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Advice needed on experimenting with food

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Lula

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Hello, I am a very new Type 2 and am finding this forum very helpful.

Could anyone tell me which fruits and vegetables are best for low carb low sugar dieting? I have spent hours googling and keep getting very varying reports. I'd like to make vegetable soups to have at lunchtime, from what I can gather, all root vegetables are out and anything else is ok, is this right? And fruit - should I be avoiding apples and banans altogether? Is watermelon a bad idea?

At the moment I'm having very few carbs, lots of stir fried veg and salads and reading the carb content on everything. Are there any yoghurts which are ok? I am missing bread and baked beans so much...
thanks, Lula
 
Personally I eat Onken Strawberry No Fat Yoogurt, with a Kiwi, Orange and Apple between two of us after having a low carbish main meal. Or.. on good days I will have full fat double cream instead of yogurt!!!

I also have a mixture of nuts after this and still come in with a carb count of less than 60g for a really nice 3 course meal......

I bought a book called (I think) the diabetes revolution that has some lovely (especially the chinese chicken) recipes in-which are really easy, easy meals to do-and the cinese chicjken is brilliant!!!! We love it anyway. Dare say others will follow...There are some lovely foods and recipes recommended by others on here....

Keep carbs and cals baleanced for your own individual needs and health.....we are all different individuals, you need to find a balance that suits you....
 
Hi Lula :)
The way to find out if you can eat apples, bananas and water melon is to eat some and test 2 hours afterwards to find out what they do to your levels. No-one can tell you whether you can eat them or not as we are all different as we say so often. :) I am fine with natural Greek joghurt.
 
Hi Lula, what Donnellysdogs and Daisy have said is spot on
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Lula said:
should I be avoiding apples and banans altogether? Is watermelon a bad idea?
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I eat an apple with my lunch most days and occasionally eat small amounts of melon, I used to eat bananas but they tended to make me put on weight if I had one every day so now I just have one occasionally. I also often eat an orange after my evening meal. I have found I can eat a piece of fruit with a meal OK but I can't eat fruit or any other carbs as a snack or my levels stay high between meals. I found this out by testing regularly and you will only find out what you can eat and when by testing for yourself.

Test, test, test and test again :D
 
Sid Bonkers said:
I used to eat bananas but they tended to make me put on weight if I had one every day so now I just have one occasionally.
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Mmmm...........so that's where am going wrong! :wink:

Seriously though good suggestion about eating fruit with after a meal to avoid bg spiking.

Nigel
 
I read in some diet book or other (I've read so many!) to eat fruit first because it is digested quickly. If you have fruit as a starter followed by something with protein and fat, it should slow the process down and prevent spiking. Just a thought!

Viv 8)
 
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