Dinner Tonight

[Rockin]

Hope someone can help before we sit down to eat, otherwise I guess I can make me a steak like I had planned to already.

I am making sloppy joes tonight here are the ingredients, can I have some???

Ground Beef 1 1/2 pounds

Minced Onions - couple sprinkles into meat while browning

Ketchup - Heinz 1 carb ketchup (1g carb per serving, serving=1 Tbsp, use 1 bottle for this recipe total servings per bottle 25, total carb count 25)

Brown Sugar - Sugar Twin Brown Sugar - Carbs 0g
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If I can have it, how much can I have, like by the cup measurement (1/4c, 1/2c,1c)

[Pineapple]

Re: Dinner Tonight

Well, it's got brown sugar in it so I'd say steaks the way to go here.

[Rockin]

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It has sugar twin brown sugar that has 0g carbs

[Pineapple]

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Right, but that's still sugar.

[Desertthorn]

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I use Splendas brown sugar. I find that I have to use less than called for cause its to sweet

[Moochiecat]

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I realize this is way too late for last nights dinner but here goes anyway.

The Splenda is just fine as long as you stay within your 3 sweetener limit for the day.

If you're on Induction, you'd have to look at the ingredients of the Heinz 1 and decide whether they are legal or not.
I used low carb condiments in Induction, but kept my portions very very small....this sounds like there'd be a fair amount in your serving. If you could mix the ketchup and Splenda and have it on the side, you could then control how much you put into your portion of hamburger. That would give you a better idea of how much you were eating, and you'd be able to count the carbs better.

[Rockin]

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Thanks everyone.

Yes, I am on induction and decided to just have the steak last night as I have already lost 8.2 pounds and don't want to risk hurting that. From what I can see on the bottles of ketchup it is fine in small portions, I don't know about the sugar twin brown cause it says 0g to everything and guess this could be one of those that it isn't enough to have to report it but in large quantities it might still add up to too much. So for now I will stay away from it and maybe later on I can have some.

[Elizellen]

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Here is the nutritional info for Sugar Twin Brown
http://www.sugartwin.com/pi_ntr.cfm

Ingredients for Canadian Sugar Twin Brown are

SugarTwin® Granulated Brown Maltodextrin, sodium cyclamate 32%, caramel colour, artificial flavours.
Contains sodium cyclamate. Take only on the advice of a physician.

and for the US variety

SugarTwin® Granulated Brown Maltodextrin, sodium Saccharin, calcium chloride, caramel color, artificial flavor.
Contains 3.53%. Saccharin. Each level teaspoon serving contains 14.1 mg of Saccharin.
Contains nutritive and non-nutritive sweeteners.

[Rockin]

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Does that mean the US sugar twin is ok, usually when people post the ingredients, they bold anything you can't have. Just askin cause I don't want to stall myself.

[Elizellen]

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Sorry I didnt do that
Looking at the ingredients, I would suggest that as maltodextrin is derived from corn starch it would not be an allowed induction ingredient.

Maltodextrins are easily digestible carbohydrates made from natural corn starch. The starch is cooked, and then acid and/or enzymes are used to break the starch into smaller polymers (a process similar to that used by the body to digest carbohydrate).

I ma sure that if I am wrong someone will post the true information soon

[Rockin]

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I found some splenda brown sugar Tossin the sugar twin brown sugar...i know I should even stay away from too much of that too but at least I can have a little more flexibility with my recipes