Postby Harriet » Sun Jan 20, 2013 12:10 pm
I suppose it's somewhat like WW and somewhat like low(er)-carb to use Cruise's recipe/foods book we're trying, although he says go ahead and have 6 daily carb servings. His concept is to finish off each day under 15 grams of sugar, and 6 servings of carbs spread through the day, and he re-does recipes to get the sugar down.
On balance, very pleased with the first recipe we tried from the book : Scrumptious Pork Stir Fry. This is his re-do of restaurant sweet and sour pork, which would normally be sweetened with either brown sugar/ketchup or sugar/pineapple juice. The book compares this to the Panda Express dish, and it only has a tenth of the sugars per serving (4 grams), one quarter the carbs. I notice that online sites that have tracked this recipe calculate the sugar even lower than he does.
Stevia for sweetening didn't slow anyone at our table down at all - tasty, and no leftovers with 4 adult appetites. Dstepson was very complimentary of the meal. But it does have soy sauce as an ingredient so the sodium is a concern. Should call for low-sodium soy sauce in my opinion. HRH commented to dstepson that it was an expensive recipe to make, and I'll admit we had plenty of work in the kitchen.
I can see how using this book as a daily reference could be a near-guarantee of healthier, low-sugar eating. You'd be flipping through the book all the time to find out the sugars (besides recipes, he calculates for packaged snacks, fast foods, beverages, salad dressings, all kinds of things.) But he has done a LOT of work for you, compiling all this info. (spiral bound, coated pages should stand up to constant back-and-forth.)