Recipe question
So I picked up a couple of cookbooks during the week, one of them has a lot of great ideas for using my slow cooker. One in particular is a pumpkin pie breakfast bar. The recipe as written says that it has 4 g of net carbs but when I punched in the recipe into Carb Manager it’s coming up with 10 net carbs per serving. I double checked that I had the amounts of all the ingredients correct and the number of servings. Not sure which measurement I should use? Of course I want to go with what it says in the recipe book, but...Any ideas for the difference?
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In my opinion, Carb Manager, (CM) doesn't know exactly the amount and all the ingredients you are actually using. This is why I do NOT follow recipes. I'm just not taking that chance and use up all my carbs on a bite of anything I have to "question". I stick with one source and mine happens to be CM. I personally don't go above 10g carbs a day, (averaging 6g/day) so this just wouldn't work for me at all. The fewer carbs the better. Good luck and all the best. Joanne
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Now that I read the labels, it's crazy how much difference there can be from one to another based on additional sugars etc. I think another problem is that each brand shows different serving sizes and therefore different nutritional info. I think sometimes the fractions get lost in rounding...I hardly ever see a decimal value on a label. One thing I have done in settings is to turn on decimal values in CM. And unless you are trying to go almost zero carb, don't sweat the small stuff...if those carbs are coming from real food like veggies, a difference of 4-5g is very minimal. And expect your numbers to vary...it's the long term trend that's most important. (IMO)
