Opt for Diabetic Choices on Tesco groceries?

[Rachox]

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!

 

[TeddyTottie]

Tick them all and see what happens!!

Just cauliflower, perhaps?

 

[Goonergal]

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!

 

[zand]

Oh don't tick teetotal lol.

 

[Dr Snoddy]

Go on, be a devil!

 

[KK123]

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....

 

[Goonergal]

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]

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.

 

[HSSS]

 

[HSSS]

I GIVE UP!!!!! It went on but I couldn't do it to you all.

It was more than enough thanks.

 

[Rachox]

Oh don't tick teetotal lol.

I am teetotal but I don’t think I need help with that on my weekly food shop!

 

[KK123]

Starchy foods to try

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!

 

[In Response]

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?

 

[Hotpepper20000]

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....

OH you have to be kidding me.

 

[Rachox]

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?

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]

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

 

[johnme]

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!

 

[Outlier]

Sigh. Thank goodness for the common sense on here.

 

[Helendogs]

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?

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]

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!

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?'