[SuzieP64]

I bought Mr. Food's Quick & Easy Diabetic Cooking today and I'm confused and CANNOT believe this is true. Does anyone have that book? I'm looking at the Herb-Roasted Pork Chop that involves with fresh lemon juice, scallions, garlic cloves, dried rosemary, and black pepper ... 4 pork chops (6 ounces each) in the oven and for the nutrional facts it says:

Exchanges
3 Lean Meat

Calories ... 177
Total Fat ... 7g
Sodium ...48mg
CARBOHYDRATE... 2g
Protein ... 25g

Does that mean ONE pork chop for CARB is 2g????? come on, I know pork has high carb ...but 2g? Anyone? Am I looking at the wrong nutrition facts???

[xMenace]

How much lemon juice?

[BlueSky]

Originally Posted by SuzieP64

... Does that mean ONE pork chop for CARB is 2g????? ....

The pork itself doesn't contain any carb. The same is true of all meat, fish, chicken and eggs. Most of that carb probably comes from the lemon juice you cooked the pork in.

[SuzieP64]

3tbls of fresh lemon juice

Thanks you guys for the quick response .. I'm new all this trying to figure out how much I can eat and figuring out the carbs ... ughh .. guess it takes time to get used to this. Thanks so much.

[SuzieP64]

I just took out many diabetic books from the library and trying to absorb all the information that I need to know ... most are saying that its the "portion" that I need to eat so thats why I was surprised to see I could eat one whole pork chop. Thats why I was asking ... Thanks guys...

[xMenace]

8g total sounds plausible: Carbs in Lemon juice - Carb Counter