Info/Conversions

SUPPLIERS:

Low-carb ingredients can be somewhat difficult to find in brick-and-mortar stores. So I order most of my low-carb specialty ingredients on-line, usually from Netrition.com. Prices are competitive and their flat-rate shipping is wonderful, as these supplies can get quite heavy to ship! I just wait until I need a lot of items and SAVE! I have never experienced any difficulties on their order site nor have I ever had order fulfillment issues. Foods in glass containers have always arrived intact; liquid products have never arrived “leaking”. So my hat’s off to their packing and shipping department!

For the few baking ingredients I use that Netrition.com does not carry, I usually turn to Honeyvillegrains.com or Google the product (or maker) and buy direct.

SPECIAL BAKING INGREDIENTS:

♦Oat fiber—virtually pure fiber, called for in many of my baked goods, is a virtual carb wash. Please note it is NOT the same thing as oat bran. I order from Netrition.com or Honeyvillgrains on-line.

♦Oat flour—can be bought in many grocery stores or ground fine yourself in a food processor from regular rolled oats.

♦Oat bran—available at Walmart and some grocery stores, usually in the regular flour area.

♦Corn Bran—I haven’t found this anywhere but Honeyvillegrains on-line. It’s 94% fiber. Must be used very sparingly as it is exceedingly dry! It gives a slight corn flavor to cornbread and recipes that call for its higher carb cousin, cornmeal.

♦Carbquick Bake Mix—I order mine from Netrition.com. Some health food stores also carry or will order for you.

♦Carbalose Flour—I order from Netrition.com

♦Polydextrose—I order from Netrition.com or Honeyvillegrains.com

♦Erythritol—I order granular from Netrition.com or Honeyvillegrains.com and grind to powder myself

USEFUL CONVERSION SITES:

OVEN TEMPERATURES: http://www.circlecity.co.uk/kitchen/conversions/gasmark_temperatures.php

METRIC CONVERSIONS: http://www.onlineconversion.com/

EGG SIZES: http://whatscookingamerica.net/Eggs/EggEquivalent.htm

SWEETENER CONVERSION CHARTS:

Splenda (sucralose) : http://www.splenda.com/cooking-baking/conversion-chart

Splenda, EZ Sweets, Fiberfit, SweetzFree and Trishz’s (sucralose based products): http://genaw.com/lowcarb/splenda_conversion_chart.html

Stevia: http://www.herbsandnaturalremedies.com/stevia1.htm

Equal (aspartame): http://www.dietforum.com/conversion.htm

Truvia (mix of erythritol and stevia): http://www.truvia.com/recipes/conversion-chart/

Sweet ‘n Low (saccharin) and Sweet One (acesulfame potassium) : http://homecooking.about.com/library/weekly/bl010598b.htm

Erythritol (low-BG impact sugar alcohol), SweetzFree (sucralose) , Isomalt (from beet sugar): http://www.lowcarbfriends.com/bbs/lowcarb-recipe-help-suggestions/544771-sugar-sub-conversion-chart.html

Xylitol: http://www.drjacobkeyzernd.com/sweet_calc.htm

7 Comments »

7 Responses

on October 19, 2011 at 2:22 pm | Reply Cathy A

Those are great ideas!! I love your recipes and I look forward to more with the “oat fiber”(?) Thank you so much!!
on October 18, 2011 at 1:53 pm | Reply Cathy A

Peggy,

Thanks for all you do to keep me low carb. However, I will be on Phase 1 for months to come. Is there a way to just go thru recipes that are only for phase 1?

Thanks again!

Cathy
- on October 19, 2011 at 2:14 pm | Reply buttoni
  
  Cathy, I’m so glad you like my recipes! I’m sorry, but my site’s search feature isn’t capable of sorting and listing the recipes that way, only by recipe category shown on the right. But once you browse a category and pull one up, the narrative of each recipe clearly states if it is OK for Induction or not, or what to change/leave out to make it OK for Induction in some cases.
  
  What I did when I started Atkins 2+ years ago was I literally studied the Acceptable Foods List a few minutes every night for about a week or so, just like you would for a test in school, until I became so familiar with the veggies on it and few other items on it, I knew in a quick glance if a recipe was OK or not for Induction. Knowledge is POWER! There’s the teacher in me coming out again. Hope you don’t mind my suggestion. Another advantage to getting that familiar with the list of Acceptable Foods is when you’re in a restaurant, you aren’t going to want to keep pulling that list out to see if what you are about to eat/order is OK or not. Too embarrassing. And when eating at someone’s house, you’ll want to know without a list at the table. Again, too embarrassing. Hope these tips helps you continue your Atkins journey with greater ease. And best of luck to you with your weight loss efforts!
on October 3, 2011 at 2:34 pm | Reply Beth Hardy McLennan

Hi there– recently found your blog and all the recipes look wonderful. Netrition is out of stock on oat fiber. Do you have any suggestions on substitutes, or another place to buy it?

Thanks a bunch!!
- on October 3, 2011 at 3:33 pm | Reply buttoni
  
  Welcome, Beth! Check out Honeyvillegrains.com. They sell it but in a 4# bag. I buy it from them and just store my surplus in my chest freezer.
on September 20, 2011 at 8:21 pm | Reply Jill

Peggy,

I’m really enjoying all the recipes on your site! They are helping me maintain a low carb lifestyle with a good amount of variety. I do have a question about liquid sweetner. I can’t get it where I live and am wondering if I can just use powdered? Thanks again and I’m looking forward to eating my way through your site!
- on September 21, 2011 at 8:33 am | Reply buttoni
  
  Oh sure, Jill, you can use powdered/granular sweeteners. I have added some conversion charts on my INFO/CONVERSION page that may help you convert, but bear in mind, the dry sweeteners usually have 1 carb per serving you’d have to add to the nutritional stats. I only started using the liquid recently myself (to save carbs)
  Glad you enjoy the recipes and DO have fun eating your way through the site!