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ThinSlim Foods Reviews
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Zero Carb Bread Review
One of the challenges seniors, the elderly, and family caretakers have when managing themselves or loved one with Diabetes is proper meal planning. Sadly most diabetics do not adjust their lifestyle to help maintain their blood sugars. The long-term effect of poor health and death from unmanaged Diabetes is well documented. People with diabetes are unable to process carbohydrates normally. Uncontrolled Diabetes is like having a thick syrup instead of blood that flows throughout the body, which is what causes health problems.
Managing Diabetes is not easy, and especially not easy for a family caretaker. Diabetic meal planning requires frequent trips to the market to buy fresh food, knowledge of food preparation, and the time to prepare three meals a day, plus snacks. Some meal delivery services offer Diabetic meal delivers, but to rely on a service like this will require deep pockets and limited menu for long-term meal planning.
An Easy and Delicious Low Carb Health Solutions from ThinSlim Foods
To the Diabetic struggling to stay on their diet, it often means they must avoid carbs. Favorite foods like pizza, pasta, bread, bagels, cake, cookies, and anything with flour or sugar unfairly causes blood sugars to rise. Studies show, it often takes a significant health event, such as a stroke or heart attack, to create enough motivation for a Diabetic to live a very low carb lifestyle.
We've seen many low carb products, like Dreamfield Pasta, for example, that overpromise and underdeliver when it comes to managing blood sugar successfully, so we were naturally skeptical about the claims made by ThinSlim Foods. They advertise their products have been tested in a lab, and do not cause any spikes in blood sugar.
If you are doing Diabetic meal planning, you should be counting carbs and following your doctor's or nutritionist's guidelines for your body. Every Diabetic has different reactions to different carbs, so there is no one-rule-fits-all.
But we would like to draw your attention to carbs and fiber found on a nutritional label. This Zero Carb bread has 7 grams of carbs, and 7 grams of fiber, making it Zero Net Carbs. Fiber is a carb, but it is indigestible by the body. You can subtract fiber from the carbs, provided there are 5 or more grams of fiber listed on the nutritional label. By this definition, we should be able to eat as many slices of bread as we want without seeing any effect on my blood sugar.
We did our own test. I am a twenty-plus year Diabetic who manages my blood sugar with medicine and insulin. I am also a family caretaker for my Mom who has Diabetes. When I speak of Diabetic meal planning solutions, I am speaking from personal experience.
Here is my blood sugar before eating two sandwiches, or four slices of bread. A little over an hour later, my blood sugar was exactly the same as it was before I ate. Typically, if I were to eat bread, I would eat Rye bread, which has the lowest amount of carbs. Even so, four slices of Rye bread would be over 80 carbs and send my blood sugar to 250 or higher.
To experience no change in blood sugars has changed my life. I now enjoy sandwiches, bagels, and pasta, which is not "no carb," but very minimal effect on my blood sugar. Finally, there is a Diabetic meal planning solution that works for me, but I would recommend you test it for yourself. Read on to learn about the quality and flavor of the products.
Zero Carb Bread Review - $7.99
We tried three types of ThinSlim Foods Zero Carb bread which were plain, everything, and rye. They are all the same price. Each loaf is the plain version with some everything or rye seasoning on the outside of the loaf. There is also cinnamon, honey, and a thin-sliced plain version. This is the best product we have tried, and easily replace your bread without feeling like you are missing out on anything.
Pictured is a sandwich with lightly toasted bread and a grilled han and cheese sandwich. Both were excellent and we give the company 5 stars for creating a product of this quality and providing people with Diabetes an enjoyable meal planning solution with relief from high blood sugar spikes.
Zero Carb Bagels Review - $7.99
Each package comes with six bagels. The flavors are plain, everything, and cinnamon. Being from New York City, we consider our bagels the best in the world, so the ThinSlim Foods Zero Carb bagels come up against fierce competition. And there is clearly only one winner. The Zero Carb bagel compares more to a frozen supermarket bagel than an authentic NYC bagel.
However, one NYC bagel comes with almost 100 carbs and has proven to push my blood sugar higher than a kite. The Zero Carb bagel, which appears to be made from the same recipe as the bread, does not affect my blood sugar. While they fall short in comparison, I might eat one NYC a year. Now, I can have as many as I want, as often as I want. And I do!
