Those shirataki noodles...um...

I ordered some shirataki noodles as I had seem them mentioned here.
From the name I thought they were made from mushrooms but they are in
fact made from Asian yams.

Anyway, I tried a package tonight. Now someone previously said that
it was like eating plastic baggies - and right out of the bag, cold,
they definitely had a "jelly fish" consistency. So I tossed them in a
pot of boiling water (no directions on the package or at least none
that * I * could read). For all I knew, they were going to dissolve
into gelatin. Whoa, they are much improved by cooking. I put sauteed
shaved steak (mushrooms and onions and some beef bouillion flavoring)
on top - soooooooooooooooooooo much better than those bogus soy pastas
I tried.

I'm under the assumption that these noodles are zero or very low-carb
but I don't know how that can be if they are made from "yams" -
although Asian yams may be a different beastie than our varieties.
There is no nutritional info on the package.

Can someone confirm that I did NOT just eat 100 carbs at one sitting?

The bags are very cheap ($1.25) but the shipping cost was prohibitive
($7.31 to ship $5 worth of noodles) - if these are no/low carb, then
I'll have to find a local source but it would be well worth it.
Kalish

Kalish wrote:

I ordered some shirataki noodles as I had seem them mentioned here.
From the name I thought they were made from mushrooms but they are in
fact made from Asian yams.

Anyway, I tried a package tonight. Now someone previously said that
it was like eating plastic baggies - and right out of the bag, cold,
they definitely had a "jelly fish" consistency. So I tossed them in a
pot of boiling water (no directions on the package or at least none
that * I * could read). For all I knew, they were going to dissolve
into gelatin. Whoa, they are much improved by cooking. I put sauteed
shaved steak (mushrooms and onions and some beef bouillion flavoring)
on top - soooooooooooooooooooo much better than those bogus soy pastas
I tried.

I'm under the assumption that these noodles are zero or very low-carb
but I don't know how that can be if they are made from "yams" -
although Asian yams may be a different beastie than our varieties.
There is no nutritional info on the package.

Can someone confirm that I did NOT just eat 100 carbs at one sitting?

The bags are very cheap ($1.25) but the shipping cost was prohibitive
($7.31 to ship $5 worth of noodles) - if these are no/low carb, then
I'll have to find a local source but it would be well worth it.
Kalish

No, you're fine. They have virtually no carbs after you deduct
the fiber. You can get them at stores that cater to Japanese
customers.
--
Jean B.

"Kalish" wrote in message
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Can someone confirm that I did NOT just eat 100 carbs at one sitting?

The bags are very cheap ($1.25) but the shipping cost was prohibitive
($7.31 to ship $5 worth of noodles) - if these are no/low carb, then
I'll have to find a local source but it would be well worth it.

from what i've found online, it's 3g carbs, all of which are "soluble
fiber". or, no "net" carbs. i think i'm going to have to try some.

oh, and BTW, i'm new. i'm doing southbeach and looking for recipes, and
somehow wound up here. :-)

-kelly

http://www.house-foods.com/our_produ..._products.html

Scroll down, you will find the noodles listed then click on nutritional info
link under the item. It pops up in a seperate window and I was not able to
copy and paste the info, but according to everything it says, there is "less
than 1 gram carb per serving" Ingredient list is: water, yam flour, calcium
hydroxide (that is the white ones) the black noodles list seaweed, as
coloring agent I am assuming.
Hope that helps, although it doesn't explain how you can get so little carb
count from yam flour..

Teeb


"Kalish" wrote in message
news
I ordered some shirataki noodles as I had seem them mentioned here.
From the name I thought they were made from mushrooms but they are in
fact made from Asian yams.

Anyway, I tried a package tonight. Now someone previously said that
it was like eating plastic baggies - and right out of the bag, cold,
they definitely had a "jelly fish" consistency. So I tossed them in a
pot of boiling water (no directions on the package or at least none
that * I * could read). For all I knew, they were going to dissolve
into gelatin. Whoa, they are much improved by cooking. I put sauteed
shaved steak (mushrooms and onions and some beef bouillion flavoring)
on top - soooooooooooooooooooo much better than those bogus soy pastas
I tried.

I'm under the assumption that these noodles are zero or very low-carb
but I don't know how that can be if they are made from "yams" -
although Asian yams may be a different beastie than our varieties.
There is no nutritional info on the package.

Can someone confirm that I did NOT just eat 100 carbs at one sitting?

The bags are very cheap ($1.25) but the shipping cost was prohibitive
($7.31 to ship $5 worth of noodles) - if these are no/low carb, then
I'll have to find a local source but it would be well worth it.
Kalish

It's called Devil's Tongue Yam, and I don't know if it is truly a yam or
just called that. At any rate, just put them in a colander and run hot
water over them and the fish smell and taste is gone. I love them and
use them in a lot of things. I buy mine at the supermarket. If they
don't carry them at your supermarket, ask them to. Have you looked in
the section where the tofu is?

--
Cheri
Type 2, no meds for now.

Kalish wrote in message ...
I ordered some shirataki noodles as I had seem them mentioned here.
From the name I thought they were made from mushrooms but they are in
fact made from Asian yams.

Anyway, I tried a package tonight. Now someone previously said that
it was like eating plastic baggies - and right out of the bag, cold,
they definitely had a "jelly fish" consistency. So I tossed them in a
pot of boiling water (no directions on the package or at least none
that * I * could read). For all I knew, they were going to dissolve
into gelatin. Whoa, they are much improved by cooking. I put sauteed
shaved steak (mushrooms and onions and some beef bouillion flavoring)
on top - soooooooooooooooooooo much better than those bogus soy pastas
I tried.

