Onions
I am seeing a lot of recipes that include onions white, or red. Yet this carb manager app says to avoid onions Except green onions. So do I swap out the green onions for a regular onion in a recipe? I had a friend on Facebook in a Keto diet Group that said onions are OK in small quantities. But that is not what this app says. I am confused now.
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That's what I do, but I've been doing it for a long time for digestive health reasons. I use green onion tops, and it takes about twice as many to get the same level of flavor. Also try cooking with leeks. I use those for pot roasts.
A cool note about green onions, if you pop them in a little flower pot with potting soil, they keep growing. I have a giant pot of chives on my front porch and several smaller pots of green onions. Just go snip some with the scissors, and they grow back.
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I ignore the rating and just look at the macros of ingredients. Onions are comparatively high in sugar, so you have to use them sparingly. I haven't compared the different types, but it seems like the common yellow onion and Vidalia onions are highest in carbs. I hear that dried onions are low carb. But they aren't "off limits", you just have to fit them in your carb budget.
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Thank you for asking. Day 4 on Friday and limited myself to using garlic by clove with chicken and asparagus. Wondering about onions with beef. I have chives, green onions and a leek ready though. :)
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Sue leeks are great with beef. I wouldn't switch back to onions now if they discovered they were 100% free of carbs!
