Disclaimer: I am not diabetic but diagnosed with high blood sugar due to excess weight, would like to shift at least 3 stone.
I started on Monday cutting out as much sugar as possible (big chocolate ice cream lolly fan usually followed by more chocolate). I am aiming to make sure that all foods come in under 10% per 100g of sugar and also trying to keep the rest of the carbs low. That’s a bit difficult because I don’t really know what is considered acceptable if you are trying to lose weigh.
I digress, I ordered two types of sausages, my favourite caramelised onion and because whilst under 10% sugar they were still higher than cumberland sausages , so my plan was to have two sausages, one of each. The revelation was that I ate the cumberland first and was amazed when I started the caramelised onion sausage on how sweet it was. I would not normally notice this because I usually had them as a sandwich with ketchup. The result was I actually preferred the cumberland.
Right I am now getting to the point of my post. I served this with mashed sweet potato and green beans and along with this I made an onion gravy. The problem is that I was left not knowing how to thicken the gravy so just went my normal route of flour and fat mixed with stock made with sweet potato water.
Do you experts out there have any suggestions on how to thicken gravy without using white flour.
Thanks