Arrowroot, makes a beautifully shiny sauce and may be substituted in an equal or slightly greater amount, but will need to be cooked a little longer and has only 16 carbs per cup : ) and other great healthy values You can use this to replace corn starch in tons of recipes to make them low carb .
It is so simple and easy to grind up flax seeds and make your own flax meal. you can buy a bag from Aldis for 3 dollars and put it in a food processor or blender and it will grind it up. most flax meal i have found cost up to 12 dollars a bag :( just make your own