so has anyone tried these shiratiaki noodles. I've read about them and just ordered some. i hope they're good!

Do a search here - I know people have shared their "experiences" with it and there may be recipes, too.

I've had them as a cold salad (not prepared by me) and they were great - no telling they weren't "real" noodles

I just google shirataki noodles and forun dome info. They are japanese noodles. I read that they are 96% water and 4% fiber. The nutrition infor said they have 3 g carbs and 3g fiber. It said that they have a more springy texture than regular noodles and that they don't really have much flavor but they pick up flavor from the foods that they are cooked with. Hope this helps.

I had posted last week on the general forum. I had made spaghetti and meatballs with the shirataki noodles. Not bad, I will have them again.

I read about it in Woman's World last week. I was thinking about trying them myself in phase 2.

I've heard really good things on different threads but haven't tried them. I need to go to Whole Foods (near my home) to buy them, I don't want to buy them online and have to pay for shipping. I've done some research on them and they seem to be a better LC pasta substitution then Dreamfields pasta. I have a link that I'll post for more info.

I'm taking the link out as I think it could be considered advertising.

The link was okay to post .

Most Asian markets should have them in the fresh foods/refrigerated section. They're also known as "konnyaku noodles" so that's another name to look for.

The recipe forums here have several threads with tips for using them; just do a search and you should come up with quite a few ideas


Doreen

Thanks, I went looking for Shirataki noodles and only saw konnyaku, thought it was the wrong thing. At least now I know exactly where I can find them.

i use them often and like them a lot. specifically i like them in soups: chicken noodle, that kind of thing. i've tried the fettucine type noodle and they're not bad---not sure how they'd hold up under sauce, though. i typically get the spaghetti style ones and like them a lot.

safe for induction too, wooooot.

I like shirataki noodles. No, they don't have much flavor, but will pick up other flavors well. The texture is more firm than wheat products. Whenever I go to a Vietnamese restaurant for my favorite soup, pho, I bring along shirataki noodles, already cooked, and ask them to use those in place of the rice noodles. Delicious!!!

I found the noodles in Whole foods market, I rinsed them really well,they have a fishy smell,but if you rinse them in a collander the fish smell goes away,I sauted some chicken,mushrooms,and hot peppers in olive oil,and garlic,and threw the noodles in the pan just to warm up, they were soooooooooooooo good,hope you like them!

I just bought some. Apparently there are three different kinds. There are gray/brown ones, don't know what they are made from. There are yellow ones made from tofu, which the local asian market can't keep in stock, there is a waiting list, and there are the white ones made from yams. I bought some of these. IMO they were very expensive and said they had no carbs or calories but they also said that a servings was one ounce which is about 1/8th of a cup if that. In my opinion, half of the package would be a normal serving so that would be about 7 ounces. I haven't had a chance to actually eat them yet but I'm sure that there are more carbs and calories in a seven ounce serving. I think they just made one ounce the serving size so that they could say that there were no carbs or calories.

In Uk they have to quote numbers for 100 grams (3.5 ounces weight) rather than for one 'serving' and for the ones I buy the numbers are:
Total carbs 4 grams including fibre 4 grams therefore a net nil carb count!
The only other figures are
10 mgs sodium
22 mgs potassium

They are supposed to swell up in your stomach to many times their bulk, hence the fairly small serving size.

They claim 4 carbs and 4 fiber but I foudn another site that claimed different that I go by. For a whole bag of the Konjac ones I count 3 net carbs.

Edit: Found it:
http://extratv.warnerbros.com/v2/ne.../20/3/text.html