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Sweet N Low Chocolate Cake Mix, Sugar-Free, Kosher 8 oz Have your dessert…and eat it too, even on a diabetic or restricted diet! Sweet’N Low brand offers delicious cake and frosting mixes — even Chocolate Chip Cookie Mix — that are sugar-free, no sugar added, cholesterol free and low in sodium and fat to make it enjoyable for you to maintain a safe, sensible diet program. Each 8 oz. box of cake mix yields one 8″ layer. Also available in full cases of 12 boxes. WeightWatchers FlexPoints – 3. Ingredients: Enriched Bleached Flour(Flour, Niacin, Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Sorbitol, Maltodextrin, Propylene Glycol, Mono and Di Esters of Fatty Acid, Cocoa Processed with Alkali, Dried Egg Albumen, Cellulose Fiber, Nonfat Dry Milk, Mono and Diglycerides, Modified Corn Starch, Potassium Bicarbonate, Sodium Aluminum Phosphate, Guar Gum, Artificial Vanilla Flavor, Xanthan Gum, Acesulfame Potassium. Serving Size 1/5 package, Calories 160, Fat CAl. 25, Total Fat 2.5g, Sat. Fat 1g, Sodium 30mg, Total Carbohydrate 36, Ditary Fiber 1g, Sugars 1g, Sugar Alcohol 14g, Protein 3g, Calcium 2%, Iron 6%. Contains Milk, Egg, Wheat, Soy. Calorie Comparison: This product 160 Regular Cake 250 NET CARBS: 21g. Diabetic Exchange: One serving of cake is approximately equal to two bread and fat exchange.

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The Diabetic Goodie Book The Diabetic Goodie Book demonstrates how a diet can be healthy without denying your sweet tooth. Whether you have diabetes or are just looking for a healthier lifestyle, this cookbook contains over 150 desserts and baked goods that are low in sugar, and use NO artificial sweeteners. The Diabetic Goodie Book lets you satisfy your hunger for sweets while helping to reduce your risk of high blood sugar and high blood cholesterol. These recipes comply with the new guidelines of the American Diabetes Association and the American Dietetics Association for counting carbohydrates. This book helps you prepare healthier, low-calorie and carbohydrate-controlled desserts and treats for the whole family. The recipes are in large print and provide preparation time as well as full nutrition information and diabetic food exchanges. Sample Desserts include Fantastic Fudgey Brownies, Old Fashioned Peach Cobbler, and Scrumptious Peanut Butter Cookies. About the Author Author Kathy Kochan has been living with diabetes since the age of five. Today she manages her diabetes with an insulin pump. A cooking enthusiast, she lectures and teaches healthy cooking classes. Dessert is her favorite part of every meal, and indulges daily. She has spent a lifetime in the kitchen at her favorite pastime, challenging herself to bake healthy, yet tasty desserts that satisfy her sweet tooth and are quick and easy for anyone to make. Kathy is the mother of two adult sons, and she currently resides in New Jersey with her husband, Henry, of thirty years. The Diabetic Goodie Book Features: Over 150 dessert recipes! Recipes written in Large Print Full nutrition information as well as diabetic food exchanges are listed with every recipe The Diabetic Goodie Book Specifications: ISBN-10: 0962047171 ISBN-13: 978-0962047176 Pages: 288 pages Publisher: Appletree Press (MN) (October 1, 1996) Product Dimensions: 9.9\” H x 6.9\” W x 0.7\” D Editorial

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When on Weight Watchers, they had a calculator you could purchase that when input with calories, fat and fiber grams would tell you the amount of ”points” each food was valued. Does anyone know if there is any sort of calculator similar to this for determining the exchange values of packages foods, such as the 100 calorie snacks, for example? Any help will be much appreciated!

WOW ! This is your lucky day. Forget the exchange diet. You need the GLYCEMIC INDEX food plan. Its a list of 2,480 food that tell you their index and load. I will be your eating bible for life.Heres the website:http://www.mendosa.com/gilists.htm

The glycemic index (GI) is a numerical system of measuring how much of a rise in circulating blood sugar a carbohydrate triggers–the higher the number, the greater the blood sugar response. So a low GI food will cause a small rise, while a high GI food will trigger a dramatic spike. A list of carbohydrates with their glycemic values is shown below. A GI is 70 or more is high, a GI of 56 to 69 inclusive is medium, and a GI of 55 or less is low.

The glycemic load (GL) is a relatively new way to assess the impact of carbohydrate consumption that takes the glycemic index into account, but gives a fuller picture than does glycemic index alone. A GI value tells you only how rapidly a particular carbohydrate turns into sugar. It doesn’t tell you how much of that carbohydrate is in a serving of a particular food. You need to know both things to understand a food’s effect on blood sugar. That is where glycemic load comes in. The carbohydrate in watermelon, for example, has a high GI. But there isn’t a lot of it, so watermelon’s glycemic load is relatively low. A GL of 20 or more is high, a GL of 11 to 19 inclusive is medium, and a GL of 10 or less is low.

Foods that have a low GL almost always have a low GI. Foods with an intermediate or high GL range from very low to very high GI.

Both GI and GL are listed here. The GI is of foods based on the glucose index–where glucose is set to equal 100. The other is the glycemic load, which is the glycemic index divided by 100 multiplied by its available carbohydrate content (i.e. carbohydrates minus fiber) in grams. (The "Serve size (g)" column is the serving size in grams for calculating the glycemic load; for simplicity of presentation I have left out an intermediate column that shows the available carbohydrates in the stated serving sizes.) Take, watermelon as an example of calculating glycemic load. Its glycemic index is pretty high, about 72. According to the calculations by the people at the University of Sydney’s Human Nutrition Unit, in a serving of 120 grams it has 6 grams of available carbohydrate per serving, so its glycemic load is pretty low, 72/100*6=4.32, rounded to 4.

I have tried them all and this is the best and easiest. Do it…>