Taking Gardening to a New Extreme

By Sami

I grew some oyster mushrooms.

Oyster Mushrooms Grown in Sami's Kitchen

This bag of substrate and mycelium cost 20 bucks at the farmer's market. Not only am I supporting a local farmer, but I get to have super-fresh oyster mushrooms for a couple weeks. Now I have to admit, they were a little chewy. And at 5 carbs per cup uncooked (these bad boys cook down a lot), you can't eat a lot of them without putting a major dent in your carbohydrate budget. But click the link below for an interesting study:

Oyster mushroom cuts blood glucose, cholesterol, blood pressure in diabetics

So if the food happens to lower your blood glucose when you eat it, do the carbs still count? Yes? Well crap.