"Todd" > wrote in message
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> On 05/21/2013 05:01 PM, Alice Faber wrote:
>> In article >, Todd >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 05/21/2013 02:59 PM, Alice Faber wrote:
>>>> In article >, Todd >
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 05/20/2013 07:09 PM, Todd wrote:
>>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The love of my life eats the same stuff I do to make
>>>>>> sure there is no temptation for me to cheat. (I had
>>>>>> the good sense to make my trophy wife my first wife.)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The *ONLY* fish she would eat before my induction into
>>>>>> the pin cushion club was "fish sticks" (battered cod).
>>>>>> She really hates fish too.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I can get natural flash frozen cod from my local Raley's.
>>>>>> How do I make something that tastes similar to Fish Sticks
>>>>>> and stay with my/our 15 carb per meal limit?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Many thanks,
>>>>>> -T
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Guys,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am drawing a blank here. The only thing I can think of
>>>>> is walnut powder and *A LOT* of grease. Please rescue me
>>>>> from myself!
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Can you get chick-pea flour? It has a lot of the properties of wheat
>>>> flour that you want with fewer carbs (and less blood sugar hit). If you
>>>> have a source for Bob's Red Mill flours and grains (health food store,
>>>> or health food section of your supermarket), you can easily get some. I
>>>> use it for breading a lot.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Alice,
>>>
>>> Thank you!
>>>
>>> Unfortunately I can not. At 53 carbs per cup, chickpea flour blows
>>> my 15 carb per meal limit.
>>>
>>> http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/...roducts/4406/2
>>>
>>> I have heard that walnut powder will substitute. Do you have
>>> any experience with such?
>>>
>>
>> For breading two servings of fish, you won't use more than 1/4 cup of
>> the flour, and some of that will be left on the plate or in the bag.
>>
>
> Hi Alice,
>
> Thank you!
>
> You are correct. I am still balking as I don't want that poison
> in my house, even if a little won't hurt me. I know I am being
> a bit extreme. I was looking for something "safer". Maybe when
> a few years pass, I will be less paranoid.
>
> Trader Joe's sells Walnut bits. I was thinking of sticking them
> in a bag and SMACKING them with the bottom of a glass. If it doesn't
> work, at least I will have had fun at it.
>
> Do you use egg?

I would not put walnuts on fish. That wouldn't be anything like a fish
stick. You'll just get oily, nut tasting fish.