Zero Carb Hot Dog Buns - $7.99
Most health-conscience people cross hot dogs off their list when they want to eat healthily. ThinSlim Foods gives consumers and Diabetics another option. Pictured are three-quarter pound all-beef hot dogs from Hebrew National, probably the most delicious hot dogs out there. They are majestically sitting three Zero Carb hot dog buns.
Add a little chili and some spicy brown mustard, and you have a treat that doesn't raise your blood sugars, and I ate all three of them! These buns are huge and will easily fit the biggest hot dog out there. You also use them for a fantastic Philly Cheesesteak if you were so inclined. The one recommendation I might make is to put them over a pot of heated water and use the steam to soften them up a little. Standing ovation for ThinSlim Foods!
Zero Carb Pizza Crusts - $7.99
All diabetics know the pitfalls of the disastrous effect pizza can have on their blood sugars. In my case, it can take takes and tons of insulin to recover. It is so problematic, that pizza has been removed from my diet.
But not it's back on the menu. This zero carb pizza crust will not hold up to the quality of a NYC pizzeria, but it is on par with any frozen pizza. I are the whole pizza and did see a slight lift in blood sugars, but that came from the sauce, not the crust. It's amazing!
Zero Carb Hamburger Buns - $7.99
As good as the Zero Carb hot dog buns were, we were a little disappointed with the hamburger buns. Like everything we've tried, these buns did not affect blood sugars. That in itself is a gift from above, but we thought two slices of ThinSlim bread made a better burger than the hamburger buns. They are too thick and too "sawdusty" or our tastes.
We recommend them for the health benefit but would consider slicing them in half to make the meat on the burger the star of the meal.
Low Carb Pancakes - $4.99
If you're a diabetic like me, it's been years since you had pancakes. In my case, they make my blood sugar fly off the chart. I was very excited to try these zero carb pancakes. They are already cooked, and don't come with heating directions, but I found 60 seconds to be long enough to make the pancakes hot enough to melt butter without ruining their texture.
$5 is a lot to pay for three small pancakes, but they were delicious. Obviously not as good a homemade buttermilk pancake, but not far off and these had no effect on raising my blood sugar. I will certainly reorder these and freeze them for when I crave pancakes.
Low Carb Biscuits - $4.99
Being from NYC, I remember the first time I traveled to the South and experienced biscuits and gravy. Had I known such a thing existed, I would have them with every meal. The biscuits at Kentucky Fried Chicken are the best available to me now, but the carbs make my blood sugars go so high they had to be removed from my menu.
Three of these low carb biscuits have 4.5 net carbs. Pictured with some Campbell's canned Sausage Gravy, that is about as close as I will come to the experiencing this dining treat, but the net carbs have no effect on my blood sugars, so I am happy to enjoy them again.
Low Carb Fettuccine - $7.99
All of the low carb pasta is $7.99. They are not zero net carbs, but eight net carbs. If you can eat the whole bag cooked, you've digested 32 net carbs. We are big eaters, and you'll find each bag makes two very generous portion sizes, as shown in the pictures.
We topped ours with a homemade clam sauce and homemade meatballs and sauce. We would have preferred a spaghetti or linguine version of the product, so we twirl it around a fork, but given that until now we have lived without eating pasta at all, this is very exciting.
Very generally speaking, 20 carbs a meal is a good goal for a Diabetic. This giant bowl is 16 carbs. There was some lift in blood sugar, but nothing that couldn't be managed. There is no comparison to the increase in blood sugar from eating regular pasta.
We have survived without eating pasta by eating canned palm hearts or totu shaped in the form of pasta. Both are expensive and are far from the classic Italian dining experience we all love. Thanks to Thin Slim Foods, our traditional Italian meals are back on the dining room table instead of being a memory of great meals past. We will be life-long customers and have since purchased the elbow and penne so look for upcoming reviews.
Zero Carb Penne - $7.99
This is the same pasta as the fettuccini, just made into penne, except it looks more like elbow macaroni than traditional penne. We made some beef stroganoff with a creamy mushroom sauce for our taste test.
Like the fettuccini, the pasta takes longer than traditional dried pasta to cook, and it's not as good, but it is close enough to add to your pantry. The days of eliminating pasta from a diabetics' diet are over. It's a little pricey, but it's much better than a life without pasta.
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