Useful Oz & NZ Links

[Rosebud]

Hello everybody.

I thought it might be a good idea to have some useful links all together.

*Nutritional counts (esp carbs!) of Oz products www.dietclub.com.au/foods/

*Recipe unit conversion charts here. (http://www.pastrywiz.com/conversion.htm)

*From Food Standards Australia New Zealand food additive numbers. (http://www.foodstandards.gov.au/consumer/additives/additiveoverview/Documents/Food%20Additive%20Code%20Numbers%20%28July%202014%29.pdf)

And if I can just ask everybody to please enter any great LC-friendly restaurants, local shops or chain stores that have LC products into the Low Carb Yellow Pages. These can be found under "Tools" on the top green menu bar. We should be able to build up a good Aus/NZ database of products and places.

Of course, please add any other links you can think of.

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[Rosebud]

The last unit conversion link I had here was no longer working, so I hope this link to Conversion and Ingredient Tables (http://www.realfood4realpeople.com/convert.html#Australian%20Measurements) lasts a little longer.

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[Rosebud]

And for the Enzeders... Low Carb NZ (http://www.lowcarbnz.co.nz/) has loads of NZ product information along with lots of other helpful info.

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[vangal]

Thanks for these ... please anyone else if you know of any :exclm:

[lwilliam]

Hi,
I tried a couple of times yesterday to add some items to the yellow pages without success. I got a message saying "data incomplete" Can anyone help, I am obviously doing someting wrong,

Cheers Lyn Williams

[Rosebud]

Hi Lyn,

All I can imagine is that you have left one of the spaces empty. Have you tried again?
Your entry won't appear straight away, because the webmaster checks them all first. That's because at first some idiots decided that would be a great way to cause trouble by making inappropriate entries. :rolleyes:

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[lwilliam]

Hi Rosebud,
I tried again tonight to put the information in the yellow pages without success. I get the same message "data incomplete" The only box I left blank was the country because there was no way of choosing Australia, it wasn't listed to choose. I thought it shouldn't matter as it was optional. So if you have any more suggestions?

Cheers Lyn

[Rosebud]

G'day Lyn,

Have another look matey. The only optional choices are province/state, which only apply to the US and Canada, and your name.
Country is at the top, and Australia is the choice at the top of the list.

Cheers.

Roz

[lwilliam]

Hi Rosebud,
Well I will have to admit defeat! Tried again, left no blank spaces and got the same message,

Cheers Lyn

[Rosebud]

Urrgghh! I'm sorry you're having so much trouble, Lyn!

Did you put "Australia" this time?

Roz

[lwilliam]

Hi Rosebud,
Yes I put in Australia, but still got the message. Perhaps I will try again in a few days,
Cheers Lyn

[Kate]

Thanks to Rosebud for posting the sites for low carb recipes. I am going to try some of the pancakes as I am fed up of eating eggs for breakfast. Can somebody tell me what wheat gluten is as I have tried to purchase and can only get gluten flour. Is this the same.

Thanks
Kate

[Pierre]

Kate,
Gluten flour is the same thing. I use Lowan brand which is widely available in major supermarkets.

But you are in luck. You can actually buy low carb bread in Perth :yay:

Go to:
http://www.bodhi.com.au/products.html

Bon Appetit.

Pierre

[jordy05]

lol,,thanks rose bud thats so much better, cheers

[NZKiwiana]

I'm from NZ. I was wondering if anyone knows where we can buy food suitable for the atkins diet. I know its available online but I prefer a shop I can walk into. My friend in the states buys the bread and I want to know if its available here too and what else might be.

Thanks Nzkiwiana

[goodnfast]

Hi Rosebud: I was wondering if you might send me a PM so I could email directly (I can't PM myself yet)... we're travelling to OZ in March and I'd like to ask some questions about Brisbane.
Regards

[Rosebud]

Hi Goodnfast,

I'm afraid you can neither send nor receive private messages until you have made 25 posts.

How about popping into my journal to ask your questions? Or you can start a thread here in the Aussie/NZ forum asking about Brisbane. The several Brisbanites here as well as myself I'm sure will be happy to answer your questions. :)

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[daisy13]

Thank you Rosebud for posting those aussie sites. They will be very helpful!! I love the sites where you can just put in your food and they tell you how many carbs are in it. And the recipes that I looked at sound so nice, especially the sweets : ) I'm really looking forward to start cooking some of this food.

Thanks again.

[kiwifriend]

Hi Rosebud, just found two sites that might be of interest to Kiwis & Oz.
Some of the stuff was a bit ??? but one actually had a carb counter on food in NZ which I'm pretty sure is also common Oz foods as well? Anyway might be of help to some I hope.
Cheers, Kiwifriend.

[Rosebud]

Hi Kiwifriend, :)

Unfortunately both of those sites were simply selling stuff, so I've removed the links. Even the carb counter was for purchase. My idea here was for links to informational sites. ;)

If anyone is looking for a carb counter, there is the one on this site (at the right side of the screen), Fitday or Diet Club. If you want one that is not online, most newsagents have calorie counters that also include carb counters. :)

Roz

[kiwifriend]

Hi Rosebud, I did realise they were trying to sell product thats why I said some was a bit ???? but I thought the carb counter that already had products listed that you just look up might of been of interest. You didn't have to pay to look or anything, just choose what catagory you wanted to look under and a list of products comes up. Oh, well sorry bout that. :-)

[blackbeard]

Anyone online right now?

