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Try lasagna using leek instead of pasta - the 'Hairy Bikers' did a recipe which was well liked by those who tried it. pizza - there is 'fathead' pizza dough, useful for other things too. I use cauliflower, roughly chopped, for a curry base, and I managed a low carb bread using alternatives to...

@Rosie9876 Habit is a great help, I find - and the longer I stick to eating low carb foods the less attraction high carb becomes. I don't understand the attraction of pizza - I did try a substitute once, but most of it got thrown away. An added bonus to low carb day by day is that week on week...

Just at the moment diet coke and James Cook dark rum. It is almost 3am, so it probably counts as medicinal. I am also overdosing on strawberries and Greek yoghurt. Edited by mods to remove off topic paragraph

I am not using any oil in cooking these days and I'm going out in the sun. I have got a mild sunburn this year using an umbrella for a sunshade - it provided shade but not protection from the UV rays. My skin is not florid like it used to be most of my life after leaving home - my mother did not...

@Ian_L I suspect its the bread - I avoid all grain, as I just can't cope with it. It does mean I might have to eat steak and mushrooms for breakfast but I persevere..... :happy:

I tried for a little while making bread in a breadmaker, it was never successful on any program as the dough is too tender to take a second kneading. It rises well enough and then just goes flumph as all the rise is knocked out. When I swapped to a stand mixer, handled the dough very carefully...

@coleyd I am baffled as to why your nurse decided you were 'cured' and removed you from the register. It should not happen like that. I find the diet I need to control my blood glucose is not restrictive - other than the carb counting I eat anything - I am famous for it in some circles. If I eat...

Before I was diagnosed with a failed thyroid my feet were cold - it took ages to get a diagnosis and I was in a bad way with a TSH level five thousand times the normal average. I had numerous tests, but there was always a delay and thyroids can collapse and recover numerous times before going...

If I want to add fizz, I use soda water these days - bought a new bottle of gas for the incredibly ancient machine and an adaptor so I can use ordinary bottles for the water. I replace the plastic bottles regularly as there seems to be an infinite supply of them.

Do you mean Diabetes Specialist Nurse? I am Type 2 but my intake of any sort of grain as very low - some weeks I might get down to zero. From time to time I use gluten for baking, but that is just a couple of times a year - it is the carbs I need to look out for. As a rule I do not anything...

I got myself some cheap plastic foam clog type things, completely flat sole with a wide toe box - for use in communal showers, and was amazed at the change in my feet and joints after wearing them around the house for a few days. The circulation in my feet must have improved as my toenails are...

@Jon454 As you are not into the diabetes range you might be able to resolve the problem by reducing/avoiding all those 'healthy' carbs we are advised to eat - I was full blown diabetic on the diet sheet given to me by my GP and in normal numbers on what is basically the Atkins diet. Rather than...

My surgery kept me from being diabetic by not repeating a flagged test for almost 10 years - by which time I was well and truly in the diabetes range. I have never had any problem with the diagnosis altering anything to do with insurance, it did get me various checks and - had I been younger I...

I did some roadie work and always wore ear defenders during work ups. The others would laugh, but I never got the ringing in the ears that bothered all the rest of the team.

@Hoodiegirl3 these days there are so many ways to keep in touch - when I left home my parents didn't even have a telephone landline. It was 1969 - we wrote letters. In the 1800's people went to the other side of the world and still managed to keep in touch - I think you'll be just fine. It...