I'm under the assumption that these noodles are zero or very low-carb
but I don't know how that can be if they are made from "yams" -
although Asian yams may be a different beastie than our varieties.
There is no nutritional info on the package.

Can someone confirm that I did NOT just eat 100 carbs at one sitting?

The bags are very cheap ($1.25) but the shipping cost was prohibitive
($7.31 to ship $5 worth of noodles) - if these are no/low carb, then
I'll have to find a local source but it would be well worth it.
Kalish

On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 22:12:30 -0500, "Jean B." wrote:

No, you're fine. They have virtually no carbs after you deduct
the fiber. You can get them at stores that cater to Japanese
customers.

I live in the boonies, no stores like that around here BUT there is a
big Asian mall that opened in Quincy about 6 months ago. I've been
meaning to go and never got around to it - now I have some incentive.
Where do you get them? I know you've mentioned them here.

I don't know how I missed it (starving and in a hurry to eat maybe?)
but there * is * nutritional info on the package - the bag has two
servings (not when I'm eating them!) and it says zero carbs, zero
calories, zero nutritional value (no protein, no vitamins, no
nothing!). That's fine, I thought there were great, I have high hopes
for these things. Shirataki noodle alfredo, maybe? Yeah! Kalish

Kalish wrote in
:

I don't know how I missed it (starving and in a hurry to eat maybe?)
but there * is * nutritional info on the package - the bag has two
servings (not when I'm eating them!) and it says zero carbs, zero
calories, zero nutritional value (no protein, no vitamins, no
nothing!). That's fine, I thought there were great, I have high hopes
for these things. Shirataki noodle alfredo, maybe? Yeah! Kalish


Keep a watchful eye on the scales when you're adding in these noodles, or
any other Asian food with a label that looks like that. Foreign countries
are, shall we say, a little less careful about the nutrition label. I once
picked up a bottle of sesame oil in an Asian market, and it said pure
sesame oil, serving size one tablespoon, fat 4 grams, sugar 5 grams,
protein 1 gram.

As long as the noodles don't make you stall, you're good to go. I wonder
how much fiber is in them, though. They're supposed to be *full* of fiber.

Chakolate

--
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
--James Thurber

Kalish wrote:

On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 22:12:30 -0500, "Jean B." wrote:

No, you're fine. They have virtually no carbs after you deduct
the fiber. You can get them at stores that cater to Japanese
customers.

I live in the boonies, no stores like that around here BUT there is a
big Asian mall that opened in Quincy about 6 months ago. I've been
meaning to go and never got around to it - now I have some incentive.

Is that a Super 88? I forget if I read that.

Where do you get them? I know you've mentioned them here.

Super 88 near BU (Priscilla's haunt?). (I need to get to the
South Cove one but will wait til the flu season is over--and then
figure out how to get there on the T. It has something I can't
get--maybe the good brand of Thai tea????) Also, a couple of
Japanese markets in Cambridge (Porter and Central Sqs.) and one in
Union Sq., Somerville. None in the normal supermarkets around
here. Maybe they would be receptive, since they seem to be
realizing that LC is going to benefit them.


I don't know how I missed it (starving and in a hurry to eat maybe?)
but there * is * nutritional info on the package - the bag has two
servings (not when I'm eating them!) and it says zero carbs, zero
calories, zero nutritional value (no protein, no vitamins, no
nothing!). That's fine, I thought there were great, I have high hopes
for these things. Shirataki noodle alfredo, maybe? Yeah! Kalish

I like them a lot better in Asian dishes, but then I love Asian
food anyway. They strike me as being sort-of odd in western
ones. I do recall eating them with tomato sauce when I lived in
Japan--and was sort-of trying to cut cals.

--
Jean B.

On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 08:34:10 -0500, "Jean B." wrote:

Is that a Super 88? I forget if I read that.

I think there is one of those on the Southeast Xpressway, but this is
on the Quincy/Weymouth line - it used to have a Bradlees and a
Michaels craft store, then they emptied the whole thing out and turned
it into a full strip mall catering to Asian interests (restaurants,
food shops, travel and insurance agencies, etc.). I've heard that a
lot of people are now going there instead of going all the way in to
Boston's Chinatown (plenty of parking at the mall, minuscule parking
in C-Town, for one thing).

here. Maybe they would be receptive, since they seem to be
realizing that LC is going to benefit them.

I was looking in the Asian section of the international aisle at Star
in Marshfield - I thought I found them but I looked closer and it was
some kind of mung bean noodle to which they added potato starch - and
about 50 carbs per serving.

I like them a lot better in Asian dishes, but then I love Asian
food anyway. They strike me as being sort-of odd in western
ones.

True, but it can't be any stranger than that recipe for spaghetti
squash alfredo that was on the Food Channel's low-carb show last
Sunday. I'm always willing to try new things (except for brains of
any type, eyeballs, worms and insects - but other than that, I'm
game...). Kalish

"Kalish" wrote in message
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On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 08:34:10 -0500, "Jean B." wrote:

Is that a Super 88? I forget if I read that.

I think there is one of those on the Southeast Xpressway, but this is
on the Quincy/Weymouth line - it used to have a Bradlees and a
Michaels craft store, then they emptied the whole thing out and turned
it into a full strip mall catering to Asian interests (restaurants,
food shops, travel and insurance agencies, etc.). I've heard that a
lot of people are now going there instead of going all the way in to
Boston's Chinatown (plenty of parking at the mall, minuscule parking
in C-Town, for one thing).


I'm going to have to try to get my husband to stop into Kotobukiya in Porter
Exchange for me and pick up some of these. We use to live close enough that
I could have done it myself, but now we're on the other side of the river.
I work downtown and never get up there anymore. He works in Cambridge
though ...

carla
237/218/165?