[bananagirl]

nzkiwiana- check out the www.lowcarbnz.co.nz site as it now has a link to low carb and yummy which bring Atkins in to NZ now! Flipping finally-
here is the price list (obviously this may change but this was the pricelist as of 6 jan 2004)
For full descriptions of the range of products available for order, please

check on this NZ low carb website – www.lowcarbnz.co.nz – click on Where to Find low carb products in NZ – then click on LowCarb & Yummy!

Or contact us for further product information.

Atkins Advantage bars - $6.00 each

Chocolate Decadence
Chocolate Mocha Crunch
Chocolate Coconut
Chocolate Peanut Butter
Cookies ‘n’ Crème
S’mores
Atkins Endulge bars - $4.50 each

Caramel Nut Chews
Chocolate Crunch
Chocolate Crème wafers
Chocolate Mint wafers
Chocolate Peanut Butter wafers
Atkins Morning Start Breakfast bars - $5.00 each

Apple Crisp
Chocolate chip crisp
Blueberry Muffin
Atkins Sugar-free Syrups - $15.50 each NEW!!!

Cola NEW
Ginger Ale NEW
Lemon lime NEW
Root beer NEW
Maple
Chocolate
Strawberry
Hazelnut
Vanilla
Raspberry
Cherry
Caramel - NEW






Atkins Pasta Cuts – 16oz bag - $18.00

Penne
Spaghetti
Fusilli
Cut Fettuccine
Atkins Morning start Breakfast Cereals - $18.00 per 10oz box NEW

Blueberry bounty with Almonds
Banana Nut harvest
Crunchy Almond crisp
Moo (Not!) Soy Milk Powder - NEW

$42 per 1lb pack

Pure De-lite Chocolates made from Belgian chocolate

Dark chocolate treasure bites
Treasure bites - $1.50 each

Dark Orange truffles
Dark mint truffles
Truffles - $1.80 each

Atkins Bakemix

$37.00 per container

Atkins Quick and Easy Bread mixes - $18.00 per box

Caraway Rye
Country White
Sourdough bread mix
Atkins Quick Quisine muffin & bread mixes - $18.00 per pouch

Blueberry
Banana Nut
Chocolate Chip
Corn
Lemon Poppy
Orange Cranberry
Atkins Quick Quisine Fudge brownie mix

$18.00 per pouch

Atkins Quick Quisine Pancake & waffle mix

$18.00 per pouch

Atkins Sauces & Marinades - $15.50 each

Teriyaki
Steak Sauce
Ketch-a-tomato
BBQ
Steel’s Gourmet Sauces and Dessert Toppings - NEW

Hoisin sauce
Sweet and Sour sauce
Chocolate Fudge dessert sauce
Caramel dessert sauce
Praline dessert sauce
$15.50 per bottle/jar



Atkins Shake mixes - $39.00 per container

Cappuccino
Chocolate
Strawberry
Vanilla
Atkins Vitamins & supplements

Basic #1 formula multivitamin - $35.00 per bottle (90)
Basic #3 formula multivitamin - $39.00 per bottle (90)
Essential oils - $49.00 per bottle (120) NEW
Atkins – "New Diet Revolution" – book

$18.00

Keto Chocolate-covered nuts

Chocolate Almonds - $18.00 per 4oz
Chocolate Pecans - $18.00 " "
Chocolate Macadamias - $20.00 "
Heavenly Desserts Sugar-free Meringues - NEW

Chocolate
Vanilla
Lemon
Cappuccino
$10.00 per box of 30 small meringues – 0 net grams carb.

La Tortilla tortillas - $16.00 per pack of 10

Original flavour
Garlic & herb
Green onion
ThickenThin/Not starch thickener

$42 per pack

Availability: A range of Atkins bars and Pure De-lite chocolates are held in stock. Orders are placed for other products weekly from the US and take 1-2 weeks to arrive.

Occasionally flavours of some Atkins products may be unavailable in the US due to demand.

[NZKiwiana]

Hey thanx for that bananagirl :) looks great

[SamyT]

Occasionally flavours of some Atkins products may be unavailable in the US due to demand.

If they just order this stuff in from the USA, doesn't that mean it gets through customs? I mean, why not just order it from the source? I've seen a website that sells 15 of those atkins bars for $23 USD, breakfast cereal for $3.90 a box and other great prices on atkins products.

If this stuff actually DOES get through customs (because from the above quote it doesn't sound like they put huge orders in and keep ALL items in stock), then I'm just going to order it myself!

[Louise181]

Has anyone tried the empower foods products. They are great, and have just announced they are bringing out a chocoalte mousee called "creme chocolat". Their web is www.empowerfoods.com.au. They also sell muffins, biscuits, cereal, tomato sauce and stirfry suaces....

