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I forgot to say - I use erythritol as I have a dog. It’s not as sweet as sugar but I use the same weight as the recipe as my tooth is not as sweet as it was!

I also find that having low carb baked goods helps keep me in the straight and narrow. Lots of low carb recipes around as quoted but you can translate ordinary recipes. If substituting almond flour reduce flour part of recipe by 10% and include baking powder- 1 teaspoon for each 100g of flour...

Said it before. Can’t see why you can’t have the odd ‘sweet’ treat as long as it’s low carb. I’m with Teddy Tottie. I make a cake with almond flour and erythritol or cookies with same. About once a fortnight shared with non diabetic husband. Also nuts. Or small amount dark chocolate. Or half a...

You can use most ‘normal ‘ cake recipes and substitute almond flour and erythritol (or I presume other sugar substitutes) very successfully but reduce weight of flour by 10% and weight of butter by 25% and add 1 teaspoon of baking powder per 100g of flour. Found this on a paleo site and it...

For anyone who lives near a Booths supermarket, their Low GI bread is 40g of carb per 100g. One (thick) slice is 9g of carbs but I buy the unsliced and use a bread sliced to cut it 0.5 cm thick. Two of these weigh 22g and are very satisfying. This bread has very little effect on my blood sugars...

Thank you. I agree with you! I love cake and I do low carb baking. But not every day! Or even every week and I find the odd home made low carb cake or cookie satisfies my desires for a little deliciousness. I’m so pleased to hear I’m not alone

I have just read again that as a diabetic you need to ween yourself off sweet stuff. I don’t eat that much sweet stuff myself but I just don’t get why you shouldn’t eat, for example, cake made with Erythritol and almond flour if you want to. The recipe I have is very low carb for a decent...

If like me you prefer a book rather than online recipes, two excellent Diabetes cookbooks by Katie and Giancarlo Caldesi supported by Dr David Unwin; Low Carb Revolution by Annie Bell and my favourite - Eating to beat Type 2 Diabetes by Sarah Flower. There are several books I use which show the...

Well, apart from the threat of serious illness or death I’m sort of enjoying myself doing various things I’ve always claimed I didn’t have enough time for. So I have decluttered my wardrobe and taken up drawing and painting again. The art tutor on a workshop my friend dragged me to suggested I...

I had a Saturday job in UK Woolworths many, many years ago. Usually on the Pick N Pix counter but sometimes had to help out in the DELI counter - cheese, ham etc. Can’t remember any Smash

I often make meatballs and I never put egg or breadcrumbs in them. Minced meat, seasoning, herbs and sometimes a small amount of chopped onions and often a bit of cheese. Works great and Delicious! I also skin good quality (very high meat content) sausages and roll the contents into meatballs...

If you live in the right part of the country, Booths supermarkets do a low GI loaf. This is 39g of carb per 100g, which works out at about 9g a slice of the ready sliced bread. This quite a thick slice. I buy the unsliced version and slice it using an electric slicer to about 0.5 cm thickness...

I also eat the Booths low GI bread. It doesn’t advertise itself as low carb but it is compared to other breads. (About 39 g of carbs per 100g. It’s also very, very nice and satisfying. I buy the uncut version and slice it into about half a centimetre slices using a bread/meat slicer. That way I...

I have been on Metformin for 3 years. When I started my brother who was also on it recommended that I take a good probiotic to avoid stomach upset. I took a multivitamin with a high level of probiotics and had no stomach problems. I have had no other effects except possibly a reduction in...

I don’t understand why you need to forego sweet things when you’re diabetic if you can sweeten food with safe sweeteners such as Xylitol, Erythritol and Stevia. Everything in moderation. (Except sugar and other carbs!)

My local (north western ) supermarket sells what they call low GI bread, which is very like granary bread. It’s 36g carbs per 100 and 8 grams a pre-sliced slice. I buy the unsliced version and slice it into 0.5 cm slices. I have 2 of these for breakfast with butter and cheese and the effect on...

Hi When I first went on Metformin, my brother who had been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes some years earlier, recommended that I take a good quality pro-biotic vitamin pill daily. I did as he suggested and had no trouble with diarrhoea. This may have been a coincidence of course but may be...

You have mentioned something that I find confusing. This is that HbA1c is an average level over the previous 12 weeks. When I asked her he diabetes dietician about this, she said it was usually described as an average but it was actually the amount of glucose that had attached itself to your...

That’s really heartening to hear! One of my favourites is Aldi’s 85% and coincidentally cheaper than others!

I forgot to add the (to be honest) regular 10g of 85% chocolate! Otherwise The important terms are ‘sometimes’ ‘occasionally ‘ and ‘small portion‘. Frankly my aim is to avoid diabetic complications and my research indicates that at these levels I am at low risk of them. I regard myself as a...