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any food ideas?
- Thread starter XmenFan
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Hi @XmenFan , welcome to the forum.
I think you might like to have a read of this piece by one of our members: https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/blog/jokalsbeek.401801/
And for a look into how this works from day to day, you might want to join us in this thread on what we eat with some friendly chat as well: https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/what-have-you-eaten-today.75781/page-2542
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Insulin
Hi Paul,
Welcome to the forum.
What meds (if any.) are you prescribed for your diabetes?
Daibell
Master
Our problem foods are the Carb group so keep those down. When buying packaged food look at the back and ignore front of pack traffic-light labelling. Look for Total Carbs. To balance the lower carbs have enough fats and protein to keep you feeling full.
I've gone from a reading of 22 down to 6 in my 6 weeks or so as type 2 by eating fish fruit and packaged salads I'm no dietician so please go by whats reccomended by your health proffesional unless of course your visit like mine and your advice was go and read the website lol
this has worked for me also had venison steak and pork chops portion size seems key as well as what you eat.
I'm lucky to have a morrisons nearby which seems to have a great selection of fish in the reduced section daily lol.. trust me fish is expensive so if you can eat that day this is a wallet saver.. I have a side of salad (I get the sweet n crunchy bags) spiced up with blue cheese dressing dollop and pop the fish of the day in the oven for 20 minutes wrapped in tin foil.
For breakfast I'm having rasperries,blackberries,blackcurrants in a smoothie with almond milk which I mix before bed sometimes pop in a spoonfull of keto granola I got from amazon to thicken.. tbh still not worked out breakfast fully but this seems to work as I'm always getting up late and can drink on the move if I have too.
For lunch at work around 11ish I'm having a small tub about 15cm tupaware one of chicken slices or prawns or boiled eggs mixed with the same salad mix also with a dollop of blue cheese dressing.. I considering changing this to the morrisons salad bar meal deal one as it has boiled eggs and you get a drink n snack..
For snacks I've been having marmite on jacobs crackers it's pretty good and a filler between meals.
Started introducing the chops/steak as I found my energy levels were lower
As I said I'm not a dietician but fairly new to it all like yourself and still experimenting but at my last visit the nurse has reduced my testing regime to twice a week and took me off gilcazide so I must be doing something right lol..
Good luck
this has worked for me also had venison steak and pork chops portion size seems key as well as what you eat.
I'm lucky to have a morrisons nearby which seems to have a great selection of fish in the reduced section daily lol.. trust me fish is expensive so if you can eat that day this is a wallet saver.. I have a side of salad (I get the sweet n crunchy bags) spiced up with blue cheese dressing dollop and pop the fish of the day in the oven for 20 minutes wrapped in tin foil.
For breakfast I'm having rasperries,blackberries,blackcurrants in a smoothie with almond milk which I mix before bed sometimes pop in a spoonfull of keto granola I got from amazon to thicken.. tbh still not worked out breakfast fully but this seems to work as I'm always getting up late and can drink on the move if I have too.
For lunch at work around 11ish I'm having a small tub about 15cm tupaware one of chicken slices or prawns or boiled eggs mixed with the same salad mix also with a dollop of blue cheese dressing.. I considering changing this to the morrisons salad bar meal deal one as it has boiled eggs and you get a drink n snack..
For snacks I've been having marmite on jacobs crackers it's pretty good and a filler between meals.
Started introducing the chops/steak as I found my energy levels were lower
As I said I'm not a dietician but fairly new to it all like yourself and still experimenting but at my last visit the nurse has reduced my testing regime to twice a week and took me off gilcazide so I must be doing something right lol..
Good luck
Riva_Roxaban
Well-Known Member
I eat a mix and match of these:
Beef, pork, lamb, mutton, goat, bacon, eggs, chicken, fish, seafood, cheese, butter, greek yoghurt, green veggies some small portions of fruit.
It works for me as a T2 in recovery and with no T2 medication.
Beef, pork, lamb, mutton, goat, bacon, eggs, chicken, fish, seafood, cheese, butter, greek yoghurt, green veggies some small portions of fruit.
It works for me as a T2 in recovery and with no T2 medication.
CatrinJ
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- Location
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Diet only
- Dislikes
- Cheese and Tories,
My staples so far are salad with roasted vegetables (easy in an airfryer) and baked fish (bassa fillets are quite meaty and cheaper than cod or haddock). Spinach omelettes feature heavily. I batch cook my own soups and freeze them which is super easy when home from work. On fasting days lunch is 0% fat unsweetened yoghurt (Yeo Valley do a nice one) with blueberries and some nuts. I've been having pasta salads but I need to measure more how much my bg goes up. I've noticed cutting carbs has affected how hungry I get. I had fish and salad last night, and yoghurt for lunch, and I'm mildly peckish. Pretty sure if I hadn't gone lower carbs I'd be ravenous by now.
Hi XmenFan, Welcome to the forum.
A bit of a shock when you first find out you need to cut bread, rice potatoes etc out isn't it, we get so programmed to eat these things daily our brain thinks we have to IMHO. But as I found out we can eat very well indeed without them, I am trying the low carb diet and not finding it too hard as we can eat as much cheese and meat as we want.
Have a look around the forum and you'll see everything is not as dark as you fear, there is a lot of good life without the carbs.
