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Default Biscuits and sausage and gravy? No!

In article >, "ViLco" >
wrote:

> Paul M. Cook wrote:
>
> >> So while I was thinking that they sausage gravy over sausage might
> >> make a nice lower carb meal, now I'm thinking not.

>
> > Not even. The gravy is half flour. It is not at all low carb.

>
> One could reduce the carbs by using starch instead of flour, it works
> wonderfully with custard. I never tried it on gravy but why shouldn't it
> work?


Flour is a starch, that's why it's used. And most starches are up to
100% carbs.

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