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Opt for Diabetic Choices on Tesco groceries?
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TeddyTottie
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Tick them all and see what happens!!
Just cauliflower, perhaps?
Just cauliflower, perhaps?
Just logged into my Tesco account to look for something and found this page! Dread to think what choices Tesco would deem suitable for diabetics?!I daren’t check the box!
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Go on, I dare you!
Here is a cut & paste straight off their website....Incoming.......
CHECK SERVICE AVAILABILITY IN YOUR AREA:
******There are no foods that diabetics cannot eat; however, it is essential to reduce the amount of certain foods and to increase others. The dietary guidelines for people with diabetes are very similar to those recommended for everyone else - eating less sugar and fat, more fibre-rich, starchy foods, and more fruit and vegetables, with moderate amounts of meat and fish, as well as milk and dairy foods. There is no need to buy special diabetic foods - ordinary everyday foods in the right balance are the key to diabetic control. Choosing the right foods, however, can make a big difference. Eating regularly helps to ensure your blood sugar does not swing from one extreme to the other. People with diabetes need to base each meal on a starchy carbohydrate food for energy and to help maintain control over their blood-glucose level. It is a good idea to try to eat about the same amount of starchy foods each day, with plenty of vegetables, salad or fruit, and a smaller portion of meat or dairy foods. Starchy foods to try include: cereal, toast, rolls, bread, noodles, rice, pasta and potatoes, picking wholemeal versions where possible, since they are higher in fibre******
I GIVE UP!!!!! It went on but I couldn't do it to you all. I note they are also working in partnership with that 'other' diabetes site who shall not be named....
CHECK SERVICE AVAILABILITY IN YOUR AREA:
******There are no foods that diabetics cannot eat; however, it is essential to reduce the amount of certain foods and to increase others. The dietary guidelines for people with diabetes are very similar to those recommended for everyone else - eating less sugar and fat, more fibre-rich, starchy foods, and more fruit and vegetables, with moderate amounts of meat and fish, as well as milk and dairy foods. There is no need to buy special diabetic foods - ordinary everyday foods in the right balance are the key to diabetic control. Choosing the right foods, however, can make a big difference. Eating regularly helps to ensure your blood sugar does not swing from one extreme to the other. People with diabetes need to base each meal on a starchy carbohydrate food for energy and to help maintain control over their blood-glucose level. It is a good idea to try to eat about the same amount of starchy foods each day, with plenty of vegetables, salad or fruit, and a smaller portion of meat or dairy foods. Starchy foods to try include: cereal, toast, rolls, bread, noodles, rice, pasta and potatoes, picking wholemeal versions where possible, since they are higher in fibre******
I GIVE UP!!!!! It went on but I couldn't do it to you all. I note they are also working in partnership with that 'other' diabetes site who shall not be named....
Here is a cut & paste straight off their website....Incoming.......
CHECK SERVICE AVAILABILITY IN YOUR AREA:
******There are no foods that diabetics cannot eat; however, it is essential to reduce the amount of certain foods and to increase others. The dietary guidelines for people with diabetes are very similar to those recommended for everyone else - eating less sugar and fat, more fibre-rich, starchy foods, and more fruit and vegetables, with moderate amounts of meat and fish, as well as milk and dairy foods. There is no need to buy special diabetic foods - ordinary everyday foods in the right balance are the key to diabetic control. Choosing the right foods, however, can make a big difference. Eating regularly helps to ensure your blood sugar does not swing from one extreme to the other. People with diabetes need to base each meal on a starchy carbohydrate food for energy and to help maintain control over their blood-glucose level. It is a good idea to try to eat about the same amount of starchy foods each day, with plenty of vegetables, salad or fruit, and a smaller portion of meat or dairy foods. Starchy foods to try include: cereal, toast, rolls, bread, noodles, rice, pasta and potatoes, picking wholemeal versions where possible, since they are higher in fibre******
I GIVE UP!!!!! It went on but I couldn't do it to you all. I note they are also working in partnership with that 'other' diabetes site who shall not be named....
Quelle surprise!
miahara
Well-Known Member
Oh dear me, that Tesco dietary info is pretty much the same as that trotted out in the NHS/NICE 'Eat Badly Plate' and the same as that was (maybe still is) advocated by that 'Other Diabetes Site'.
A few years ago there was a stall inside the entrance to out local Tesco selling prize draw tickets in aid of 'That other organisation' and the prizes were near all sugary/carby foods and treats.
A few years ago there was a stall inside the entrance to out local Tesco selling prize draw tickets in aid of 'That other organisation' and the prizes were near all sugary/carby foods and treats.
HSSS
Expert
It was more than enough thanks.
I am teetotal but I don’t think I need help with that on my weekly food shop!
I think they've actually gone a step further, 'starchy foods to try' as if this was something you should actually start if you weren't doing it before in the expectation it might help!
D
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Guest
Diabetic friendly food? Which type of diabetes?
The most diabetic friendly food I eat is fast acting carb to treat a hypo.
I would want to see jelly babies, dextrose, coke, etc.
Why does a “diabetic” dietary need have to be for type 2?
The most diabetic friendly food I eat is fast acting carb to treat a hypo.
I would want to see jelly babies, dextrose, coke, etc.
Why does a “diabetic” dietary need have to be for type 2?
Hotpepper20000
Well-Known Member
OH you have to be kidding me.Here is a cut & paste straight off their website....Incoming.......
CHECK SERVICE AVAILABILITY IN YOUR AREA:
******There are no foods that diabetics cannot eat; however, it is essential to reduce the amount of certain foods and to increase others. The dietary guidelines for people with diabetes are very similar to those recommended for everyone else - eating less sugar and fat, more fibre-rich, starchy foods, and more fruit and vegetables, with moderate amounts of meat and fish, as well as milk and dairy foods. There is no need to buy special diabetic foods - ordinary everyday foods in the right balance are the key to diabetic control. Choosing the right foods, however, can make a big difference. Eating regularly helps to ensure your blood sugar does not swing from one extreme to the other. People with diabetes need to base each meal on a starchy carbohydrate food for energy and to help maintain control over their blood-glucose level. It is a good idea to try to eat about the same amount of starchy foods each day, with plenty of vegetables, salad or fruit, and a smaller portion of meat or dairy foods. Starchy foods to try include: cereal, toast, rolls, bread, noodles, rice, pasta and potatoes, picking wholemeal versions where possible, since they are higher in fibre******
I GIVE UP!!!!! It went on but I couldn't do it to you all. I note they are also working in partnership with that 'other' diabetes site who shall not be named....
Exactly, as diabetics of any type we shouldn’t need a supermarket website to advise us. I just chose to post in the type 2 forum as I am type 2.
Riva_Roxaban
Well-Known Member
Diabetics do not get a look in where I do my online shop at Woolies, here's the un-logged in page.
https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/mylists
https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/mylists
The trouble is, what are you to do? Go around the world convincing every dunce you meet this is fake info? I feel like that at the gps, that it’s somehow been left to me to disabuse them of this **** one at a time. Of course I don’t do it. I am probably considered silent, sullen and difficult if anyone considers me at all!
Yes I agree
Apart from my large order for vegetables, etc, I always order Coca Cola, original Lucozade (mixed with coke it works quicker), Jelly babies and jam ring biscuits!
Dr Snoddy
Well-Known Member
I agree completely. Swimming against the tide is very tiring. I say very little at the GPs but have occasionally said to other Type 2 diabetics 'And how is that advice working out for you?'
