think it is whitened/ They use actual bleach. Yes, that same stuff you clean clothes and other things with. Nice to know that you are putting that in your body, isn't it?

 
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