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Pumpernickel is good for most type 2 diabetics, having a low GI between 30 and 40. It's more compressed seeds than leavened bread and is consequently very filling. It travels well too! I have open sandwiches at home but if travelling, I fill the sandwiches with sliced cheeses like Emmentaler or...

Must admit, a rare salmon cut of highland beef is wonderful. Some unscrupulous restaurants slice it and sell it as fillet:

You should shell them first.

Nuts are mostly fat. For example, 28g of walnuts contain 18g of fat and only 4 g carbs, 2 of which are dietary carbs which you don't digest anyway. Have you ever tried swallowing a walnut whole? I can't even get them out of the shell without breaking them into little pieces.

Especially coconuts.

Porridge is low - medium GI but does spike many people to begin with. It did me until I got more active and lost weight. It is by its nature easily digestible and that is why it is given to sick people as gruel. To slow digestion down down don't use rolled oats but use steel cut oats. They...

Last I looked weetabix was a high GI food. You may as well be eating crumpets or tapioca. It is commercially manufactuered, like shredded wheat which is also high GI, to give the impression what you are eating a lot of whole grain goodness with lots and lots of fibre. Have a look at the table...

Total carbohydrate values include the weight of all sugars, sugar alcohols, fiber and any other carbohydrate-based ingredient like maltodextrins. When this is high, treat with caution. The sugars amount includes sugars that are present naturally in the food such as lactose in milk and fructose...

6 is borderline between normal and pre diabetic for a 12 hour fasting test. If you are 6 two hours after a meal, that's just fine. This is a typical graph:

I love matjes herring, a sort of soused herring, raw and very tasty. It's very popular in Germany and comes as snack food on a crusty white bread roll. I know I shouldn't, but it's a small bread roll and its the only white bread I ever eat and only a few times per year. Oddly enough, it doesn't...

Basmati rice, including brown, used to spike me too but I found that Morrisons Parboiled Brown Rice was OK. It has only 1/3rd of the calories too. The 'brown' part of brown rice is fibre but it is probably due to the conversion of the starch in the rice to resistant starch that makes it...

My wife lets me do all the cooking ..... and the washing up. Chicken and king prawns in a spicy soup with a few noodles tonight.

I too feel less stressed when I walk around with a big club. :D

Just carry on doing what you are doing and, as you get better at it, do some more. Main thing is to do stuff that you find enjoyable. You are more likely to do it :-)

Yes, I too have a life again, fixing things around the house, active in the garden, walking in the hills and cycling abroad. It is quite a transition. I even eat better because I cook everything myself and can control what goes in. I think as you slow down as you get older, it is easy to just...

Well muesli is not a bad breakfast for a diabetic. It depends on what else is mixed in with the oats of course but as the flakes are uncooked, they don't release starch that quickly and what there is is turned into sugar slowly. Boiled new potatoes, left slightly hard are much better for BG...

I was told by my GP on diagnosis that it would make my fingers hurt and by my DN that I would only confuse myself. Eventually she relented and gave me a prescription for 25 strips per month and told me not to eat to my meter. She and the GP were moved out of the practice and my new GP said 25...

I'm not type 1 so I can't comment on dose but, if you get too drunk getting your dosage right might be a problem. Last time I joined in such a group, one of them couldn't even find the door to the toilet in time.

There has to be a lifestyle change I'm afraid otherwise what is fairly good control at the moment, will become more and more difficult to maintain. Firstly, you need to watch what you eat. If you want to eat flatbread of any sort, use wholegrain flours and keep the portion small. Avoid refined...

I couldn't agree more! I never heard of the film Babette's Feast but googled it up and found a page which claims to provide the menu: Potage a la Tortue Turtle Soup Amontillado Sherry * Blini Demidoff au Caviar Buckwheat cakes with caviar Veuve Clicquot Champagne * Caille en Sarcophage avec...