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All Inclusive Holidays

jellyang

jellyang

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Type of diabetes
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Tablets (oral)
I have now booked a holiday in Turkey for July , this will be the first one since being diagnosed with Type 2 .

So vegetarian Diabetic who is trying to eat Low Carb

Any tips or advice ?
I want to enjoy my holiday without feeling ill & gaining ay weight


Thanks

Angie
 
I am sure there are some forum members who have been to Turkey who will be able to help @jellyang. Bumping your post up for replies.
You could google Turkish food, lots of mediterranean vegetables, yogurts and cheeses are mentioned

Edited to add.

@RuthW lives in Turkey and I have tagged her to see if she can help you.
 
Assuming your hotel has a buffet, breakfast - yogurt, cheese and possibly few berries if you are lucky, occasionally nuts

Lunch/Dinner - vegetables, mixed bean salads, salad, hummus. You might not find a lot that is low carb and veggie.


Have you looked at on lie reviews of your hotel to see if anyone has commented or posted photos
 
Rice, Bulgar Wheat and Chickpeas are key ingredients in Turkish cooking. Filo pastry, red lentils and white flour are also used a lot so watch out for those. Tahini has about 7% carbs and I guess you wont be eating all the turkish delights and Baklava.

Good news is that there are loads of lush things as suggested above and do look up the Karatay Diet, I have been told that it's Turkeys version of low carb,
 
I've been to an all-inclusive holiday in Turkey a good few years ago (early 2000s), and the choice of food was huge. The buffet featured loads of meat, fish, veg and salads as well as some local dishes. There were eggs in every permutation available for breakfast, together with bacon, sausages, mushrooms and toms... The local coffee, though, is made from grounds boiled with sugar, so I would keep to the instant. Enjoy your holiday!

EDIT: Ooops, sorry, missed that you were a vegetarian. Not sure about any meat replacements, but as others have mentioned, there were beans and chickpeas available. I went with a friend who was following a macrobiotic diet, and she was very happy with the choice too!
 
I live in Turkey. The cuisine is based around vegetables (kebabs are luxury, so you find them more in hotels and restaurants than homes). There are lots of different olive oil dishes, which are great for LCHF diets, but avoid olive oil dishes which are "dolma" or "stuffed" because they are always stuffed with either rice or meat mixtures. I also regretfully say to avoid ALL soups. They put white or corn flour in almost all soups to thicken them. They spike my blood sugar in unpleasant ways, particularly because I am not expecting it. They even put flour in rice and yogurt soups and lentil soups - as if they're not thick enough already!

Larissima describes your options pretty well, though where I live you wouldn't find bacon!

You can drink the coffee if you ask for "sade" (pronounced like the singer's name). Then it comes sugar free.

There are some superb bean dishes if you personally can eat those on your low carb diet (I love "Piyaz"). And tons of different cheeses. And fish. And didn't anybody mention olives? Tons of varieties of olives. Basically, I think I am not adding anything new to what has been said above. But I think you will find plenty to eat.

If you want to stock up on nuts without paying through the nose for the specially "packaged" ones, we buy from a little shop called "kuruyemiş" (dry food). They sell nuts and dried fruit but loose, so you buy by weight, and they are cheaper. I don't know how common they are in tourist areas, but they are the equivalent of the "sweet shop" in England (and they often sell sweets, biscuits, etc too).
 
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