Heavy whipping cream

[Love2Smile]

Is this allowed? I have a tiny bit with coffee but wanted to know if you can whip some up and have with some berries for dessert?

[Ammy]

Absolutely! Many of us use is in many different ways!
Enjoy!

[LisaS]

Sure, why not?

No food is forbidden on PPLP. Just note the carbs and stay on plan: meet or exceed your minimum protein needs, stick to 7-10 ECC per meal and under 40 ECC total for the day. Within those guidelines you could have jelly beans if you wanted to. Not many, but still.

[BlancE]

Yes, whipping cream is absolutely legal.

[petra65]

There are even some commercial sugar free brands. I get land o lakes here and use it all the time.

[BawdyWench]

Real whipping cream is fabulous! I've been known to go to the fridge and chug it!

Beware processed whipping creams, though, especially Cool Whip. Many have trans fats.

[maxlharris]

Do not confuse Cool Whip with a dairy product. There is no actual dairy in Cool Whip. It is processed vegetable stuff. This doesn't dampen my enjoyment, but it's not to be confused with actual whipped cream. Or any cream.

[waltc]

I use heavy whipping cream in my coffee and on berries. It is very low in carbs.

[ndw]

whip your own cream and sweeten it with xylitol! Yummm-but dont whip too much at once with the xylitol (it wont stay stiff for very long)

[jabbok]

the whipping cream that I buy says it doesn't have any carbs in it but if you go do fitday it will show carbs in the cream so which one do I believe?

[maxlharris]

Jabbok:
What kind of whipping cream are you getting. If you can share the brand, or the full label info, we can maybe help sort it out.

FWIW: real cream has carbs. Not much, but it's there. It's 40% fat, some protein, a lot of water, and some milk sugar. It's naturally occurring. Probably, they cut the portion on your cream small enough so that it has <.5g per serving, which lets them, under US law (not sure what Canadian law is on this) declare 0g/serve. This is probably worthwhile at the individual serving level, but rounding errors will add up quickly. They are probably both right. I'd go with Fitday.

[jabbok]

I am not at home right now but it is the dairyland brand which I purchase at costco, I have been having this on strawberries every day since I restarted low carb, this helps me keep on the plan I have been doing this since january sometime and so far I have lost about 30 pounds but now I am losing less than a pound a week. I use fitday to track my food consumption my carbs are usually in the range of 1200 to 1300 calories with approx. 37% protein, 53% fat, 11% carbs

[maxlharris]

The loss will inevitably slow down as you get towards goal. Nature of the beast.

Unless this is a special sugar free(which I would avoid because it probably has worse carbs added) or a special "good fat" enhanced heavy cream, I'd go with the fitday number. Probably the safest.

When you get home, check the serving size. I would be it's smallish, like <2TBSP.

[jabbok]

I know the serving size is for 2tbls but I have more than that so I may have to cut it down to see if that makes a difference. I still need to lose about 40 lbs. I know having the fruit is probably more carbs as well but I think I can live with the slower weight loss if I don't feel like I am being deprived. thanks for the reply

[sashie]

Has anyone tried TruWhip sold as a natural whip topping product? Information from the label:

The first five ingredients are water, organic tapioca syrup, expeller-pressed palm kernel oil, organic cane sugar, and organic palm kernel oil. The palm kernel oil, expeller-pressed or otherwise is naturally saturated so expect the saturated fat grams to take up the lion's share of the total fat grams.
2 tablespoons =
30 calories
2 g fat
2 g saturated fat
0 g trans
0 mg cholesterol
3 g carbohydrate
2 g sugars
0 g protein
0 mg sodium

[maxlharris]

Hrm. Organic cane sugar is still added sugar. I suspect organic tapioca syrup is also essentially organic added sugar.

Regular whipped cream is only 2g per 120g whipped cup, I can't see going 3g for something that's made of organic stuff that I don't really want to eat.

I suppose there are worse things to eat, but an extra gram of carb is an extra bit of fruit I don't get to add.

FWIW: Cool Whip, with all it's chemicals and imitation of cream stuff, is one gram of carb less per 2 TBSP serving.