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Most breads are baked with speed of production in mind. The 'No Time Process' or Chorleywood Process dominates the UK market and special wheats and milling processes produce the flour to which other things are added to practicaly eliminate the time reuired for bread dough to rise. Steam...

Tescos sell Biona loaves but not in the bread section: http://www.tesco.com/groceries/product/details/?id=262144054 They do a few different types. These pumpernickel rye breads are high in a type of carb called galacto-oligosaccharides which are non digestible, so they won't raise your BG...

I agree, it is a complete nightmare. As it happens, I was in Lidl the other day and they sell a whiteish rice called Golden Sun Easy Cook Long Grain ice. Easy Cook is sometimes used to mean Converted or Parboiled but you can't rely on the title. You have to read the nutritional info. Lidl's is...

Hi Shona. I use Truvia which works well for me. It is expensive, but you don't need much. Your figs aren't too bad. You are producing enough insulin to get your BG down from 8.4 to 6.8 in 2 hours which is a reasonable rate and you will get to speed that rate up over time. You just have to learn...

'Dehypnotised Toothpaste' and 'A Short Stop at the Transylvanian Brain Surgery' from Amon Düül's Dance of the Lemmings.

That's sparked off a memory: Weasels Ripped My Flesh

@cyclist Remember, you are in this for the long term. It's not a quick sprint to instant health. If you are on the right track, just keep pedalling. Get yourself a GoPro Hero camera as a reward. Then you can do stunts.

I had to choose. I had both. But, it was a long long time ago. I still remember My Ol' Man's a Dustman

Hi and welcome to our growing club. Most of us are a bit shell shocked when we are first diagnosed but if you are active in the forum, you will quickly discover that you can get your diabetes under control with a little determined effort. You just have to be prepared to eat some different foods...

I found a better explantion that the wiki one for you: "Oligosaccharides are functional food ingredients that have great potential to improve the quality of food. Oligosaccharides have been associated with many health-promoting functions, which had been identified in many clinical studies, such...

It probably was one by Charlie Drake:

@Rose28 I just noticed that you are a vegetarian so obviously the lamb stew is out so here is a recipe for a chole, which is a spicy chickpea dish. Chickpeas seemingly have a lot of carbs but most belong to a group called galactooligosaccharides, a type of carb which you don't diget by normal...

At least aim to be normal. It's much safer than aiming to be abnormal. I aim for below 7.0 rather than 7.8 because I like safety margins. The diabetes.co.uk site follows standard NHS advice but, why do it when you can aim for better...

This lamb and barley stew, which uses pearl barley, one of the lowest GI grains, was one of the first meals I learned to cook. You can't use too much pearly barley as it will set solid, so it has, inbuilt portion control! The dish is warming and tasty and highly nutritious and your BG levels...

8.5 is way too high. I used to aim at below 7.0 The NHS pushed a 'eat healthy carbs' diet primarily because they were worried about people eating too much fat and having high cholesterol and also because they believed that diabetes is a progressive disease and that it was inevitavbly going to...

I started by eating mostly low GI foods and some occasional medium GI foods but I was always careful with portion sizes. If a low GI food releases it's carbs slowly, not eating a lot of it mens there is less to release slowly. For example, I ate, and still do, eat a parboiled brown rice which...

Your fasting results suggest that you may be diabetic, but they are only at the lower end of the scale. Many are in their teens at diagnosis. They may want to do a HBA1c test which is a sort of 3 month average. However, in the meantime, avoid all sugary stuff, sweets, biscuits, chocs, fizzy...

On being diagnosed, I stopped all obviously sugary things, sweets, chocs, biscuits, fizzy drinks etc but also started to eat simple plain foods, a ham sandwich for example but with little butter and no toppings. It wasn't long, with lots of testing, that even the plain white bread spiked my...

There was a reason why I used the term 'lunatics'. Here's a link to a vid, I won't post the vid, of someone hopping up 68 steps on a unicycle. Why?

Well, I'm going to this place in summer but I will be sticking to the path by the lake that you can see in the valley bottom. As far as broken bones are concerned, just think of the cost of getting a helipcopter to rescue you. About 2 mins 50 sec into the video: