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Date: 2010-07-12 08:44 am (UTC)But the classification I use is white-carbs (i.e. High GI) which would cover spuds, pasta, bread, couscous, lentils, root veg and rice.
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Date: 2010-07-12 10:27 am (UTC)watercress
US biscuit
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Date: 2010-07-12 10:32 am (UTC)Watercress is a fine green shoot, a bit like a mung bean shoot but finer. You'll see it at the supermarket with the other green stuff
And Grits are basically like porridge, served as a side-dish with things like fried eggs. I've had them once and liked them, but you can see Moxie's reaction.
Each to their own!
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Date: 2010-07-12 01:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-12 09:54 pm (UTC)Real True Southerners eat them with ham or sausage gravy slathered on, which to my mind defeats the purpose. They've got a delicate buttery flavor and a texture somewhat chewier than cream-of-wheat (farina prepared as a porridge, usually for breakfast.)
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Date: 2010-07-12 10:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-12 09:06 am (UTC)I used the "if I'm eating for carb week, do I eat it?" definition. So, rice, pasta, potato, etc.
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Date: 2010-07-12 09:19 am (UTC)I did not know what grits were and now I do...
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Date: 2010-07-12 09:31 am (UTC)Pumpkin and squash are carbs, zucchini is not, we don't think.
I filled this poll out with two friends who are type 2 diabetic.
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Date: 2010-07-12 01:39 pm (UTC)All squashes are fruit because they have seeds in them just like tomatoes and cucumbers. They do have some carbohydrates but I would not classify them as such, certainly not as high as grains and tubers (potatoes).
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Date: 2010-07-12 09:51 am (UTC)I did not check Grits, 'cause grits ARE NOT suitable for human consumption.
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Date: 2010-07-12 10:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-12 10:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-12 12:07 pm (UTC)It's not that I'm unaware of the others containing carbs, it's just what I think of as the 'category' even though it's not an entirely accurate definition.
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Date: 2010-07-12 03:57 pm (UTC)2. Stuff that's more cellulose than not (which _are_ carbs, but that we cannot digest) I left alone.
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Date: 2010-07-12 09:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-12 09:44 pm (UTC)Root veg, squashes (all sorts) and sweet corn (which you didn't list, but which is often on US restaurant menus as a vegetable) are all what I think of as "starchy veg" and would typically be considered "carbs" (and in the protein/veg/starch meal structure could take either the "veg" or the "starch" role). Lentils and other pulses / dry beans also fall in the 'starchy veg' category.
Anything grain-derived that isn't drinkable is going to be a starch (bread and all its bastard children, grits, porridge, couscous, pasta, rice).
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Date: 2010-07-14 02:01 pm (UTC)