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Just tried the low sugar/salt baked beans for tea, plus 2 slices of bacon and a couple of grilled mushrooms and tested 7.2 after 2 hours so wont be having any more of them. They obviously dont work for me.

Andy
 
I had a slice of toast (granary) 20grms Carb, scrambled eggs x 3, salmon slice and a measured 100grms of baked beans reduced sugar. BG 4.9 pre breakfast - post breakfast 2hrs 5.9. It depends on the amount u are consuming rather than specifics. I generally tend to eat most things but in smaller quantities in moderation to avoid glucose hikes. Also 7.2 2hrs after meal sounds good as long as it's under 8.5 for T2 and 9.0 for T1.
 
Mothman said:
tested 7.2 after 2 hours so wont be having any more of them. They obviously dont work for me.
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Hi Mothman. I wouldn't give up on something after one test at that level. Like you, I want to be in the 6's, or better, but I've replicated a meal that gave me a 7+ and got a barely 6 the next time. We do react differently on different days, and tests aren't that reliable - neither the meter or the way we test. So I'd try at least once more. If it's always 7+ and thus unacceptable for you, ok. "Give beans a chance..."(song by Lennon - or was that about peas?)
 
Mothman said:
Just tried the low sugar/salt baked beans for tea, plus 2 slices of bacon and a couple of grilled mushrooms and tested 7.2 after 2 hours so wont be having any more of them. They obviously dont work for me.

Andy
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Hi Andy, may I ask what size portion of beans you are talking about, a tin? half a tin perhaps? I eat baked beans roughly once a week when we have piri piri chicken I have a few oven cooked thin chips and a spoonful or two of beans with a chicken breast covered in a piri piri sauce and my levels are fine with this, of course thats not to say yours will be but I find I can eat most foods if I just test them often enough and adjust the portions accordingly :thumbup:
 
Mothman said:
Just tried the low sugar/salt baked beans for tea, plus 2 slices of bacon and a couple of grilled mushrooms and tested 7.2 after 2 hours so wont be having any more of them. They obviously dont work for me.

Andy
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Take a look at the carb count on the tin - very high. They spike me too. If we have baked beans I just have a couple of spoons of them, never very much. Just keep testing and finding out what spikes you, that is what it is all about. Good luck.
 
Ok, ile come clean, i had been working hard all day physically without much for lunch and was starving when i got home so i did eat the whole tin so perhaps 7.2 isnt so bad.
I will give it a go with half a tin, something i usually share with my mum but didnt last night so maybe ile get a better result next time.
Also had a visit to the Docs yesterday and she is very impressed with both my weight loss, ime close to 13 stone now, was 15. 1/2 in July and was happy once again to prescribe me with testing strips so i can continue experimenting with foods that are ok or not with me. I think she is of the old school re diabetics being told to eat carbs but is coming around to my way of thinking and is interested in the help i have had from this forum. For which i am forever grateful by the way.
Smaller portions are the way to go but its hard when i work damned hard outside, especially with all the cold weather we have had recently. Have stopped having seconds though ages ago, something i often used to do, hence the weight gain over the last few years.

Andy
 
Camilla wrote"Take a look at the carb count on the tin - very high. They spike me too. If we have baked beans I just have a couple of spoons of them, never very much. Just keep testing and finding out what spikes you, that is what it is all about. Good luck."
Not that high Camilla. Only 10.8 grams per 100 for the reduced sugar, and c. 13 per 100 for normal beans. This compares with 70'ish for cereals for example. In other words, not much different in carbs from nuts which we all acknowledge as OK in reasonable amounts. AND they're low GI, so in small portions should be fine.
 
Grazer said:
Camilla wrote"Take a look at the carb count on the tin - very high. They spike me too. If we have baked beans I just have a couple of spoons of them, never very much. Just keep testing and finding out what spikes you, that is what it is all about. Good luck."
Not that high Camilla. Only 10.8 grams per 100 for the reduced sugar, and c. 13 per 100 for normal beans. This compares with 70'ish for cereals for example. In other words, not much different in carbs from nuts which we all acknowledge as OK in reasonable amounts. AND they're low GI, so in small portions should be fine.
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I think I remember I saw that a small tin contained around 28-30g of carbs last time I looked. This would be too much for me so I just generally avoid them. A spoon or two in addition to a mainly protein/fat meal is usually ok for me.
 
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