[retrokat]

I've been buying the Atkins Empower bars on http://ebay.com.au - they usually go for about AU$2 each, plus minimal postage if you buy a few at once. Cost me $35 incl post for 15 bars over the weekend. Choccie for Easter!

There's a lot of great stuff on the market in the US, but with our restrictive Customs laws in Australia, I'm not sure most of it would (or should) be allowed in, especially by post. Every time you come into the country from overseas, you have to hand over anything containing honey, fruit, nuts etc. So my guess is anything containing those ingredients shouldn't be legal to buy in directly from the US. Although it's certainly a lot cheaper than buying it through some local retailers!

I want to try out as much of the US prepared low-carb vego products as I can to review for my site http://www.bellaonline.com/Site/vegetarian - I guess I'll have to find out the skinny on what foodstuffs CAN be brought in by post. I know there are even laws about what you can send between other states and WA! I got an eBay package addressed to me impounded once because the seller had used an old fruit-box as packaging. Apparently that's a risk for infestation by Coddling Moth or something.

*sigh* Sometimes it's really annoying being in the most remote city in the world! Having the internet and seeing all these great products makes it worse :(

[retrokat]

And speaking of choccie:

Lindt 85% cocoa Dark Extrafine Chocolate. Total carbs 19% (sugar 13%) but soooo rich that two squares (quarter of a 100g block) is enough for a real treat. It's available at Coles etc, for about $2.99. Amazing choc hit for the $ and carbs. If it's not sweet enough, someone on the empower foods board suggested chewing a Splenda tab at the same time ;)

BTW, Splenda tabs and granules are both now available at my local Coles. Hopefully more low-carb products will start to appear here over the next year or two...

[delia]

Try breaking one portion of lindt chocolate into 4 and popping it into your mouth with a brazil nut. You get four little treats for a very low carb count.
Cheers Delia

[di-y]

But you are in luck. You can actually buy low carb bread in Perth :yay:

U-Can-Bake-It stores in Perth also have a couple of lo-carb bread mixes.

One is called Lo-carb, but sometimes it's hard to get. The other is European Grain Mix.

Rod, the owner of the shop in Morley (cnr Walter Road and Coode St) is very helpful.

[anaplastic]

http://www.locarb.com.au/online/

Anybody seen this?
Apart from making their own low carb products, they do a low-carb equivalent of a ready-to-eat meal service like "LiteNEasy"!
Are their prices a bit high? I'm new to all this low carb stuff :D

[Makovitza]

This might sound silly, but how do I get to the Yellow Pages?

[tamarian]

This might sound silly, but how do I get to the Yellow Pages?

Click on "Tools" from the top row of links, you'll find it there. :)

Wa'il

[retrokat]

Hi all,

I keep a list of links for local (Aussie and NZ) vegetarian and/or low carb suppliers on my site: http://vegetabulous.com/li.htm

Hope some of these help, and feel free to email me and suggest more.

[_tigger_]

just letting u know.... www.passthetoast.com is no longer operational, unless they have changed their addres. This address is an expired site.

[lozfromoz]

Hi Tigger,

That site is working for me. I just clicked onto your link and it came straight up.

L

[_tigger_]

lol isnt that typical. They must have just renewed it :) it definitely didnt work the other day, it said on the page that the site name had expired on the 7th of november or something like that. Good to see it is back up though :)

[samina9027]

Thanks to Rosebud for posting the sites for low carb recipes. I am going to try some of the pancakes as I am fed up of eating eggs for breakfast. Can somebody tell me what wheat gluten is as I have tried to purchase and can only get gluten flour. Is this the same.

Thanks
Kate

Hi kate,

were you able to find the low carb pancake recipe ? I couldn't... if you have it can you send it to me or paste the link or post here?

Many thanks in advance !

Samina

[samina9027]

Hi kate,

were you able to find the low carb pancake recipe ? I couldn't... if you have it can you send it to me or paste the link or post here?

Many thanks in advance !

Samina

I have the recipes !!thanks !

[Rosebud]

Our Breakfast Ideas forum (http://forum.lowcarber.org/showthread.php?t=213953) has lots of pancake recipes. :)

[samina9027]

Our Breakfast Ideas forum (http://forum.lowcarber.org/showthread.php?t=213953) has lots of pancake recipes. :)

:thup: thanks heaps, soo many to choose from !! and who said low carbing was very limited huh .... :)

[rania]

wow lots of low carb sites going offline. Very sad to see.
Huge shame about http://www.locarb.com.au/online/ ! They sounded like they had amazing stuff. I wish I had seen it but only just found this forum today.

2 others I know of are http://www.lowcarbcentral.com.au/ and http://www.lowcarbzone.com.au both active as of today

[Wisedieter]

Hello a message for kiwiana
I am from NZ too I buy Atkins bars and shakes from countdown or new world. I have not found bread but there are a number of recipes online to make it. What frustrates me is some of the ingrediants are USA so have to find substitutes. I am new to this site from yesterday I posted on introducing myself would love a NZ buddie to make comparisons for NZ recipes and foods
Cheers
Wise dieter