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Home » Low Carb Products » Baking Mixes « Previous Product  · Next Product » << < · > >> Carbsense Mini-Carb Biscuit Mix Reviews Views Date of last review 12 7493 Thu May 19, 2005 Recommended By Average Price Average Rating 58% of reviewers $3.61 4.5 Description: Carbsense makes it easier than ever for you to enjoy your favorite baked goods with our Biscuit mix. It's amazingly easy to make, and is typically ready in less than half an hour. While not identical to their high-carb counterparts, we think you’ll agree that they’re very tasty. Now you can enjoy tender, flaky biscuits anytime – without concern about the carbs. Each fresh-baked biscuit contains 10 gram of protein and 2 grams of fiber! Author cillygirl Junior LCF Member Registered: August 2003 Location: missouri Posts: 39 Review Date: Sun December 7, 2003 Would you recommend the product? Yes | Price you paid?: $5.39 | Rating: 6    Pros: easy Cons: a bit grainy texture bab_indy MAJOR LCF POSTER! Registered: December 2003 Location: Bay Area, CA Posts: 2570 Review Date: Tue December 16, 2003 Would you recommend the product? No | Price you paid?: $5.00 | Rating: 2    Pros: easy Cons: tough, greasy This was very easy to make. The biscuit was a bit tough (common with low carb products). But was also a bit too greasy for my tastes TexasMel Junior LCF Member Registered: January 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 6 Review Date: Sat January 10, 2004 Would you recommend the product? No | Price you paid?: $4.18 | Rating: 2    Pros: Looks good, low in carbs Cons: taste, texture The biscuits were easy to make and came out of the oven looking pretty tasty. I couldn't wait to take a bite, but was pretty disappointed in the taste and texture. It had a bit of that funky soy taste. I smothered mine with some sausage gravy and it was pretty good. My husband tried his with a sausage patty and cheese and later tried it with low carb strawberry jam. He said it was pretty decent. Bottom line, you have to "cover up" the taste of these with something else for them to be edible! gsforever Junior LCF Member Registered: August 2003 Location: North East Posts: 11 Review Date: Tue January 27, 2004 Would you recommend the product? No | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 2    Pros: easy to make Cons: taste, texture They look like hocky pucks when done, not a bicuit. Very greasy too. When they're hot a lot of butter helps. lbp Junior LCF Member Registered: February 2004 Posts: 6 Review Date: Thu February 5, 2004 Would you recommend the product? Yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 7    Pros: ease of use Cons: texture not like "real" biscuits Used this product to improvise a pumpkin scone recipe (had leftover pumpkin from a soup recipe). Worked quite well, as added 1 cup canned pumpkin, 1/2 cup oats, and spices (cinnamon and nutmeg). Reheated well 2nd and 3rd day. rhansberry Junior LCF Member Registered: July 2004 Location: Deer Park Posts: 8 Review Date: Sat July 24, 2004 Would you recommend the product? Yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 5    Pros: easy Cons: texture The first time I made them according to directions, definitly not good when made larger. I decided to try them smaller about cookie size and they tasted okay with some butter and sugar-free jam. lscoop Senior LCF Member Registered: August 2004 Location: CA Posts: 88 Review Date: Tue September 7, 2004 Would you recommend the product? Yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 0    Pros: Cons: Labeling Problem I'll post a review soon, but for now I have a comment about the Nutrition Facts Label. This is not for the product itself, but for the "completed product as made"....6 biscuits require 2 whole eggs, 4 TBS Butter, 2/3 Cup of Cream and 1/3 Cup Oil. It says that one complete biscuit should be 255 calories, but my analysis (and my computer's) put that at 100 calories higher (I believe it was 358 using heavy cream). Light cream would save a few calories. Based on the reviews that said these were too oily anyway, I'm going to try to cut back on the oil, but who would want to eat a small biscuit that has 358 calories in it (and that's before butter, gravy or jam!!)