How can I continue eating carbohydrates without boosting my blood sugar?

Chef Sam Talbot shares some helpful tips on how to steal eat carbs while not spiking your blood sugar including incorporating whole grain pasta and making open face sandwiches.

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If you're talking about like eggs and toast in the morning, I have a half a piece of toast. It's really about moderation. I've never completely cut carbs out of my life.

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It's about finding the alternative carbs that can make sense. [MUSIC PLAYING]

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I come from, you know, a Sicilian Italian-American family, and on Sunday nights, pasta was a big part of our rapport.

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On Sunday nights, my mom made, you know, red sauce with pasta and this and that, and then when I became diabetic, that kind of went out the window.

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So I'm always searching for alternatives to carbs and how to keep carbs around but not, again, send your blood sugar through the roof.

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So something like shirataki noodles are a great sub in for pasta. Shirataki noodles are made from an Okinawan yam.

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They're basically dehydrated. They pulverize the yam into a flour, they add water to it, and it's literally the yam and the flour

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and the water make a great noodle. It's called a shirataki noodle, and it's about three grams of carbs per serving,

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which is unheard of when talking about pasta. So that's one trick. You can find those at your market-- you know, your local market.

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You can buy them online, but shirataki noodles are a great alternative to pasta. As far as when you're talking about, like,

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toast and bread and that types of things, I just try to eat less of it. You know, if we're doing a sandwich, I eat it-- make it an open faced sandwich.

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If you're talking about, like, eggs and toast in the morning, I have a half a piece of toast. It's really about moderation. I've never completely cut carbs out of my life.

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It's about finding the alternative carbs that can make sense such as the shirataki. [AUDIO LOGO]