Replacements.

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I highly doubt that what is on offer instead of wheat noodles, flour bread, or rice of any sort, is going to taste like... well... what it is replacing.  At this point it honestly doesn't matter.  As long as it fills the role well enough.  It isn't so much the flavor that I am missing, as the sense that something isn't in the dish that should be.  Actually, you simply can't have spaghetti without... well... spaghetti.  It just isn't what it is.  And the sauce... without noodles, or even bread?  As I learned tonight, however, meatballs are great just with the sauce and some melted cheese.  Oh, I can do that.  I've been eating plain burgers for a while, so it was a treat.  Yeah, I am working on it.

To the store soon.  Working on a list.  Standard issue foods, like milk, cream, eggs, of course.  Now there are new foods.  Further, I am looking much more closely at labels.  Does this heavy cream have stabilizers?  Does that have dextrose, do those have sugar, is this so and such?  Not just what is in it, but... how many carbs?  Even with a carb count, I am going to have to see if it disturbs my own body's glycemix indexer.  Testing, and more, on new and old.  Of course, with my insulin doing yo-yo tricks I'll... have to test cautiously.

As to the noodles, or noodle replacements really, if they aren't in the stores I shop I have found them at Amazon.  As well as a rice replacement.  Not just random picks, these come recommended.  Not that they will work, for me, but they are a start.  Further, they will give me some notion of how my tastes and tolerances compare with a particular taster.  Here is a link to the spaghetti, fettuccine, and rice replacements... just to show where I am looking.  I have heard that adding a cup of brown rice, to the package, needing no water, will produce a very close run... if my system will handle it well enough.  I think I had brown rice whole, without a blood sugar shock, so...  Actually I might hold off on the rice replacement until/unless testing shows a real need.

It is amazing what all is out there.  It isn't just packaged, either.  Simply cooking cauliflower, then pressing it through a ricer, and... there is another rice/potato substitute.  Crazy what all is out there that I really didn't know.  Or did but conveniently ignored.  Crazy how, until you are ready to take a corner in life, you often won't/can't begin to see around it.  *Boo!*  Run away, run away fast!  Ah well.  I am here now, and cornering fairly well.  I think I am surprising people.  I am not sure that is a good thing.  Some people don't like surprises, some don't like specific surprises.  Ah, the dead man CAN walk... run... disappear.  But... I thought he was, you know... dead... deadish?  Can't we all just get along?  *poof*  *wink*

Later.