? No wonder Canned Foods Outlet had them on sale for 99 cents--along with several other things, such as their chocolate cake mix (too dense but acceptable in taste), apple muffins (haven't tried them yet) and the pizza dough (also too dense and too difficult to work with, but the taste after putting on a lot of topping was passable). I bought at least a dozen of these various boxes thinking it was a bargain. My mission is now to see if I can play with that biscuit mix using some different ingredients to see if I can make it work AND have no more than the 255 calories shown on the box--even fewer if possible, but it'll take some work. I'll come back and visit when I have some success (or total failure)...... lscoop Senior LCF Member Registered: August 2004 Location: CA Posts: 88 Review Date: Wed September 8, 2004 Would you recommend the product? Yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 6    Pros: Came out perfect-looking with revised recipe (see below), not too oily (due to the revisions), and they looked exactly as shown on the picture. Cons: Tasted pretty good, but texture kinda like those O'solo Buns--kinda odd (the soy factor?) I wrote a review yesterday about the incorrect nutrition label that had me aghast, coming out to over 350 cal/biscuit. So I revised and tested the recipe as follows: kept ingredients as shown (butter, eggs and cream) except that I omitted ALL of the vegetable oil and replaced it 100% with 1/3 Cup of Z-Trim Gel. This is a great product that you can buy online that is used in some commercial brands of Ice Cream as a fat substitute. Normally you shouldn't substitute 1:1, but in this recipe, with all of the other oil from the Butter and Cream, I decided to try it, and was so happy that I did! My second change was to make 8 biscuits from the recipe instead of 6, and this was also a plus...the size seemed perfect for me. I use a convection oven and cooked the recipe for 14 minutes. Generally this means that you would probably still need to cook it for close to 20 minutes in a regular oven as per the recipe, despite the slightly smaller biscuit size--keep a close eye on them after 15 minutes--you can always put them back in if you need to, but an overcooked biscuit is never a good thing. One biscuit was a perfect accompaniment to my meal (because of the calories saved I was even able to put a pat of butter on it). Here are the revised values (per biscuit), making and 8 biscuit batch (using the 6 biscuit recipe) with Z-Trim: 170 Calories, 3.47 G Protein, 13.59 G fat, 3.47 G Carb, 2.01 G Fiber (mostly from the Z-trim), 1.46 Net Carbs. Tippy Toes Very Gabby LCF Member!!! Registered: April 2004 Location: Florida Posts: 4198 Review Date: Thu January 27, 2005 Would you recommend the product? Yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 10    Pros: can be used for breading!! Cons: according to reviews, yucky biscuits I used it to flour coat pork chops and oven fried them. I did add spices and a pack of dry ranch dressing. Was really, really good and I could not tell it was a soy product at all! Finally, a use for this product that is edible! Plan to try it with chicken and as a coating for fried fish. The mix held onto the chops very well with no egg. fifi62 Junior LCF Member Registered: January 2004 Review Date: Wed April 27, 2005 Would you recommend the product? No | Price you paid?: $2.99 | Rating: 1    Pros: None Cons: texture, rubbery This mix was awful. These "biscuits" were very greasy and rubbery, nothing like a biscuit at all, even by low-carb standards. The texture was also hard to get past. Petlady MAJOR LCF POSTER! Registered: March 2005 Location: Michigan Posts: 2277 Review Date: Mon May 2, 2005 Would you recommend the product? Yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 7    Pros: easy Cons: not much flavor Very easy to make, I used my convection oven and they were done in half the time. They weren't hard at all but they definately needed salt! Kitsa Senior LCF Member Registered: January 2004 Location: Ohio Posts: 311 Review Date: Thu May 19, 2005 Would you recommend the product? No | Price you paid?: $0.50 | Rating: 2    Pros: Cheap Cons: Not at all tasty. Doesn't come out looking like package. Easy to make, but turned out gritty and greasy. Scraped my throat going down. Had to drown it in LC gravy to eat it...leftovers got tossed. Wouldn't recommend.

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